Leonardo da Vinci: A Nonfiction Companion to Monday with a Mad Genius (Magic Tree House Research Guide Series)

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Magic Tree House Research Guides are now Magic Tree House Fact Trackers! Track the facts with Jack and Annie!
 
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #38: Monday with a Mad Genius, they had lots of questions. Why was Leonardo da Vinci interested in flight? What are some of his most famous painting? Did he really keep noteboooks just like Jack? What do scientists today think of his ideas? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic...

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Overview

Magic Tree House Research Guides are now Magic Tree House Fact Trackers! Track the facts with Jack and Annie!
 
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #38: Monday with a Mad Genius, they had lots of questions. Why was Leonardo da Vinci interested in flight? What are some of his most famous painting? Did he really keep noteboooks just like Jack? What do scientists today think of his ideas? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.
 
 
 

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Children's Literature
This clear and well-organized exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and accomplishments offers its readers additional information about the Renaissance master. The book begins with a two-page introduction from Jack and Annie. The seven chapters that follow are filled with black-and-white drawings and photographs of places, inventions, and art works. Margin drawings of Jack and Annie introduce brief definitions, opinions, and facts about Leonardo's notebooks and his artistic habits. The first of the book's chapters orients the reader to Leonardo's life and to central Italy in the Renaissance. The second chapter describes the city of Florence and Leonardo's life there as an apprentice to Verrocchio, an important artist of the time. It also briefly discusses Leonardo's work on his own as a painter and sculptor before he joined Duke Sforza's court in Milan. In the third chapter, Leonardo's ideas for inventions and experiments are introduced. Though he did not build most of them, he drew plans for such projects as armored cars, bridges, flying machines, submarines, cannons, parachutes, and special cities where sanitation would keep their citizens healthier. The next chapter describes Leonardo's scientific studies. He studied water movement and pressure, storms and weather, plants and fossils. When he studied human anatomy, he even learned to dissect bodies to better understand their composition. The fifth chapter focuses on Leonardo as artist and describes the new painting techniques he used, his studio and apprentices in Milan, and some of his famous works. One that was never finished was to have been a sixteen-foot tall bronze statue of a horse, but when the French invaded Milan thebronze had to be used for cannons. Two famous works that were completed were the The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. The last chapter introduces other famous people of Leonardo's time, including the architect Leon Battista Alberti and Michelangelo Buonarroti, the painter and sculptor. The book is one of the "Magic Tree House Research Guides." Following the text is a section about undertaking research using books, museums, videos and DVDs, and the Internet. A five-page index completes the book. A "Stepping Stone Book." Reviewer: Judy DaPolito

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780375846656
  • Publisher: Random House Children's Books
  • Publication date: 1/13/2009
  • Pages: 128
  • Sales rank: 70,511
  • Age range: 6 - 10 Years
  • Lexile: 740L (what's this?)
  • Series: Magic Tree House Research Guide Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 7.40 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

MARY POPE OSBORNE and NATALIE POPE BOYCE are sisters who grew up on army posts all over the world. They are working on more Magic Tree House® Fact Tracker books to give Magic Tree House readers facts and information about places, time periods, and animals that Jack and Annie discover in the Magic Tree House adventures.
 
Mary lives in Connecticut. Natalie makes her home nearby in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. Mary is the author of all the Magic Tree House fiction titles as well as many more books for kids.
 
SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated more than 200 children's trade and text books. He is also a librettist for children's opera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, and bicyclist, and a teacher of children's illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Sal lives and works in New York with his wife, Nancy.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 16, 2009

    Fantastic - as always

    For the Magic Tree House devotee, these research guides are the perfect way to get more information. Also a great way to introduce reluctant readers to non-fiction text.

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  • Posted March 9, 2009

    Excellent as expected

    As always, Mary Pope Osborne has produced an excellent presentation for young students. To the point and yet very interesting. As an adult , I always learn or get reminded once again of some of the most interesting characters and events in history in these books. I recommend all Magic Tree House books and Guides.

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  • Posted March 9, 2009

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    Leonardo da Vinci Research Guide, Magic Tree house #19

    My 8 yr. old son and I read this in about 3 short sittings. We both love history and art, so it was perfect for our interests. Since we have been to Italy, the setting was particularly meaningful. My son remembered waiting in line to see the Mona Lisa. After reading about it, we reflected on why it may have taken him so many years to complete it and why it is such a powerful work of art that millions of people see each year. We liked the pictures of da Vinci's journal entries and art. We only wish there had been more detail into each of his works....that would have made the book even more interesting for us. But for easy reading, it is a good choice to get a student on the road to more exciting research on da Vinci.

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    Posted August 22, 2009

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