Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial (The History Makers Series)

Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial (The History Makers Series)

Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial (The History Makers Series)

Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial (The History Makers Series)

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Overview

Named to the Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year for 2020

20th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Reads”: A Must-Read Picture Book

CYBILS Award short list

When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, fifteen-year-old Dan French had no way to know that one day his tribute to the great president would transform a plot of Washington, DC marshland into America’s gathering place. He did not even know that a sculptor was something to be. He only knew that he liked making things with his hands.

This is the story of how a farmboy became America’s foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan was working the family farm when he idly carved a turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney’s swift prose and Fields’s evocative illustrations capture the single-minded determination with which Dan taught himself to sculpt and launched his career with the famous Minuteman Statue in his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts.  

This is also the story of the Lincoln Memorial, French’s culminating masterpiece. Thanks to this lovingly created tribute to the towering leader of Dan’s youth, Abraham Lincoln lives on as the man of marble, his craggy face and careworn gaze reminding millions of seekers what America can be. Dan’s statue is no lifeless figure, but a powerful, vital touchstone of a nation’s ideals. Now Dan French has his tribute too, in this exquisite biography that brings history to life for young readers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780884486459
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
Publication date: 10/21/2019
Series: The History Makers Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 64
File size: 53 MB
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Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Linda Booth Sweeney is an accomplished writer and an educator specializing in the exploration of living systems.
Shawn Fields studied art at the School of Visual Arts, the Arts Student’s League, and the New York Academy of Art. His work has been exhibited at ArtBasel Miami, Forbes Gallery NYC, Arcadia NYC, and is collected worldwide.
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