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What Color Is My World?

What Color Is My World?

The Lost History of African-American Inventors

by Kareem Abdul-JabbarRaymond Obstfeld Ben Boos and others
Hardback
Age range: 8 to 12 years old Publication Date: 03/01/2012

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in this lively, kid-friendly book.

Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing untold people's pain? These are just some of the black inventors and innovators scoring big points in this dynamic look at several unsung heroes who shared a desire to improve people's lives. Offering profiles with fast facts on flaps and framed by a funny contemporary story featuring two feisty twins, here is a nod to the minds behind the gamma electric cell and the ice-cream scoop, improvements to traffic lights, open-heart surgery, and more - inventors whose ingenuity and perseverance against great odds made our world safer, better, and brighter.
Back matter includes an authors' note and sources.
ISBN:
9780763645649
9780763645649
Category:
History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage)
Age range:
8 to 12 years old
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
03-01-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Candlewick Press,U.S.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
44
Dimensions (mm):
257x278x15mm
Weight:
0.81kg
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA's all-time leading scorer and a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee. Since retiring, he has been an actor, a basketball coach, and the author of six books for adults and three for children, many of them New York Times bestsellers.

Abdul-Jabbar is also a columnist for TIME magazine, writing on a wide range of subjects including race, politics, age, and pop culture, and his essays and columns have also appeared in the Washington Post, in the Los Angeles Times and on Esquire.com, among other publications.

In 2012, he was selected as a U.S. Cultural Ambassador. He lives in Southern California.

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