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    From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
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    From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World

    By James Rumford

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    What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds? What took a mountain to make?

    For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century—to a time when books were made by hand and a man named Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print books with movable type.

    Written as a series of riddles and illustrated in the style of medieval manuscripts by an award-winning author and artist, From the Good Mountain will intrigue readers of all ages. On every page there is something surprising to learn about how the very thing you are holding in your hands came to be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781466817357
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    From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
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    James Rumford

    Master storyteller James Rumford combines his love for art and history in his picture books. Each of his books is vastly different in its content, design, and illustrations but one aspect remains constant throughout his work: his passion about his subjects. Rumford, a resident of Hawaii, has studied more than a dozen languages and worked in the Peace Corps, where he traveled to Africa, Asia, and Afghanistan. He draws from these experiences and the history of his subject when he is working on a book. His book Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing was a 2005 Sibert Honor winner.

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    • 4/5
      This book is about how books were made in Germany in the year 1450. It starts by explaining each piece of the book and then tells the story of Johannes Gutenberg. It explains his presses of how books are made.Use to inform children how books were made in the 1400 and to use as a cross-cultural book.Media - MultimediaGenre Historical FictionThis book is a good example of Historical fiction book because it explained all aspects of what goes into a book, it explains the man behind the process of the book, it uses actual places in the book, and it provides accurate information.
    • 4/5
      Picture-book author James Rumford, whose biographies in the form include such titles as Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing and Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs, here turns to the story of Johannes Gutenberg, and the incredible printing press that he invented. Framed as a puzzle, the narrative here describes an object made with rag and bones and soot and seeds, wearing a dark brown coat and filled with gold. What was that object? A printed book - the first printed book - which would revolutionize the world...A wonderfully creative and educational way to present the story of Gutenberg's printing press, From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World is both informative and entertaining. It was fascinating to learn how each of the constituent elements of a book - the paper, the ink, the binding, the decorations - were made, and to think of how radically Gutenberg's press changed the way in which the printed word was transmitted, how much easier and more quickly books could be produced. The accompanying artwork is gorgeous, with full-page paintings on one side of each two-page spread, and beautifully ornate decorative elements accompanying the text on the other side. Recommended to anyone seeking children's books about Gutenberg and his revolutionary printing press.
    • 4/5
      This book, told in rhyme, was focused primarily on what went into the creation of the first book published with a printing press. It was very interesting, though more for its attention to printing press details than its biographical information. The epilogue did a great job filling in the detail of Gutenberg's life. I truly enjoyed this book. I'm not sure children would be so enthused, but I was.
    • 4/5
      An elegant introduction to the inventor of the printing press, cleverly told and handsomely illustrated.