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Gutenberg's Gift

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Book Description
Johann Gutenberg invented movable type, hoping to make printed books available to all who wished to read them. Now Newbery Award winner Nancy Willard weaves Gutenberg's life and work into a fanciful narrative poem in which the inventor works hard to complete his first printed Bible in time to give it to his wife for Christmas. Full color.
Book Information
PublisherHarcourt Children's Books
BindingHardcover (2 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages12
ISBN-100152007830
ISBN-13978-0152007836
Publication Date02/1996
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About Nancy Willard (Author) : Nancy Willard is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Nancy Willard include The Left-Handed Story: Writing and the Writer's Life (Writers on W... more
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About Bryan Leister (Illustrator) : Bryan Leister is a published illustrator of children's books. A published credit of Bryan Leister is Gutenberg's Gift.
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