Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press

By Bruce Koscielniak

Book Overview

If a book was published 600 years ago, it would have been copied out by hand by a scribe in a monastery and probably would have taken months to produce. But thanks to Johann Gutenberg in the fifteenth... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618263519
• ISBN13: 9780618263516
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

great job!

Book in great condition, service prompt! Faultless interaction, I'm very pleased to give a positive review. American excellence, as I remember it, but seldom encounter. BRAVO! I ordered the book, to use as a research tool for a short story I was writing. Enough information, without being a burden. The framework of true facts,to which I then provided a fictional dialog, between Mr. Gutenberg and an uncle, concerning a cash loan, to finish his invention. To me, the printing press has personal meaning, it gave the writer a much larger outlet for his thoughts, and the spreading of ideas over a much larger audience. It hurried- up the development of the world, like no invention previous. Second only to the wheel, from an overview.

Great Pictures, lots of text.

I sometimes use picture books in my 7th grade World History Class. The story in this book is not that interesting, i tend to embelish as i read. However, the pictures are great and use a document camera so the kids can see.