The Printer

by Myron Uhlberg

Book Overview

"As a boy, my father learned to speak with his hands. As a man, he learned how to turn lead-type letters into words and sentences. My father loved being a printer."
Each day in 1940s New York a young boy watches as his father goes to work in the noisy newspaper printing factory. But the boy's father only feels the machines' loud pounding and rumbling as vibrations through the soles of his shoes. He is deaf. Although his father communicates with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561454834
• ISBN13: 9781561454839
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.3" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3