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Becker, Helaine

Lines, Bars and Circles: How William Playfair Invented Graphs

40 pp. | Kids Can | April, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-77138-570-1 $17.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Marie-Ève Tremblay. This short-form biography describes inventor and "jack-of-all-trades" William Playfair's road to creating the line graph, bar graph, and pie chart, appreciated only after his death. Like Playfair, illustrator Tremblay thinks outside the box: e.g., a giant-size Playfair stepping out from a building's roof accompanies "Meikle's workshop felt too small to hold all Will's grand dreams." Nuts-and-bolts sidebars and back matter supplement the peppy narrative.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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