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Carlson, Laurie
2 Reviews
(4)
4-6
The advent of the sewing machine, like other inventions of its time, meant transformation of work and life for nineteenth-century Americans. Carlson's account, centered on Isaac Singer's success as a designer and marketer, is relentlessly positive about this transformation, missing opportunities to investigate the complexities of industrialization. Historical photographs and illustrations are excellent. Further reading, websites. Bib.
Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford
(1)
K-3
When hat-maker John Batterson Stetson went West as a young man in 1859, people wore any old thing on their heads. How Stetson's ungainly but perfectly adapted thick-fur felt creation became an indispensable part of Western attire is the subject of this lively picture book. Carlson's storytelling prose sets the scene and tells the tale concisely and enticingly, and Meade's mixed-media illustrations have an appropriately rough-and-ready feel. Bib.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.
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