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Kulling, Monica

Going Up!: Elisha Otis's Trip to the Top

32 pp. | Tundra | October, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-77049-240-0 $17.95
(3) K-3 Great Idea series. Illustrated by David Parkin. This picture-book biography details the mid-nineteenth-century life and eventual successes of Elisha Otis, inventor of the modern elevator. Kulling succinctly and simply recounts Otis's progression from bed-frame factory worker to designer of lifts for heavy machinery to World's Fair marvel when he debuted his passenger elevator. Crisp pen-and-ink with watercolor illustrations contribute energy and levity to the account.
Reviewer: Rita Soltan

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