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Corey, Shana

The Secret Subway

40 pp. | Random/Schwartz & Wade | March, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-87071-2 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-97071-9 $20.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-307-97457-0
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Red Nose Studio. This tour de force tells of nineteenth-century inventor Alfred Ely Beach's solution to New York City's crowded streets: in 1870, he unveiled the first underground train, which went back and forth in a 294-foot tunnel. (Self-serving bigwigs killed Beach's dream of expansion.) The art's sensational 3-D sets are, per the endpapers, created by hand. Bib.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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