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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.