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Riggs, Kate

Suez Canal

24 pp. | Creative Education | January, 2009 | Library ISBN 978-1-58341-706-5 $24.25
(4) K-3 Now That's Big! series. This book highlights that marvel of human engineering, the Suez Canal. Crisp photographs in clean layouts illustrate the monumental feat. The large-font text, though informative, can be vague ("They used their bare hands, shovels, and baskets to dig. Later on, de Lesseps got machines for them to use") and the facts unsupported (did "about 2.4 million Egyptians" really work on the canal?). Reading list. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo

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