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Make 21 articulated puppets of the men and women who shaped the modern world. Young history-fans will love learning about, assembling, and playing with figures from Indian warrior Crazy Horse to astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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Make 21 articulated puppets from the Modern Age!
Crazy Horse fights to defend his people on the wide plains of Montana. Rosa Parks, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King take brave stands to make a better world. Rosie the Riveter builds ships, tanks, and aeroplanes that soldiers and pilots will use to defend democracy. Amelia Earhart explores the endless skies, while Neil Armstrong dares to go further than any human has ever been. This is the modern era.
Now children ages 6 to 12 can make movable, articulated paper dolls and relive the memorable events of the modern age with Queen Victoria, Susan B. Anthony, Crazy Horse, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Queen Min of Korea, Emperor Meiji of Japan, a World War I soldier, Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Amelia Earhart, Rosie the Riveter, a World War II pilot, Albert Einstein, Rosa Parks, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, and astronaut Neil Armstrong.
These activists, leaders, explorers, and fighters shaped our modern world. Read about their amazing lives, and act out new adventures, with Famous Figures of Modern Times.
- Detailed biography section with facts about each figure
- Companion reading list for further exploration
- Meticulous illustrations based on historical photographs
- Easy to assemble (all instructions included)
- Coloured and colourable versions of each character
- Printed on sturdy card stock for hours of creative play
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781944481339
Publisher: Figures In Motion
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 November 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Figures In Motion
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 216.0mm
Height: 282.0mm
Weight: 534g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Cathy Diez-Luckie brings the past alive by integrating art and history in her award-winning activity books for children. Movable action figures captivate and engage children as they learn about the great figures of history. Diez-Luckie's art has appeared nationally and internationally in numerous illustrated reference books, children's books, and magazines. Trained at the Toledo Museum of Art and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, she also holds a graduate degree from Stanford University. She lives in Bellingham, WA, with her husband and children, who happily test-drive her movable figure prototypes.
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