Synopsis
Book by Newell Peter
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Biographie de l'auteur
Peter Newell (1862 1924) began his career painting portraits, using crayons as a medium, before turning to children's book. Besides his own books, Newell illustrated Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad" and Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass." He is the author of the Tuttle Classics "The Hole Book, The Slant Book, " and "The Rocket Book.""
Présentation de l'éditeur
The upward progress of a rocket, lit in the basement by the janitor's son, causes some strange situations as it passes through twenty floors of apartments. Originally published in 1912 by Harper & Brothers, New York, it was the first children's book of its kind, a book about a rocket's incredible journey, floor by floor, through a 21-floor New York apartment.
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