Queen of the Falls
Double Tap to Zoom. At the turn of the nineteenth century, a retired sixty-two-year-old charm school instructor named Annie Edson Taylor, seeking fame and fortune, decided to do something that no one in the world had ever done before—she would go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel.Come meet...
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Double Tap to Zoom. At the turn of the nineteenth century, a retired sixty-two-year-old charm school instructor named Annie Edson Taylor, seeking fame and fortune, decided to do something that no one in the world had ever done before—she would go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel.Come meet the Queen of the Falls and witness with your own eyes her daring ride!
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780547315812 (0547315813)
ASIN: 547315813
Publish date: April 4th 2011
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Pages no: 38
Edition language: English
It’s always disconcerting when a writer jumps genres, so to speak. Van Allsburg has always been the king of my heart for his amazing fantasy children’s picture books. I thought this would be yet another one, but, instead, Van Allsburg has decided to tell the true story of the first woman to go over ...
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