What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

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Overview

“Get ready to have your mind blown with this fun book.” — The Washington Post

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in this lively, kid-friendly book. Offering profiles with fast facts and framed by a funny contemporary story featuring two feisty twins, here is a tribute to black inventors whose ingenuity and perseverance against great odds made our world safer, better, and brighter.
Back matter includes an authors’ note and sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780763664428
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication date: 12/10/2013
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 200,913
Product dimensions: 8.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile: 880L (what's this?)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the most famous and accomplished basketball players in U.S. history. Since retiring from the sport, he has committed himself to bringing history and social studies to young people and has written seven books, including the New York Times bestseller On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance, co-authored by Raymond Obstfeld. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lives in California.

Raymond Obstfeld is the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction and is a professor of creative writing. He lives in California.

Ben Boos (1971-2011) is the author-illustrator of Swords: An Artist’s Devotion and Fantasy: An Artist’s Realm.

A. G. Ford is the illustrator of Goal! by Mina Javaherbin and the New York Times bestseller Barack by Jonah Winter, among other titles. A. G. Ford lives in Texas.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 1

Dr. Henry T. Sampson 8

Granville T. Woods 10

Lewis Howard Latimer 12

Chapter 2 19

Dr. Mark Dean 24

Dr. Valerie L. Thomas 26

James E. West2 8

Chapter 3 32

Frederick McKinley Jones 35

Joseph Lee 41

Lloyd A. Hall 44

George Crum 46

Chapter 4 49

Daniel Hale Williams 52

Dr. Charles Drew 54

Dr. Percy Lavon Julian 56

Chapter 5 63

Alfred L. Cralle 66

Lonnie Johnson 68

Garrett Morgan 70

Chapter 6 77

Authors' Notes 81

Sources & Further Information 85

Index 88

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

It's an entertaining and often surprising exploration of lesser-known innovators, past and present.
—Publishers Weekly

In his first foray into writing for children, basketball superstar Abdul-Jabbar teams with Obstfeld to introduce 16 mostly lesser-known African American inventors through a fictional story told by young twins, who learn that many items in a typical house and used by a majority of Americans were invented or developed by African Americans.
—Booklist

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