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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999-01-06

Amazing Impossible Erie Canal

Amazing Impossible Erie Canal

Aladdin Picture Books

Cheryl Harness, Author

Cheryl Harness, Illustrator

Paperback

9780689825842

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"Impossible!" At first folks didn't really believe the Erie Canal would ever be built--but when it was completed in 1825, people proclaimed it, "Amazing!" Full-color illustrations & maps.
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Big ideas often begin as impossibilities. Through lively language and rich illustration, this book captures the canal’s unlikely birth—and the determination that shaped a nation’s future.

Keywords and Themes: & Underwater Craft • Achievement • Boats • Historical • History • Ingenuity • Inventions • Juvenile Fiction • Perseverance • Ships • Technology • Transportation • United States - General • Vision

Age Range • 6-9

Pages • 32

Subjects • History • Erie Canal (N.Y.)

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - General • Juvenile Fiction | Technology | Inventions • Juvenile Fiction | Transportation | Boats, Ships, & Underwater Craft

Follow the amazing construction and workings of the Erie Canal, America's first superhighway, in this triumphant nonfiction picture book.

When De Witt Clinton, a young politician, first dreamed of building a canal to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, folks didn't believe such a thing could be done. Clinton wanted to link east coast ports to the frontier, and from the groundbreaking ceremony on the Fourth of July in 1817, Clinton never gave up--even as people called his project "Clinton's Ditch."

Eight long years later, he'd realized his vision at last and constructed the longest uninterrupted canal in history--allowing water travel from the American prairie all the way to Europe!

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