Sandy's circus : a story about Alexander Calder
(2008)
By:
Stone, Tanya Lee
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
E/BIOGRAPHY/730/CALDER,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2008
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780670062683 (reinforced) :, 0670062685 (reinforced) :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
As a boy, Sandy was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older he started creating wire sculptures. Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences
AD 750
Ages 6 up
AD600L
Decoding demand: 82 (very high) Semantic demand: 91 (very high) Syntactic demand: 89 (very high) Structure demand: 85 (very high)
A Junior Library Guild selection