Bridges: Engineering Masterpieces (Science Comics)
by Dan Zettwoch (Author)
Suspend your disbelief with Science Comics: Bridges, a new volume of First Second's STEM graphic novel series!
Follow Bea, Archie, Trudy, and Spencer (otherwise known as the BATS!) as they crisscross the globe using every type of bridge: beam, arch, truss, and suspension. From ancient low-slung rope bridges to modern hi-tech towers of steel, they’ll traverse ‘em all. Their journey will take them through history and connect them with new ideas and different cultures. Along the way they'll identify the dangerous forces trying to bring bridges crashing down, and how to defeat them…through engineering!
Follow Bea, Archie, Trudy, and Spencer (otherwise known as the BATS!) as they crisscross the globe using every type of bridge: beam, arch, truss, and suspension. From ancient low-slung rope bridges to modern hi-tech towers of steel, they’ll traverse ‘em all. Their journey will take them through history and connect them with new ideas and different cultures. Along the way they'll identify the dangerous forces trying to bring bridges crashing down, and how to defeat them…through engineering!
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Kirkus Reviews
Starred Review
Taking a worldwide tour that goes from a fallen log across a stream in Kenya’s Aberdare National Park to the 164.8-kilometer-long Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge, the four guides point out salient features of dozens of bridges ancient and modern while pausing to explain loads and forces, analyze materials, give the nod to historical disasters like the Tay Bridge collapse (inviting young experimenters to test model bridges of their own), and, importantly, marvel at the beauty as well as the utility of well-designed, well-placed bridges.
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Dan Zettwoch
Dan Zettwoch makes slice-of-life comics, goofball illustrations, how-to diagrams, and folksy art in his house in St. Louis, Missouri. His books include Birdseye Bristoe (Drawn & Quarterly), Amazing Facts & Beyond! (Uncivilized Books), and lots of self-published mini-comics. He has finished a series of homemade screen prints about local gross foods, baseball statistics, and, at the request of his son Archie, monster trucks. His first car was a silver 1984 Volvo 740 Turbo. Science Comics: Cars is his first book with First Second.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781250216908
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
First Second
Publication date
July 20, 2022
Series
Science Comics
BISAC categories
JNF051000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | General
JNF051120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | How Things Work/Are Made
JNF062030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Science & Nature
JNF051120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | How Things Work/Are Made
JNF062030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Science & Nature
Library of Congress categories
History
Cartoons and comics
Comics (Graphic works)
Nonfiction comics
Bridges
Civil engineering
Creative nonfiction
Cartoons and comics
Comics (Graphic works)
Nonfiction comics
Bridges
Civil engineering
Creative nonfiction
