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Puff...flash...bang!: A Book About Signals - Softcover

Gibbons, Gail

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9781563347030: Puff...flash...bang!: A Book About Signals
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ISBN 10: 1563347032 ISBN 13: 9781563347030
Publisher: Hampton Brown Co Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Describes ways people say things to each other without using spoken or written words such as beacon fires, hand signals, alarms, and flags.

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From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 2-- Gibbons does it again. She examines an everyday subject, one that can be quite complicated, and presents it with the clarity of crayon-box colors and present-tense immediacy. Here, she covers major, important, and even life-depends-on-it signals. Readers will find historical examples plus those,currently used at sea, on highways, on railroads, in sports, and in emergency situations. The author includes those that can be heard and those that can be seen. Accurate illustrations are appropriately labeled. Barbara Rinkoff's Red Light Says Stop! (Lothrop, 1974; o.p.) has similar information but is not as attractive. Tana Hoban's I Read Signs and I Read Symbols (both Greenwillow, 1983) cover different territory, but might be interesting used in connection with Gibbons's book. From the "blink," "bong," "whirr," and "touchdown!" on the first page to the wave "good-bye!," these are signals kids need to know. --Lynnea McBurney, Woodstone Elementary School, San Anotonio, TX
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Publisher
Hampton Brown Co Inc
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1563347032
ISBN 13 
9781563347030
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
32
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