Events That Changed Your World Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone

Today, we can talk to someone across town or even across the country right away. We just pick up the phone and call them. But it took a lot longer to get in touch with folks before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. With historical images and details about key events before and after Bell’s innovation, this book will help kids understand the impact of the invention of the telephone on communication. Uncover the details of events that changed your world in this Pebble Explore series.

Rachel Werner has written numerous picture books, including Floods and Moving & Grooving to Fillmore's Beat, as well as the nonfiction middle grade title Glow & Grow: A Brown Girl's Positive Body Guide and the forthcoming nonfiction YA title Beauty Emancipation. She is on faculty for Hugo House in Seattle, Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, and the Loft Literacy Center in Minneapolis, where she leads curricula to educate writers and content producers in marketing their work.