The Inventor's Secret

Name: The Inventor's Secret
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Suzanne Slade
ISBN: 9781666594485

Author: Suzanne Slade

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Unabridged: 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 04/22/2014

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Children's Nonfiction, Biographical

Synopsis

Both Thomas Edison and Henry Ford started off as insatiably curious tinkerers. That curiosity led them to become inventors—with very different results. As Edison invented hit after commercial hit, gaining fame and fortune, Henry struggled to make a single invention (an affordable car) work. Witnessing Thomas's glorious career from afar, a frustrated Henry wondered about the secret to his success. This little-known story is a fresh, kid-friendly way to show how Thomas Edison and Henry Ford grew up to be the most famous inventors in the world-and best friends, too.

About Suzanne Slade

Suzanne Buckingham Slade is the award-winning author of 100 books for children. A Mechanical Engineer by degree, Ms. Slade began her writing career twenty years ago. She lives near Chicago with her husband and two children.

About Susie Berneis

Susie Berneis is a versatile voiceover artist with numerous narration credits to her name. She has an ear for dialect and a love for the process of developing characters, which has been cultivated through her twenty-plus years of experience as a community and regional stage actress. Based in Ann Arbor (home of the University of Michigan, where she received her BA in English and theatre), she now takes great joy in playing all the characters she encounters in her narration.

About Jennifer Black Reinhardt

When Jennifer Black Reinhardt was in elementary school and her classmates said that they wanted to be firemen, doctors, and vets, she declared that she wanted to draw the pictures on greeting cards. When she grew up she did that and more. She has an illustration degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is the illustrator of The Adventures of a South Pole Pig

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luisa

I thought it interesting to learn that Edison and Ford were friends - I wasn't aware that they were! This book does a nice job of giving a simple back story to each man and providing the inspiration we sometimes needs to "keep at it." Loved the illustrations! Ages: 5 - 10 Cleanliness: Note: mentions t......more

Goodreads review by Sunday

Delightful. The author reveals how Edison and Ford both spent a lot of time "trying out" various models of their inventions. This is an important lesson for our students to learn--change/improvement/innovation takes time. AND another lesson implied in the book is that inventors sometimes need encour......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

Best of 2015. Very much enjoyed this; the tone, the style, the illustrations. Great message and more fun facts at the back.......more

Goodreads review by Lauren

I love the message of KEEP AT IT, and I love the way the stories of these two life changing inventors paralleled and connected.......more

Goodreads review by Sue

Before the inventions of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, the world was a very different place. But these two men came to be good friends and to understand one all important secret. Because of this secret, the world has been forever changed. Edison was the older of the two. As a boy he experimented with......more