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  • Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

    by Margaret Frith, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Who Was Franklin Roosevelt?

    by Margaret Frith, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and served as president during World War II. Elected four times, he spent thirteen years in the White House. How he led the country through tremendously difficult problems, much like the ones facing America today, makes for a timely and engrossing biography. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Who Was Louis Braille?

    by Margaret Frith, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Robert Squier ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

    by Margaret Frith ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Who Was Ben Franklin?

    by Dennis Brindell Fradin ...
    Narrated by Paul Michael ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author-a man of such amazingly varied talents that some people claimed he had magical powers! Full of all the details kids will want to know, the true story of Benjamin Franklin is by turns sad and funny, but always honest and awe-inspiring. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Who Was William Shakespeare?

    by Celeste Mannis ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 7 min

    The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man. Celeste Davidson Mannis here puts together the pieces of Shakespeare's life and work for young listeners. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Who Was Milton Hershey?

    by James Buckley Jr. ...
    Narrated by Vikas Adam ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    54 min

    Discover the man behind the chocolate bar! Milton Hershey’s life was filled with invention and innovation. As a young man, he was not afraid to dream big and work hard. Eventually, he learned the secret to mass-producing milk chocolate and the recipe that gave it a longer, more stable shelf life. He founded a school for those who didn’t have access to a good education and an entire town for his ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

    by Roberta Edwards ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    55 min

    Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to. Only thirteen paintings are known to be his; as for the illustrated encyclopedia he intended to create, all that he left were thousands of disorganized notebook pages. ... Read more

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    Who Was Charles Darwin?

    by Deborah Hopkinson ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    48 min

    As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded for conducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Galapagos Islands, and expanded his groundbreaking ideas that would ... Read more

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    Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?

    by S. A. Kramer ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 3 min

    When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him three years and cost him his life. ... Read more

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    Who Was Louis Armstrong?

    by Yona Zeldis McDonough ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    53 min

    If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs' Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his ... Read more

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    Who Is Bob Dylan?

    by Jim O'Connor ...
    Narrated by MacLeod Andrews ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    58 min

    A singer-songerwriter, musician, and artist, Bob Dylan is an American icon. In the past five decades, Dylan's work has influenced everyone from John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and David Bowie to rapper Eminem. Young music lovers will be fascinated by this great artist's life! ... Read more

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