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Author Tavares, Matt, author, illustrator.

Title Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adventures of the Great Blondin / Matt Tavares.

Publication Info. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2016.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J PIC ADVANCED TAVARES    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Children's Department  JB BLONDIN    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Children's Department  J BIO BLONDIN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  J TRUE STORIES 791.34 TAVARES    DUE 05-16-24
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Biographies  J B BLONDIN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J PBOR TAVARES    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 791.3 BLONDIN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Juvenile Biography  JB BLONDIN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J92 BLONDIN    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  JJ TAVARES OLDER    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (last page).
Summary When the Great Blondin announced that he was going to walk from America to Canada across the Niagara River on a rope that was more than 1,100 feet long and just 3 inches wide, hanging 160 feet above the raging river, people came from everywhere. Some came to watch him cross. Some came to watch him fall. Some thought he wouldn't show up at all. But he did show up. And he did walk across the river. And then he did something else amazing. He crossed the river on that tightrope again and again, adding another death-defying flourish each time. Matt Tavares's gorgeous, riveting account of the daredevil of Niagara Falls is sure to hold readers in its grip, just as Blondin's feats enthralled those spectators on the cliffs more than one hundred and fifty years ago.
Subject Blondin, 1824-1897 -- Juvenile literature.
Aerialists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 9780763668235
0763668230
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