Title First to the top : Sir Edmund Hillary's amazing Everest adventure / David Hill ; illustrated by Phoebe Morris.

Publication Info.	Auckland : Puffin Books, 2015.
	©2015

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Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department	J 796.522 HIL	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 796.522 HILLARY	Check Shelf

Description	32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
Note	"First published by Penguin Random House, New Zealand, 2015"--Title page verso.
Summary	"Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black colour of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe. How did Ed, a small, shy boy from the tiny town of Tuakau in New Zealand, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everest and do so many other astonishing things?"--Publisher information. In picture book format.
Audience	Junior, primary National Library of New Zealand.
Awards	New Zealand Children and Young Adults Book Awards - Children's Choice Non-Fiction Finalist, 2016.
Subject	Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008 -- Juvenile literature.
	Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008.
	Mount Everest Expedition (1953)
	Mount Everest Expedition (1953) -- Juvenile literature.
	Mountaineers -- New Zealand -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Mountaineers -- New Zealand -- Biography.
	Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Juvenile literature.
	Mount Everest expedition 1953.
	Children's stories.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / Adventure & Adventurers.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Historical.
	Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008. (OCoLC)fst01716571
	Mount Everest Expedition. (OCoLC)fst01405877
	Children's stories. (OCoLC)fst00856632
	Mountaineers. (OCoLC)fst01028364
	Asia -- Mount Everest. (OCoLC)fst01333948
	New Zealand. (OCoLC)fst01204542
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Children's nonfiction. NZ-WeK
	Children's picture books. NZ-WeK
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Author	Morris, Phoebe, 1992- illustrator.
ISBN	9780143506874
	0143506870

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