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Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge, beloved landmark and symbol of San Francisco, finally gets a gorgeous picture book that tells the thrilling story of how it was built! Written by National Book Award finalist and Sibert Medal winner Elizabeth Partridge.
Across a treacherous strait where deep ocean waters rip back and forth with the tides, and during the depths of the Great Depression, daring teams of engineers and builders set out to make something many thought impossible.
Begun in 1933 and officially opened on May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge and its awe-inspiring and groundbreaking construction are truly a testament to the power of hope and perseverance. Told from the point of view of the lighthouse keeper’s kids, who watch in fascination as the trucks and crews arrive and steel towers coated in heavy red paint begin to rise above the tempestuous water, Golden Gate shares a thrilling visual perspective on each stage of the breathtaking project.
Young readers can look and learn as each turn of the page reveals dazzling, color-soaked artwork paired with text that blends factual details into the narrators’ keen observations. By the final spread, where fireworks explode in celebration over the mighty bridge, the tale is complete—not only of an astonishing feat of engineering but of the potential of human ingenuity to defy the odds and make the impossible possible.
Across a treacherous strait where deep ocean waters rip back and forth with the tides, and during the depths of the Great Depression, daring teams of engineers and builders set out to make something many thought impossible.
Begun in 1933 and officially opened on May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge and its awe-inspiring and groundbreaking construction are truly a testament to the power of hope and perseverance. Told from the point of view of the lighthouse keeper’s kids, who watch in fascination as the trucks and crews arrive and steel towers coated in heavy red paint begin to rise above the tempestuous water, Golden Gate shares a thrilling visual perspective on each stage of the breathtaking project.
Young readers can look and learn as each turn of the page reveals dazzling, color-soaked artwork paired with text that blends factual details into the narrators’ keen observations. By the final spread, where fireworks explode in celebration over the mighty bridge, the tale is complete—not only of an astonishing feat of engineering but of the potential of human ingenuity to defy the odds and make the impossible possible.
60 pages, Hardcover
First published October 8, 2024
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November 27, 2024
I haven’t had the opportunity to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge. I’m actually okay with that because I have a pretty big fear of bridges anyway, but I would love to see it in person. This story of the building of the Golden Gate Bridge mixes a bit of fiction with a whole lot of facts. Along with detailed and gorgeous illustrations, kids will learn all about the building of one of the most beautiful bridges ever built.
Readers will watch the building of the bridge from the eyes of a brother and sister whose dad is the lighthouse keeper. Because of his job and their proximity to the building of the bridge, they were able to watch it being built right before their eyes. Construction officially began on January 5, 1933, right in the heart of the Depression. Many men came to San Francisco with hopes of being hired to build this great bridge. However, due to the complexity and danger, many men were turned away.
The danger wasn’t only due to the location (high above the ocean) but the weather was constantly a factor. Workers had to deal with fog, slick roads, wind, and high tides. Even though everyone thought it was impossible, the bridge was opened just over four years later on May 27, 1937.
This oversized book covers the excitement of the children watching the bridge being built, the hard work it took day and night to build it across a vast bay, and the architect’s desire to build a beautiful bridge. The illustrations are unique showing a close-up view of the bridge being built with a far-away overview of the bridge across the bay at that particular stage of the build.
I knew really nothing about the Golden Gate Bridge and found this story to be so interesting and liked the angle of it being told from the perspective of a family living nearby. The illustrations include a lot of detail and offer kids a perspective of what it was like to work on the bridge. Future engineers or kids who like to learn about history will enjoy this fascinating book.
Readers will watch the building of the bridge from the eyes of a brother and sister whose dad is the lighthouse keeper. Because of his job and their proximity to the building of the bridge, they were able to watch it being built right before their eyes. Construction officially began on January 5, 1933, right in the heart of the Depression. Many men came to San Francisco with hopes of being hired to build this great bridge. However, due to the complexity and danger, many men were turned away.
The danger wasn’t only due to the location (high above the ocean) but the weather was constantly a factor. Workers had to deal with fog, slick roads, wind, and high tides. Even though everyone thought it was impossible, the bridge was opened just over four years later on May 27, 1937.
This oversized book covers the excitement of the children watching the bridge being built, the hard work it took day and night to build it across a vast bay, and the architect’s desire to build a beautiful bridge. The illustrations are unique showing a close-up view of the bridge being built with a far-away overview of the bridge across the bay at that particular stage of the build.
I knew really nothing about the Golden Gate Bridge and found this story to be so interesting and liked the angle of it being told from the perspective of a family living nearby. The illustrations include a lot of detail and offer kids a perspective of what it was like to work on the bridge. Future engineers or kids who like to learn about history will enjoy this fascinating book.
November 2, 2024
A sturdy glimpse of the historic bridge.
This will be a nice addition to the several books I have in my collection on bridge building. Although, not as exciting as the book when P.T. Barnum walked his twenty-one elephants across the Brooklyn Bridge, I like how the lower part of the page showed the progress of the bridge.
This will be a nice addition to the several books I have in my collection on bridge building. Although, not as exciting as the book when P.T. Barnum walked his twenty-one elephants across the Brooklyn Bridge, I like how the lower part of the page showed the progress of the bridge.
August 11, 2025
This past month we have traveled many times over the amazing, beautiful Golden Gate Bridge. On our most recent crossing we all had questions about the bridge, and share bits of information we thought might be true. I found this book in the airport book store and read it on the way home. This is book tells the story of how engineers and workers did what many thought was impossible in 1933, joining the land between San Francisco and Marin with this fabulous bridge. The color is International Orange, and more than two billion cars have driven across since it first opened in 1937. I loved learning more about this engineering marvel.
May 1, 2025
Richie’s Picks: GOLDEN GATE: BUILDING THE MIGHTY BRIDGE by Elizabeth Partridge and Ellen Heck, ill., Chronicle Books, October 2024, 60p., ISBN: 978-1-4521-3514-4
“Workers with steel and concrete are squaring off against fog and wind and pounding surf. They want to build the world’s longest suspension bridge.
People say it’s impossible. It's too far to span from land to land, across the wild, surging waters where the ocean meets the bay. The weather is wicked, with blinding, wet fogs and treacherous winds that will toss the workers into the water like paper dolls.
Maybe they’re right.
But…here come the trucks!
Have you ever walked across the Golden Gate Bridge? I highly recommend experiencing it.
Yes, you may want to pick a day with good weather. Or maybe you’ll thrill on getting swallowed up in the cold, bracing fog. Either way, I’ve found it a blast to sashay those three or so miles–up so high above the water–as one completes the trek across the Bridge and back.
A decade ago, an excellent book about the Bridge was crafted by Dave Eggers and cut-paper artist Tucker Nichols. THIS BRIDGE WILL NOT BE GRAY taught me all sorts of tidbits about the Golden Gate Bridge. For instance:
Did you know that the Golden Gate Bridge was built in thousands of sections that were shipped from the East Coast to California by boats that passed through the Panama Canal?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy thought the bridge should be painted with yellow and black stripes so as to be readily seen by planes and ships?
Did you know that those thousands of sections of bridge that passed through the Panama Canal had been primed with an orange sealant paint?
Did you know that the Bridge employs the art deco architectural style? (Art deco is also the architectural style of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building in NYC)
Now, Berkeley native Elizabeth Partridge, who two years ago won the American Library Association’s award for young people’s nonfiction, and illustrator Ellen Heck have created a picture book that will well-complement the Eggers book.
GOLDEN GATE: BUILDING THE MIGHTY BRIDGE is a lyrical, beautifully illustrated yarn about many of the steps involved in building the Bridge. It's told from the point of view of a youngster living nearby the Gate.
“Concrete trucks roll from the batching plant to the pier, sending their wet, heavy mix sluicing down the tube they call the ‘elephant’s trunk.’
When the sun drops down into the Pacific Ocean, huge lights flood the pit so the work can go on. Night after night, the truck headlights sweep across your bedroom wall.
Hurry! the flickering lights seem to say.
Thousands of truckloads of concrete fill the hole, then the pier rises until it is 44 feet (13.4 metres) above the water.”
The story of the Bridge’s construction leads young readers to that thrilling day in May, 1937, when the Golden Gate Bridge opened for the first time. The book depicts the crowds joyfully flocking to the Bridge in order to traverse the Gate before a night of celebrations brings fireworks and good cheer.
“You feel like you’re right in the middle of the whole wide world. The vast Pacific Ocean stretches out behind you. America is in front of you, with her high soaring mountains and plains and rivers. And high above, where seagulls circle, the towers touch the sky”
The story is topped off with a two-page, fact-filled Afterword. It made me shiver to read about how those workers “walking the iron” had to have nerves of steel in order to stay alive. The author notes how “Some men who bluffed their way onto the bridge quickly climbed down and quit.”
Richie Partington, MLIS
Richie's Picks http://richiespicks.pbworks.com
https://www.facebook.com/richiespicks/
[email protected]
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“Workers with steel and concrete are squaring off against fog and wind and pounding surf. They want to build the world’s longest suspension bridge.
People say it’s impossible. It's too far to span from land to land, across the wild, surging waters where the ocean meets the bay. The weather is wicked, with blinding, wet fogs and treacherous winds that will toss the workers into the water like paper dolls.
Maybe they’re right.
But…here come the trucks!
Have you ever walked across the Golden Gate Bridge? I highly recommend experiencing it.
Yes, you may want to pick a day with good weather. Or maybe you’ll thrill on getting swallowed up in the cold, bracing fog. Either way, I’ve found it a blast to sashay those three or so miles–up so high above the water–as one completes the trek across the Bridge and back.
A decade ago, an excellent book about the Bridge was crafted by Dave Eggers and cut-paper artist Tucker Nichols. THIS BRIDGE WILL NOT BE GRAY taught me all sorts of tidbits about the Golden Gate Bridge. For instance:
Did you know that the Golden Gate Bridge was built in thousands of sections that were shipped from the East Coast to California by boats that passed through the Panama Canal?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy thought the bridge should be painted with yellow and black stripes so as to be readily seen by planes and ships?
Did you know that those thousands of sections of bridge that passed through the Panama Canal had been primed with an orange sealant paint?
Did you know that the Bridge employs the art deco architectural style? (Art deco is also the architectural style of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building in NYC)
Now, Berkeley native Elizabeth Partridge, who two years ago won the American Library Association’s award for young people’s nonfiction, and illustrator Ellen Heck have created a picture book that will well-complement the Eggers book.
GOLDEN GATE: BUILDING THE MIGHTY BRIDGE is a lyrical, beautifully illustrated yarn about many of the steps involved in building the Bridge. It's told from the point of view of a youngster living nearby the Gate.
“Concrete trucks roll from the batching plant to the pier, sending their wet, heavy mix sluicing down the tube they call the ‘elephant’s trunk.’
When the sun drops down into the Pacific Ocean, huge lights flood the pit so the work can go on. Night after night, the truck headlights sweep across your bedroom wall.
Hurry! the flickering lights seem to say.
Thousands of truckloads of concrete fill the hole, then the pier rises until it is 44 feet (13.4 metres) above the water.”
The story of the Bridge’s construction leads young readers to that thrilling day in May, 1937, when the Golden Gate Bridge opened for the first time. The book depicts the crowds joyfully flocking to the Bridge in order to traverse the Gate before a night of celebrations brings fireworks and good cheer.
“You feel like you’re right in the middle of the whole wide world. The vast Pacific Ocean stretches out behind you. America is in front of you, with her high soaring mountains and plains and rivers. And high above, where seagulls circle, the towers touch the sky”
The story is topped off with a two-page, fact-filled Afterword. It made me shiver to read about how those workers “walking the iron” had to have nerves of steel in order to stay alive. The author notes how “Some men who bluffed their way onto the bridge quickly climbed down and quit.”
Richie Partington, MLIS
Richie's Picks http://richiespicks.pbworks.com
https://www.facebook.com/richiespicks/
[email protected]
.
March 13, 2025
Wow, I loved this! It caught me totally by surprise and I found myself tearing up by the end. I will say I have a special place in my heart for San Francisco and Marin County. I loved visiting when we lived in Northern California, and I loved hearing stories my grandfather would tell about his boyhood there in the 1920s after immigrating to the US from Australia. For me, San Francisco is synonymous with the Golden Gate Bridge yet, when he was a boy, there was only the Golden Gate Strait -- to visit San Francisco, family had to take a ferry boat from Sausalito where they they lived. The Golden Gate wasn't built until after they moved out of the area, so I don't have any family stories of what it must have been like to watch it being constructed -- but I feel like I have some of that personal insight having read this book.
I've read children's books about the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge before, mostly on the design and construction process from the engineering perspective or from the perspective of the workers. Important perspectives, certainly. But I love how this book brings us the perspective of what it might have been like to be a child living near the construction area, what it felt like to see the bridge being built, to feel that anticipation and curiosity and incredulity and hope, in the atmosphere. I love how it's told as if you are experiencing it yourself. The technical information about the build is woven in seamlessly to the narrative so it's both educational and captivating. The Author's Note is also wonderful.
The illustrations are outstanding, too. They really deserve a Caldecott nod, IMO. The illustrations for the story proper do everything they should in terms of conveying the emotions, scenery, all the details -- and it's absolutely brilliant that there's a border along the bottom of each page that shows the construction of the bridge from beginning to end highlighting each new segment as discussed in the story -- you could almost run it like a flip book to see how the build all came together. Fabulous!
I really shouldn't give this five stars because the one flaw is there is no Bibliography and that is a huge no-no for me with a non-fiction book. However, I loved it so much, and I think the illustrations are so outstanding, that I'm giving it five stars anyway. I hope it gets a wide readership and that others love it as much as I did.
I've read children's books about the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge before, mostly on the design and construction process from the engineering perspective or from the perspective of the workers. Important perspectives, certainly. But I love how this book brings us the perspective of what it might have been like to be a child living near the construction area, what it felt like to see the bridge being built, to feel that anticipation and curiosity and incredulity and hope, in the atmosphere. I love how it's told as if you are experiencing it yourself. The technical information about the build is woven in seamlessly to the narrative so it's both educational and captivating. The Author's Note is also wonderful.
The illustrations are outstanding, too. They really deserve a Caldecott nod, IMO. The illustrations for the story proper do everything they should in terms of conveying the emotions, scenery, all the details -- and it's absolutely brilliant that there's a border along the bottom of each page that shows the construction of the bridge from beginning to end highlighting each new segment as discussed in the story -- you could almost run it like a flip book to see how the build all came together. Fabulous!
I really shouldn't give this five stars because the one flaw is there is no Bibliography and that is a huge no-no for me with a non-fiction book. However, I loved it so much, and I think the illustrations are so outstanding, that I'm giving it five stars anyway. I hope it gets a wide readership and that others love it as much as I did.
June 10, 2025
I have to thank Kathryn for alerting me to this book! I would have hated to miss reading it. This is her excellent review of the book: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (I do agree with her about the lack of a bibliography being a flaw.)
This book is fantastic! I’ve read other books about the building of the Golden Gate Bridge but this is now my favorite one.
It’s both poetic and scientific. There is some advanced vocabulary and there are pages with only illustrations. Both the illustrations and text are perfectly evocative of the area and its climate and its weather.
It’s beautifully written and the story is engaging. The illustrations are gorgeous. I love the dog being included in many of the illustrations without being mentioned in the text.
The Afterword is fascinating and informative. There are more specifics about the bridge building and also some information about the geological history of the area and also a bit of more recent history and all the way to the present day. I never knew that Native Americans (the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke) from back east helped build the bridge.
I learned a lot about my most local bridge, even though I’ve almost always lived relatively close to it. My entire life I’ve driven over it and walked over it too many times to count. (I also, sadly, have known a few people who jumped off of it, including one survivor.)
I greatly appreciated the short but fact packed author and illustrator bios at the end of the book that reveal their personal relationships with the bridge. They were a perfect team to create this book.
I’ve always wondered if my mother was there on opening day. She was living in San Francisco and she would’ve been 21 years old. I’m not sure she would’ve had a spare quarter to pay for the walk across. Every time I see photos of the people on the bridge on opening day I peruse them to see if I can find her there but I’ve had no luck so far. I wish I could have just asked her; she would have remembered the event whether or not she participated.
4-1/2 stars
This book is fantastic! I’ve read other books about the building of the Golden Gate Bridge but this is now my favorite one.
It’s both poetic and scientific. There is some advanced vocabulary and there are pages with only illustrations. Both the illustrations and text are perfectly evocative of the area and its climate and its weather.
It’s beautifully written and the story is engaging. The illustrations are gorgeous. I love the dog being included in many of the illustrations without being mentioned in the text.
The Afterword is fascinating and informative. There are more specifics about the bridge building and also some information about the geological history of the area and also a bit of more recent history and all the way to the present day. I never knew that Native Americans (the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke) from back east helped build the bridge.
I learned a lot about my most local bridge, even though I’ve almost always lived relatively close to it. My entire life I’ve driven over it and walked over it too many times to count. (I also, sadly, have known a few people who jumped off of it, including one survivor.)
I greatly appreciated the short but fact packed author and illustrator bios at the end of the book that reveal their personal relationships with the bridge. They were a perfect team to create this book.
I’ve always wondered if my mother was there on opening day. She was living in San Francisco and she would’ve been 21 years old. I’m not sure she would’ve had a spare quarter to pay for the walk across. Every time I see photos of the people on the bridge on opening day I peruse them to see if I can find her there but I’ve had no luck so far. I wish I could have just asked her; she would have remembered the event whether or not she participated.
4-1/2 stars
March 27, 2025
This is an excellent nonfiction picture book by award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge about the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. The word “impossible” is repeated early on in the story as it typifies how many people felt about such an engineering undertaking - especially during the height of the Great Depression. But despite the incredible odds - mostly due to the challenges of the setting and weather, the giant Red/Orange span slowly materialized piece by piece over the course of four years. The story is told by a fictional brother and sister - children of the lighthouse keeper - who have a front row seat to the entire process. This is truly a wonderful story - visually brought to life through the bright and bold mixed-media artwork by Ellen Heck (which also gives the reader a conceptual viewpoint of just how massive the bridge came to be) and narrated/described by those ẅho witnessed its construction. This is an example of a book that could lead into a STEM lesson, or for anyone interested in engineering. It is also a story of problem-solving and overcoming immense challenges. The ample back matter offers interesting insights to many of the additional construction/manpower/natural challenges taken on by the architects and construction crews that were not mentioned in the story.
January 5, 2025
Partridge's writing is stellar with phrases that make vivid the energy required to build the "impossible" (e.g. Brrrrrrap, brrrrrap, brrrrrap, the riveting gun secures the section.)
That said - this is a complex text with limited visual supports and back matter (only an author's note) to support making sense of the text describing the construction of the bridge. What's a rivet? What's a barge? What's a catwalk? What's an anchorage? The illustrations, frequently from the perspective of a child's binoculars or a window far away, are often vague as to what's going on. With the detailed text that Partridge includes (e.g., Motors thrum as the wheels work their way up to the tops of the twoers, then race down to midspan as the wires are woven into thicker strands), some students may be lost.
Ages 5-8 are listed for this book. This might be appropriate for a 1:1 read aloud with an adult. However, I'd recommend for students in grades 4-8 with some relevant STEM background knowledge as well as familiarity with the grandness Golden Gate Bridge.
That said - this is a complex text with limited visual supports and back matter (only an author's note) to support making sense of the text describing the construction of the bridge. What's a rivet? What's a barge? What's a catwalk? What's an anchorage? The illustrations, frequently from the perspective of a child's binoculars or a window far away, are often vague as to what's going on. With the detailed text that Partridge includes (e.g., Motors thrum as the wheels work their way up to the tops of the twoers, then race down to midspan as the wires are woven into thicker strands), some students may be lost.
Ages 5-8 are listed for this book. This might be appropriate for a 1:1 read aloud with an adult. However, I'd recommend for students in grades 4-8 with some relevant STEM background knowledge as well as familiarity with the grandness Golden Gate Bridge.
October 30, 2024
Outstanding in every way! Partridge details the building of the Golden Gate Bridge through the eyes of a light keeper's two children. This was an extraordinary engineering and construction feat as the waters being crossed are treacherous and the fogs, winds and waves made many people view the project as "Impossible."
The writing is very accessible and provides a lot of information and facts clearly and understandably for a young audience. Historical background of the time is woven through the text as well as the architectural and construction information. The point of view of the children provides a great perspective and Ellen Heck's mixed media illustrations are filled with details as well as being beautiful. I particularly liked the panel at the bottom of each page showing the ongoing progress of the bridge as its history unfurled.
Back matter provides much addition information about the project
The writing is very accessible and provides a lot of information and facts clearly and understandably for a young audience. Historical background of the time is woven through the text as well as the architectural and construction information. The point of view of the children provides a great perspective and Ellen Heck's mixed media illustrations are filled with details as well as being beautiful. I particularly liked the panel at the bottom of each page showing the ongoing progress of the bridge as its history unfurled.
Back matter provides much addition information about the project
January 6, 2025
This is the story of the building of the Golden Gate Bridge beginning in 1933 until it opened in 1937. Our narrator, the lighthouse keeper’s son, tells us the story of the amazing feat. He and his sister have a front row seat during the four years of construction. Your aspiring engineer will be fascinated with the detailed description of the numerous meticulous steps involved in the construction of, what was at that time, the longest suspension bridge in the world. The illustrations at the bottom of each page, which illustrate the progress of the construction, add to the understanding of this inspiring achievement. The afterword offers many additional facts about the bridge.
This narrative nonfiction picture book is a perfect gift for my seven year old stem loving nephew. But it’s also perfect for anyone of any age who is interested in the history and the amazing story of The Golden Gate Bridge.
Many thanks to Chronicle Kids Books for the review copy.
December 16, 2024
Elizabeth Partridge is a fantastic nonfiction writer because she finds the most fascinating things to write about. Did I know I needed to learn about the Golden Gate bridge? No, but she brought it to me and it's an epic picture book (with a different height/width than an average one) and chock full of factoids while still telling the story- from the perspective of one of the families that operate the Lime Point lighthouse in the bay where that light was only 19 feet above the water. On the opposite side was the Fort Point lighthouse.
It's ethereal in its presentation but shows the moves that had to be made in order to create the bridge and a bit about the color choice. A fount of knowledge!
It's ethereal in its presentation but shows the moves that had to be made in order to create the bridge and a bit about the color choice. A fount of knowledge!
April 19, 2025
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge by Elizabeth Partridge and Ellen Heck is a masterclass in nonfiction picture books. As the title suggests, this book is about the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. I was floored by what I learned and the wonder I experienced as I really took in how masterful, imaginative, impressive the construction of this bridge is. Honestly, the brains and gumption it took for people to imagine the possibility of this bridge and then to actually build it in the 1930s is truly awe inspiring. This book could be overwhelming and dense but the information is handled with accessibility and young readers in mind. Beautiful book.
November 1, 2024
This book is constructed in such a great way, with the actions at the top of the book, and a cross-section of the bridge's progress at the bottom. Having the illustrations created on red-orange paper was genius, showing hints of the bridge throughout. They even use the terms cement/concrete correctly, something many editors and authors seem to get confused. The back matter is just enough; I did not know that 11 people died in construction of the bridge. I was particularly interested in the bridge already, and my son lives almost within sight of it.
October 8, 2024
Making the impossible possible. This is more of a history artbook that will please all ages with a lot of information on how the bridge was built and how it works. When we turn the pages we can feel with the art and the format of the book how tall and impressive the bridge is. We get that feeling from it. The text has a great font and will be a great tool for libraries and classrooms.
December 12, 2024
The illustrations in this book are absolutely beautiful, and the engineering principles will blow your mind! I have to admit I didn't completely grasp all the procedures and concepts used in designing and building the Golden Gate Bridge, but it's impossible to miss what a feat this was! Excellent STEM book especially for those interested in engineering principles.
October 12, 2024
Whether you are a history enthusiast, a lover of architecture, or someone who simply enjoys a great story, this book is sure to resonate. The illustrations capture the majesty of the bridge and could easily be pulled out of the book and framed. What a beautiful read.
December 8, 2024
Wordy and a lot of pages, which fits the subject. Told from the perspective of a child watching the bridge go up. Good art. I would love to read a science comics or history comics version of this.
January 3, 2025
Great for a Great Depression unit of study. Could be used to compare with Sky Boys. The author’s note especially shares good historical information!
January 7, 2025
Remarkable, beautiful book. I've never seen the Golden Gate Bridge, but I sure do want to after this incredible picture book. Informative, entertaining and stunning.
January 24, 2025
A few things they described were hard to understand.
January 28, 2025
It was cool to learn the story of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, and I thought the illustrations were so beautiful!
March 30, 2025
This was interesting but a little bit dense.
April 19, 2025
Liked the illustrations far more than the dry text. Pass.
April 22, 2025
Very good. Like reading but not as much information as I’d hoped.
June 24, 2025
I should read this when we do bridge building in class. This describes the construction of the famous Golden Gate Bridge. The illustrations are wonderful!
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