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Tin Lizzie Author: Allan Drummond

ISBN: 9780374320003 Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket Number Of Pages: 32 Published: 27 May 2008 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 10.26 x 10.4 x 0.39 Description: "Happy Birthday, Tin Lizzie! Let's go!" shouts Grandpa as his one-hundred-year-old Tin Lizzie explodes into life.

The children jump aboard the vintage Model T Ford that they have helped him to restore, and a celebration road trip begins.

"You gotta have wheels!" Grandpa cries, but as traffic jams build and Tin Lizzie abandons the overcrowded roads, the children begin to ask some serious questions about exactly what the cars we love and depend on are doing to the world we live in.

Animated illustrations and jaunty prose combine history and a thought-provoking look at the motor-obsessed world of today. Endpapers depict the evolution of cars from the late nineteenth century to the present, and the book concludes with a brief pictorial biography of Henry Ford, followed by a spread of images illustrating problems and possible solutions.

Author Biography: Allan Drummond earned a BA in graphic design at the London College of Printing and an MA in illustration at the Royal College of Art. His other books for children include The Flyers, Liberty!,...

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