Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial

by Linda Booth Sweeney

Book Overview

This is the story of how a farmboy became America's foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan was working the family farm when he idly carved a turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney's swift prose and Fields's evocative illustrations capture the single-minded determination with which Dan taught himself to sculpt and launched his career with the famous Minuteman Statue in his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884486435
• ISBN13: 9780884486435
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7