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Older, Jules

Snowmobile: Bombardier's Dream Machine

58 pp. | Charlesbridge | February, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58089-334-3 $14.95 | Paper ISBN 978-1-58089-335-0 $6.95
(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Michael Lauritano. This accessible biography of snowmobile inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier opens with his two-year-old son feverish and needing a way to the hospital through snowy rural Quebec. Older goes on to explain the many motivations and challenges he faced in realizing his dream of creating a machine that could drive on snow. Lauritano's ink-and-pencil sketches capture the early-twentieth-century era; photographs are also included. Timeline. Bib., glos., ind.
Reviewer: Beth L. Meister

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