The Talking Machine: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
by Ilana Dover with Illustrations by Yvonne Donnelly
Biographies do not have to be boring and bland. Author-educator Ilana Dover certainly had this in mind when she penned the Real Hero Series. In The Talking Machine, the second piece of the wonderfully crafted series of fictionalized biographies for young children, Dover recounts the interesting life of one of mankind’s real heroes, Alexander Graham Bell.
Deftly written and illustrated, The Talking Machine tells of Graham Bell’s childhood, inquisitiveness, teaching career, and experiments leading to the invention of the telephone and other inventions. Like the first book in the Real Hero series, An Airplane is Born, it is told from the perspective of a curious modern-day child, Kaylee, and shows how qualities such as curiosity and perseverance lead to the innovations that people enjoy in their daily lives today.
Deftly written and illustrated, The Talking Machine tells of Graham Bell’s childhood, inquisitiveness, teaching career, and experiments leading to the invention of the telephone and other inventions. Like the first book in the Real Hero series, An Airplane is Born, it is told from the perspective of a curious modern-day child, Kaylee, and shows how qualities such as curiosity and perseverance lead to the innovations that people enjoy in their daily lives today.