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Clean Sweep! Frank Zamboni's Ice Machine: Great Idea Series by Monica Kulling, Renné Benoit
michelle_neuwirth_gray9311's review against another edition
2.0
I enjoyed reading about the Zamboni family but felt this ended really abruptly. I would have loved to read more about his accomplishments after 1950. They included some bullets at the end, but it still didn't help the feeling that the book just stopped.
elizabethlk's review against another edition
4.0
The Great Ideas series is a delight to read, and it is a great way to introduce children (or anyone else) to a wide variety of inventors. Clean Sweep! fits with the series very well in that way. I think this is the most I have learned about Frank Zamboni in a single sitting. Recommended!
musicalknitter's review against another edition
4.0
This book is fun! Canadian children will know what a zamboni so this will be interesting for them. There are good illustrations, well written and shows the stages of the invention and why it was built.
pussreboots's review against another edition
5.0
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kesterbird's review
1.0
This book is a great example of the idea that writing a picture book is harder than it looks.
It was clearly written with a lot of love and detail, and it is also clear that the author tried to simplify it enough to be a picture book; but she did it all wrong. Probably while aiming for succinctness, segues and transitions appear to have been cut, whole cloth, leaving text that confused me, as an adult. I found myself having to flip back and forth between pages to try and figure out who and what we were talking about in any given sentence.
In addition, the author did not simplify it in the RIGHT ways; and this book is simply and terribly boring.
*received as part of Librarything's early reviewers program*
It was clearly written with a lot of love and detail, and it is also clear that the author tried to simplify it enough to be a picture book; but she did it all wrong. Probably while aiming for succinctness, segues and transitions appear to have been cut, whole cloth, leaving text that confused me, as an adult. I found myself having to flip back and forth between pages to try and figure out who and what we were talking about in any given sentence.
In addition, the author did not simplify it in the RIGHT ways; and this book is simply and terribly boring.
*received as part of Librarything's early reviewers program*
elizabethlk's review
4.0
The Great Ideas series is a delight to read, and it is a great way to introduce children (or anyone else) to a wide variety of inventors. Clean Sweep! fits with the series very well in that way. I think this is the most I have learned about Frank Zamboni in a single sitting. Recommended!
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