Bridges (Awesome Engineering)

Description

Follow the development of bridges, as they have grown longer and bigger, and more fantastical through engineering skill, design and ambition. Get to grips with the mind-boggling advances that have been made in engineering. Find out about awe-inspiring buildings and technology. These books are filled with impactful artwork, diagrams and explanations that make the awesome feats of engineering easy to understand. Presents a chronology of landmark engineering achievements from around the world with fascinating facts about each construction

Author description

Sally Spray is an author of children's non-fiction books. She studied Early Years Education, then an MA in Children's Literature, and worked as a teacher before becoming an art director in children's publishing. Sally lives in the Cotswold countryside, and enjoys daily chats with her chickens, daughters and sometimes her husband, the illustrator Mark Ruffle. Her mission is to find out loads of interesting, really hard to understand stuff and pass it on to her readers as simply and concisely as possible.