Making Contact!
  • Published: 18 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9781101918425
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $16.99

Making Contact!

Marconi Goes Wireless

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18 Aug 2016
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15 Aug 2013
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NOW IN PAPERBACK! The fifth book in Tundra's Great Idea Series, Making Contact! tells the story of Guglielmo Marconi, who became the father of wireless communication.

As a boy, Marconi loved science and invention. Born in 1874 in Bologna, Italy, to a wealthy family, Marconi grew up surrounded by books in his father's library. He was fascinated with radio waves and learned Morse code, the language of the telegraph. A retired telegraph operator taught him how to tap messages on the telegraph machine. At the age of twenty, Marconi realized that no one had invented a wireless telegraph. Determined to find a way to use radio waves to send wireless messages, Marconi found his calling. And, thanks to his persistence, on December 12, 1901, for the first time ever, a wireless signal traveled between two continents. The rest is history.
Monica Kulling's playful, informative text, combined with the compelling illustrations of artist Richard Rudnicki, bring an amazing inventor and his times to life.
  • Published: 18 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9781101918425
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $16.99
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About the author

Monica Kulling

Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 in Pennsylvania and grew up in Concord, Massachusetts. She is best known for her books for children. The daughter of philosopher and reformer Amons Bronson Alcott, she was also a supporter of women's rights and an abolitionist. Family debts led her to write the autobiographical novel LITTLE WOMEN (1868). The book was a huge success, followed by LITTLE MEN, AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL, and several other novels.

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Praise for Making Contact!

PRAISE FOR Making Contact!:

"Readily engage[s] young readers with fascinating information. They present the lives of their characters in a narrative style and provide absorbing details, both visually and in the text, that gives these accounts an intimate feel.... These and other informational tidbits give the book a personal relatable quality." - Atlantic Books Today

"Non-fiction fans will enjoy this account of how Guglielmo Marconi invented wireless communication." - The Winnipeg Free Press

"Richard Rudnicki's illustrations take the readers to Marconi's time and places, providing the appropriate atmosphere for his story. By resisting the need for excessive text, the affliction of many biographies for young people, and enhancing that limited text with illustrations, Tundra's Great Ideas Series will continue to garner awards and recognition. With Monica Kulling at the writing helm and astutely concentrating on the anecdotes of pivotal experiences, the stories will continue to be fascinating to young readers." - CanLit for Little Canadians