Publisher's Synopsis
Make 21 articulated puppets from the Modern Age! Crazy Horse fights to defend his people on the wide plains of Montana. Rosa Parks, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King take brave stands to make a better world. Rosie the Riveter builds ships, tanks, and airplanes that soldiers and pilots will use to defend democracy. Amelia Earhart explores the endless skies, while Neil Armstrong dares to go further than any human has ever been. This is the modern era. Now children ages 6 to 12 can make movable, articulated paper dolls and relive the memorable events of the modern age with Queen Victoria, Susan B. Anthony, Crazy Horse, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Queen Min of Korea, Emperor Meiji of Japan, a World War I soldier, Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Amelia Earhart, Rosie the Riveter, a World War II pilot, Albert Einstein, Rosa Parks, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, and astronaut Neil Armstrong. These activists, leaders, explorers, and fighters shaped our modern world. Read about their amazing lives, and act out new adventures, with Famous Figures of Modern Times. Detailed biography section with facts about each figureCompanion reading list for further explorationMeticulous illustrations based on historical photographsEasy to assemble (all instructions included)Colored and colorable versions of each characterPrinted on sturdy card stock for hours of creative play.
