What Is the Panama Canal
By (Author) Janet B. Pascal
By (author) Who HQ
Illustrated by Tim Foley
Penguin Putnam Inc
G P Putnam's Sons
17th July 2014
United States
Children
Non Fiction
Educational: Technology
Educational: History
972.875
Paperback
112
Width 137mm, Height 194mm, Spine 7mm
145g
Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world's most famous shortcut- the Panama Canal!
Janet Pascal is an Executive Production Editor at Viking Children's Books and the author of Who Was Dr. Seuss,Who Was Maurice Sendak,and Who Was Abraham Lincoln She lives in New York City.