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Alexander Graham Bell Answers the Call
written and illustrated by Mary Ann Fraser
Ages: 6+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 978-1-58089-721-1
Keywords: Sound, Creativity, Telephone, and Mathematics), Engineering, Inventions, Technology, STEM (Science
Aleck, son of a deaf mother and a speech therapist father, was always curious and experimenting with sound, which led to many inventions, most famously the telephone. Photographs and mixed-media illustrations.