Dream Something Big: The Story of the Watts Towers (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Dream Something Big In Watts, California, over a period of many years, a man known to all as Uncle Sam spends his free time collecting broken bits of pottery, glass, and other scraps and turning them into a work of art.
Full description- Publisher: Dial
- Published: 22 September 2011
- Format: Hardback 40 pages
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- Categories: Storybooks | Fiction | Historical | Art & Design
- ISBN 13: 9780803732452 ISBN 10: 0803732457
- Sales rank: 706,297
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Full description for Dream Something Big
Between 1921 and 1955, Italian immigrant Simon Rodia transformed broken glass, seashells, pottery, and a dream to "do something big" into a U.S. National Landmark. Readers watch the towers rise from his little plot of land in Watts, California, through the eyes of a fictional girl as she grows and raises her own children. Chronicled in stunningly detailed collage that mimics Rodia's found-object art, this thirty-four-year journey becomes a mesmerizing testament to perseverance and possibility. A final, innovative "build-your-own-tower" activity makes this multicultural, intergenerational tribute a classroom natural and a perfect gift-sure to encourage kids to follow their own big dreams.
