Children's Book and Media Review
Volume 39 | Issue 7 Article 24
2018 Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lite Up The World Jamie Greenwood
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Greenwood, Jamie (2018) "Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lite Up The orldW ," Children's Book and Media Review: Vol. 39 : Iss. 7 , Article 24. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cbmr/vol39/iss7/24
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Nikola Tesla has a dream: to turn the power of Niagara Falls into electricity. Nikola works hard to achieve his dream, first by attending college. Afterwards, he travels Europe seeking the funds to develop a way to use alternating current. He has little success, and so he sails to America to pitch his idea to Thomas Edison. Unfortunately, Edison also rejects his idea, and Nikola becomes his greatest rival. Nikola’s Author fame grows when he is chosen to wire the Chicago World’s Fair, which Elizabeth Rusch will be the first fair ever lit with electricity. For the next several years, Illustrator Nikola works on creating a generator that will use the power from Niagara Falls to create electricity, which helps to extend electricity to Oliver Dominguez far-away cities. Thus, he is able to finally fulfill his boyhood dream. Reviewer Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World details how Jamie Greenwood Nikola Tesla was able to fulfill a dream he had possessed since his Rating early childhood. The book describes the hard work and dedication Excellent that Tesla had to use in order to fulfill his dream. These details Level cumulatively add to the theme of the book, which is that tenacity and perseverance are vital when seeking to obtain one’s dream. Tesla Primary persevered through great setbacks and opposition and experienced times when others would not believe in his “radical” ideas, and yet he still continued to move forward towards his dream. The setting adds a sense of wonder to the book, as the reader is required to imagine Pages how life as we know it has been so greatly impacted by electricity and 47 Tesla’s inventions in particular. Year 2013 Publisher Candlewick Press ISBN 9780763679781
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