| Description |
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Toy trailblazers |
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Toy trailblazers.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
A life of work and play begins -- A young man with bright ideas -- Early career -- The checkered game of life -- The making of a board game -- Ups and downs of real life -- Beyond the board game -- Bradley goes to Kindergarten -- The changing game of life -- Success and satisfaction -- The end game -- Milton Bradley's work lives on. |
| Indexed In: |
School Library Journal, April 2016 |
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Horn Book, October 2016 |
| Summary |
"[A biography of] the builder of board games, Milton Bradley. Follow the story from Bradley's childhood, his early entrepreneurial work creating and selling stationery, his drafting education at Harvard, his first business creating and selling lithographs, and how these experiences came together when he formed the Milton Bradley Company and created the game of 'Life'."--Provided by publisher. |
| Audience |
5.1. |
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3-6 Follett School Solutions. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.9 0.5 179684. |
| Subject |
Bradley, Milton, 1836-1911.
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Milton Bradley Company.
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Board game industry.
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Board games -- Design and construction.
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Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Milton Bradley |
| ISBN |
9781624039751 |
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