Books by Philip Steele and Complete Book Reviews
Phillip Steele, illus. by Sebastian Quigley, Kingfisher, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7534-6465-6
The squat, wide format of this book is already well-suited to its subject matter, and it becomes even more so when its trick is revealed: five pages pull out, almost tripling the scenes' width and unveiling additional railroad cars. Steele provides...
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Brian Lavery, illus. by Sebastian Quigley. Kingfisher, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7534-6681-0
Compelling details and interactive effects appear throughout this guide to ships, which uses the same format as 2010’s Legendary Journeys: Trains. Recreations of Greek triremes, Viking longships, and the Titanic, among others, are enhanced by slide-o
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Catherine Brereton, Author, Philip Steele, Author, Hannah Wilson, Author , illus. by Steve Stone. Kingfisher $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7534-1916-8
Who would win in a fight, a knight or a Zulu warrior? This action-filled book—a sort of historical version of Mortal Kombat
—aims to find out. Ten warriors, including a Spartan, a male and a female gladiator, and a samurai, are pitted...
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Philip Steele. Scholastic, $14.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-338-03040-2
Steele concisely chronicles the events of the Holocaust in brief paragraphs on a broad range of topics, augmented by archival photographs—sometimes colorized or digitally manipulated—and documents. The image-heavy format vividly details the rise of...
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