Medals for Morse, Artist and Inventor by Jean Lee Latham

Grade:  3-6

Summary:  Young boys are going to love this book because it draws them in from the very beginning as they read about young Finlay (Samuel) and the drama of being a young boy. Even as a parent, you will have to smile at his antics as the story opens with Finley sitting on a stool as his listens to Ma'am Rand, the teacher. ABCs are not that fun nor does he understand half of what she says, so he finds other ways to amuse himself and of course this leads to trouble. And always the exclamation from people of what a way for the first-born son of Dr. Jedediah Morse to act. To Finlay, it seemed being the first-born was serious business.

These boyhood experiences in school and college will set the scene for the development of his character- independent and unconventional- and his ambition- to be a great painter of Americana. As he studies in Europe, struggles at home and lives through the death of his wife, we learn far more about Samuel then just the man who would invent the telegraph. But each of these events help us to understand how he could perservere through many years until he finally did succeed with his most famous invention. 

 
Book Details
Format: Hardcover
Condition :good; Ex-library book with pocket and other library markings inside front cover and front endpage. stamped inside back cover and title page. Cover has wear with the cloth a little bit tattered at spine head. Upper front corner has the board a little exposed.

Publisher: Aladdin

Extra Details: 1954, first edition

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