#44
Title: This Bridge Will Not Be Gray
Author: Dave Eggers
Art by: Tucker Nichols
Genre: Kid Picture Book
Category: Non – Fiction E624.230979
Rating: B
Pages: 113
Published: 2015
Date: 7/30/16
This is the second book by Eggers I’ve
read. It’s actually a picture book for
the younger set and granddaughter found it interesting until her eyes got heavy
and she fell asleep before we finished.
As the front fly indicated … This Bridge Will Not Be Gray is a joyful
history lesson in picture book form – a gorgeously crafted story that teaches
us how beauty and inspiration tend to come from the most unexpected places.
Some things we learned while reading
are:
1) Some people wanted the bridge to be
painted red and white, others thought yellow and black appropriate and those
who wanted it gray wondered who would object to such a serious color.
2) One man wanted the bridge painted
orange. His name was Irving Morrow, a
local man and an architect.
3) He designed the bridge.
4) He also liked the color of the first
two towers which were built and soared 746 feet above water level. They were orange because they were painted
with what was a “no frills anti-rust paint”.
5) The official color was called
International Orange.
6) On any given day, painters are
repainting some part of the bridge using 10,000 gallons of paint a year.
The art work in the book is done by
Tucker Nichols, another local resident of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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