Eat My Dust! Henry Ford's First Race

By Monica Kulling and Richard Walz

It’s 1901 and Henry Ford wants to build a car that everyone can own. But first he needs the money to produce it. How will he get it? He enters a car race, of course! Readers will love this fast-paced, fact-based story!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Children's Books
• Release date: Apr 14, 2010
• ISBN: 9780307555830

Monica Kulling

MONICA KULLING is the author of more than sixty books for children, including Aunt Pearl, illustrated by Irene Luxbacher; and Ruby’s Hope: A Story of How the Famous “Migrant Mother” Photograph Became the Face of the Great Depression, illustrated by Sarah Dvojak. She has written the popular Great Idea series, and her work has been nominated for many awards, including numerous Silver Birch Express and Golden Oak awards and the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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[cheryl_in_cc_nv · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Well-done, great for early readers & fans of cars or racing or even history. I like the photo in the note at the end, that proves it's a true story. And it's a story I never knew, so that's cool. Good message about perseverance, too.