What Was the Industrial Revolution? (What Was?)

Part of the best-selling Who HQ series, this illustrated non-fiction title introduces 8- to 12-year-olds to the sweeping social and technological changes that began in Britain in the mid-1700s and reshaped the modern world. Jim Gigliotti explains how new machines, steam power, and factory systems forever altered the way people worked, lived, and traveled. Through clear storytelling, timelines, maps, and engaging black-and-white art, young readers see how inventions such as the spinning jenny, the steam engine, and the locomotive triggered rapid urban growth, global trade, and new ideas about labor, while also raising questions about child workers, pollution, and economic fairness.