Who Was Milton Bradley?

Who Was Milton Bradley?
Author: Kirsten Anderson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0448488477

Meet the man behind the board games: Milton Bradley. Born in Maine in 1836, Milton Bradley moved with his family to the working-class city of Lowell, Massachusetts, at age 11. His early life consisted of several highs and lows, from graduating high school and attending Harvard to getting laid off and losing his first wife. These experiences gave Bradley the idea for his first board game: The Checkered Game of Life. He produced and sold Life across the country and it quickly became a national sensation. Working with his company, the Milton Bradley Company, he continued to produce board games, crayons, and kid-friendly school supplies for the rest of his life. He is often credited as the father of board games, and the Milton Bradley Company has created Battleship, Jenga, Yahtzee, Trouble, and many more classic games.

Board Game Builder: Milton Bradley

Board Game Builder: Milton Bradley
Author: Lee Slater
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1680771337

In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the builder of board games, Milton Bradley. Follow the story from Bradley's childhood, his early entrepreneurial work creating and selling stationery, his drafting education at Harvard, his first business creating and selling lithographs, and how these experiences came together when he formed the Milton Bradley Company and created the Game of Life. Bradley's family, retirement, and work producing educational materials to support the new movement in education called kindergarten are included. Sidebars, historic photos, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, a timeline and fun facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Elementary Color

Elementary Color
Author: Milton Bradley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1895
Genre: Color
ISBN:

The intent of this book is to offer for primary school teachers a clear and condensed explanation of the Bradley System of Color Instruction. This system relies on Maxwell rotating color disks to determine and define pigmentary standards.

Who Was Milton Bradley?

Who Was Milton Bradley?
Author: Kirsten Anderson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0451532716

Meet the man behind the board games: Milton Bradley. Born in Maine in 1836, Milton Bradley moved with his family to the working-class city of Lowell, Massachusetts, at age 11. His early life consisted of several highs and lows, from graduating high school and attending Harvard to getting laid off and losing his first wife. These experiences gave Bradley the idea for his first board game: The Checkered Game of Life. He produced and sold Life across the country and it quickly became a national sensation. Working with his company, the Milton Bradley Company, he continued to produce board games, crayons, and kid-friendly school supplies for the rest of his life. He is often credited as the father of board games, and the Milton Bradley Company has created Battleship, Jenga, Yahtzee, Trouble, and many more classic games.

Go for Kids

Go for Kids
Author: Milton N. Bradley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Go (Game)
ISBN: 9781889554747

Game Changer

Game Changer
Author: Robert Angel
Publisher: Amplify
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781643074979

"It all began with one small step.Game Changer is the story of how a twenty-three-year-old waiter from Seattle had the outrageous dream of beating industry giants Milton Bradley and Mattel at their own game. With no experience, Rob Angel used his guts, drive, and intuition to create one of the most beloved board games of all time: Pictionary. Rob did it his way. He produced the first 1,000 games by hand in his tiny one- bedroom apartment, disrupted the market by selling to nontraditional retail outlets, and did countless demonstrations at the bottom of the escalator at Nordstrom-a store with no game department. Anything to succeed.Getting there wasn't easy; Rob had to navigate his way through production mishaps, cash flow troubles, and countless copycats trying to scratch their way past Pictionary. Still, within three years, Pictionary became the bestselling board game in North America, and shortly after, the world. When Mattel acquired Pictionary in 2001, a staggering 38,000,000 games had been sold in 60 countries.In Game Changer, Rob shares the remarkable inside story of taking Pictionary from simple idea to iconic global brand by breaking rules and breaking records, never giving up or giving in, and working harder when most would walk away all while having the time of his life. Candid and compelling, Game Changer is as much a captivating memoir as it is a blueprint to personal and professional success."

The Mansion of Happiness

The Mansion of Happiness
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307476456

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That’s why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg, and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life—from board games to breast pumps—Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. “New worlds were found,” she writes, and “old paradises were lost.” As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, The Mansion of Happiness is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling.

Games

Games
Author: Bruce Whitehill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 197
Release: 1992
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780870695834

Profiles and prices games manufactured from 1822-1992, and gives histories of hundreds of manufacturers, including, Milton Bradley, Selchow & Righter, and Parker Brothers

YAHTZEE Scratch and Play to Go!

YAHTZEE Scratch and Play to Go!
Author: Tom Verhoeff
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2009-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781402764356

No more dice to lose, and it can go anywhere: everybody s a winner with this addictive new book! Just as with Hasbro s real YAHTZEE game, players get to roll five dice three times to find their highest score. But instead of throwing actual dice, they "scratch" them off the page, lottery-styleand keep only the dice they want as they go for better combinations with their remaining rolls. With multiple copies of the book, readers can stage head-to-head competitions. And for extra fun, players can compare their score with the author s, with the score obtained using perfect strategy, and with the best possible score you could get if you had x-ray vision.-Hasbro s popular game meets our own best-selling "Scratch & Solve" series for assured success- Today, more than 50 million YAHTZEE games are sold annually-Written by one of the most esteemed puzzle creators around, a championship winner and bestselling author whose work has appeared in America s top newspapers- This easy-to-play and portable version of YAHTZEE can go anywhere, and be enjoyed solo: it s perfect for trips, commutes, or whenever there are a few minutes to spare"