{"product_id":"keep-it-clean-big-ideas-that-changed-the-world-7-a-nonfiction-graphic-novel-don-brown-hardcover","title":"Keep It Clean!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #7 (a Nonfiction Graphic Novel) -- Don Brown, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThis entertaining graphic novel from award winner Don Brown will get kids talking, since it's all about the history of dealing with poop, pee, and dirty hands.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Part of the Big Ideas That Changed the World graphic novel series, this full-color book is appropriate for the classroom and includes a timeline, endnotes, and a bibliography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1895, an engineer named George Waring was appointed New York City's first commissioner of street cleaning. His task? To make a city with millions of people livable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Narrated by Waring, \u003ci\u003eKeep It Clean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e!\u003c\/i\u003e explores the concept of public health, which means ensuring clean water and adequate sewage disposal for everyone, and covers topics such as personal hygiene, sewer systems, and chemical water treatment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Acclaimed author-illustrator Don Brown takes readers on a journey through history and around the world, from Greek, Roman, and Aztec aqueducts and the dawn of bathing (including social public bathing in Japan and religious bathing ceremonies in Machu Picchu) to the invention of soap in the Middle East, the first use of flush toilets approximately 4,000 years ago, and the first toilets used in outer space--a Big Idea when you consider that early astronauts on Apollo 11 had none! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Full of facts and colorful historical figures, Brown chronicles both historical mishaps--like rivers full of human waste and King Henry VI's notorious basement of poop--and monumental scientific breakthroughs including Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch's discovery of the link between microbes (germs) and disease. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Brown also highlights how social classes became divided not only by wealth and culture but also by smell, and calls attention to modern-day health crises. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Today, nearly two billion people around the world live without clean water and about 3.6 billion people--nearly half of the world's population--live without proper sanitation. Breaking down concepts in an accessible, kid-friendly way, this nonfiction graphic novel shows why \"keeping it clean\" is vitally important whether it's a city, town, home, or person. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Ideas That Changed the World is a graphic novel series that celebrates the hard-won succession of ideas that ultimately changed the world. Humor, drama, and art unite to tell the story of events, discoveries, and ingenuity over time that led humans to come up with a big idea and then make it come true.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMore from the Big Ideas That Changed the World series: \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eRocket to the Moon!\u003c\/i\u003e (#1) \u003ci\u003eMachines That Think! \u003c\/i\u003e(#2) \u003ci\u003eA Shot in the Arm!\u003c\/i\u003e (#3) \u003ci\u003eWe the People! \u003c\/i\u003e(#4) \u003ci\u003eAll Charged Up!\u003c\/i\u003e (#5) \u003ci\u003eIt's About Time!\u003c\/i\u003e (#6)\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Don Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Harry N. Abrams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.92 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.24\" H x 5.87\" L x 0.68\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781419779961\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50755957621040,"sku":"9781419779961","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781419779961_ff9c09fa-586d-4065-9574-e6c43144aa79.jpg?v=1775255425","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/keep-it-clean-big-ideas-that-changed-the-world-7-a-nonfiction-graphic-novel-don-brown-hardcover","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}