Attack of the Paper Bats by Michael Dahl

Author:Michael Dahl [Dahl, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: 978-1-4965-5531-1; 978-1-4965-5537-3; struggling readers; scary stories; library of doom; paper bats
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2019-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

A PAGE FROM THE LIBRARY OF DOOM

PAPER

The word “paper” comes from “papyrus,” a plant that grew along the Nile River in Egypt. Ancient Egyptians peeled strips from the tall plants and pounded them flat to write on.

Ts’ai Lun, a member of the Chinese emperor’s court in 105 AD, is honored as the inventor of paper. He chopped up bamboo, bark from mulberry trees, and even fishing nets, to make a pulpy substance. When the pulp dried, it looked like our modern paper.

Today, paper is made from fibers that come mostly from trees, but can also come from straw or cotton.

Every year, the average student in the United States uses seven hundred pounds of paper!

Paper is dangerous! Brothers Homer and Langley Collyer never threw anything away. One day in 1947, they were found dead in their New York apartment buried under fallen stacks of old newspapers. It took rescuers eighteen days to recover the bodies from beneath all the paper.

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