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Booklist, in a starred review, wrote "Focused, informative writing and strong, effective illustrations combine to make this the go-to Frederick Douglass biography for younger students." [ 1 ] and the School Library Journal wrote "Although this title is similar in scope to Doreen Rappaport's Frederick's Journey , the two books complement each other.
Jean Lee Latham was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. [2] Her father was a cabinetmaker and her mother was a teacher. [citation needed] She attended West Virginia Wesleyan College and received an A.B. in 1925.
Cornelia Lynde Meigs (1884–1973) was an American writer of fiction and biography for children, teacher of English and writing, historian and critic of children's literature. She won the Newbery Medal for her 1933 biography of Louisa May Alcott, entitled Invincible Louisa. She also wrote three Newbery Honor Books. [1]
This biography for children ages four through eight tells the story of Billy Mills, a proud Oglala Lakota native who grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and won gold on the 1964 ...
ValueTales is a series of 43 simple biographical children's books published primarily by the now-defunct Value Communications, Inc. in La Jolla, California.They were written by Dr. Spencer Johnson and Ann Donegan Johnson, and illustrated by Stephen Pileggi.
Stanley is the author and/or illustrator of more than sixty books for children, noted especially for her series of picture book biographies. Shaka, King of the Zulus was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and Leonardo da Vinci received the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction from the National Council for Teachers of English.
In 1998 Freedman received the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the professional children's librarians, which recognizes a living author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made "a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children". At the time it was awarded every three years.
Anne Sebba (née Rubinstein) was born in London on 31 December 1951.She read history at King's College London (1969–72) and, after a brief spell at the BBC World Service in Bush House, joined Reuters as a graduate trainee, working in London and Rome, from 1972 to 1978.