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Picture Book Biographies of Artists: Marceau and Matisse
Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
|In this week’s entry, we feature two recent picture book biographies of artists: Monsieur Marceau: Actor without Words Written by Leda Schubert and Illustrated by Gerard Dubois Published in 2012 by Roaring Brook Press ISBN: 978-1-59643-592-2 Grades 1 and up. Book Review: “Look at this man…. He is the superstar of silence, the maestro of […]
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children
Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
|Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children Written by Jan Pinborough and Illustrated by Debby Atwell Published by Houghton Mifflin in 2013 ISBN 978-0547- 47051 Grades 1 and up Book Review “Once in a big house in Limerick, Maine, there lived a little girl named Annie Carroll […]
Barnum’s Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN: 978-0-374-30516-1 Written by Tracey Fern Illustrated by Boris Kulikov Grades 3-8 Book Review “Barnum collected more dinosaur bones than anyone on earth.” In fact, before he started working for the famous American Museum of […]
Helen’s Big World and Annie and Helen
Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
|Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller Written by Doreen Rappaport and Illustrated by Matt Tavares Published by Hyperion in 2012 978-0-7868-0890-8 Book Review Many of us take for granted the way we experience our everyday world and the ways in which we communicate with others around us. A new picture book biography about […]
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World
Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
|Written by Laurie Lawlor and illustrated by Laura Beingessner Published by Holiday House in 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8234-2370-5 Grades 1 – 8 Book Review Honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, Laurie Lawlor’s picture book biography of Rachel Carson pays fitting tribute to the “mother of the environmental movement.” Beginning with Carson’s early […]
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Written by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, Illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon Published by Dial, 2012 ISBN# 978-0803735118 Book Review By day, fourteen-year old William Kamkwamba toils in the drought-stricken fields of his impoverished Malawian village. At night, however, his mind is filled with wonder about how things work: If […]
Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O’Keeffe Painted What She Pleased Written by Amy Novesky and Illustrated by Yuyi Morales Published by Harcourt in 2012, ISBN 978-0-15-205420-5 Grades 1 – 6 Book Review “Georgia painted waterfalls and green pleated mountains, lava hardened into fantastic shapes, and delicate, feathered fishhooks that she collected like seashells.” But […]
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, and Treachery By Stephen Sheinkin Flashpoint/Roaring Brook Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-59643-4686-8 Grades 6 and Up Review If you are of a certain generation, you remember when Peter Brady was assigned the role of Benedict Arnold, dashing his hopes of playing George Washington. In American culture, […]
All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel Written and Illustrated by Dan Yaccarino Alfred Knopf Publishers ISBN 978-0-375-86642-5 Grades K-4 Book Review There are plenty of picture books, both fiction and nonfiction, which address the period of European immigration in the late 19th and early 20th […]
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