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Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of mini-biographies of such rock music legends as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, and Carlos Santana.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Packed with anecdotes, sidebars, time lines, and illustrations by Anna DiVito, this title, gives young readers a comprehensive look at the birth of our nation.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the ten amendments to the United States Constitution that make up the Bill of Rights, explaining what the amendments mean, how they have been applied, and the rights they guarantee.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
History comes to life in this dynamic volume! Here are inside views of twenty writers—people of all shapes, sizes, temperaments, and lifestyles, from various countries and historical periods. Included are William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Charles Dickens, and many others.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the thirteenth-century Chinese emperor which offers a more complete picture of the man than books which treat him as just a supporting player in Marco Polo's adventures.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A millennia-long history of animal keeping shares facts about what zookeeping has taught humanity and how individual lives have been profoundly shaped by the wild creatures found in zoos all over the world.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this entertaining, informative collection, listeners will discover the idiosyncrasies—sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic—of twenty famous artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Peter Bruegel, Sofonisba Anguissola, Rembrandt van Rijn, Katsushika Hokusai, Mary Cassatt, Vincent Van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O'Keeffe, William H. Johnson, Salvador Dali, Isamu...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
54 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks into the 1947 crash in New Mexico of an object which many people believe was an alien spacecraft, providing reports of what people claim to have seen and the government cover-up that followed.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
43 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of renowned children's author and illustrator Ted Geisel, popularly known as Dr. Seuss, focusing on his childhood and youth in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
37 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little...
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