Knucklehead

Title: Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka Author: Jon Scieszka ISBN: 9780670011063 Pages: 106 pages Publisher/Date: Viking, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, c2008. The first time I heard the name Knucklehead, it wasn’t being used as a particularly good name. I think it was my dad, finding that [...]

Amelia Lost

Title: Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Author: Candace Fleming ISBN: 970375814989 Pages: 118 pages Publisher/Date: Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House, c2011. The fear in Earhart’s voice made Leo Bellarts’s skin prickle. “I’m telling you, it sounded as if she would have broken out in a scream. . . [...]

Soar, Elinor!

Title: Soar Elinor! Author: Tami Lewis Brown Illustrator: Francois Roca ISBN: 9780374371159 Pages: Picture Book Publisher/Date: Farrar Straus Giroux, c2010. Six-year-old Elinor Smith took her first airplane ride in 1917. Less than fourteen years later, she had become the youngest licensed pilot in the United States, male or female. A successful and acclaimed pilot in [...]

Wonder Horse

Title: Wonder Horse: The True Story of the World’s Smartest Horse Author: Emily Arnold McCully ISBN: 9780805087932 Pages: Picture Book Publisher/Date: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, c2010. Born Bill Key a slave on a plantation in 1833, “Doc” Key’s way with animals soon became well-known. An Arabian mare that he saved from a circus whipping [...]

Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix

Title: Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix Author: Gary Golio Illustrator: Javaka Steptoe ISBN: 9780618852796 Pages: 32 pages Publisher/Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, c2010. The cover should give you a clue that this picture book just explodes with color! At times, the double page [...]

Friday Feature: Russell Freedman’s Books

As promised, to finish up my week of Russell Freedman, I’m supplying a bibliography with a list of his books and the awards they have won. I compiled this list using the Alliance for the Study and Teaching of Adolexcent Literature at Rhode Island College website, which provided a wonderful starting point for this list [...]

The Voice That Challenged a Nation

This post is supporting my week long look at just some of Russell Freedman’s collection of work. Title: The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights Author: Russell Freedman ISBN: 0618159762 Pages: 114 pages Publisher/Date: Clarion Books, c2004. Marian Anderson never expected to become an activist in the struggle [...]

She Touched the World

Title: She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer Author: Sally Hobart Alexander and Robert Alexander ISBN: 9780618852994 Pages: 100 pages Publisher/Date: Clarion Books, c2008. “By the time Laura Bridgman was twelve years old, she was … famous. Like all children, you would have loved an admired her. You would have named your favorite dool [...]