November 14, 2024 7:26 am
Published by priyahpi
Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the growing-up years of Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Stan Lee, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, Edgar Allan Poe, Langton Hughes, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Sherman Alexie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jeff Kinney. Every great author started out as a kid and had regular-kid problems just like you. Children will wonder if they, too, might have it in them to write.
November 7, 2024 7:14 pm
Published by quanta@dev
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot―and that was when his adventures began. He found a job delivering mail by plane, which had never been done before.
November 7, 2024 7:14 pm
Published by quanta@dev
Readers and writers will relate to stories of White's childhood—he was "scrawny" and "fearful" but in love with words. As a child, he contributed short pieces to magazines, winning awards for his studies of nature, dogs, and his family. Some of his youthful creations, such as essays, poetry, and a handmade brochure, are included.
November 10, 2024 8:11 pm
Published by priyahpi
An engaging, easy-to-use and informative biography of Shakespeare with humorous illustrations.
So what was it like to live in Shakespeare's time? What do we actually know about him? And how does someone become that famous? These are just a few of the questions addressed in this lively and accessible book on the life and works of William Shakespeare.
October 30, 2024 1:03 pm
Published by priyahpi
Known for, among other things, wearing a large fur coat wherever he went, storyteller Edward Gorey was respected for both his brilliance and his eccentricity. As a child, he taught himself to read and skipped several grades before landing at Harvard (after a brief stint in the army). Then he built a name for himself as a popular book illustrator.
November 7, 2024 7:14 pm
Published by quanta@dev
This rollicking and fascinating picture book biography chronicles the life of the first pioneer of children's books—John Newbery himself. While most children's books in the 18th century contained lessons and rules, John Newbery imagined them overflowing with entertaining stories, science, and games. He believed that every book should be made for the reader's enjoyment.
November 14, 2024 10:56 am
Published by priyahpi
Noah Webster, famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United States, was known in his day for his bold ideas and strong opinions about, well, everything. Spelling, politics, laws, you name it―he had something to say about it. He even commented on his own opinions! With a red pencil in hand, Noah often marked up work that he had already published.
November 12, 2024 9:03 am
Published by priyahpi
This is a nonfiction picture book about the poet E.E. cummings. Here E.E.'s life is presented in a way that will make children curious about him and will lead them to play with words and ask plenty of questions as well. Lively and informative, the book also presents some of Cummings's most wonderful poems, integrating them seamlessly into the story to give the reader the music of his voice and a spirited, sensitive introduction to his poetry.
May 29, 2024 5:55 am
Published by quanta@dev
On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired.
November 12, 2024 9:27 am
Published by priyahpi
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two high school misfits in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent--meek, mild, and myopic--than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote his own original stories and Joe illustrated them. In 1934, the summer they graduated from high school, they created a superhero who was everything they were not.
