Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Holiday House $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1401-7
Offering more than the subtitle suggests, this ambitious but uneven work uses the history of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., as the focal point of a fact-filled, frequently intriguing overview of European persecution of the Jews, particularly...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Holiday House $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0945-7
Combining his fine eye for detail, an impressive collection of period photographs and energetic writing, the author of Ellis Island and The Oregon Trail has again brought to life a segment of America's past. The vital connection between the...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Holiday House $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0891-7
Fans of Fisher's well-sourced retellings of the Greek myths will shiver with terror at this emotive episode in the adventures of Odysseus. The most electrifying aspect here is the astonishing art: readers' attention is grabbed with the cover...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Holiday House $18.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0833-7
Fisher, an accomplished master of illustrated histories ( The White House ; Ellis Island ), here focuses on this famous 2000-mile trail which stretched from the Missouri River to the mouth of the Columbia River in the Oregon Territory. For 20 years (
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Holiday House $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0794-1
Cognizant of the increasing popularity of single-volume versions of ancient myths, Fisher ( The Olympians ; Theseus and the Minotaur ) again mines Greek mythology for inspiration, as he recounts the tale of Jason and the Argonauts' quest for the...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Holiday House $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0757-6
The vastness and awe of the Biblical story of creation are stunningly amplified by Fisher's sprawling impressionistic paintings. Ages 5-8. (Oct.)
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Viking Children's Books $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80869-4
Many books teach the concept of shapes, usually by example: this is a circle, this is a square, etc. Fisher does this too, but also includes a simple, comprehensive definition of each shape. His realistic paintings of everyday objects show that...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Holiday House $14.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0612-8
Fisher takes readers on a majestic journey, the ""largest movement of human beings in history.'' Through his evocative writing, we, along with the immigrants, ``fall silent with excitement and expectation.'' He covers the area's history from...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-050572-6
Carving shapes from pastel, shadow and light, Fisher delivers an unusual lesson to readers. Ages 2-6. (Apr.)
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Macmillan $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-735310-5
Fisher has created a simple yet dramatic history of the Jewish people in Palestine, using the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem as his focus. The Western, or Wailing, Wall is actually the remains of the Second Temple (built nearly 2500 years ago). The Wall...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Holiday House $6.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1508-3
Profiles of 13 Egyptian deities are accompanied by paintings that, PW said, ""evoke the graphic boldness of ancient Egyptian art."" Ages 7-12. (Jan.)
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Atheneum Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-81607-9
Featuring his signature, black-and-white acrylic paintings, Fisher's (Gandhi; Marie Curie) latest picture-book biography carefully charts Alexander Graham Bell's (1847--1922) career as educator and inventor. On most spreads, the copious text is set...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $14.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-02-735238-2
Fisher ( Galileo ; The Wailing Wall ) adds to his impressive oeuvre with another informative, clearly presented work. He commands attention from the first line--``Johann Gutenberg is something of a mystery''--and continues to lure the reader with...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-735235-1
A companion volume to Fisher's Prince Henry the Navigator , this uncommon illustrated biography captures and communicates the complex life of this world-changing scientist. The fact-filled yet graceful narrative places Galileo within the continuum...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-735375-4
In what is hardly among his most scintillating books, Fisher (Gutenberg; Kinderdike) offers a rather dry chronicle of the life of Marie Curie, who was born Manya Sklodowska in Warsaw in 1867. After working as a governess, Marie fulfilled a youthful...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-735351-8
An adventure filled with wonders yet fraught with underlying danger begins as a freak wave drives a small sailboat from the safety of ``the secret shore'' and carries it out to sea. Fisher's ( The ABC Exhibit ; The Great Wall of China ) pictorial...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-735251-1
With The ABC Exhibit , Fisher has created a work of deceptive simplicity. His illustrations seem to speak louder than words, turning the alphabet into a child's very own art exhibition. Each painting depicts a recognizable object--``Acrobat,'' ``Ball
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-735300-6
Mexico's vanished cultures and ancient deities are vividly brought to life in this informative book by the author of The Great Wall of China and The Tower of London. As in the previous books, black-and-white artwork is accompanied by colored symbols
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-735370-9
Many a rebel head has rolled since the Tower of London was built in the 11th century. This liberally illustrated book highlights the little-known aspects as well as the legendary tales about the dark tower, symbol of power for the royal line....
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Holiday House $16.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1694-3
Adding to his collections of deities from Ancient Norse, Ancient Maya and Ancient Egypt, Leonard Everett Fisher now introduces 17 of the most powerful in China: The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient China. From Nowa, the part-woman, part-dragon...
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Fisher, who spent his childhood in a Brooklyn seashore community, here handily imparts his familiarity with and fondness for this setting (which fans may recognize from The Jetty Chronicles). "Low tide and daylight were my tide and time. The...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-80178-5
Dramatic gray-toned artwork illustrates a tale about the construction of one of the seven wonders of the world. Ages 6-10. (Aug.)
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $15.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-02-735220-7
After conquering many small kingdoms, King Cheng became Ch'in Shih Huang Ti, the first Supreme Emperor of China. He systemized weights, measures, money and writing in China, and brought order to the country. That alone would have ensured his place...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author, Leonard Everett Fisher, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1427-7
Fisher (The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt) here focuses on the principal figures in ancient Mayan mythology, devoting a spread to each of a dozen gods and goddesses. The profiles are succinct, like encyclopedia entries; the full-page pictures,
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author, Leonard Everett Fisher, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-38436-4
Elegant full-page oil paintings, in the style of Fisher's Kinderdike, provide a dramatic backdrop for a retelling of the famous but underexplored legend about a 14th-century Swiss marksman. When Herr Gessler, the cruel governor of Altdorf, decrees...
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author, Leonard Everett Fisher, Illustrator Holiday House $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0703-3
The tragic story of the young hero Theseushis meeting with his father, King Aegeus; his battle with the Minotaur; his doomed love for Ariadne (because Dionysus claims her); and the death of Aegeusis well-suited to Fisher's striking illustrations....
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Leonard Everett Fisher, Author, Leonard Everett Fisher, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1569-4
As he did in Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Maya, Leonard Everett Fisher continues to explore mythology in Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Norse. Set against bold portraits, informative passages explain each of the 14 deity's place in the ...
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Leonard Everett Fischer, Author, Leonard Everett Fisher, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-735365-5
Exceptionally powerful illustrations honor the Dutch hamlet of Kinderdike, which, according to legend, was named after a baby who was found alive and well on a dike, having survived a fearful storm that caused enormous damage. The rhyming text is...
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Everett Fisher, Author, Leonard Everett Fisher, Author Holiday House $15.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0586-2
Fisher's own graphic, handsome black-and-white pictures illustrate the latest work by the honored author of over 200 thoroughly researched, well-written books about historic events and eras. In addition, this volume contains period and contemporary...
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