Barbara Kerley, Author . National Geographic $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4263-0460-6
Sixty crisp, skillfully composed photographs follow children from all corners of the globe through a day, revealing activities that are strikingly similar yet widely divergent in the details. The juxtaposition of images is often remarkable. A photo...
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Barbara Kerley. National Geographic, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4263-1114-7
As she did in One World, One Day, Kerley pairs lean prose with exquisite photographs (many from National Geographic’s archives) in this exuberant celebration of the boundless possibilities life holds for children. As in the earlier book, smaller...
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Barbara Kerley, with Rhoda Knight Kalt, illus. by Matte Stephens. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-338-13427-8
As a girl in New York City, Knight Kalt loved spending weekends with her grandfather Toppy—the legendary artist Charles R. Knight, whose pioneering, dramatic murals of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures captured the public’s imagination....
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Barbara Kerley, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator , illus. by Brian Selznick. Scholastic $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-11494-3
One look at this amazing-but-true picture book introducing the little-known artist Hawkins and his dreams of dinosaurs, and kids may well forget about Jurassic Park.As a child growing up in 19th-century London, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins discovered
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Barbara Kerley, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator , illus. by Brian Selznick. Scholastic $16.95 (56p) ISBN 978-0-439-35791-3
The creators of The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
open this innovative, intriguing biography with an anecdotal look at the poet's early years as a printer's apprentice in Brooklyn, where his love of words was born. By the age of 19, Walt...
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Barbara Kerley, Author, Edwin Fotheringham, Illustrator , illus. by Edwin Fotheringham. Scholastic $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-92231-9
It’s hard to imagine a picture book biography that could better suit its subject than this high-energy volume serves young Alice Roosevelt. Kerley (The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
) knows just how to introduce her to contemporary readers: &
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Barbara Kerley, Author, Edwin Fotheringham, Illustrator , illus. by Edwin Fotheringham. Scholastic Press $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-545-12508-6
Kerley and Fotheringham (What to Do About Alice?
) pair up again to offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse of another famous family. Wanting to present a portrait of her papa beyond that of just humorist and author, Mark Twain’s 13-year-old...
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Barbara Kerley, illus. by Edwin Fotheringham. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-545-22268-6
Kerley and Fotheringham, the team behind The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy), cleverly contrast two diverse founding fathers and early presidents, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Entertaining verse and droll illustrations parlay their...
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Barbara Kerley, illus. by Edwin Fotheringham. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-545-35088-4
The team behind What to Do About Alice?, The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy), and Those Rebels, John & Tom continue their tradition of excellent and exuberant studies of historical figures with a theatrical story about writer Ralph...
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