Cheryl Harness, Author . S&S/Aladdin $6.99 (, $6.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-689-84892-6
Harness leads a tour of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with an overview of its residents throughout history, including George W. Bush. Ages 7-10. (Jan.)
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Cheryl Harness, Author . Dutton $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-47259-9
In an introductory note, Harness (Rabble Rousers)
describes the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt as "a story of overcoming" and her cogent, at times stirring account underscores this assertion. Eleanor coped with an overly critical...
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Cheryl Harness, Author National Geographic Society $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6970-0
Cheryl Harness zeroes in on America's second president in The Revolutionary John Adams. The lengthy text, with a generous sprinkling of quotes and paintings that evoke the period, puts special emphasis on Adams's role in the Continental Congress...
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Cheryl Harness, Author Bradbury Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-742644-1
As she did in Three Young Pilgrims , Harness here relies as much on her ample storytelling skills as on her impressive artistic abilities to tell this edifying story of John Quincy Adams's early years. The narrative opens in the spring of 1775, as...
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Cheryl Harness, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-689-80872-2
Harness (Three Young Pilgrims; The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal) again takes an edifying look back at American history through a fictional lens. Here her angle is almost too whimsical: a girl tours the White House on a class field trip, and George...
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Cheryl Harness, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-81542-3
In her standard approach, combining text, realistic art and maps annotated with historical information, Harness (Ghosts of the White House) presents a spotty portrait of Mark Twain and the majestic river that inspired much of his writing. The...
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Cheryl Harness, Author Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1715-1
Harness ( The Windchild ) employs the intricate craftsmanship of a bygone age in this visually captivating tale, which features meticulously wrought scenes of Elizabethan grandeur bordered by ornate floral motifs. Here, a wall separates the...
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Cheryl Harness, Author Dutton Children's Books $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-525-47035-9
Women activists take center stage in Rabble Rousers: 20 Women Who Made a Difference by Cheryl Harness. The volume opens in 1776 with Ann Lee, founder of the first Shaker colony in Niskeyuna, N.Y. (near Albany), and closes with the ongoing story ...
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Cheryl Harness, Author, Robin Brickman, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-80873-9
In this puzzler, two treasure-hunters anger the radiant-white specter of a buccaneer. Alliterative objects lurk in the phantasmal illustrations, and rhyming quatrains emphasize each letter (""J"": ""The kids' hearts jerk like jumping beans,/ Their...
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Cheryl Harness, Author, Nancy F. Cott, Author, Cheryl Harness, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-688-17017-2
And, reaching further back in history, Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women by Cheryl Harness, in her signature style, offers brief biographies within a larger history of women. She begins with Virginia Dare, ""the first English child born...
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Cheryl Harness, illus. by Carlo Molinari. Albert Whitman, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-4990-2
Back when wearing pants was an act of defiance for women, Mary Walker sported them with poise. As a Civil War surgeon and activist, pants allowed her freedom of movement. Molinari shows a coiffed Walker striding confidently in a man’s tailored suit,
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Cheryl Harness, Author, Cheryl Harness, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $6.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-443869-8
"In her signature style, the author/artist offers brief biographies within a larger history of women," wrote PW. Beginning with Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America in 1587, she proceeds to Pocahontas, Abigail Adams (whose
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Cheryl Harness, Author, Cheryl Harness, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-02-742643-4
Using the lives of three real children who traveled on the Mayflower and lived in the Plymouth Colony--Mary, Remember and Bartholomew Allerton--Harness focuses on their experiences and ``adventures during one year, between the autumns of 1620 and...
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