Tag: picture book biography
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Stand There! She Shouted #nfpb2015 5/13/15
My favorite reading challenge is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit her blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. Stand There! She Shouted is Susan Goldman Rubin’s biography of nineteenth-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. It’s a wonderful book–full of engaging, informative writing and two types of illustrations: Cameron’s photographs and Bagram Ibatoulline’s paintings…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Do Re Mi #nfpb2015 4/29/15
Kid Lit Frenzy hosts my favorite reading challenge, Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday. Visit her blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. Susan L. Roth’s collage and cut paper illustrations for Parrots over Puerto Rico would be on a top 5 picture book illustration list for me (how I love creating random top 5 and top…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Dancing to Freedom #nfpb2014
My favorite reading challenge this year is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit Alyson’s blog to find out what nonfiction children’s books others are reading this week. I almost didn’t check Dancing to Freedom: The True Story of Mao’s Last Dancer out from the library. Something about the cover didn’t appeal to me, and…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: The Boy on Fairfield Street
My favorite reading challenge in 2014 is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit Alyson’s blog to learn more about the variety and diversity of nonfiction picture books. The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr Seuss is a terrific picture book biography of the beloved children’s book author, written by Kathleen Krull…
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Langston Hughes: American Poet #nfpb2014
In general, my goal for nonfiction picture book Wednesdays is to feature books I love. The spirit of this challenge, for me, is a celebration of nonfiction picture books. But this week, I want to write about a nonfiction picture book biography that I really struggled with, Alice Walker’s Langston Hughes: American Poet, illustrated by…
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