ACCESS DIGITIZED EDITION
Guide/Reviews Database
LITERATURE
Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Lives: Poems about Famous Americans

32 pp. | HarperCollins | May, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-06-027767-X $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-06-027768-8 $$15.89
(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Leslie Staub. Sacajawea, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Langston Hughes are some of the sixteen Americans whose lives are celebrated in this collection. Poets include Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, J. Patrick Lewis, and Alice Schertle. Each poem faces an oil portrait of its subject rendered in a folk-art style. Brief biographical information about each person is appended.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

RELATED 

LITERATURE

Delicious!
by Larios, Julie
LITERATURE

Book of Questions / Libros de las preguntas
by Neruda, Pablo
LITERATURE

Out of This World
by Walker, Sally M.
LITERATURE

Zoobilations!
by Florian, Douglas
LITERATURE

At the Pond
by Elliott, David
More

Get connected. Join our global community of more than 200,000 librarians and educators.

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

We are currently offering this content for free. Sign up now to activate your personal profile, where you can save articles for future viewing.

ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER?