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106 pp.
| Grosset |
April, 2003 |
LibraryISBN 0-448-43154-8$$13.89
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PaperISBN 0-448-43104-1$$4.99
(3)
4-6Who Was...? series.
Illustrated by
Carrie Robbins.
These short, illustrated books capture the lives of famous individuals with accessible prose. Each book spends considerable time explaining the childhood experiences of its subject and manages to give readers a sense of the individual's personality and motives. All but Tallchief and Houdini have bibliographies. Timeline. [Review covers these Who Was...? titles: Who Is Maria Tallchief?, Who Was Amelia Earhart?, Who Was Harriet Tubman?, Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?, and Who Was Harry Houdini?.]