(4) 4-6 Book Report Biography series. Illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs, these biographies emphasize each subject's strengths and contributions to this country. Brief period anecdotes and historic highlights peppered throughout the books place each life within the broader context of her times. Readers will gain a sense how each of these women helped shape her husband's presidency. Time lines are included. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(4) 4-6 Book Report Biography series. Illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs, these biographies emphasize each subject's strengths and contributions to this country. Brief period anecdotes and historic highlights peppered throughout the books place each life within the broader context of her times. Readers will gain a sense how each of these women helped shape her husband's presidency. Time lines are included. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(4) 4-6 Book Report Biography series. "The best thing that ever happened to hockey" is the hyperbolic way Santella describes ice hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky. This adulatory tone permeates the biography, which is filled with play action from Gretzky's record-setting career and descriptions of his impressive accomplishments. Supplemented with black-and-white photos, the text briefly discusses his family life, but the emphasis is on his hockey feats. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Book Report Biography series. A disparate group of individuals are featured in this series of books, each beginning with an important moment in the subject's life and then looking back at his childhood and forward to his important personal achievements. The books are readable, though the accompanying black-and-white photos and reproductions are often dark. All the books contain chronologies; Lucas and MacArthur include glossaries. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(3) 4-6 Book Report Biography series. Published spring 1998.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) YA Book Report Biography series. These are serviceable biographies with short chapters, adequate background information, and black-and-white prints or photographs. Although the text tends to be uninspired, both books feature lots of details about the subject's life, emphasizing public contributions. 'Albright' discusses the barriers she has faced as a woman in a man's world, as well as her discovery of her family's hidden Jewish heritage. Time lines included. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

(3) 4-6 Book Report Biography series. Published spring 1998.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) YA Book Report Biography series. These are serviceable biographies with short chapters, adequate background information, and black-and-white prints or photographs. Although the text tends to be uninspired, both books feature lots of details about the subject's life, emphasizing public contributions. 'Albright' discusses the barriers she has faced as a woman in a man's world, as well as her discovery of her family's hidden Jewish heritage. Time lines included. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

(3) 4-6 Book Report Biography series. Published spring 1998.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) 4-6 Book Report Biography series. Published spring 1998.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) 4-6 Book Report Biography series. This combination of history, biography, and art analysis introduces the artist by emphasizing not the content of his art but the influence of political maneuverings on his work. The plethora of shifting projects and demanding patrons may overwhelm the reader, but Michelangelo's immense talent, artistic commitment, and fallibility as a human are clear. Mediocre black-and-white reproductions of paintings, sculptures, and architectural work are included, as is a time line. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) 4-6 Book Report Biography series. Beginning with a turning point in its subject's life, each book looks back to cover childhood and early training, then moves forward to unfolding careers. Achievements, awards, and public persona are ably outlined. In Sitting Bull, however, the individual is secondary to a retelling of the displacement of Native groups and the resulting battles. Black-and-white photos illustrate each book. Sitting Bull and Spike Lee contain glossaries. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) YA Book Report Biography series. This is a detailed and informative account of the life of the creator of such icons as Uncle Sam, the Republican donkey, the Democratic elephant, and Santa Claus as we know him. Students may find the intricacies of his career tedious and his personal life unremarkable, but the "Thomas Nast sampler" of cartoons is interesting. Historical background and a time line are included. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.