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K-3
First Facts: Your Favorite Authors series.
This hip-looking series profiles award-winning children's book creators. The brief texts target emerging readers, introducing nonfiction conventions and structure. Abundant photographs, graphic elements, paint smears, and doodles accompany the biographical content. However, the books do contain some factual inaccuracies and unfortunately lack a forthright discussion of race. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers the following First Facts: Your Favorite Authors titles: Jacqueline Woodson and Kadir Nelson.