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128 pp.
| Running
| May, 2021
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TradeISBN 978-0-7624-9780-5$17.99
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EbookISBN 978-0-7624-9781-2$9.99
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Sarah Green.
This collective biography introduces a diverse group of both well-known (Simone Biles, Abby Wambach, Wilma Rudolph) and less-well-known women athletes from a notably wide range of sports and other physical disciplines, including softball, swimming, cycling, wheelchair racing, football, and ballet. The three-page profiles follow the same format: full-page action illustration, a page of some "Amazing Facts and Unbelievable Stats," and a one-page overview of career highlights, personal and professional challenges, and causes championed off the field/mat/ice/etc. Readers will be inspired to learn more; two pages of selected sources are appended as is an index.
48 pp.
| Abrams
| August, 2018
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TradeISBN 978-1-4197-3162-4$18.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Sarah Green.
This admiring portrait of Elizabeth Warren provides a strong introduction to the events that have shaped her life and political career. Beginning with child Elizabeth's family's financial difficulties, Wood describes the tenacity and burgeoning consciousness of inequities throughout Warren's work as a young mother, teacher, lawyer, and finally a U.S. senator. Green's bright, cheerful art portrays refreshing diversity among the background figures. An author's note is appended. Bib.
32 pp.
| Whitman
| February, 2017
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TradeISBN 978-0-8075-1699-7$16.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Sarah Green.
In this picture book biography, Weatherford explains how Lange was "more than a photographer, she was a storyteller with a camera." Clear prose--including some zoomed-in details, such as the backstory of Migrant Mother--details the lifelong struggles, empathy, and eye-opening experiences behind Lange's photography of America's impoverished. Green's painterly illustrations, too, focus on small moments of large importance to Lange's story.