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Overview
Young children can now enjoy a biography series written just for them. "Rookie Biographies" introduce the beginning reader to interesting people who helped shape history. With short, easy-to-understand text, historical photos, and eye-catching illustrations, these introductory biographies will motivate children into wanting to learn more about noted individuals. Each book includes a index.A biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who actually lived in the little houses about which she wrote.
Editorials
School Library Journal
A bare-bones biography, bordering on the simplistic in text and style, but one that may encourage readers to seek out the ``Little House'' books for embellishment. Gwenda Blair's Laura Ingalls Wilder (Putnam, 1981) introduces older children to Wilder's life story. Without fictionalizing, Greene takes readers through all the travels of Wilder's childhood. Her family's final farm home in Missouri is described and introduced in photographs. The illustrations vary from understandably murky family photos to contemporary color photographs of the Ingalls' pioneer home sites and original paintings. Unfortunately, the paintings seem akin to jigsaw puzzle art, notwithstanding their color and verve. A serviceable but undistinguished effort. --Jacqueline Elsner, Athens Regional Library, GABook Details
Published
April 1, 1990
Publisher
Chicago : Childrens Press, c1990.
Pages
48
Format
Binding
ISBN
9780516042121