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Meet Don Brown: Children's Nonfiction Author Winter 2019
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Give these books a try! Written and illustrated by Don Brown, they are more in depth than many picture book biographies. I read them all and they were worth the time it took to read them. Don Brown has also written history/biographical books that are placed on the Teen/Adult shelves, and should you have a teen in your household, try these, too. - Melody
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Bright Path : Young Jim Thorpe by Don Brown [2006]Presents the life and accomplishments of the Native American athlete, focusing on how he overcame childhood poverty and used his athletic abilities to gain international fame and Olympic gold medals. - Publisher This picture book biography covers the life of Jim Thorpe, from running wild on the Oklahoma prairie in 1897 through his being presented an Olympic gold medal in 1912. Photographs in the back of the book, along with additional information, make him even more real to young readers. - Melody Ages 7-12
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Easy to understand biography of the childhood of the man who became known as Mark Twain. - Melody Ages 7-12
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Uncommon Traveler : Mary Kingsley in Africa by Don Brown [2000]A portrait of the Victorian ethnologist, writer, and nurse chronicles her lonely coming-of-age years spent as a housemaid to a bedridden mother and absent father and recounts her groundbreaking achievement in 1890s equatorial Africa. - Publisher I enjoy meeting new-to-me people in children's picture book biographies, like this one. The very brief notes at the end of the book let the reader understand just how amazing Mary's solo trips to Africa were in her time. [1862-1900] - Melody Ages 7-10
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One Giant Leap : the Story of Neil Armstrong by Don Brown [1998]Discusses the life and accomplishments of astronaut Neil Armstrong, from his childhood in Ohio where he built model airplanes and worked odd jobs to pay for flying lessons to his famous moon landing in 1969. - Publisher I do like Don Brown's approach, as he tells about things that the subjects did as kids. - Melody Ages 5-10
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If your kids are old enough to be studying the American Revolution, then be sure to add this book. There are all kinds of interesting facts that make me say, "Why didn't I learn that in school?" - Melody Ages 9+
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