Biographies are author Anne Bustard’s passion, so much so she has blogged about them for years. In her blog entitled Anneographies, not only is her list of picture book and middle-grade biographies extensive, she’s categorized her posts in order of the featured person’s date of birth. What an amazing resource! Ready to celebrate some November biography birthdays?… Read more »
November 2012
Noah Webster & His Words – Word Play!
To my fellow citizens… for their happiness and learning… for their moral and religious elevation… and for the glory of my country… ~Noah Webster Why did Noah Webster devote his entire life to understanding the empowering qualities of the written word – all words? Why did he scour all corners of this glorious earth to… Read more »
Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris
Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris, illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch (Houghton Mifflin, 2012) Dictionaries. Kids store them in their desks, pull them out for homework, and access them on-line. But how many kids (even adults!) know the story behind our first All-American dictionary? They need look no further than Jeri Chase… Read more »
Monsieur Marceau by Leda Schubert
MONSIEUR MARCEAU by Leda Schubert and illustrated by Gérard DuBois At night on stage in Paris, Marcel Marceau, the greatest mime of all time, delighted crowds with his silent drama. But before he created silent magic on stage, Marcel used a different and dangerous type of silence to save many lives. During World War II… Read more »
From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World by James Rumford
From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World is an artistic testimony of how one man’s visionary idea and tenacious fortitude forever altered the way the world communicates. And, from the eye of an educator, James Rumford’s biography of Johannes Gutenberg is lapis-stoned, madder-planted, saffron-stamened gold mine (pg. 23). The way Rumford built suspense… Read more »
Your Friend, James Rumford
Authors and illustrators are as different from one another as the people they seek to bring alive in their books. This month, the talented and artistic James Rumford provides a glimpse not only into the life of Gutenberg, but into his own quirky attitudes, as well. His Dear Reader letter is one written as if to… Read more »
What’s Your Story, James Rumford?
This month, the ReaderKidZ are pleased to introduce James Rumford, this month’s Author-in-Residence and the author/illustrator of FROM THE GOOD MOUNTAIN: How Gutenberg Changed the World. (Find a ReaderKidZ review HERE.) After I graduated from college, my wife and I joined the Peace Corps and went to Chad and Afghanistan. We were teachers. I suppose… Read more »
