| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-02-15 | | Series: | Popular Authors Series | | Edition Description: | Illustrated |
| Size | | Length: | 207 pages | | Height: | 10.5 in | | Width: | 7.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 24.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
The selection is generally solid, although the lack of an entry on Russell Freedman, author of the Newbery Award-winning Lincoln: A Photobiography, is puzzling. According to the introduction, the book is meant for two different audiences--children, and teachers and education students. For the adult audience, each entry includes a one-to-two-page biographical profile and a selected annotated bibliography of the writer's works. For children, each author has contributed a 'message to students,' which in some cases consists of just a sentence or two. Students should also be interested in the photographs that accompany each entry. . . . Almost all the writers are also covered in volumes of Gale's Something about the Author, and in greater detail. Popular Nonfiction Authors for Children might be useful in libraries that do not subscribe to the Gale series, or that want to supplement Something about the Author with a convenient one-volume alternative on a select group of writers.
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Liestman
Gr 5 Up-This volume introduces 65 writers of nonfiction, such as Seymour Simon, Laurence Pringle, Bruce McMillan, Kathryn Lasky, Gail Gibbons, James Cross Giblin, Franklyn Branley, Jean Fritz, and Aliki. The criteria for inclusion requires that individuals are living and have more than one informational book currently in print. The fields of folklore, poetry, and drama are not included. The two-to-three page entries begin with headings that provide birthdays and addresses and a black-and-white photo, followed by biographical essays that discuss the authors' early lives and careers. Each subject has provided a "Message to Students" that ranges in length from one sentence to half a page and generally encourage youngsters to read, write, and think. The annotated bibliographies include several of the featured writers' books. In addition to the author/title index, a subject index lists the authors under specific topics, e.g., "Frontier and Pioneer Life," "Pets," and "African Americans." Although the preface states that the essays are primarily for teachers, they are accessible and interesting to children as well. This book will be a useful addition to collections that are heavily used for author studies. Although this information is available in sources such as Something about the Author (Gale), this title offers an inexpensive alternative.-Priscilla Bennett, State University of West Georgia
Christiansen
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