Milton Meltzer, Author HarperCollins $9.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-446117-7
This successor to Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust presents a little-known side of history. PW said, ``The most remarkable aspect of this book, aside from the array of astonishing facts, is Meltzer's clear sense of perspective. This is a...
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Milton Meltzer, Author HarperCollins $11.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-446118-4
Making impressive use of numerous firsthand quotes, Meltzer paints a stirring and personal portrait of a horrific period. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Milton Meltzer, Author William Morrow & Company $15 (122p) ISBN 978-0-688-05911-8
With powerful eloquence, Meltzer combats the deep-rooted belief that the rich and poor ""get what each deserves'' and that hard work always pays off. He pounds at the distressing truthwe are a nation with a long, consistent history of inadequate...
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Milton Meltzer, Author Jewish Publication Society of America $10 (169p) ISBN 978-0-8276-0246-5
Meltzer (World of Our Fathers: The Jews of Eastern Europe; Remember the Days, from which this book is recycled; and more than 60 other books) compresses over 300 years of Jewish history into 169 pages, resulting in some generalities and simplistic...
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Milton Meltzer, Author Viking Children's Books $13.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-670-81604-0
Like Beverly Cleary, whose memoir, A Girl from Yamhill , was published this year, Meltzer grew up in the Depression in a hard-hit, working-class family. Born in 1915 in Worcester, Mass., and raised in a neighborhood of immigrants (his parents were...
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Milton Meltzer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16 (168p) ISBN 978-0-06-024209-1
As a successor to Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust , Meltzer has written this work about a hidden side of history to show ``that we need not give in to evil.'' The acts of generosity recounted here are challenging, as Meltzer puts it,...
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Milton Meltzer, Author Morrow Junior Books $12.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-688-07494-4
In this subjective study of political institutions, Meltzer neglects some of the very techniques he uses to such advantage in his works of social history. There are, for the most part, no character sketches (as in The Terrorists ) and no extended...
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Milton Meltzer, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-032299-6
The author of numerous histories for young readers, Meltzer recreates the central episodes of his own life from his birth in 1915 to 1932, when he entered college, vivifying both the personal and political events of those turbulent years. Ages 12-up.
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Milton Meltzer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-446124-5
Archival photographs augment this meticulously resarched historical account. Ages 12-up. (Jan.)
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Milton Meltzer, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $18.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-90407-3
This impressive survey of the civil rights movement spans the Middle Passage and extends to the compromises of modern presidents. Meltzer (Langston Hughes; Lincoln in His Own Words) begins with college freshman Joseph McNeill, who in 1960 staged the
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Milton Meltzer, Author, Bruce Waldman, Illustrator , illus. by Bruce Waldman. Dutton $24.99 (86p) ISBN 978-0-525-45857-9
"This book aims to tell the true story of pirates and piracy," writes Meltzer (Ten Queens: Portraits of Women of Power) in his foreword, and tell it he does, ripping the lid off the Errol Flynn–inspired, romantic version to expose the
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Milton Meltzer, Author, Bethanne Andersen, Illustrator , illus. by Bethanne Andersen. Dutton $14.99 (134p) ISBN 978-0-525-47158-5
In what PW
called "an enticing mix of history and biography," this handsomely designed and illustrated volume covers a 2,000-year time span, revealing many events and personal characteristics that contribute to 10 women rulers' rise to...
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Milton Meltzer, Author, Bethanne Andersen, Illustrator Dutton Books $24.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-525-45643-8
In an enticing mix of history and biography, Meltzer (American Revolutionaries) reveals many events and personal characteristics that contributed to 10 women rulers' rise to power. Covering a 2000-year time span, the book's subjects unfold...
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Milton Meltzer, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-590-48517-3
Meltzer (Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust) crams a lot of ideas and insights into this ambitious, unusually meaty survey of witch-hunts from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. Some of his perceptions are piercing in their simplicity...
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Milton Meltzer, Author, Stephen Marchesi, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80744-4
One of 17 children born to former slaves, Bethune made the most of her life, creating opportunities for herself and other black people. This addition to the Women of Our Times series is an admiring, factual account of her achievements: founder of...
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Milton Meltzer, Author, Donna Diamond, Illustrator, Dorothea Lange, Photographer Puffin Books $4.5 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-032105-0
In this Women of Our Time biography, the author follows Lange from her birth in 1895 to her death in 1965. ""Meltzer writes as accessibly to younger children as he does to advanced readers of his distinguished nonfiction. The story is outstanding,''
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