Raymond Bial, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-395-97915-0
""Advantageously reproducing first-hand accounts and Bial's arresting photographs,"" said PW in a starred review, ""the book's most impressive quality is the way it encourages readers to put themselves in the place of the slaves and those who helped
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Raymond Bial, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-395-59504-6
In carefully composed color photographs, Bial ( County Fair ; Corn Belt Harvest ) meanders through the simple ways of a people seemingly clinging to the 19th century--a striking contrast, youngsters will find, to their accustomed 20th-century...
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Raymond Bial, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17 (48p) ISBN 978-0-395-69937-9
Advantageously reproducing first-hand accounts and his own arresting photographs, Bial (Shaker Home) effectively evokes the era of slavery and its divisive effects on the United States. Bial focuses on the history of the Underground Railroad,...
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Raymond Bial, Author Walker & Company $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8630-2
For the most part, Bial (Amish Home; The Underground Railroad) takes sure, purposeful steps in his photographic reenactment of Abraham Lincoln's childhood and adult years. A skilled photographer, he is at his best with shots of such sites as the one-
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Raymond Bial, Author, Raymond Bial, Illustrator, Bial, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-618-06557-8
Bial's latest photo-essay delves into the mystery of abandoned Western towns and offers insight into the region's boom-and-bust legacy but ultimately disappoints. The volume begins by posing the questions ""What sad and joyous events happened within
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Raymond Bial, Author, Raymond Bial, Photographer . Houghton $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-618-13849-4
As the title suggests, Bial (The Underground Railroad) focuses this illuminating photoessay on the immigrants who settled on Manhattan's Lower East Side from the early 1800s to the 1930s. Rather than finding the fabled land of opportunity, many...
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