Russell Freedman, Author Clarion Books $9.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-395-54785-4
Accompanied by evocative photographs, Newbery Medalist Freedman offers a stirring look at life on the Western frontier in these lengthy, informative accounts. Ages 8-11. (Oct.)
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Russell Freedman, Author Holiday House $8.95 (53p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1159-7
Freedman punctuates his discussion of the importance of buffalo to the Great Plains Indians with artwork from museums around the country. Ages 8-12. (Jan.)
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Russell Freedman, Author Clarion Books $19 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-63367-0
In another exemplary biography, Newbery Medalist Freedman (Martha Graham) turns to Mildred ""Babe"" Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956), arguably the preeminent woman athlete of the 20th century. He pays ample attention to Babe's extraordinary...
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Russell Freedman, Author Clarion Books $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-89919-862-0
A natural follow-up to Freedman's biography of FDR, this impeccably researched, highly readable study of one of this country's greatest First Ladies is nonfiction at its best. As a role model for girls and an inspiration to both genders, Eleanor...
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Russell Freedman, Author Clarion Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89919-301-4
Freedman's careful research and inviting texts have made his nonfiction can't-miss titles in homes and libraries. Here is a sequel to Children of the Wild and the author's other award winners. He has selected over 50 photos from the Library of...
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Russell Freedman, Author Holiday House $24.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1585-4
Several books with American themes are making appearances this fall. In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights by Russell Freedman begins with the history of the document and its inspiration, and traces the ways in which these
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Russell Freedman, Author Clarion Books $19 (176p) ISBN 978-0-395-74655-4
Freedman (Lincoln; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Roosevelt) once again animates American history through biography; here he adds culture to the mix as he chronicles the inspiring life of legendary dancer Martha Graham. The venerable author...
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Russell Freedman, Author . Clarion $18 (80p) ISBN 978-0-395-96788-1
Combining impressive research and the skill of a campfire storyteller, Freedman (Martha Graham; The Wright Brothers) describes the rugged and often violent life of the original "cowboys," as they are known today. The vaqueros, or cowherders (
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Russell Freedman, Author Clarion Books $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-89919-379-3
Newbery Medalist Freedman ( Lincoln: A Photobiography ) breathes new life into the subject of our 32nd president. FDR (1882-1945) emerges in all his complexity: Freedman succinctly presents the privileged student ``content to squeak by'' on a ``gentl
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Russell Freedman, Author Clarion Books $9.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-395-51848-9
This Newbery Award-winning study of our 16th president is highly readable and meticulously organized. In a boxed review, PW hailed it as a ``superb, encompassing account'' of ``an intriguing, recognizable human being.'' Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
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Russell Freedman, Author Holiday House $24.95 (52p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0702-6
By supplying food and raw materials closely linked with survival, the buffalo (American bison) was the most essential animal to the Indians of the Great Plains of North America. The migration of the buffalo ruled the rhythm of the Indians' daily...
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Russell Freedman, Author Holiday House $27.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0625-8
By now an esteemed expert on the West, the author of Cowboys of the Wild West moves on to Native Americans. What response should a tribal leader take to white expansion into his people's territories? How that question is answered by six...
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Russell Freedman, Author Clarion Books $10.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-395-62978-9
The Newbery Medalist uses more than 100 archival prints and photographs to enhance this engrossing, accessible biography of our 32nd president. Ages 9-up. (Aug.)
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Russell Freedman, Holiday House, $24.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2182-4
Newbery Medalist Freedman, biographer and historian to the young, employs his easy-to-read style in chronicling the life of Gen. Gilbert de Lafayette, an unlikely but key player in the American Revolution. Opening with Lafayette's dramatic,...
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Russell Freedman, Clarion, $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-547-02686-2
This gritty, well-sourced account of WWI offers a compelling and often horrific look at the conflict. Freedman (Washington at Valley Forge) hooks readers with his fluid style and a detail-rich story of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination and the...
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Russell Freedman, Author . Clarion $20 (118p) ISBN 978-0-618-44630-8
Freedman, author of the Newbery Medal–winning Lincoln: A Photobiography
, tackles the Great Depression with the same flair as he does in his previous books. He creates a vivid visual picture of what life during the period was like for children
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Russell Freedman, Author . Clarion $18 (114p) ISBN 978-0-618-15976-5
Newbery medalist Freedman (Lincoln: A Photobiography
) succinctly traces the career of renowned contralto Marian Anderson (1897–1993) from her Philadelphia childhood, when she first revealed her extraordinary voice in church choirs....
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Russell Freedman, Author, Wilbur Wright, Photographer, Orville Wright, Photographer Holiday House $24.95 (129p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0875-7
Newbery winner Freedman ( Lincoln: A Photobiography ) has again produced a vivid, superior biography. This time focusing on a well-known pair of brothers, he effectively transforms our perception of the subjects as distant cultural icons into...
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Russell Freedman, Author, Karl Bodmer, Illustrator Holiday House $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1158-0
The Newbery Medalist returns to the subject matter of Indian Chiefs and Buffalo Hunt-though with a narrower scope-in this recounting of the 1833-1834 expedition of Prince Maximilian of Germany and the artist Karl Bodmer up the Missouri River. Ages...
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Russell Freedman, Author, Karl Bodmer, Illustrator, Karl Bodmer, Photographer Holiday House $24.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0930-3
The Newbery Medalist returns to the subject matter of Indian Chiefs and Buffalo Hunt --though with a narrower scope--in this recounting of the 1833-1834 expedition of Prince Maximilian of Germany and the artist Karl Bodmer up the Missouri River....
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Russell Freedman, Author, Amos Bad Heart Bull, Illustrator Holiday House $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1219-8
This latest biography from a master of the genre draws on first-hand accounts of the life and personality of the great Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, combining them with a succinct but dramatic narration of the bloody conflict that ended only with the...
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Russell Freedman, Author, Lewis Wickes Hine, Photographer Clarion Books $9.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-395-79726-6
Hine photographed underprivileged child laborers from 1908-1918; their depleted faces look out from almost every page. ""Freedman does an outstanding job of integrating historical photographs with meticulously researched and highly readable prose,""
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Russell Freedman, Author, Lewis Wickes Hine, Photographer Clarion Books $21 (112p) ISBN 978-0-395-58703-4
A schoolteacher turned investigative reporter, Lewis Hine (1874-1940) traveled the United States from 1908 to 1918, photographing some of the millions of underprivileged children who labored as a regular part of the work force. He emerged with an...
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Russell Freedman, Author, Frederic Clement, Illustrator , illus. by Frédéric Clément. Scholastic/Levine $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-13957-1
Newbery Medal winner Freedman (Lincoln: A Photobiography) delves deep into Chinese history in his intelligent, comprehensive biography of the 5th-century B.C. philosopher Confucius, whose teachings have influenced the development of modern...
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Russell Freedman, Author, Bagram Ibatoulline, Illustrator , illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Scholastic/Levine $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-439-52394-3
Freedman (Confucius: The Golden Rule
) here investigates the puzzle posed by the more than 150 extant versions of the 13th-century explorer Marco Polo's book, The Description of the World
. In his introductory and last chapters (as well as a...
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Russell Freedman. Clarion, $18.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-547-38562-4
Freedman revisits the subject of his Newbery-winning Lincoln: A Photobiography (1987), but this time the 16th president shares billing with his friend and ally, abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The story opens with Douglass anxiously waiting to meet
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Russell Freedman. Clarion, $17.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-547-90378-1
Freedman (Becoming Ben Franklin) details the fascinating and sometimes upsetting history of the “Ellis Island of the West” as he examines Asian immigration to the U.S. at the start of the 20th century. The many Chinese immigrants who disembarked at...
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Russell Freedman. Holiday House, $20 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2921-9
Commemorating the upcoming 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Freedman (The Boston Tea Party) delivers a thorough account of the context and events leading up to and through this momentous protest. The...
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Russell Freedman. Holiday House, $20 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3658-3
In an excellent study of the Vietnam War that examines the conflict and its aftermath from multiple angles, Freedman (We Will Not Be Silent) again tackles a complex historical event and breaks it down into an accessible account for young readers....
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Russell Freedman. Clarion, $17.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-544-22379-0
Freedman (Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain) illuminates a small but powerful student movement that used a secretive leaflet campaign to oppose Hitler’s regime. Siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and a few of their like-minded friends at the...
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Russell Freedman, illus. by Peter Malone. Holiday House, $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2266-1
In this addition to Freedman's (Lafayette and the American Revolution) long-running Library of American History series, he again demonstrates his proficiency at distilling history with insight into both the events described and the individuals...
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Russell Freedman, illus. by William Low. Holt/Godwin, $18.99 (44p) ISBN 978-1-62779-866-2
This picture book retelling of the failed 1628 maiden voyage of the Swedish warship Vasa is another accessible, historical account by the late Freedman (Lincoln: A Photobiography). “Designed to terrify enemies and dazzle everyone who saw her, the...
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