A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world. But Twain also had a serious streak and decried racism and injustice. His fascinating life is captured candidly in this enjoyable biography.
When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him three years and cost him his life. Black-and-white line drawings illustrate Magellan's life and voyage, with sidebars and a time line that enhance readers' understanding of the period
You want girl power? Meet Annie Oakley! Born in 1860, shebecame one of the best-loved and most famous women of hergeneration. She amazed audiences all over the world with hersharpshooting, horse-riding, action-packed performances. In an agewhen most women stayed home, she traveled the world and forged anew image for American women.
Just how did Roald Dahl get into writing? Where did he get his ideas from? What ingredients in his life turned him into the kind of writer he was? Michael Rosen - poet, broadcaster and former Children's Laureate, comes up with some of the answers to these key questions in his lively biography of the world's No.1 storyteller. Full of stories and funny anecdotes from Roald Dahl's school days and family life, Michael Rosen's fascinating observations creates a vivid picture of one of the most famous writers of all time.
《独闯天下》是达尔自传《好小子-童年故事》的续集。前面说到达尔完成了中学学习，他希望从事一个职业能带他到"象非洲和中国一样美妙的遥远地方。"他赢得了壳牌石油公司的好职位。1938年秋天，达尔被调到非洲工作，在那里他和壳牌石油公司的另两名代表一起管理整个东非领域，同时也开始有了更多奇妙惊险的经历，比如眼镜蛇进入他朋友的房子而不得不叫捕蛇者来捕蛇，或者一只狮子抓住了一个本地妇女，而达尔关于其营救过程的纪录被登在一家非洲报纸上，这成为他篇公开发表的作品。 This is the second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable lifestory, following on from "Boy", that tells of his time working inAfrica and his wartime exploits. This edition has a great new coverwith illustrations by Quentin Blake, and some new facts about RoaldDahl and his world.
In this biography of “the Mother of the Civil Rightsmovement”, Rosa Parks’s life is traced from her birth in Tuskegee,AL to her recent death in Detroit, MI. In addition to her famousprotest, the text and photos focus on Rosa’s childhood on hergrandparents’ farm, schooling, marriage to Raymond Parks, work forthe NAACP, and her involvement in the Civil Rights movement afterthe Montgomery Bus Boycott. There are also sidebars on the KKK,Roaring 20s, voting tests, other pioneers who fought againstsegregation on public transporation, and the Mystery Person (BillClinton), as well as an interview with Congressman John Conyers,whom Rosa Parks worked for in Mich
Clara Barton is most renowned as the Civil War nurse who laterfounded the Red Cross. Yet in everything she did, Clara strove tomake a difference. This important biography highlights many of herlesser-known feats, including her early teaching career, work inthe U.S. Patent Office, and unceasing fight for women’s rights.There are also sidebars on kids’ games, Civil War Medicine, MysteryPerson (Florence Nightingale), Red Cross fast facts, and Glen Echo(Clara’s home, which is now a National Historic Site)—as well as aninterview with Bonnie McElveen Hunter, Chairman of the American RedCr
Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an earlyage—literally! (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenthPresident of the United States, he guided the nation through theCivil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln wastragically shot one night at Ford’s Theater—the first President tobe assassinated. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations and mapsare included.
Here is a man with an imagination so large that just abythinking on it,a he invented calculus and figured out thescientific explanation of gravity. Kathleen Krull presents aportrait of Isaac Newton that will challenge your beliefs about agenius whose amazing discoveries changed the world.
Here is a man with an imagination so large that just “bythinking on it,” he invented calculus and figured out thescientific explanation of gravity. Kathleen Krull presents aportrait of Isaac Newton that will challenge your beliefs about agenius whose amazing discoveries changed the world.
BOY,Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography,is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days.With fabulous new line drawings by Quentin Blake. An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.This is not an autobiography' - Roald Dahl.This reissue includes 30 delightful new line drawings by the inimitable Quentin Blake. Throughout his young days at school and just afterwards,a number of things happened to Roald Dahl,which made such a tremendous impression he never forgot them.Boy is the remarkable story of Roald Dahl's childhood; tales of exciting and strange things - some funny,some frightening,all true. Roald Dahl,the best-loved of children's writers,was born in Wales of Norwegian parents.His books continue to be bestsellers,despite his death in 1990,and worldwide sales are over 100 million! Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to
Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era's great rebirth of knowledge. He invented a telescope to observe the heavens. From there, not even the sky was the limit! He turned long-held notions about the universe topsy turvy with his support of a sun-centric solar system. Patricia Brennan Demuth offers a sympathetic portrait of a brilliant man who lived in a time when speaking scientific truth to those in power was still a dangerous proposition.
More About Boy is the story of Roald Dahl’s very ownboyhood, as told in Boy, featuring never-before-seen material frombehind the scenes, and some of the secrets he left out. Enjoy talesof sweet shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great MousePlot—the inspiration for some of his most marvelous stories in theyears to come. This stunning new edition includes some wonderfuland strange things that have NEVER been seen before! Some funny,some frightening—all true.
Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, wonnot just one Nobel Prize but two—in physics and chemistry, bothsupposedly girl-phobic sciences.
With the first cup of tea, you are a stranger. With the second… a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. One day GregMortenson set out to climb K2 - the world's second highest mountain- in honour of his younger sister, but things went wrong and Gregbecame lost. He wandered into a poor village, where the chief andhis people took him in. Moved by their kindness, Greg promised toreturn and build a school for the children. This is the remarkablestory of how Greg built not one but more than sixty schools inPakistan and Afghanistan, and how he has dedicated his life topromoting literacy, peace and understanding.
Take a close-up look at Benjamin Franklin, ajack-of-all-trades who served his country well. Interviews withexperts and lively writing deliver the accurate reporting youexpect from TIME For Kids Historical reproductions and contemporaryphotographs capture the life of this ingenious man and show how hemade life better and safer for Americans today.
