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Russell Freedman (1929–2018)

Autor(a) de Lincoln: A Photobiography

73+ Works 16,902 Membros 505 Críticas 5 Favorited

About the Author

Russell Freedman was born in San Francisco, California on October 11, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951. After college, he served in the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps during the Korean War. After his military service, he became a mostrar mais reporter and editor with the Associated Press. In 1956, he took a position at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in New York, where he did publicity writing for television. In 1965, he became a full-time writer. His first book, Teenagers Who Made History, was published in 1961. He went on to publish more than 60 nonfiction titles for young readers including Immigrant Kids, Cowboys of the Old West, Indian Chiefs, Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life, Confucius: The Golden Rule, Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America, Vietnam: A History of the War, and The Sinking of the Vasa. He received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography and three Newbery Honors for Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, and The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. He also received the Regina Medal, the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Award, the Orbis Pictus Award, the Sibert Medal, a Sibert Honor, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the National Humanities Medal. He died on March 16, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras por Russell Freedman

Lincoln: A Photobiography (1987) 2,478 exemplares
Immigrant Kids (1980) 1,036 exemplares
100 People Who Changed America (2004) 788 exemplares
Children of the Wild West (1983) 781 exemplares
Cowboys of the Wild West (1985) 542 exemplares
Adventures of Marco Polo (2006) 523 exemplares
An Indian Winter (1992) 453 exemplares
Children of the Great Depression (2005) 416 exemplares
Indian Chiefs (1987) 382 exemplares
Buffalo Hunt (1988) 380 exemplares
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1990) 357 exemplares
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse (1996) 354 exemplares
Confucius : The Golden Rule (2002) 339 exemplares
Washington at Valley Forge (2008) 218 exemplares
The Boston Tea Party (2012) 143 exemplares
Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life (1998) 113 exemplares
Vietnam: A History of the War (2016) 99 exemplares
Teenagers Who Made History (1961) 20 exemplares
Animal Architects (1971) 18 exemplares
Animal Fathers (1975) 15 exemplares
Farm Babies (1981) 14 exemplares
The brains of animals and man (1971) 14 exemplares
They Lived with Dinosaurs (1980) 13 exemplares
2000 Years of Space Travel (1963) 9 exemplares
How Birds Fly (1977) 8 exemplares
Scouting with Baden-Powell (1967) 7 exemplares
Sharks (1985) 7 exemplares
Getting Born (1978) 6 exemplares
Dinosaurs and Their Young (1983) 6 exemplares
Killer snakes (1982) 5 exemplares
Killer Fish (1982) 4 exemplares
Animal instincts (1970) 4 exemplares
Animal games (1976) 4 exemplares
Rattlesnakes (1984) 4 exemplares
How animals learn 3 exemplares
How animals defend their young (1978) 2 exemplares
The first days of life (1974) 2 exemplares
A Indian Winter 2 exemplares
Books 1 exemplar
One-Girl Team 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Contribuidor — 342 exemplares
911: The Book of Help (2002) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 7, March 1978 (1978) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 3, November 1975 (1975) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 9, May 1977 (1977) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Freedman, Russell Bruce
Outros nomes
FREEDMAN, Russell Bruce
FREEDMAN, Russell
Data de nascimento
1929-10-11
Data de falecimento
2018-03-16
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
San Francisco, California, USA
Local de falecimento
Manhattan, New York, USA
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Educação
San Jose State University
University of California, Berkeley (English literature)
Ocupações
children's book author
journalist
publicist
Organizações
United States Army (Korean War)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (1998)
National Humanities Medal (2007)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (2006)
Regina Medal (1996)

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Freedman writes non-fiction books for children which are often lavishly illustratated with photos. He is a Newbery author.

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Críticas

A Newbery Honor-winning biography of the men whose experiments brought about the Age of Flight.
This engaging narrative account of Orville and Wilbur Wright, two men with little formal schooling but a knack for solving problems, follows their interest from a young age in the developing field of aeronautics. Russell Freedman’s writing brings the brothers’ personalities to life, enhancing the record of events with excerpts from the brothers’ writing and correspondence, and accounts of those who knew them.
Chronicling their lives from their early mechanical work on toys and bicycles through the development of several flyers, The Wright Brothers follows the siblings through their achievements—not only the first powered, sustained, controlled airplane flight, but the numerous improvements and enhancements that followed, their revolutionary airplane business, and the long legacy of that first brief flight.
Illustrated with numerous historical photographs—many taken by the Wright brothers themselves—this is a concise, extremely reader-friendly introduction to these important American inventors.
Includes a note on the Wright brothers’ photographs, as well as recommendation for further reading and learning.
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MasseyLibrary | 5 outras críticas | Feb 22, 2024 |
This book was a little slow to start but really picked up to become a very engaging book. The book was able to teach me a great deal without dumbing down some very complicated issues. The pictures were interesting but the book was seriously lacking in a map of the Civil War battles.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 48 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2024 |
Honestly, as I read this I was thinking how it stacked up against last year's [b:The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club|25445456|The Boys Who Challenged Hitler Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club|Phillip M. Hoose|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1430245146s/25445456.jpg|42246997]. And I was thinking about how those saboteur Churchill Club boys were more exciting than the pamphleteer Scholl siblings. But then I got to the end of this book and BAM. Whoa. I teared up. I felt awful for thinking for even a minute that the White Rose story was tame by comparison. If I had known from the beginning how it ended for Sophie and Hans I think I would've read the story in a different light.

Beyond my personal reaction, I think this story is told with admirable precision (I read it in about an hour) which makes it appealing for younger readers. But there are some very rattling, morbid parts of the story that make me think it's generally best for 6th grade and up.

You could definitely have quite a discussion around the themes, particularly how the Scholl siblings both professed to know right from wrong by looking inside themselves. Do human beings have an innate sense of good and evil? Or can we only know what we're taught? Hans Scholl: "I'm searching for myself, just myself, because this much I do know; I'll only find the truth inside me." Sophie Scholl: "We carry all our standards within ourselves, only we don't look for them closely enough. Perhaps because they are the severest standards."
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LibrarianDest | 14 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |
I love ER! At 187 pages, this book's way easier to get through than Cook's two volume bio. It's a children's book, but it doesn't gloss over her father's alcoholism or FDR's infidelity.
 
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LibrarianDest | 11 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |

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Obras
73
Also by
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Membros
16,902
Popularidade
#1,324
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
505
ISBN
297
Línguas
4
Marcado como favorito
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