Medical Causes (Celebrity Activists) [Library Binding]

Tanya Lee Stone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 9, 1997 | Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up | Series: Celebrity Activists

Features celebrities who have made major commitments to helping others by contributing their time, money, and names for a variety of medical causes.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 5-10--These books discuss the deeds and concerns of celebrity activists with respect to social action. Each volume begins with a message from the Celebrity Outreach Foundation pointing out the American tradition of philanthropy and the attention prominent media figures can bring to a charity or organization. Environmental Causes describes how musicians and actors such as Sting, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Chevy Chase, as well as politicians and businessmen, including Al Gore, Ted Turner, Ben Cohen, and Jerry Greenfield, support the efforts of groups ranging from the Rainforest Foundation to Mothers and Others for a Livable Planet. Greenpeace and Earth Communications Office rate sections of their own. Medical Causes, organized by issue rather than by occupation, highlights the contributions of stars such as Paul Newman, Jerry Lewis, and Mary Tyler Moore to pediatric medicine; Elizabeth Taylor and Elton John to AIDS issues; Linda Ellerbee, Richard Karn, and Larry Hagman in the fight against cancer; and Mandy Patinkin, Muhammad Ali, and Christopher Reeve on behalf of other medical research. Organizations such as The Starlight Children's Foundation are also mentioned. Full-color and black-and-white photographs of the people involved illustrate each article, and quotations from the subjects appear regularly. The repetitive format and undistinguished prose might deter casual readers but the books could be useful for research.

Kathleen Isaacs, Edmund Burke School, Washington, DC

Copyright 1998 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Library Binding: 64 pages
• Publisher: 21st Century; 1st edition (December 9, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080505233X
• ISBN-13: 978-0805052336
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,548,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tanya Lee Stone is an award-winning author of books for kids and teens. Stone went to performing arts high school in New Haven, CT and went on to major in English at Oberlin College (and study Voice at Oberlin Conservatory). After graduation she moved to New York and became an editor. Stone was an editor for more than a dozen years and has a Masters Degree in Science Education. She teaches Writing for Children at Champlain College.

After moving to Vermont, Stone became a full-time writer and has published more than 90 books for young readers. She writes picture books, nonfiction, and Young Adult fiction. Her newest nonfiction books have garnered some major awards. Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream (Candlewick 09), received a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, Jane Addams Honor, YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, Orbis Pictus Honor, and was awarded ALA's Sibert Medal for the best nonfiction book for young readers of 2010. The Good the Bad, and the Barbie won SCBWI's Golden Kite Award for the best nonfiction book of the year for 2011.

Her Young Adult novel, A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl (Wendy Lamb/Random House) was an IRA Young Adult Choice, an ALA Quick Picks, an NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and SLJ Book of the Month. Her newest nonfiction picture books, Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote and Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder received starred reviews and were put on several state award lists. Elizabeth Leads the Way is also an ALA Notable, an Amelia Bloomer Award title, and a CBC Notable Social Studies Book.

Forthcoming titles include picture books about Elizabeth Blackwell and Jane Addams, as well as a YA nonfiction book about the first black paratroopers in WWII called Courage Has No Color.