A pictorial biography of the "second George Washington of the New World" illustrates Boli+a7var's historic struggle to free Venezuela from Spanish rule.
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I write both fiction and non-fiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later. Of course, since I'll be spending a lot of time with each main character, why not have him or her be someone I like? Andy Russell is based, loosely, on a beloved member of my family. He's fun to write about and the boy who inspired the character is even more fun to know. Cam Jansen is based even more loosely on a classmate of mine in the first grade whom we all envied because we thought he had a photographic memory. Now, especially when my children remind me of some promise they said I made, I really envy Cam's amazing memory. I have really enjoyed writing about Cam Jansen and her many adventures. For my books of non-fiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. My first biography was Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir. To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedia. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there. I've written many other biographies, including books about Martin Luther King, Jr; George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Helen Keller; Harriet Tubman; Anne Frank; and many others in my Picture Book Biography series. I've been a Yankee and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades so I wrote Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man. It's more the story of his great courage than his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig. I am working now on another book about a courageous man, Janusz Korczak. My book One Yellow Daffodil is fiction, too, but it's based on scores of interviews I did with Holocaust survivors for my books We Remember the Holocaust, Child of the Warsaw Ghetto, The Number on My Grandfather's Arm, and Hiding from the Nazis. The stories I heard were compelling. One Yellow Daffodil is both a look to the past and to the future, and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children. I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books including Fraction Fun, Calculator Riddles, and Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons. In my office I have this sign, "Don't Think. Just Write!" and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, even each sentence or paragraph. For me stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times. And I work with my editors. I look forward to their suggestions, their help in the almost endless rewrite process. Well, it's time to get back to dreaming, and to writing, my dream of a job. David A. Adler is the author of more than 175 children's books, including the Young Cam Jansen series. He lives in Woodmere, New York.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Simon Bolivar, the George Washington of South America,
By manningT@aol.com (Rockville Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Picture Book of Simon Bolivar (Picture Book Biography) (Library Binding)
"The George Washington of South America". Such comparisons are usually not pertinent. This one, and with this book, it is. It is, because Simon Bolivar would have liked it himself. He carried with him, always, until his last moment, the Yorktown medal of George Washington, with his miniature picture and a lock of his hair, given to him by Mrs. Washington via the General / Marquis Lafayette, the French hero of the American War of Independence. So this marvelous book brings Simon Bolivar to the hands and imagination of USA children and some adults! The man that with the help of Britain, personified in the mostly Irish British Legion, liberated six nations of South America. The man that conceived the union of the American Sub-Continents. With exquisite drawings, not always accurate but always kind and nice to look at, this beautiful book is a great homage to diversity in the Americas, and to the fact that success flows in both directions.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A GOOD BOOK TO START AND GUIDE A DISCUSSION,
This review is from: A Picture Book of Simon Bolivar (Picture Book Biography) (Library Binding)
I, myself enjoyed this one and have found it useful to read to a class and then using the book as a tool to start discussions. The illustrations are quite good, but for the age they are intended for, the lack a certain amount of action which the kids like. Most of the children enjoyed the book being read to them and then talking about it, but few of the children ever check this one out to take home to read. As I said, the illustratios are great and the text follows the illustrations quite well, there just is not enough action to attract the attention of the young ones. This is a useful too though.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not amongst Adler's best,
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This review is from: A Picture Book of Simon Bolivar (Picture Book Biography) (Library Binding)
Simon Bolivar is a name that we are all familiar with in one way or another (Bolivia anyone?) but that I doubt nine out of ten people could repeat five facts about him. It was with the intent of learning more about this man that I approached this book. My final appraisal is that it is difficult to determine the degree of success to which the subject is accurately portrayed. On opening the book the viewer meets an image of Bolivar on horseback looking like a thinner, more agile, Napolean. Yet of all the battles Bolivar fought, and there were many, there is only a single picture of Bolivar riding into battle. Otherwise the illustrations in this book are a little dull. They show multiple scenes of repose with people sitting and talking or writing. This isn't to say there aren't interesting things within the story. Simon Bolivar was a fascinating man with a rich and full life. Yet it's almost as if the illustrator and author conspired to dull Bolivar down. His politics, his upbringing, and his works are well displayed. His life as a whole, however, seems toneless. I got bored reading this book after walking in with the explicit desire of knowing more about the subject. I don't like to think how a kid assigned this book in class would respond to it. It might read aloud well if backed up with supplementary information and great teacher interest. However, there aren't any endnotes at the back of the text, leaving the reader who wants to know more (and how could you not?) with just a timeline of Bolivar's "important dates". On the whole, a disappointment.
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