Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt, 1994)
Some writer! White’s day job was as a writer for The New Yorker, but children will know him from his classic, Charlotte’s Web.
When I Was Nine by James Stevenson (Greenwillow, 1986)
Stevenson writes and illustrates a slice-of-life story about his memorable summer in the 1930s. A charmer.
HarperCollinsChildrens.com highlights Stevenson’s titles.
Young John Quincy by Cheryl Harness (Bradbury Press, 1994)
This is a look at the early life of a future U.S. president. Adams was the son of President John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams.
Drop by the White House and read about John. Q. Adams.
