From the monthly archives:
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man by David A. Adler, illustrated by Terry Widener (Gulliver Books, 1997)
A three-hankie story, Gehrig, the baseball great who suffered from ALS always looked on the bright side of life.
A biography, photos and more can be found at the Lou Gehrig Official Web Site.
Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee, illustrated by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy (Charlesbridge, 2005)
Nonviolent Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize and used the money to promote health and education in Burma.
A timeline of Aung San Suu Kyi’s life is available on the Nobelprize.com site.
El Chino by Allen Say (Houghton Mifflin, 1990)
Arizona-born Billy Wong remembered what his father told him-”In America, you can be anything you want to be.” Enchanted by bullfighting, Wong became the first Chinese-American matador.
Read an interview with author/illustrator Allen Say at the Eduplace web site.
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt, 1993)
A Russian-American composer, Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring. He is known as one of the only composers to realize overnight success.
For more about Stravinsky, read the article on The TIME 100 site.
A Picture Book Biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe by David A. Adler, illustrated by Colin Bootman (Holiday House, paper, 2004)
From Stowe’s childhood impressions of slavery to her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, this woman of integrity fought for justice for African-Americans.
A Celebration of Women at the Penn Digital Library features biographical and bibliographic information on Stowe.
