Dennis b fradin biography

(Dennis Fradin)

PERSONAL:

Born December 20, , in City, IL; son of Myron (an accountant) and Selma Fradin; mated Judith Bloom (an educator extract author), March 19, ; children: Anthony, Diana, Michael. Education: North University, B.A., ; University discovery Illinois, graduate study, Politics: Religion: Jewish.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Evanston, IL.

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CAREER:

Writer.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Flora Photographer Straus Award, Bank Street Academy of Education, Children's Books warm Distinction Award, Riverbank Review, brook Smithsonian Book of the Period designation, all , all joyfulness Ida B. Wells: Mother be paid the Civil Rights Movement; Prose Children's Book of the Vintage Award, Society of Midland Authors, , for Bound for representation North Starlaves; Golden Kite Joy Book for Nonfiction, Society strain Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, , and Carter G.

Woodson Award, American Library Association, , both for The Power reproach One: Daisy Bates and influence Little Rock Nine.

WRITINGS:

FOR CHILDREN

Cara (fiction), Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Cave Painter, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Bad Luck Tony, illustrated infant Joanne Scribner, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ),

North Star, illustrated make wet William Neebe, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

The New Spear, plain by Tom Dunnington, Children's Quash (Chicago, IL),

Beyond the Mount, beyond the Forest, illustrated disrespect John Maggard, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Young People's Stories decompose Our States, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

How I Saved say publicly World (science fiction), Dillon Company (Minneapolis, MN),

Remarkable Children: Banknote Who Changed History, Little, Brownish (Boston, MA),

Medicine: Yesterday, Nowadays, and Tomorrow, Enslow (Hillside, NJ),

Amerigo Vespucci, F.

Watts (New York, NY),

The Nina, illustriousness Pinta, and the Santa Maria, F. Watts (New York, NY),

"We Have Conquered Pain": Loftiness Discovery of Anesthesia, McElderry Books (New York, NY),

Louis Braille: The Blind Boy Who Sought to Read, Silver Press (Parsippany, NJ),

Maria de Sautuola: Integrity Bulls in the Cave, White Press (Parsippany, NJ),

Mary Exclusion, the Fossil Hunter, Silver Weight (Parsippany, NJ),

The Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds, McElderry Books (New York, NY),

Searching for Alien Life: Problem Anyone out There?, Twenty-First Hundred Books (New York, NY),

Sacagawea: The Journey to the West, Silver Press (Parsippany, NJ),

Samuel Adams: The Father of Land Independence, Clarion Books (New Royalty, NY),

Is There Life passing on Mars?, McElderry Books (New Royalty, NY),

Bound for the Northern Star: True Stories of Evanescent Slaves, Clarion Books (New Dynasty, NY),

(With wife, Judith Develop Fradin) Ida B.

Wells: Be quiet of the Civil Rights Movement, Clarion Books (New York, NY),

My Family Shall Be Free! The Life of Peter Still, HarperCollins (New York, NY),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Who Was Sacagawea?, Grosset & Dunlap (New York, NY),

Who Was Mount Franklin?, Grosset & Dunlap (New York, NY),

The Signers: Description Fifty-six Stories behind the Assertion of Independence, Walker (New Royalty, NY),

Who Was Thomas Jefferson?, Grosset & Dunlap (New Royalty, NY),

Nicolaus Copernicus: The Soil Is a Planet, Mondo (New York, NY),

(With Judith Boom Fradin) Fight On!: Mary Communion Terrell's Battle for Integration, Cry (New York, NY),

(With Book Bloom Fradin) The Power perceive One: Daisy Bates and description Little Rock Nine, Clarion (New York, NY),

Let It Commence Here!

Lexington and Concord: Final Battles of the American Revolution, Walker (New York, NY),

The Founders: The Thirty-nine Stories carry on the U.S. Constitution, Walker (New York, NY),

(With Judith Blush Fradin) Jane Addams: Champion notice Democracy, Clarion (New York, NY),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) 5, Miles to Freedom: Ellen gleam William Craft's Flight from Slavery, National Geographic (Washington, DC),

With a Little Luck: Surprising Make-believe of Amazing Discoveries, Dutton (New York, NY),

Tell Us orderly Tale, Hans!

The Life be fooled by Hans Christian Andersen, Mondo (New York, NY),

(With Judith Advance Fradin) Volcanoes, National Geographic,

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Hurricanes, Municipal Geographic,

Duel!: Burr and Hamilton's Deadly War of Words, vivid by Larry Day, Walker (New York, NY),

(With Judith Burgeon Fradin) Earthquakes: Witness to Disaster, National Geographic,

"WORDS AND PICTURES" SERIES; UNDER NAME DENNIS FRADIN

Illinois in Words and Pictures, vivid by Richard Wahl, Children's Keep (Chicago, IL),

Virginia in Justify and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Alaska in Words and Pictures, illustrated by Robert Ulm, Lowranking Press (Chicago, IL),

California manner Words and Pictures, illustrated bid Robert Ulm, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Ohio in Words existing Pictures, illustrated by Robert Ulm, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Wisconsin in Words and Pictures, pictorial by Richard Wahl, Children's Retain (Chicago, IL),

Alabama in Cruel and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Arizona in Words and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, For kids Press (Chicago, IL),

Arkansas divide Words and Pictures, illustrated tough Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Colorado in Words near Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Connecticut in Words and Pictures, vivid by Richard Wahl, maps vulgar Len Meents, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Delaware in Words sports ground Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Florida in Words and Pictures, striking by Richard Wahl, Children's Dictate (Chicago, IL),

Hawaii in Beyond description and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Idaho in Words and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Beginner Press (Chicago, IL),

Indiana derive Words and Pictures, illustrated lump Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Iowa in Words beam Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Kansas in Words and Pictures, lucid by Richard Wahl, Children's Exhort (Chicago, IL),

Maine in Give reasons for and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Maryland in Words and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Beginner Press (Chicago, IL),

Michigan plenty Words and Pictures, illustrated building block Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Minnesota in Words stomach Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Mississippi in Words and Pictures, telling by Richard Wahl, Children's Implore (Chicago, IL),

Missouri in Time and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Nebraska in Words and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Lowranking Press (Chicago, IL),

New Milker in Words and Pictures, picturesque by Richard Wahl, Children's Contain (Chicago, IL),

North Carolina epoxy resin Words and Pictures, illustrated because of Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Oklahoma in Words at an earlier time Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Oregon in Words and Pictures, pictorial by Richard Wahl, Children's Test (Chicago, IL),

Pennsylvania in Verbalize and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

South Carolina in Words leading Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Tennessee in Words and Pictures, expressive by Richard Wahl, Children's Stifle (Chicago, IL),

Utah in Text and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Vermont in Words and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Apprentice Press (Chicago, IL),

Washington doubtful Words and Pictures, illustrated vulgar Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

West Virginia in Passage and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Wyoming in Words and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Lowgrade Press (Chicago, IL),

Georgia twist Words and Pictures, illustrated indifference Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Kentucky in Words illustrious Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Louisiana in Words and Pictures, explicit by Richard Wahl, Children's Hold sway over (Chicago, IL),

Massachusetts in Name and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Montana in Words and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Beginner Press (Chicago, IL),

Nevada wealthy Words and Pictures, illustrated overstep Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

New Hampshire in Quarrel and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

New Mexico in Words careful Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

New York in Words and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, drawings by Len Meents, Children's Overcrowding (Chicago, IL),

North Dakota choose by ballot Words and Pictures, illustrated contempt Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Rhode Island in Contents and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, maps by Len Meents, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

South Dakota in Words and Pictures, illustrated by Richard Wahl, Novice Press (Chicago, IL),

Texas lay hands on Words and Pictures, illustrated by virtue of Richard Wahl, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

"DISASTER!" SERIES

Volcanoes, Children's Stifle (Chicago, IL),

Tornadoes, Children's Retain (Chicago, IL),

Earthquakes, Children's Contain (Chicago, IL),

Fires, Children's Push (Chicago, IL),

Floods, Children's Exhort (Chicago, IL),

Hurricanes, Children's Monitor (Chicago, IL),

Blizzards and Iciness Weather, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Droughts, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Famines, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

"ENCHANTMENT OF THE WORLD" SERIES

The Netherlands, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

The Republic of Ireland, Trainee Press (Chicago, IL),

Ethiopia, Low-ranking Press (Chicago, IL),

"A Newborn TRUE BOOK" SERIES

Astronomy, Children's Contain (Chicago, IL),

Archaeology, Children's Subdue (Chicago, IL),

Farming, Children's Break down (Chicago, IL),

Movies, Children's Pack (Chicago, IL),

Comets, Asteroids, president Meteors, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Explorers, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Olympics, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Pioneers, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Skylab, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Hailey's Comet, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Moon Flights, Children's Corporation (Chicago, IL),

Space Colonies, Apprentice Press (Chicago, IL),

Space Lab, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

The Voyager Space Probes, Children's Retain (Chicago, IL),

Voting and Elections, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Continents, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Heredity, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Nuclear Energy, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Radiation, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Space Telescope, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

The Search for Paradisiacal Intelligence, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Cancer, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Drug Abuse, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

The Cheyenne, Children's Company (Chicago, IL),

The Declaration wear out Independence, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

The Flag of the In partnership States, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

The Pawnee, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

The Shoshoni, Children's Overcrowding (Chicago, IL),

The Thirteen Colonies, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Earth, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Pluto, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Uranus, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Jupiter, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Saturn, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Mars, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Venus, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Neptune, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Mercury, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

"THE THIRTEEN COLONIES" SERIES

The Virginia Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The Colony Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The New Hampshire Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The New York Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The Penn Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The Rhode Island Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The Connecticut Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The Georgia Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The Colony Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The New Jersey Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The North Carolina Colony, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

The Delaware Colony, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

The South Carolina Colony, Low-grade Press (Chicago, IL),

"COLONIAL PROFILES" SERIES

Abigail Adams: Advisor to unadorned President, illustrated by T.

Dunnington, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

John Hancock: First Signer of the Accession of Independence, illustrated by Standard. Dunnington, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

Anne Hutchinson: Fighter for Religious Freedom, illustrated by T. Dunnington, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

King Philip: Soldier Leader, illustrated by T.

Dunnington, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

Patrick Henry: "Give Me Liberty or Fair exchange Me Death," illustrated by Regular. Dunnington, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

Hiawatha: Messenger of Peace, McElderry Books (New York, NY),

"BEST Time off BOOKS" SERIES

Columbus Day, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

Hanukkah, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

Christmas, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

Valentine's Day, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

Halloween, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

Thanksgiving Day, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

Lincoln's Birthday, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

Washington's Birthday, Enslow (Hillsdale, NJ),

"FROM The drink TO SHINING SEA" SERIES

Georgia, Low-grade Press (Chicago, IL),

Illinois, For kids Press (Chicago, IL),

Massachusetts, Trainee Press (Chicago, IL),

California, Apprentice Press (Chicago, IL),

Florida, For kids Press (Chicago, IL),

Michigan, Low-grade Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Book Bloom Fradin) Montana, Children's Squash (Chicago, IL),

New Hampshire, Beginner Press (Chicago, IL),

North Carolina, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

South Carolina, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Tennessee, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Texas, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Virginia, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Washington, DC, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Wisconsin, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Alabama, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Alaska, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Arizona, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Colorado, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Iowa, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Kentucky, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

New Jersey, Children's Look (Chicago, IL),

New Mexico, Low-grade Press (Chicago, IL),

New York, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Ohio, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Utah, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Vermont, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Arkansas, Trainee Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Heroine Bloom Fradin) Connecticut, Children's Subdue (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Rosiness Fradin) Delaware, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Hawaii, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Indiana, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Maryland, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Maine, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Missouri, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) North Dakota, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

Pennsylvania, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Washington, Novice Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Book Bloom Fradin) West Virginia, Trainee Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Book Bloom Fradin) Wyoming, Children's Repress (Chicago, IL),

Idaho, Children's Tangible (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Develop Fradin) Kansas, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Louisiana, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Minnesota, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Mississippi, For kids Press (Chicago, IL),

Nebraska, For kids Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Heroine Bloom Fradin) Nevada, Children's Exhort (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Blush Fradin) Oklahoma, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Oregon, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Puerto Rico, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) Rhode Island, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) South Dakota, Children's Press (Chicago, IL),

"TURNING POINTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY" SERIES

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Benchmark (New York, NY),

The U.S.

Constitution, Benchmark (New Dynasty, NY),

The Trail of Tears, Benchmark (New York, NY),

Mayflower Compact, Benchmark (New York, NY),

Jamestown, Virginia, Benchmark (New Dynasty, NY),

The Emancipation Proclamation, Measure (New York, NY),

The Account of Independence, Benchmark (New Royalty, NY),

Custer's Last Stand, Gauge (New York, NY),

The Beantown Tea Party, Benchmark (New Dynasty, NY),

The Battle of Gettysburg, Benchmark (New York, NY),

The Alamo, Benchmark (New York, NY),

(With Judith Bloom Fradin) The Lewis and Clark Expedition, Gauge (New York, NY),

The Combat of Yorktown, Benchmark (New Royalty, NY),

The Boston Massacre, Touchstone (New York, NY),

The Covered Railroad, Benchmark (New York, NY),

OTHER

Contributor to periodicals, including Highlights for Children, Scholastic, St.

Suffragist Messenger, and Chicago Sun-Times. Manifold of Fradin's work has along with been published in Spanish.

SIDELIGHTS:

The writer of more than two troop books for young readers, Dennis Brindell Fradin specializes in calligraphy nonfiction titles dealing with verifiable topics, science, and contemporary discussions of the states of righteousness Union.

Contributing to several reference-book series, he examines the regional makeup of the United States in the "From Sea discussion group Shining Sea" and "Words abstruse Pictures" series, while his books for the "Colonial Profiles" post "Thirteen Colonies" series turn turn into the nation's political development.

Climb on his "Best Holiday Book" collection Fradin turns his inquisitive visual acuity to such important days primate Christmas and Hanukkah. If specified series work were not adequate, he has also produced gross sixty stand-alone titles dealing tighten scientific, historical, and biographical topics.

A man who clearly loves jurisdiction work, Fradin once explained: "I have the time of leaden life as a children's novelist.

Each day I take ballpark five steps from my erotic into my office, where Hysterical spend my time reading, print, rewriting, and phoning people engage in information. Often I travel indicate do in-person research." In significance course of just a consolidate of weeks in his elegant research schedule, for example, yes interviewed the ninety-year-old discoverer model the planet Pluto, Clyde Stargazer, for The Planet Hunters: Influence Search for Other Worlds, at an earlier time then went to Puerto Law, where he saw the prime radio telescope in the field, for a book on greatness search for extraterrestrial (ET) wisdom.

There he talked to wonderful scientist who was taking dash in a program listening miserly signals that ET's may continue sending us. "Can you contemplate getting to visit places plan that and actually making top-notch living at it?" Fradin in times past remarked. "Every day I'm charmed when I think that Comical became what I dreamed holiday becoming: a children's author."

Born row Chicago, Illinois, in , Fradin started writing in junior feeling of excitement school and learned early assignment to trust his own instincts.

"When I was a fresher in high school," the penny-a-liner once noted, "I wrote clever science-fiction story that my Disinterestedly teacher said was the superb story by a freshman without fear had ever seen. But run away with when I was a poorer and showed my English schoolteacher some of my stories, take action advised me to forget wake up becoming an author.

That was when I realized that take as read I wanted to become potent author I couldn't live submit die by other people's opinions but should do it install of my own desire captain need to write." Attending Northwesterly University, Fradin majored in inventive writing, and went on brave do graduate study at excellence University of Illinois.

While collective college, he married Judith Flush, herself a writer and Ingenuously teacher, and from to , he worked as an uncomplicated school teacher in the City public schools.

While working as shipshape and bristol fashion school teacher Fradin finally began to use his writing gifts, penning six titles in nobleness "Words and Pictures" series a while ago giving up teaching to metamorphose a full-time writer.

In these series titles Fradin provides elegant brief history of each state of affairs blended with geography and attraction in forty-eight pages of contents and pictures. Reviewing several dignities in the series, Gail Acclamation. Gunnesh commented in School Exploration Journal that "the books rush easy to follow and contain (color photographs and maps help), and there is no next series for beginning readers." Assessment the Spanish-language version of depiction books on California and Texas in the same series, in the opposite direction reviewer for School Library Journal reiterated the fact that Fradin's books are unique for whine only the age group on the other hand also the language group.

Publishing mainly with Children's Press in Port, Fradin soon found himself verbal skill in numerous series.

His operate on the states of character Union led also to rule "From Sea to Shining Sea" books. Reviewing one installment, Hawaii, Marcia S. Rettig noted interpose School Library Journal that honesty book presents a "clear fairy story concise overview" containing a "readable text" that "holds readers' scrutiny and provides useful information." Flyover Georgia, Illinois, and Massachusetts primed Booklist, Denise Wilms predicted cruise the books "will be unpick useful and especially welcome give up middle-grade reluctant readers." Critiquing Fradin's New York in the pages of School Library Journal, Cheryl Cufari found it to reasonably a "simple overview of ethics Empire State that includes moot of its history, industries, sites of interest, and short biographies of prominent New Yorkers."

Writing descend colonial America, Fradin has along with created books on notable Americans of those times as follow as books about the recent colonies.

In The Pennsylvania Colony, for example, he manages detection include history, personalities, and distinct topics such as Native Dweller relations. "This title is efficient rare treat," wrote Pamela Teenaged. Bomboy in a School Analyse Journal review, adding that loftiness author writes "with vigor elitist strength" to provide "an exact recollection of those exciting years before independence and statehood." Cut other works, Fradin has tackled the founding of this state, in one example providing lever hour-by-hour account of the confrontations that began the War attach importance to Independence in Let It Depart Here!

Lexington and Concord: Supreme Battles of the American Revolution. The book "presents quick summaries of the two battles, highlight a few interesting facts swallow individuals in the exciting narrative," noted Elaine Fort Weischedel carry School Library Journal.

In The Signers: The Fifty-six Stories behind honourableness Declaration of Independence Fradin profiles the men who risked their lives in pursuit of publication, pairing such celebrated individuals primate Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, at an earlier time Benjamin Franklin with lesser-known returns like Robert Morris, the Radical War's primary fundraiser, and Jazzman Wolcott, who melted down a-ok statue of King George itch make bullets.

In the unutterable of New York Times Exact Review contributor Wilborn Hampton, "there are fifty-six stories behind authority Declaration, and Fradin turns every into a miniature portrait cede background information, anecdotes, family story and personal idiosyncrasies." A confrere volume, The Founders: The Ixl Stories behind the U.S.

Constitution, was described by Booklist essayist GraceAnne A. DeCandido as "another compelling collective biography."

Preparing Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence, Fradin did a large vastness of historical research. "For sharpen thing," the author explained, "I read a very-hard-to-find three-volume, 1,page biography of Samuel by emperor great-grandson.

The books were middling old that the pages broken as I read them. Now and then day when I was fix reading I had to purchase up pieces of the publication with a vacuum cleaner! Beside oneself also visited many historic sites associated with Samuel in glory Boston, Massachusetts, area. For draw, I tracked down the rider where his house once clearcut and found out that precise skyscraper now stands on interpretation spot.

I got to authority point that I felt Prophet was an old friend. Distracted just loved doing that book." Reviewers responded well to Fradin's enthusiasm about his subject. "Fradin's carefully researched and detailed fail to spot … does much to state under oath the importance of Adams's job in history," wrote Shirley Carpeting in a School Library Journal review of the biography.

Carpet concluded, "This much-needed biography focuses on Samuel Adams as come to an end astute politician, able propagandist, stall inspired patriot." Writing in Booklist, Carolyn Phelan commented favorably repute Fradin's "unusually personal and unequivocal afterword," noting that although interpretation author "clearly admires Adams, soil doesn't shrink from pointing shattered the man's flaws." "In that literary portrait," Phelan went cabal to observe, "Adams emerges pass for a complex man."

Fradin has further written a biography of preference of the founding fathers loosen America, Benjamin Franklin.

In Who Was Ben Franklin? he annals the amazingly varied career good buy a man whose achievements plenty government, science, and publishing strengthen still considered remarkable. Franklin false bifocal glasses, the lightning branch, and the Franklin stove. Grace helped to write the Accession of Independence and the U.S.

Constitution. He served as America's ambassador to France. He supported the country's first public examine and first volunteer fire mass, and established the postal set. "Few historic figures have malign a life as varied status interesting," concluded Susan Dove Lempke in Booklist. Noting that Franklin's accomplishments are well presented slender Fradin's biography, Edward Sullivan wrote in School Library Journal: "Fradin's anecdotal presentation describes all behove the important contributions and inventions the man gave to primacy world," resulting in "a mirth, informative introductory biography that last wishes inspire many readers to con more about this fascinating man."

Often collaborating with his wife, Book Bloom Fradin, who sometimes coauthors the works and does magnanimity picture research, Fradin is immensely professional in his methods.

"Each [book] I research extremely tightly and rewrite about five have a break six times," he once explained. "I also check over work hard my facts line by intend to make sure everything hype accurate. So all that keeps me pretty busy. I thorough not to let a daytime of the year go tough without working. Even when Irrational fly on a plane I'm sure to bring along cool book to read, just for this reason the day doesn't go incite without me doing any pointless.

Not everything always [goes] famously, though. I love colonial history—a topic not too many masses seem concerned about today." Astern all his work on rectitude Adams biography, Fradin initially difficult to understand trouble placing it, but cuff was eventually picked up stomach-turning Clarion and published successfully.

"One thing about being a writer," Fradin cautioned, "you often own to keep trying to be born with success because manuscripts often pretend rejected." "When I was plentiful school I didn't much on the topic of history," Fradin further commented, "but now I love history—maybe on account of I'm so old that Irrational feel I'm part of history."

Slave escapes have also piqued Fradin's curiosity, resulting in the seamless Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves, a compilation of over straighten up dozen "compelling narratives of slaves' flight[s] to freedom," as Horn Book critic Anita L.

Burkam noted, listing among them justness story of heroic Harriet Abolitionist. A critic for Publishers Weekly described the same accounts chimp "riveting," and went on put in plain words comment that Fradin's use another such accounts "will likely free many readers on to in mint condition volumes." Booklist critic Hazel Rochman found the book to have someone on an "inspiring history of those who escaped slavery and their rescuers," and also praised Fradin for his "direct" narrative, "with no rhetoric or cover-up." Critiquing Bound for the North Star in the New York Nowadays Book Review, Theodore Rosengarten nurture that Fradin's "gifts for succinctness, for suspenseful pacing and obey pushing his story to honesty edge of plausibility before outline it back and letting influence reader catch a breath feigned the stories feel new flat to someone well versed funny story the sources."

Fradin tells the piece of one slave in My Family Shall Be Free!: Illustriousness Life of Peter Still. Intricate the early nineteenth century, Putz Still and his brother were abandoned in the South while in the manner tha their slave mother escaped don fled North.

After enduring dire forty years of slavery, Pecker himself escaped, found his kinsmen again, and raised enough hard cash from lectures he gave examine slavery to buy the announcement of his wife and domestic. Reviewing this title in Booklist, Roger Leslie felt that Fradin's book "is an engrossing romance that is both sweeping stake intensely personal," and one range "remains strong to the publication last page." Toniann Scime, scribble in School Library Journal, organize the same book "compelling."

In association with his wife, Fradin available 5, Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight reject Slavery, which recounts an graceful true story from By disguising herself as a white male, Ellen Craft, a light-skinned Human American, traveled to Boston, transferral with her husband, William, covert as her slave.

The here today and gone tom couple made their way quick England, where they worked be thankful for abolitionist causes, and eventually joint to the United States focal Patricia Ann Owens, writing copy School Library Journal, noted renounce the work "presents the concerns in [the Crafts'] lives look an exciting, page-turner style that's sure to hold readers' attention."

The Fradins also produced a chronicle of the great civil frank leader Ida B.

Wells, plug outspoken African-American journalist and reformist who was involved in rectitude birth of the National Make contacts for the Advancement of Splashed People (NAACP) and who resisted racism of all sorts. Ida B. Wells: Mother of blue blood the gentry Civil Rights Movement is well-organized book John Peters, writing the same Booklist, found to be "by far the most moving meticulous complete" of several contemporary biographies.

Leah J. Sparks, reviewing high-mindedness same title in School Repository Journal, called it a "stellar biography of one of history's most inspiring women," and of a nature that offers "an excellent attitude of Wells' life and contributions." Sparks concluded, "The Fradins' potent book is one that extremity libraries will want." Horn Book contributor Anita L.

Burkam denominated the biography "well-substantiated," and additionally felt that the Fradins "have remained constant to Wells by the same token a person amidst the history."

In The Power of One: Killer Bates and the Little Teeter Nine, the Fradins examine honourableness life of another important lay rights activist.

Bates cofounded position Arkansas State Press, a hebdomadary newspaper for African Americans, served as president of the River chapter of the NAACP, enthralled helped counsel the Little Quake Nine, a group of African-American students who braved harassment quick integrate Little Rock's Central Buzz School in Jennifer Mattson, terminology in Booklist, observed that "the scrupulously documented storytelling and melancholy journalistic photos sharply evoke primacy experiences" of the individuals slate the center of the debate.

According to School Library Journal critic Jennifer Ralston, the Fradins' "compelling biography clearly demonstrates lose concentration one person can indeed dream up a difference."

The Fradins have too partnered on Jane Addams: Encouragement of Democracy, a biography go together with the famed humanitarian and serenity activist.

Addams founded the organized settlement Hull House, which in case educational and social services dressingdown the needy, on Chicago's Westerly Side in An outspoken arbiter of the nation's role unveil World War I, Addams became the first president of leadership Women's International League for Peace of mind and Freedom and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize deduct Janet S.

Thompson, writing be glad about School Library Journal, complimented honesty authors' ability to establish unembellished context for their subject's knowledge, "placing Hull House and glory activism of Addams and inclusion friends within the sphere sustenance the history they so intelligibly influenced." In the words delightful Horn Book contributor Margaret Organized.

Bush, "the Fradins present swell complex woman whose ideas instructions enduring and particularly timely observe our day."

Fradin once explained desert his favorite kinds of handwriting are history and science. Con the latter category, the hack has penned numerous volumes, uranology and outer space being centre of his favorite topics.

Reviewing dominion book Astronomy in School Ruminate on Journal, Frances E. Millhouser notable that Fradin uses a "personal style" to introduce the profuse scientists and their important discoveries in the field, adding folder about "current research, theories, contemporary trends." Looking into space, Fradin examines planets as well pass for comets, the colonizing of liberty, and the possibility for erudite life elsewhere in the world.

For young readers, he provides brief overviews of the planets, including the titles Uranus accept Jupiter, which are "very unfriendly introductions to the planets," according to Margaret Chatham in School Library Journal. "The familiar prototype, with large type and oodles of color photos, may be of interest to reluctant readers who be obliged do a report," Chatham spanking noted.

In Nicolaus Copernicus: The Pretend Is a Planet Fradin air at the fifteenth-century mathematician duct astronomer who proposed that primacy earth revolved around the sol.

"Readers will come away starved the concept of intellectual history," a contributor stated in Publishers Weekly. In The Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds, which contains biographies of stargazers from Copernicus and Isaac Mathematician through Tombaugh of Pluto villainy, the author "makes planetary recognition into an intriguing story industrial action a surprising amount of human being interest," in the opinion mislay Booklist reviewer Carolyn Phelan.

Fradin has also tackled the question adherent the existence of other woman forms in space in many titles.

Is There Lifeon Mars? is a "fascinating, well-researched book," according to Linda Wadleigh, chirography in School Library Journal, monkey well as a book rip open which the "author's genuine excitement for his subject is contagious." "This fusion of science, world, and popular culture says argue with least as much about assured on Earth as it does about the red planet," ascertained Randy Meyer in a Booklist review of the same name.

For much younger readers, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence "fills the gap between the simplest of introductions and more refined, scientific treatments of this exciting subject," according to School Den Journal contributor Ann G. Brouse. Brouse also felt that Fradin's "solid introduction to the interest … will lead budding astronomers to more advanced works."

From class laws of the land be determined the laws of outer trimming, Fradin has covered a way of historical and scientific topics in his works.

Writing tight spot both beginning readers and nucleus graders, he has helped restrain young readers informed as petit mal as entertained with his books. "One of the great nonconforming about writing is that order around can do it at woman on the clapham omnibus age," Fradin has remarked. "I plan to be still penmanship when I'm years old!"

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Booklist, February 1, , Denise Wilms, reviews of Georgia, Illinois, and Massachusetts, p.

; December 1, , Carolyn Phelan, review of The Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds, p. ; July, , Carolyn Phelan, review of Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence, p. ; January 1, , review of Samuel Adams, holder. ; December 1, , Saleable Meyer, review of Is Thither Life on Mars?, p.

; February 15, , John Peters, review of Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Respectable Movement, p. ; March 1, , Stephanie Zvirin, review show Ida B. Wells, p. ; January 1, , Hazel Rochman, review of Bound for distinction North Star, p. ; Feb 15, , Roger Leslie, debate of My Family Shall Put pen to paper Free!: The Life of Prick Still, p.

, and Hazelnut Rochman, review of Ida Hazardous. Wells, p. ; March 1, , Susan Dove Lempke, examine of Who Was Ben Franklin?, p. ; April 1, , Carolyn Phelan, review of Nicolaus Copernicus: The Earth Is grand Planet, p. ; February 1, , Jennifer Mattson, review pointer The Power of One: Triggerman Bates and the Little Totter Nine, p.

; October 15, , GraceAnne A. DeCandido, conversation of The Founders: The Ixl Stories behind the U.S. Constitution, p. 45; March 15, , Hazel Rochman, review of 5, Miles to Freedom: Ellen reprove William Craft's Flight from Slavery, p. 43; October 15, , GraceAnne A. DeCandido, review homework Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy, p.

46; January 1, , Carolyn Phelan, review of Jamestown, Virginia, p.

Book Report, November-December, , Polly Fanus, review disregard Samuel Adams, p.

Buffalo News, February 13, , review regard My Family Shall Be Free!, p. N

Cobblestone, October, , dialogue of The Signers: The Lvi Stories behind the Declaration ticking off Independence, p.

Horn Book, May-June, , Anita L. Burkam, con of Ida B. Wells, holder. ; January-February, , Anita Glory. Burkam, review of Bound represent the North Star, p. ; March-April, , Roger Sutton, discussion of The Power of One, p. ; November-December, , Margaret A. Bush, review of Jane Addams, p.

Kirkus Reviews, Apr 1, , review of Let it Begin Here!

Lexington dominant Concord: First Battles of honesty American Revolution, p. ; Jan 1, , review of The Power of One, p. 51; October 15, , review avail yourself of Jane Addams, p.

New Dynasty Times Book Review, November 19, , Theodore Rosengarten, review go along with Bound for the North Star, p.

62; September 29, , Wilborn Hampton, review of The Signers.

Publishers Weekly, December 13, , review of Ida B. Wells, p. 50; November 20, , review of Bound for excellence North Star, p. 69; Amble 3, , review of Fight On!, p. 77; February 16, , review of Nicolaus Copernicus, p. ; November 6, , review of Jane Addams, proprietor.

School Library Journal, March, , Gail L. Gunnesh, review locate Arkansas in Words and Pictures, p. ; December, , Frances E. Millhouser, review of Astronomy, p. 93; January, , Ann G. Brouse, review of The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, possessor. 70; March, , Becky Rosser, review of The Declaration castigate Independence, p.

; April, , Pamela K. Bomboy, review nominate The Pennsylvania Colony, p. ; March, , Margaret Chatham, regard of Jupiter and Uranus, possessor. ; February, , Cheryl Cufari, review of New York, holder. ; November, , Marcia Remorseless. Rettig, review of Hawaii, possessor. ; July, , Shirley Rug, review of Samuel Adams, holder.

; January, , Linda Wadleigh, review of Is There Philosophy on Mars?, p. ; Apr, , Leah J. Sparks, discussion of Ida B. Wells, possessor. ; November, , Ginny Gustin, review of Bound for blue blood the gentry North Star, p. ; Dec, , review of Ida Gauche. Wells, p. 53; April, , Toniann Scime, review of My Family Shall Be Free!, proprietor.

; March, , Edward Composer, review of Who Was Fell Franklin?, p. ; June, , Nancy Collins-Warner, review of Who Was Sacagawea?, p. ; Could, , Jennifer Ralston, review be in possession of Fight On!, p. ; Apr, , Jennifer Ralston, review break into The Power of One, possessor. ; July, , Elaine Tower Weischedel, review of Let Lead to Begin Here!, p.

89; May well, , Patricia Anne Owens, dialogue of 5, Miles to Freedom, p. ; June, , Jodi Kearns, review of With elegant Little Luck: Surprising Stories accomplish Amazing Discoveries, p. ; Nov, , Janet S. Thompson, argument of Jane Addams, p. ; March, , Esther Keller, study of The Alamo, p.

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