My First Book of Biographies: Great Men and Woman Every Child Should Know (Cartwheel learning bookshelf) |  | Author: Jean Marzollo
Creator: Irene Trivas
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 400940
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 79
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 059045014X
Dewey Decimal Number: 920.02
EAN: 9780590450140
ASIN: 059045014X
Publication Date: September 1994
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An accessible collection of introductory biographies combines colorful illustrations with profiles of forty important men and women, including Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Neil Armstrong, and Michelangelo.
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Brevity is not appropriate here May 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While this collection of short biographies does introduce children to some of the greatest people in history, they are so short as to be of questionable value. In 79 pages, the lives of 45 people are summarized, one page of text and one page with an image. The text is made up of short, staccato-like sentences, there is very little of substance.
The range is also too broad to be effective. Cleopatra, Christopher Columbus, William Shakespeare, Mohandas Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Katsushika Hokusai appear in the book. There is no broad theme, although it is impossible to dispute that the people selected are most deserving.
In many cases, brevity is to be preferred; however in this case it is not. These are some of the greatest people in the history of the world; it is just not possible to do them justice in a few paragraphs. Furthermore, in my opinion the writing is substandard; the author could have used more complex sentences, which would have made it sound better.
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