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Russell Freedman

Russell Freedman. Michal-Ann Golay Alicia Henriquez Aradhana Mudambi. Biography. Born on October 11, 1929 San Francisco Not great in school Won a city wide essay contest in Jr. High Majored in English Literature at UC Berkley Served in the Armed Forces. Entrance Into Writing.

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Russell Freedman

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  1. Russell Freedman Michal-Ann Golay Alicia Henriquez Aradhana Mudambi

  2. Biography • Born on October 11, 1929 • San Francisco • Not great in school • Won a city wide essay contest in Jr. High • Majored in English Literature at UC Berkley • Served in the Armed Forces

  3. Entrance Into Writing • Worked as a reporter/editor • Mid-1950’s, worked as a publicist • 1961 – First Book: Teenagers Who Made History

  4. Some Themes Non-Fiction • Historical eras • Animal lives and behaviors

  5. Some Books • Two-Thousand Years of Space • Travel, Holiday House, 1958 • Teenagers Who Made History, Holiday House, • 1961 • Jules Verne, Holiday House 1967 • Dinosaurs and Their Young, Holiday House, 1983 • Cowboys of the Wild West, Ticknor and Fields, 1983 • Rattlesnakes, Holiday House, 1984 • Indian Chiefs, Holiday House, 1987 • The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, 1991 • An Indian Winter, Holiday House 1992 • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, 1993 • Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor, 1994 • Out of Darkness, The Story of Louis Braille, Clarion Books, 1997

  6. Awards • Newberry Honor, 1992, 1994 • Newberry Medal, 1998 • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Nonfiction Honor Book, 1984 • Orbis Pictus Honors Book, 1995, 1991 • Golden Kite Award,1991, 1994 • Utah Children’s Information book Award Nominee 1996-1997

  7. One Last Award 2007 National Humanities Medal

  8. Teacher Resources • Russell Freedman Teacher Resource File • http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/freedman.htm • Lincoln: A photobiography Lesson Plan • http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/linc/linctg.html • Eleanor Roosevelt Lesson Plan • http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/Roosevel.htm • Immigrant Kids Lesson Plan • http://www.queensmuseum.org/education/ps144/curricula/lct-immigrantkids.html • The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane Lesson Plan • http://www.maslibraries.org/infolit/samplers/wright.html • Interview with Russell Freedman • http://www.childrensliteratureconnection.org/resources-rf-interview.htm • Immigrant Kids Resources • http://daily-tangents.com/BOB/BookLink/L/L_immig.shtml • The Alliance for the Study and Teachingof Adolescent Literature at Rhode Island College – Author Resources • http://www.astal-ric.org/russellfreedman.htm • (bio, bibliography, awards, reviews, summaries, suggested teaching activities)

  9. ..More Resources • Bookfest 01- Russell Freedman BookTalk • http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3428 • Good Conversation! A Talk with Russell Freedman. video or DVD. 21 min. Tim Podell Prods. (goodconversations.com). 2007. ISBN 1-58543-043-8. ...The End…

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