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AWARDS

2001 New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Award for Nonfiction
New York Public Library 1998 Books for the Teen Age
the Oregonian’s Best Children’s Books of the Year
Voya’s Best Nonfiction of 1998
an ABC Booksellers Choice
an IRA-CBC Children’s Choice
ABA-CBC’s 1999 “Children’s Books Means Business”
 

REVIEWS

“Krull has a proven knack for delivering generous dollops of covert asides along with fun facts and pertinent information when it comes to profiling famous figures…. Chatty and intriguing.”
                    -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Without being malicious or muckraking, [Krull] transforms icons into human beings with distinct, sometimes quirky personalities who have more in common with their constituents than one might imagine...as addictive as it is fascinating.”
                                                ---Horn Book

“Who says biography can't be authoritative and fun at the same time?  This briskly written book presents our presidents as human beings first, figureheads second…. This is the perfect antidote to encyclopedia articles and standard collective biographies.  Krull is factual, but her writing has pizzazz and her details bring the heads of state to life…. Packed with enough detail for brief reports, these articles are also just plain entertaining and could be used to pique students’ interest in biography.”
                                  -- School Library Journal

“An easy quick-energy boost for historical curricula.”
                                   --Bulletin for the Center of Children’s Books

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