From School Library Journal
ea. vol: 48p. (Picture Book Biography Series). CIP. Discovery Enterprises. 1991. Tr $17.95; pap. $7.95. Grade 3-6-- Two attractive books devoted to prominent figures in American history. Cryan-Hicks recounts DuBois's lifelong role as an advocate for African-American rights and world peace. His many outstanding achievements and honors are fully detailed. More in-depth biographies for older students include Virginia Hamilton's W. E. B. DuBois (Crowell, 1972), Emma Gelders Sterne's His Was the Voice: The Life of W. E. B. DuBois (Macmillan, 1971; o.p.), and Mark Stafford's W. E. B. DuBois: Scholar and Activist (Chelsea, 1989). Sawyer describes Mott's Quaker upbringing and attributes many of her convictions about the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements to that heritage. Doris Faber's Lucretia Mott (Garrard, 1971; o.p.), is for younger children and is highly fictionalized. Mott is better represented in Nancy Smiler Levinson's collective biography The First Women Who Spoke Out (Dillon, 1983). The subjects of both of these series entries are portrayed in a realistic manner without fictionalized dialogue. The texts are readable, and the information is accurate. Each double-page spread includes one page of text facing one full-page, colorful crayon illustration, many of which seem to have been based on photographs. The books don't have indexes, chronologies, or timelines. Concise, informative, and interesting introductions to the lives of two famous Americans. --April L. Judge, Thousand Oaks Library, CA
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Book Description
Biography of America's great sociologist and educator, who lived from1868 to 1963. A major force in the Civil Rights Movement and for human rights around the world. Beautifully illustrated in full color by David H. Huckins, who was student at the time the book was published. Foreward is by past President of the NAACP, Benjamin L. Hooks Ages 10 to adult
