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Title: The Daring Nellie Bly : America's Star Reporter by BONNIE CHRISTENSEN ISBN: 0-375-81568-6 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Alas for lost potential
Comment: Reporter, millionaire, and advocate of the female worker, Nellie Bly was America's first female shock journalist. Christensen's biography examines Bly's life, climaxing with the worldwide trip that beat "Around the World In Eighty Days"'s timeline. Readers of Christensen's "Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People", may find themselves disappointed by this newest biography. Lacking her customary woodcuts and inventive presentation, "Nellie Bly" is unappealingly static. The illustrations are either taken directly from photographs of Bly or present flat expressionless characters. Christensen sticks to the facts of Bly's life, but is not above softening them. Reporting that Bly, "successfully ran (her husband's) huge manufacturing company", Christensen fails to mention that Bly additionally drove the business to bankruptcy. Best used as a introductory source to Nellie's life, readers wishing to learn more about this fascinating person should consult the sources provided in the book's bibliography, notably Charles Fredeen's "Nellie Bly: Daredevil Reporter".
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Title: The Man Who Walked Between The Towers by Mordicai Gerstein ISBN: 0761317910 Publisher: Millbrook Press Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long, David Shannon ISBN: 0152018484 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer by Robert Byrd, Leonardo ISBN: 0525470336 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Yesterday I Had the Blues (BCCB BLUE RIBBON PICTURE BOOK AWARDS (AWARDS)) by Jeron Ashford Frame, Gregory Christie, Paul Owen Lewis, R. Gregory Christie ISBN: 1582460841 Publisher: Tricycle Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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