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Edith Cavell (Profiles)
By Richardson, Nigel H.
- ISBN
- 978-0-24111-479-7
- Publisher
- Trafalgar Square Publishing
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 1986
Gr 4-6 These British biographies are balanced, unadorned portraits, lightened by interesting details and moments of humor. They avoid those banes of biographies for children: fictionalizing, premonition and hagiography. Authors and illustrators have kept to standard sources. The books are both accurate and absorbing. The price to be paid by the lonely crusader is made clear in Florence Nightingale, in a neat parallel between her struggle with ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
