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Amazing Olympic Athlete Wilma Rudolph
By Wade, Mary Dodson
- ISBN
- 978-0-76603-282-8
- Publisher
- Enslow/Elementary
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2010
Gr 1-2 Is it possible to condense the life of any person into approximately 40 sentences? That is what Wade attempts to do in these early-reader biographies. The language is simple, both in sentence structure and vocabulary. With this kind of brevity, oversimplification is inescapable. For example, in "Rachel Carson", Wade states that Carson wrote about the environment and that, "No one had ever written about this before." Of course,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
The easy-to-read text of this sketchy biography touches on a few important moments in the life of one of America's most decorated female at...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
