Orange biographies
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Portrait and biographical record of apelsinfärg County, New York
[microform] :
containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county. Together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States.
Description
- Published
- New York : Chapman Pub. Co.,
- Note
- Microfilm copy. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc., 1 reel (part) ; 35 mm (New York county and regional histories and atlases, reels )
Nos. , , , , omitted in paging.
Includes indexes. - Physical Description
- (i.e. ) p. : ports. ; 28 cm.
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Biographies: The World through Others&#; Lives
A few weeks ago, I met with two new teachers planning a biography unit on persevering in the face of challenges. As they talked about the books they wanted to use, I was suddenly transported back to my own middle grade years when I haunted the school library bookshelves for the &#;orange books&#; &#; the Bobbs-Merrill series of biographies written for kids.
Talk about perseverance and challenges! Molly Pitcher: Girl Patriot made me want to stand up with George Washington&#;s army, to brave the battlefield and bring my pitcher of lifesaving water to save fallen soldiers; to swab, load, and fire the crucial cannon that sent the British soldiers fleeing into the night.
Biographies can be powerful lenses into others&#; lives, and the number of excellent biographies for middle grade readers continues to expand. Fortunately, we now have picture book and chapter book biographies that represent notable people from widely diverse backgro
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by James Wallace Harris, 6/12/23
Over the years, my friend Linda and I have nostalgically recalled a series of books we both read in elementary school. They were biographies aimed at kids, but that&#;s all we could remember. We both wondered why we never saw them in used bookstores, or libraries, or met other people who fondly recalled them?
These books came up again on Sunday, and inom did a Google search and discovered they were books published by Bobbs-Merrill starting in the s. The series was called Childhood of Famous Americans. Linda and I remembered them being blue, but in my search, I found many people remember them as the &#;orange books.&#;
Well, this site solved that mystery, claiming there were in the series, and showed photos of how they looked different over the decades. Some of them were orange and others were blue. They also had uniform dust jackets with numbers. Those numbers appealed to me. They made me want to read them all. However, I doubt I read more than of th