Russell Freedman

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Russell Freedman

• Michal-Ann Golay
• Alicia Henriquez
• Aradhana Mudambi

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Biography

• Born on October 11, 1929
• San Francisco
• Not great in school
• Won a city wide essay contest in Jr. High
• Majored in English Literature at UC Berkley
• Served in the Armed Forces

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Entrance Into Writing

• Worked as a reporter/editor
• Mid-1950s, worked as a publicist
• 1961 First Book
• Teenagers Who Made History

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Some Themes

• Non-Fiction
• Historical eras
• Animal lives and behaviors

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Some Books

• Two-Thousand Years of Space
• Travel, Holiday House, 1958
• Teenagers Who Made History, Holiday House,
• 1961
• Jules Verne, Holiday House 1967
• Dinosaurs and Their Young, Holiday House, 1983
• Cowboys of the Wild West, Ticknor and Fields,
  1983
• Rattlesnakes, Holiday House, 1984
• Indian Chiefs, Holiday House, 1987
• The Wright Brothers How They Invented the
  Airplane, 1991
• An Indian Winter, Holiday House 1992
• Eleanor Roosevelt A Life of Discovery, 1993
• Kids at Work Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against
  Child Labor, 1994
• Out of Darkness, The Story of Louis Braille,
  Clarion Books, 1997

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Awards

• Newberry Honor, 1992, 1994
• Newberry Medal, 1998
• Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Nonfiction Honor
  Book, 1984
• Orbis Pictus Honors Book, 1995, 1991
• Golden Kite Award,1991, 1994
• Utah Childrens Information book Award Nominee
  1996-1997

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One Last Award
2007 National Humanities Medal
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Teacher Resources

• Russell Freedman Teacher Resource File
• http//falcon.jmu.edu/ramseyil/freedman.htm
• Lincoln A photobiography Lesson Plan
• http//www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/linc/linctg.html
• Eleanor Roosevelt Lesson Plan
• http//teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/By
  rnes-famous/Roosevel.htm
• Immigrant Kids Lesson Plan
• http//www.queensmuseum.org/education/ps144/curric
  ula/lct-immigrantkids.html
• The Wright Brothers How They Invented the
  Airplane Lesson Plan
• http//www.maslibraries.org/infolit/samplers/wrigh
  t.html
• Interview with Russell Freedman
• http//www.childrensliteratureconnection.org/resou
  rces-rf-interview.htm
• Immigrant Kids Resources
• http//daily-tangents.com/BOB/BookLink/L/L_immig.s
  html
• The Alliance for the Study and Teachingof
  Adolescent Literature at Rhode Island College
  Author Resources
• http//www.astal-ric.org/russellfreedman.htm
• (bio, bibliography, awards, reviews, summaries,
  suggested teaching activities)

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..More Resources

• Bookfest 01- Russell Freedman BookTalk
• http//www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php
  ?rec3428
• Good Conversation! A Talk with Russell Freedman.
  video or DVD. 21 min. Tim Podell Prods.
  (goodconversations.com). 2007. ISBN
  1-58543-043-8.

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