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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Once books change their brains, girls change history. Discover the foundation of reading that empowered some of the world's most influential women in this collection of 20 biographies"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Illustrations and text describe how the Mixtecs create painted manuscripts, or codices, that reflect their way of life and document their history, science, land tenure, tribute, and sacred rituals.
A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how their parents create beautiful painted manuscripts, or codices. She explains to him how paper is made from local plants and how the long paper is folded into a book. Her parents and others paint the codices...
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Publisher
Bushel & Peck Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Frances Hodgson Burnett--best known for writing 'The Secret Garden,' 'Little Lord Fauntleroy,' and 'The Little Princess'--had a difficult life, losing her father when she was very young, moving to a new country in the face of economic turmoil, and suffering the loss of a son, and a marriage later in life. But she could imagine anything, and she used her gifts to transform grief and hardship into works of literature that lifted the spirits of people...
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