Peter the Great - Hardcover

Stanley, Diane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027867900 ISBN 13: 9780027867909

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1986

Synopsis

A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.

About this title

About the Author:

Diane Stanley is the author and illustrator of beloved books for young readers, including The Silver Bowl, which received three starred reviews, was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Book Links Lasting Connections, and was an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Cup and the Crown; Saving Sky, winner of the Arab American Museum's Arab American Book Award and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year; Bella at Midnight, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy; The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine; and A Time Apart. Well known as the author and illustrator of award-winning picture-book biographies, she is the recipient of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for her body of work.

Ms. Stanley has also written and illustrated numerous picture books, including three creatively reimagined fairy tales: The Giant and the Beanstalk, Goldie and the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. dianestanleybooks.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0027867900
• ISBN 13: 9780027867909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32