Vision of Beauty: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker - Softcover

Lasky, Kathryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763660922 ISBN 13: 9780763660925

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA), 2012

Synopsis

Vision of Beauty This biography tells the story of a woman who rose from a bleak world of poverty and discrimination to unprecedented success. "This impressive picture book will delight young readers as it gives a sense of this remarkable woman and the times in which she lived."N"School Library Journal" (starred review). Illustrations.

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Review:

This impressive...book will delight young readers as it gives a sense of this remarkable woman and the times in which she lived.
--School Library Journal (starred review)

About the Author:

Kathryn Lasky says, "When I was a little girl growing up in Indianapolis, I loved having a lemonade stand. One of my very early memories is coming into the kitchen with a jar full of money and my mother exclaiming, 'Goodness, Kathryn, maybe you'll grow up to be the next Madam Walker!'" Kathryn Lasky lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Nneka Bennett studied animation and illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has illustrated many books for children and currently lives in East Orange, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0763660922
• ISBN 13: 9780763660925
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56
• Illustrator: Bennett Nneka