Robert Byrd: 8 books

Book cover of Electric Ben

Electric Ben

The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

by Robert Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012

Electric Ben is now a 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award Winner, a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, a Horn Fanfare Book, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor book! “a true standout…bright, witty, informative and cleverly organized as the man himself.” – The New York Times A...
Book cover of Liberty Arrives!

Liberty Arrives!

How America's Grandest Statue Found Her Home

by Robert Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019

A deeply informative and gorgeously illustrated look at the Statue of Liberty, from award-winning nonfiction master Robert Byrd. America's most iconic national symbol was a gift from France to the United States--provided America raised the money for the pedestal on which it was to stand. Urged...
Book cover of Quaker Ways in Foreign Policy
by Robert Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960

For three hundred years the Society of Friends, or Quakers, has been forwarding to governments recommendations on foreign policy, and it has often been in the vanguard of thought in its social and political views. In this study, Dr. Byrd brings together and states carefully and accurately those beliefs,...
Book cover of Jason and the Argonauts

Jason and the Argonauts

The First Great Quest in Greek Mythology

by Robert Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

A beautifully illustrated account of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts with informative details from the award-winning author of Electric Ben The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the earliest recorded Greek myths. Here, master artist Robert Byrd has created a striking telling...
Book cover of Brave Chicken Little
by Robert Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014

Whack! What’s that? Could it be? A piece of the sky! Oh my! Chicken Little and his friends run, run, run to tell the king. Nothing stands in the way except...the sly Foxy Loxy. Surely they have time to stop for lunch with Foxy and his kits. But what happens when Chicken...
Book cover of Robert C. Byrd

Robert C. Byrd

Child of the Appalachian Coalfields

by ROBERT C. BYRD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

This autobiography follows West Virginia senator Robert C. Byrd’s experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the Senate. Within these pages, Senator Byrd offers commentary on national and international events that occurred...
Book cover of Letter to a New President

Letter to a New President

Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader

by Sen. Robert C. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008

A legendary Senator advises our next President on the commonsense values necessary to lead our nation United States Senator Robert C. Byrd is the longest-serving member of the United States Senate in the history of our great Republic. Senator Byrd has served the people of West Virginia, and the nation,...
Book cover of The Reasoned Schemer
by Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018

A new edition of a book, written in a humorous question-and-answer style, that shows how to implement and use an elegant little programming language for logic programming. The goal of this book is to show the beauty and elegance of relational programming, which captures the essence of logic...
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