Barbara Herkert: 3 books
by Barbara Herkert, Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
An illuminating picture book biography of an artist and former slave whose patchwork quilts bring the stories of her family to life.
Harriet Powers learned to sew and quilt as a young slave girl on a Georgia plantation. She lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and eventually owned...
by Barbara Herkert
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A lyrical biography of E. B. White, beloved author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, written by Barbara Herkert and illustrated by Caldecott honoree Lauren Castillo.
When young Elwyn White lay in bed as a sickly child, a bold house mouse befriended him. When the time came for kindergarten,...
Mary Cassatt
Extraordinary Impressionist Painter
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Mary Cassatt was a headstrong, determined girl. She wanted to be an artist in 1860, a time when proper girls certainly weren't artists. It wasn't polite. But Mary herself wasn't polite. She pursued art with a passion, moving to Paris to study, painting what she saw. Her work was rejected by the Salon...