W. Nikola-Lisa

Dear Frank (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Set in 1918, Dear Frank offers the reader a glimpse of life in the Boston area during the waning days of World War I. Young Andrew writes to Frank, his older brother who is fighting overseas, intent upon keeping him abreast of all that is going on in his hometown, especially the Boston Red Sox, led by the young, hard-hitting Babe Ruth. Meticulously researched and inventively written in an epistolary format, Dear Frank introduces the middle grade reader to the stress and strain of war, as well as to the intricacies of major league baseball as it weathers a difficult year. Although Ruth is a larger-than-life character, he is not the central character in this study of family dynamics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gyroscope Books
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781621109068
• Artikelnr.: 40073620

Autorenporträt

Professor Emeritus at National-Louis University in Chicago, and a popular children's book author and storyteller in his own right, W. Nikola-Lisa is the author of 35 books, including Ichiro and the Great Mountain, Circles, Lines, and Squiggles: Astrology for the Curious-Minded, and the Christopher award-winning How We Are Smart: A Multicultural Approach to the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Along with his creative writing, Mr. Nikola-Lisa has published numerous articles on various facets of children's literature for the professional literature. A past recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats/Janina Domanska Research Fellowship at the University of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, Mr. Nikola-Lisa explores the centrality of play in the work of acclaimed author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, drawing upon the author's past research at the de Grummond Collection and recent reflections on the nature of play, creativity, and the literary imagination.