Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.
Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, o… - Russell Freedman
Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, o…
- Russell Freedman
Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've already been filtered… - Russell Freedman
Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've already been filtered…
Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required… - Russell Freedman
Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required…
I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, … - Russell Freedman
I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, …
Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just… - Russell Freedman
Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just…
With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading … - Russell Freedman
With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading …
A children's biography doesn't have to be comprehensive, and it doesn't have to be definitive. It does have to be accurate, to the extent that's poss… - Russell Freedman
A children's biography doesn't have to be comprehensive, and it doesn't have to be definitive. It does have to be accurate, to the extent that's poss…
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any meanin… - Russell Freedman
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any meanin…
Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you fin… - Russell Freedman
Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you fin…
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