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Children's Nonfiction General

The I Was There: The Buried City of Pompeii

by (author) Shelley Tanaka

Publisher
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Initial publish date
Oct 1997
Category
General, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780590123778
    Publish Date
    Oct 1997
    List Price
    $19.99

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Description

I WAS THERE is an innovative, award-winning series that brings history's most fascinating stories to life for young readers. Engrossing narrative is woven through colourfully illustrated and informative spreads, maps, diagrams and sidebars.

About the author

SHELLEY TANAKA is an award-winning author, translator and editor. She has written more than twenty books for children and young adults, winning the Orbis Pictus Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award, the Science in Society Book Award and the Information Book Award, and she has twice been nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis. Other honors include Texas Blue Bonnet runner-up, School Library Journal Best Books, ALA Notables and IRA Young Adults’ Choice. Her translation of Michel Noel’s Good for Nothing won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and was on the IBBY Honor List (Commended). Shelley teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts, in the MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

 

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Editorial Reviews

“...an excellent series of historical picture books...? (Today's Parent) "Told “with authority and immediacy...? (The Globe and Mail) “...clean and vivid...sure to appeal to kids...? (Quill and Quire)

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