SERIES MADE SIMPLE

Great Magicians and Illusionists

by Adam WOOG
9781601529985. ea vol: 80p. (Collective Biographies). further reading. glossary. index. notes. photos. websites. ReferencePoint. Aug. 2016. lib. ed. $29.95. ebk. $39.95.
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Gr 6–9—Several titles here will provide useful overviews or starting points for further research. Young Adult Authors helpfully addresses the growing call for diversity in books for teens and features the late novelist Walter Dean Myers and sci-fi and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor. Women World Leaders includes a chapter on Hillary Clinton, which will age quickly in the shadow of the 2016 election, but a chapter on Nobel Peace laureate and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is informative and contextual. Women Scientists and Inventors brings focus to a number of fascinating but less widely celebrated figures, such as physicist Lise Meitner and pioneering neonatologist Virginia Apgar. All of the books contain comprehensive source notes divided by chapter.
Biographies of six artists whose work represents key moments in the development of comic art demonstrate "the power that cartoonists have to bring both laughter and drama to a mass audience." Occasional photographs, sidebars, and pull-quotes accompany dense texts about the careers of the iconic creators of Peanuts, Doonesbury, Family Guy, The Simpsons, and others; more comics reproductions would be helpful. Reading list, websites. Ind.
Reviewed by Bob Hassett , Nov 01, 2016

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