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Big Wig: A Little History of Hair by Kathleen Krull
Category: Humour
History has never been hairier. Did you know that kings AND queens wore fake beards in Ancient Egypt? Or that hair was used in medicine at the height of the Incan Empire? Or that Queen Elizabeth I had more than 80 wigs in various shades of red? Kathleen Krull and Peter Malone start at the dawn of hist ...Show more
Charles Darwin by Kathleen Krull
Category: Science | Series: Giants of Science
All his life, Charles Darwin hated controversy. Yet he takes his place among the Giants of Science for what remains an immensely controversial subject: the theory of evolution. Darwin began piecing together his explanation for how all living things change or adapt during his five-year voyage on HMS Beag ...Show more
Fartiste by Kathleen Krull & Paul Brewer
Category: Children's
Across the world there are many an artiste, but none so outrageous as Joe the Fartiste. He doesn't sing, he doesn't dance, and he doesn't act. But that doesn't stop him from taking the stage at Paris's famed Moulin Rouge, where he performs his much-loved act with the funniest talent of all - Joe is the ...Show more
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight by Kathleen Krull
Category: Picture Books
The beautifully illustrated picture book about Hillary Clinton--now revised and updated with brand-new material about her time as Secretary of State. Before Hillary Clinton was in the running to be president, she was a young girl growing up outside Chicago who lost the election for student-body presiden ...Show more
Isaac Newton by Kathleen Krull
Category: unmapped | Series: Giants of Science (Viking)
Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.Presents a biography of Isaac Newton, ...Show more
Isaac Newton by Kathleen Krull
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Giants of Science
Here is a man with an imagination so large that just "by thinking on it", a he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Yet Newton was so small-minded that he tried to destroy other scientists who dared question his findings and spent much time trying to predict the futur ...Show more
Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything by Kathleen Krull
Category: Childrens
Always cast in a supporting role in the many books about Marco Polo, the great Kubla Khan now takes center stage in a splendid picture-book biography. He is a wonderful subjectAa man who liked to live large, building the imperial city of Beijing from scratch, siring a hundred children, throwing birthday ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci by Kathleen Krull
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Giants of Science
Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. We know him as an artist genius, but there was another side to Leonardo da Vinci. This book will change childre ...Show more
Lincoln Tells a Joke by krull kathleen
Category: Picture Books
Poor Abraham Lincoln His life was hardly fun at all. A country torn in two by war, citizens who didn't like him as president, a homely appearance--what could there possibly be to laugh about? And yet he did laugh. Lincoln wasn't just one of our greatest presidents. He was a comic storyteller and a perso ...Show more
Marie Curie by Kathleen Krull
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Giants of Science
Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but twoain physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.