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Barbara Kerley: Walt Whitman: Words for America.(Book Review)
From: The Horn Book Magazine
Date: 20041101
Author:Isaacs, Kathleen
Barbara Kerley Walt Whitman: Words for America; illus. by Brian Selznick
56 pp. Scholastic 10/04 ISBN 0-439-35791-8 $16.95 (Intermediate)
Focusing on the Civil War years, this movingly illustrated picture-book biography introduces one of America's most prominent writers to elementary school readers. Beginning with Whitman's work as a printer's apprentice, the story moves quickly through his early writings to his work in hospitals during the Civil War, his admiration for Abraham Lincoln, and the poetry that stemmed from his experiences. In well-crafted prose, Kerley ...
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