Available now.
If you haven't heard about this book yet, I will be surprised. This is a long-awaited biography of the author of Charlotte's Web and other books.
Although we expect Melissa Sweet to have done a picture book biography, this is not one of those.
It could be more accurately described as a biography with lots of pictures, photographs, illustrations, and samples of his magazine articles and essays. 162 pages.
From the very first page. . . no . . . beginning with the endpapers the reader is drawn into the world of E.B. White -- from his adventures driving a Model T Roadster across the United States to his life on a farm in Maine. And all that time writing, writing, writing.
Almost everyone knows the book Elements of Style by Shrunk and White, but did you know that the "White" was E.B. White? It was a required textbook for every English class I took in college. (I can't find my old copy, darn it. Maybe I haven't looked in the right bookcase.)
I have a feeling that this will be a strong candidate for the ALA Sibert Award to match the one she won this year for The Right Word. Check Melissa Sweet's website for more info about that.
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