Cleopatra 'Serpent of the Nile' - The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Dastardly Dames

Informationen zum Autor Mary Fisk Pack has been an elementary school teacher for over twenty years. In addition to being a teacher, she is a writer. She writes curricula, but what she really loves to write are children’s books, especially creative nonfiction picture books about interesting people, times, and places. Mary lives with her family in Northern California.Peter Malone has illustrated over twenty children’s books for such publishers as Chronicle, Knopf, Putnam, Running Press, and Scholastic. In addition to creating gorgeous illustrations, he wrote the book, Close to the Wind, about the use of the Beaufort scale for measuring wind force at sea. School Library Journal called it ?informative and utterly charming.” He lives in Bath, England, with his wife, a restorer of paintings, and their two grown daughters. Klappentext "With both cunning and charm, [Cleopatra] beguiled two of the most famous men in history, entwining Egypt's destiny with Rome's. Many believed she was as sly as serpent. Or was she just smart?"--Dust jacket flap.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Fisk Pack, Mary/ Malone Fisk Pack
• Assisted by: Peter Malone (Illustration)
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780983425601
• ISBN: 978-0-9834256-0-1
• No. of pages: 32
• Series: Thinking Girl's Treasury of Da; Thinking Girl's Treasury of Da
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics