Qutlugh Terkan Khatun of Kirman

Informationen zum Autor Shirin Yim Bridges’ first book, Ruby's Wish, was a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book and won the Ezra Jack Keats award. It is on several state reading lists, has been translated into seven languages, and is now in its eleventh edition. The Umbrella Queen made TIME/CNN’s Top 10 Lists and was also named a Best Children’s Book by the Bank Street College of Education. Horrible Hauntings won an IRA/CBC Children's Choices Award. Mary Wrightly So Politely launched in April 2013 to starred reviews in both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. To date, every book that Shirin has written or published has achieved national acclaim.Responsible for the pen-and-watercolor illustrations that bring our princesses to life, Albert Nguyen received his MFA from the Academy of Art in 2006. He grew up in Minnesota before moving to San Francisco. In addition to being fond of drawing, painting, comics, and cartoons, Albert has a special affection for chubby animals.The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses are his first children’s books. Klappentext Presents information about the life of the fourteenth-century Persian noblewoman who was captured and sold into slavery as a child, but whose intelligence, beauty, and compassion led her to become princess, and eventually sole ruler of Kirman after the death of her husband.

Product details

• Authors: Shirin Yim Bridges, Shirin Yim/ Nguyen Bridges, Shirin Yim Bridges
• Assisted by: Albert Nguyen (Illustration)
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2010
• EAN: 9780984509836
• ISBN: 978-0-9845098-3-6
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 273 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Thinking Girl's Treasury of Re; Thinking Girl's Treasury of Re
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics