And Then what Happened, Paul Revere?

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Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 45 pages
Everyone knows about Paul Revere's big ride to Lexington. But not everyone knows the harrowing details and narrow escapes along the way. Did you know that Paul Revere forgot his spurs on his famous ride. Or that he whittled false teeth to make extra money? A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Full color.

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Section 1
31
Section 2
33
Section 3
45
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About the author (1973)

Acclaimed biographer, Jean Fritz, was born in China where she lived until the age of thirteen. She tells her story in "Homesick, My Own Story," a Newbery Honor Book. Ms Fritz is the author of forty-five books for children and young people. Many center on historical American figures, gaining her a reputation as the premier author of biographies for children and young people. Among the prestigious awards Ms. Fritz has garnered are: a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Non-Fiction Award, a" New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, and many ALA Notable Books of the Year, "School Library Journal "Best Books of the Year, and ALA" Booklist" Editors' Choice Awards. Margot Ladd Tomes was born on August 10, 1917 in Park Hill, Yonkers, New York. She attended Pratt Institute but did not like it. Before illustrating children's books, she designed wallpaper and fabric, occasionally designing a book jacket or illustrations for cook books. She illustrated her first book, The Breaking Point by Daphne de Maurier, in 1959. She illustrated her first children's book, The Brave Balloon of Benjamin Buckley by Barbara Wersba, in 1963. During her lifetime, she illustrated more than forty books including If There Were Dreams to Sell, The Six Swans, and The Fisherman and His Wife. She received several awards including the New York Times Choice of Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year in 1977 and the New York Public Library's 100 Books of the Year in 1980 for Jack and the Wonder Beans by James Still and the Society of Illustrators Certificate of Merit in 1979 for The Sorcerer's Apprentice, adapted by Wanda Gag. She died of pancreatic cancer on July 2, 1991 at the age of 73.

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