Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring DaughterBorn in a two-room, tar-paper-covered house in the far north of Greenland, Marie Ahnighito Peary was destined to have an exciting childhood. Her parents, the famous explorer Robert E. Peary and Josephine Peary, had shocked Victorian society by starting their family so far away from "civilization." Fair-skinned children were so rare in the far North that the local Inuit called Marie "Snow Baby." Map, time line, bibliography, index. A Booklist Editors' Choice Book A Booklist Top 10 Biography for Youth An Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Title A Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice Book A James Madison Book Award Honor Book |
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Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter Katherine Kirkpatrick No preview available - 2009 |
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