Frank Asch (born Somerville, New Jersey, 1946) is a children’s author and illustrator. He has published over 60 books; he is known for his Moonbear series.
Ox-Cart Man
Barbara Cooney (born Brooklyn, New York, 1917; died Portland, Maine, March 10, 2000) was a children’s author and illustrator. She illustrated at least 70 books. Her illustrations in Chanticleer and the Fox won the 1959 Caldecott Medal, and her illustrations in Ox-cart Man won the 1980 Caldecott Medal. Children can visit a website at: Barbara Cooney.
Sir Alexander Fleming (born Lochfield, Scotland, 1881; died London, England, March 11, 1955) was a bacteriologist. He discovered penicillin and received the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (born Norwich, Connecticut, 1861; died Sagamore Hill, New York, September 30, 1948) was America’s First Lady from September 14, 1901 to March 4, 1909. She was the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States. They had five children, and he also had a daughter, Alice, by his first marriage. Children could visit a website at: Edith Roosevelt. Idea: Children could investigate what the Roosevelt children did while they were living in the White House. Did they really take a pony upstairs?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (born Somersby, Lincolnshire, England, 1809; died Aldworth, England, October 6, 1892) was a poet. Children could read many of his works at: Project Gutenberg.