Dennis Fradin
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The award-winning author of nearly 250 non-fiction books for children and young adults, Dennis Fradin is known for his meticulous research, attention to detail and smooth, graceful writing. Fradin attributes his success in part to years of teaching in the Chicago Public Schools. In order to hold his second graders’ attention at the end of the day, he would spin stories about crayons in distress and birds with broken wings. Such a story caught the attention of an editor who asked him to write a series of books about the United States. The Children’s Press Sea to Shining Sea series launched Dennis’s career as a full-time author.Dennis Fradin has written children’s books on topics as varied as astronomy, colonial history, slave escapes and scientific discoveries. He has also written biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, and Louis Braille, among others. ”Bound for the North Star” is a riveting collection of true slave-escape stories. ”Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” and ”The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine” won the Society for Midland Authors young adult non-fiction awards; ”Daisy Bates” was a Golden Kite Honor Book.Recently, Dennis has written ”Let It Begin Here” and ”The Duel”, both illustrated by Larry Day. He’s completed two dozen “Turning Points in American History” books for Marshall Cavendish. And, along with his wife Judy, Dennis is now completing a series called “Witness to Disaster” for National Geographic Children’s Books. Four of those books, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Tsunamis, are currently available. The Fradins also wrote ”5,000 Miles to Freedom”, the dramatic slave-escape story of Ellen and William Craft.
Dennis and his wife, Judy, won many awards for their books including
“We have conquered pain” : | Bound for the North Star : | Connecticut | Connecticut / | Delaware / | Droughts | Duel! : | Earthquakes : | Fight on! : | Georgia / | Hiawatha : | Ida B. Wells : | Indiana | Indiana from sea to shining sea. | Is there life on Mars? | Is there life on Mars? / | Jane Addams : | Kansas | Kansas from sea to shining sea. | Let it begin here! : | Louisiana | Louisiana from sea to shining sea. | Maine | Maine from sea to shining sea. | Maria Sanz de Sautuola | Maria de Sautuola : | Mary Anning, the fossil hunter / | Massachusetts | Massachusetts from sea to shining sea. | Minnesota / | Mississippi / | Missouri | Missouri in words and pictures | Mount Washington | My family shall be free! : | Nevada / | New Mexico in words and pictures | North Dakota / | North Dakota in words and pictures | Oklahoma / | Oregon / | Puerto Rico / | Rhode Island / | Sacagawea : | Samuel Adams : | South Dakota | Stolen into slavery : | The Delaware Colony | The Georgia colony | The Lewis and Clark Expedition / | The Louisiana Purchase | The Salem witch trials / | The founders : | The planet hunters : | The power of one : | The price of freedom : | The signers : | Tornado! : | Tracking dinosaurs in the Gobi / | Tsunamis / | Volcano! / | Volcanoes / | Washington | Washington from sea to shining sea. | West Virginia / | West Virginia in words and pictures | Who was Ben Franklin? | Who was Ben Franklin? / | Who was Sacagawea? / | Who was Thomas Jefferson? | With a little luck : | Wyoming / | Wyoming in words and pictures | ZORA! : | Zora! :