Books by Tanya Lee Stone
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review 1: This is the true story of America's first black paratroopers their heroic tales as they battled during WW2. This is the tale of the Triple Nickels and their fearless leader Sergeant Walter Morris as they face racism on and off the battlefield. More importantly, this tells the sto...
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review 1: “Courage Has No Color” is a fantastic trade book! This book is by far my most favorite trade books I’ve read. The book tells of the struggles African Americans faced with racism and segregation in the military during the WWII. This war occurred around the same time that African A...
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review 1: To say this book disgusted me doesn't say enough. These woman had very important lessons to share with young girls who don't see science as something they can go into or dare to dream about what they can accomplish in their careers. The astronauts were in the field in a time when...
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review 1: I actually read this book because the author spoke to my children's literature class during my senior year at Saint Michael's College and when she spoke she was in the process of writing this book still. I always loved Barbie, so I kept it in the back of my mind as something to ...
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review 1: Elizabeth Blackwell was pretty much my idol as a child (along with Rachel Carson and Victoria Woodhull) so of course I snatched this up the second I saw it at the library. T sneered at the very title, exclaiming "Women CAN be doctors!", full of righteous four year old energy. It ...
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review 1: I love this generation of biographies written for elementary age children that introduces these amazing characters from history through simple prose and beautiful illustrations. This was a great introduction to Elizabeth Stanton and her fight for women's rights at a time in histo...
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review 1: I only recently became acquainted with the work of Alexander Calder, an artist who didn’t call the things he made art, and found this to be another enjoyable and informative book about this non-traditional creator. Sandy, as he preferred to be called, fashioned an entire miniatu...
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review 1: "Sandy's Circus,: by Tanya Lee Stone is a story about Alexander Calder and his moveable circus. He ruled the artistic world of the twentieth century with metal sculptures and mobiles. ever since Alexander was a child he would build sculptures out of scrap. The sight of the moon a...