Fearless World Traveler by Laurie Lawlor

The legendary Charles Darwin was among her many supporters. Her technique of painting specimens in their natural environment was groundbreaking. As a self-taught artist and scientist, Marianne North subverted Victorian gender roles and advanced the field of botanical illustration.

In 1882, Marianne North showed the gray city of London paintings of jaw-dropping greenery like they'd never seenīefore. The vibrant and daring life of Marianne North by the award-winning author of Super Women and Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World. She attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and currently lives and works in her hometown of Covington, Kentucky.About the Book 'The vibrant and daring life of Marianne North, a self-taught artist and scientist who subverted Victorian gender roles and advanced the field of botanical illustration'-īook Synopsis Scientist. She also illustrated On the Wingby David Elliott, which received two starred reviews as well as a Golden Kite Award. She won the Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration for Made By Hand: A Craft Sampler. She lives and teaches in the Chicago metropolitan area.īecca Stadtlander is an award-winning illustrator and fine artist. Her Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World was named a NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book. Her picture book biography Rachel Carson and her Book That Changed the World was named a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year and a National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Trade Book and received the John Burroughs Riverby Award. Laurie Lawlor is a prolific and celebrated author of children's books. The author of picture book biography Fearless World Traveler, Lawlor masterfully uses forgotten historical letters, a glossary, and rich back matter on both friends’ lives and art to introduce readers to the man behind the music, from his loud laughter to his crushing handshake.Ĭomplete with Fearless World Traveler collaborator Becca Stadtlander’s intricate mixed-media artwork, What Music deftly dives into musical history–and herstory–in an intimate yet expansive picture book biography that hits just the right note.

Acclaimed nonfiction writer Laurie Lawlor deftly depicts how these two fascinating friends-a composer with hearing loss and a woman who became an innovative piano maker in a time that discouraged female entrepreneurship-fought the odds and worked together in perfect harmony.

What follows is a decades-long friendship that persists whether life hits a low or high note. In 1787, aspiring yet unknown composer Ludwig van Beethoven arrives at young Nannette Stein’s home. Pianos plinked and plunked day and night.Įveryone in quiet Augsburg knew the Stein home. In a tall, narrow building on a wide avenue Meet best friends acclaimed composer Ludwig van Beethoven and bold female entrepreneur Nannette Streicher in this lively and lyrical nonfiction picture book.

Fearless World Traveler by Laurie Lawlor