Horn Book Review

These short, illustrated books capture the lives of famous individuals with accessible prose. Each book spends considerable time explaining the childhood experiences of its subject and manages to give readers a sense of the individual's personality and motives. All but [cf2]Tallchief[cf1] and [cf2]Houdini[cf1] have bibliographies. Timeline. [Review covers these Who Wasà? titles: [cf2]Who Is Maria Tallchief?, Who Was Amelia Earhart?, Who Was Harriet Tubman?, Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?,[cf1] and [cf2]Who Was Harry Houdini?[cf1].] (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.