Books by Michelle Markel

Michelle Markel loves writing narrative nonfiction. She's the author of Brave Girl, which won the Bank Street Flora Stieglitz Straus Award and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children, and was also chosen as an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book. Her recent titles are Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead (on the Amelia Bloomer Project List of feminist literature) and Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books. She lives in Woodland Hills, California. You can visit her online at www.michellemarkel.com. Amanda Hall is an international-award-winning British illustrator, particularly renowned for her many wonderfully decorative and colorful children's picture book and educational illustrations. Out of This World is her second picture book about the life and work of a significant figure from art history. The first-also written by Michelle Markel-is The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau. Amanda exhibits her original illustrations at the Chris Beetles Gallery in St James's, London. She can be found online at www.amandahall-illustration.com.