![]() ![]() ![]() Two new ones are particularly welcome additions to the genre, for both their beautiful illustrations and their stirring stories: Each takes up the life of a 20th-century artist whose accomplishments are no doubt too rarefied to be already familiar to the average elementary schooler but the subjects’ experiences growing up African-American in the segregated South, then making their ways through civil-rights-era America, give a natural storybook feel to their life trajectories. Cornell’s Dream Boxes.” Both found a whimsical, child-friendly charm in the eccentricities of subjects few would have called ideal picture-book material: the neurotic Victorian Peter Mark Roget, who came up with the idea for the thesaurus, and the reclusive avant-garde artist Joseph Cornell, who innovated with assemblage. Among several good recent examples are Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet’s “The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus” and Jeanette Winter’s “Mr. The world has no shortage of interesting people who make a big impact without ever quite becoming household names, and lately we’ve seen a plentiful crop of picture-book biographies about some of them. ![]()
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