Alabama My Home Sweet Home - Hardcover

Charles Ghigna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0794846513 ISBN 13: 9780794846510

Publisher: Whitman Publishing, LLC, 2018

Synopsis

The state of Alabama is celebrating 200 years in the nation! Bear cub guide, Camellia, is ready to help you discover what makes Alabama so special! Encounter the famous faces of Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., just to name a few! Visit cities that represent Alabama with pride, like Huntsville and Dothan. And remember events in history that helped change our nation; such as the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, Jesse Owens winning a gold medal, and Rosa Parks riding in the front of a bus. From the Native Americans in Moundville to the Alabama and Auburn rivalry, this book is packed full of people, places and events that made Alabama into the state it is today! Renowned author Charles Ghigna - Father Goose® and illustrator Michelle Hazelwood Hyde both reside in Alabama. Mr. Ghigna has written more than one hundred books for children and adults; while Mrs. Hyde is a freelance illustrator of ten books for children. 32 pages, 9 x 11 inches, Hardcover, Full Color

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Ghigna - Father Goose® lives in a treehouse in the middle of Alabama. He is the author of more than 100 books from Disney, Hyperion, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Time Inc. and other publishers. He has written more than 5,000 poems for children and adults that have appeared in anthologies, newspapers and magazines ranging from The New Yorker and Harper's to Highlights and Cricket magazines. He served as poet-in-residence and chair of creative writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, poetry editor of English Journal for the National Council of Teachers of English, and as a nationally syndicated poetry feature writer for Tribune Media Services. He speaks at schools, conferences, libraries, and literary events throughout the U.S. and overseas, and has read his poems at The Library of Congress, The John F. Kennedy Center, American Library in Paris, American School in Paris, and the International Schools of South America. For more information, visit his website at FatherGoose.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Whitman Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0794846513
• ISBN 13: 9780794846510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Michelle Hazelwood Hyde