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Jennifer Armstrong

Jennifer Armstrong

Jennifer Armstrong is the author of numerous award-winning picture books, both historical fiction and nonfiction. Two of her picture books, Hugh Can Do and Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat, are ALA Notable Books. Her first novel Steal Away, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Notable Book, and a Golden Kite Honor Book, and her novel, The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan is a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book. In 1999 her nonfiction account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 voyage, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance, was awarded the Orbus Pictus as well as a Boston Globe-Horn Book honor. She lives in New York... Read full bio

Jennifer Armstrong's Books

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Once Upon a Banana
Once Upon a Banana By: Jennifer Armstrong
Illustrated by: David Small
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: October 24, 2006
Ages: 4 - 8
Such a little banana causing such a big pile of trouble! How could it be? First the grocer, then the painter, next the bicycle messenger, and then -- oh, no -- not the baby in the carriage! An entire town turned upside down,...
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Magnus at the Fire
Magnus at the Fire By: Jennifer Armstrong
Illustrated by: Owen Smith
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: May 1, 2005
Ages: 5 - 8
Magnus lives and works at the Broadway Firehouse. He knows that when the fire alarm clangs, he and his partners, Billy and Sparks, are supposed to spring into action. Without them the firemen would never be able to move the...
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Photo by Brady
Photo by Brady A Picture of the Civil War By: Jennifer Armstrong
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: March 22, 2005
Ages: 9 - 14
Mathew B. Brady was already a famous photographer by the time the Civil War began. But the war gave Brady something else: The chance to make a RECORD OF A WAR -- this war -- in a way that had never been done before: WITH...
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A Three-Minute Speech
Browse Inside A Three-Minute Speech
A Three-Minute Speech Lincoln's Remarks at Gettysburg (Part of Milestone) By: Jennifer Armstrong
Illustrated by: Albert Lorenz
This edition: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2003
Ages: 7 - 10
Four score and seven years ago... So begins one of the most important speeches in the history of the United States -- Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Given on a cold November day, it wasn't much of a speech, really --...
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