Judy Fradin is the co-author, along with her late husband Dennis,
of more than 50 non-fiction children's and young adult books on
topics ranging from biographies to natural disasters to African
American history to the Lewis and Clark expedition. Their IDA B.
WELLS: MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT won the Flora Steiglitz
Straus award as well as the Golden Kite honor plaque. STOLEN INTO
SLAVERY was a Carter Woodson award winner, as was THE POWER OF ONE:
DAISY BATES AND THE LITTLE ROCK NINE. WHO WAS SACAGAWEA? was the
Fradins' first collaboration for the WHO WAS? series. Between 2007
and 2015, Judy was a professor of Children's Literature and
Minority Literature at National Louis University.
The author of more than 225 children's and young adult non-fiction
books, Dennis Brindell Fradin was the winner of many awards,
including the Flora Steiglitz Straus best non-fiction book of the
year, two Carter Woodson awards, a Golden Kite honor plaque, and
three Society of Midland Authors Best Book prizes, Dennis prided
himself on writing graceful, readable prose for young people. A
born storyteller, the decade he spent as a second-grade teacher
helped him perfect his fluid style of writing for children.
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