Alexandra Wallner

"Well-produced and appealing readalong...expressive narration and appropriate music and sound effects...Sure bet for story time or home." - Booklist

Follows the life of the popular president, from his childhood on the frontier to his assassination after the end of the Civil War.

Recounts the voyage of an eighteenth-century French aeronaut by hot air balloon from Philadelphia to Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1793.

Presents the life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.

An introduction to the genius with a curious mind who loved to experiment and who invented the phonograph, light bulb, movie camera, and numerous other items.

Provides a biography of Mercy Otis Warren, an unsung heroine of the American Revolution, who wrote patriotic plays and poems, including a history of the Revolution.

A brief biography of the woman who overcame her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.

Surveys the life of Benjamin Franklin, highlighting his work as an inventor and statesman.