WorldCat record id: 62444242įrom the description of The porcelain pagoda : production material, ca. WorldCat record id: 62451781įrom the description of Prisoners of the scrambling dragon : production material, ca. WorldCat record id: 62451782įrom the description of Rudi and the Distelfink : production material, ca. WorldCat record id: 62444238įrom the description of Zenas and the shaving mill : production material, ca. WorldCat record id: 62444237įrom the description of Grand Papa and Ellen Aroon : being an account of some of the happy times spent together by Thomas Jefferson and his favorite granddaughter : production material, ca. WorldCat record id: 62444240įrom the description of Gettysburg : Tad Lincoln's story : production material, ca. WorldCat record id: 62406350įrom the description of Pirates in Panama : production material, ca. WorldCat record id: 62680918įrom the description of Willie Jasper's golden eagle : being an eyewitness account of the great steamboat race between the Natchez and the Robert E. WorldCat record id: 62680912įrom the description of Slater's mill : production material, ca. Monjo Papers, 1970-1980, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections )Īmerican author of children's books, well known for his historical fiction.įrom the description of Papers, 1970-1980.
16 Twentieth Century Children's Writers, 3rd ed. Biographical Sources: Something About the Author, vol. Monjo received several honors for his books. Critics also praised his writing style for giving children a fresh and appealing look at any number of otherwise overworked periods of history, and called him one of the best in the writing of easy-reading history books. Critics praised his writing style for making the child's voice authentically his own, and also lauded his attention to detail and historical fact. During the 1970s Monjo published many other works of historical fiction, most written from a child's point of view, in an effort to humanize our forefathers.
In 1968 he published his first book for children, Indian Summer, the story of a frontier woman's struggle to save her family. He graduated from Columbia University in 1946 and worked as an editor and later assistant director and vice president and editorial director in Books for Boys and Girls at several major publishing companies. (Ferdinand Nicolas) Monjo was born Augin Stamford, Connecticut.
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