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Lady Liberty

Here's an illustration in progress, from Lady Liberty: A Biography:
 

liberty in progress

You can see the final illustration on the cover of Candlewick's  Spring 2008 Catalog


1/2009 Lady Liberty: A Biography
made the  2009 Capitol Choices  list of noteworthy books for children.


1/2009 
Lady Liberty: A Biography
made Book Links Magazine's "Lasting Connections" list, which spotlights the editors' selections of the 30 best children's books of 2008 for libraries and classrooms.

1/2009 About.com picked  Lady Liberty: A Biography as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Books of 2008.

1/2009
Grandparents.com picked
Lady Liberty: A Biography as one of the 10 Best Children's Books of 2008.

12/2008 Susan Dove Lempke of the International Reading Association chose 
Lady Liberty: A Biography  as one of the top 10 children's books of 2008.

11/2008
Lady Liberty: A Biography won a Parents' Choice Gold Award!

11/2008
Lady Liberty: A Biography is on the 2009 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List!

10/2008 The Children's Hour selected
Lady Liberty: A Biography as one of the best books of 2008.

9/2008
Lady Liberty: A Biography was featured in The New York Times Book Review!

9/2008
Teachers, you can now download a free teacher's guide for Lady Liberty: A Biography.

9/2008
Original artwork from Lady Liberty: A Biography will be exhibited at the Museum of American Illustration at The Society of Illustrators in New York City, as part of "The Original Art: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustrations". The juried exhibit will feature original artwork from over 100 children's books, and will be on display October 16-November 26.

8/2008
Here's a nice review of Lady Liberty: A Biography in The Boston Globe.

7/2008
Doreen Rappaport and I were guests on The Book Report. Listen to the entire one-hour radio program here.

6/2008
Lady Liberty: A Biography
got a starred review in The Horn Book Magazine!


6/2008
Lady Liberty: A Biography won an Oppenheim Gold Award!

5/2008
Amazon.com has picked
Lady Liberty: A Biography as one of the three best pictures books of May!


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Illustrations copyright © 2000-2008 Matt Tavares. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.