<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Childhood of Famous Americans series is from the late 1950's and 1960's. I was a children's librarian in the early part of my career and remember when those books were moved from biography to fiction. The versions I read had orange covers and the illustrations were done in black silhouettes. They have updated the series and there is a volume on Harry Houdini that came out in 1969 and was reissued in 1991.<br><br>Sally Arrivee<br>Head Reference Librarian<br>Madison Heights Public Library<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">
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<p>Maybe the Childhood of Famous Americans series?</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of Kerry Fitzgerald <kfitzgerald@loutitlibrary.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 13, 2014 2:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jennifer Hassell<br>
<b>Cc:</b> michlib-l@lists.mcls.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Michlib-l] series from th 1980's</font>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm of the same vintage and I believe I read the same series of biographies for book reports -- probably in the 4th or 5th grade. These books were published circa the early 1960s (or maybe earlier) and featured b&w line drawings illustrating
the person's life. The covers featured the same artwork, and the background color for each book jacket was a different color. I remember reading the book on Eleanor Roosevelt (blue/gray, I think) and the one on Abe Lincoln (tan). Amelia Earhart was also in
the series.
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<div>Big help, right? I poked around with keyword searches in library catalogs, but of course these books are long gone from library shelves. No luck with the Amazon marketplace either.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Jennifer Hassell <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:Jennifer.Hassell@farmlib.org" target="_blank">Jennifer.Hassell@farmlib.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Kerry FitzGerald, Assistant Director<br>
Loutit District Library<br>
407 Columbus Ave<br>
Grand Haven MI 49417<br>
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