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Inspiring Biographies for Young People

By John Walters on Monday, October 20, 2003.

When illustrator Gloria Kamen was a child, her medium was sidewalk and chalk. She went on to study art and enjoy a long career as a theatre cartoonist, children?s book writer and illustrator for a series of books by Miss Manners. With more than 40 books under her belt, she has created an anthology of inspiring biographies for young people and their parents. Heading Out:The Start of Some Splendid Careers captures inspiring stories from the lives of such notables as Dan Rather, Nelson Mandela, Lance Armstrong and her cousin, NH inventor Dean Kamen.

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