@article{438058,
      recid = {438058},
      author = {Bloom, Susan P. and Mercier, Cathryn M.},
      title = {Russell Freedman [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Scarecrow Press,},
      address = {Lanham, Md. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxi, 151 p., [8] p. of plates) :},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {The author of more than 50 informational books for young  people, Russell Freedman has received every major award in  the field, including the Newbery, the Robert F. Sibert  Medal, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. Major prizes are  but one indication of the significance of an author, and  Russell Freedman has been and continues to be essential in  moving criticism and publication of nonfiction into the  fullest realm of appreciation and development. Freedman  claims the narrative power of nonfiction as capableof  "igniting the reader's imagination, evoking pictures and  scenes in the reader's mind."},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438058},
}