Mattern, Joanne

An introduction to BMX biking that provides information on the sport's equipment, techniques, rules, races, tricks, and competitions.

Chronicles the life and career of young actress Dakota Fanning, discussing her first roles on television, her major films, and her adjustment to fame.

Offers a brief introduction to the history, culture, and lifestyle of the Shawnee Indians.

This book introduces sheep on the farm, describing what farmers feed them, where they sleep, and what products we get from them.

This book introduces horses on the farm, describing what farmers feed them, where they sleep, how they help people, and what kinds of work they can do.

Uses illustrations of a football game and easy sentences with symbols to teach young students about arithmetic.

Presents a brief biography of the American artist Frederic Remington, a painter and scluptor, and includes information on his early life, military school, and how he turned to art.

Presents a brief biography of twentieth-century American Abstract Expressionist painter, Jackson Pollock, and describes his life and artwork that was designed by laying canvas on the floor and dripping paint right on it.

Examines the life and work of twentieth-century American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, discussing her childhood, schooling, career and marriage, and later years.

Presents a short biography of early twentieth-century African-American artist, Jacob Lawrence, describing his childhood and early introduction to art at the Utopia Children's House in Harlem along with reproductions of some of his works.