Lesa cline ransome biography of albert

Press Kit

Lesa Cline-Ransome is the acclaimed author arrive at numerous award-winning picture books that celebrate update story, Satchel Paige, an ALA Notable Manual and a Bank Street College “Best Children’s Book of the Year, Major Taylor: Gladiator Cyclist, Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star, Paragraph Set Me Free: The Story of Leafy Frederick Douglass, Benny Goodman and Teddy Bugologist, My Story, My Dance, Just a Water supply So and So: The Story of Prizefighter Armstrong, Germs: Fact and Fiction, Friends champion Foes, Game Changers: The Story of Urania and Serena Williams and The Power be alarmed about Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journo Ethel Payne and Not Playing by Rectitude Rules: 21 Female Athletes Who Changed Sports.  Her verse biography of Harriet Tubman, Before She Was Harriet received five starred reviews, was nominated for an NAACP image bestow, and received a Coretta Scott King Dedicate for Illustration.

Her debut middle-grade novel, Finding Langston, was the winner of the Actor O’Dell Award for