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Angelica Shirley Carpenter

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St. Louis, Missouri, The United States

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Angelica Shirley Carpenter writes biographies for young people and older readers, too. Her subjects are authors— Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Angelica speaks for teachers, librarians, writers, book clubs, students, bookstore groups, and other audiences. Her photographs appear in her books and in her illustrated talks.
Angelica lives with her husband in Fresno, California. A self-proclaimed Oz nut, she is a past president of the International Wizard of Oz Club. In her former life she was a librarian, the founding curator of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University, Fresno. She likes to read, travel, shop, cook, watc ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 299 ratings · 76 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist 4.14 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden by Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Jean Shirley 3.72 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L. Frank Baum: Royal Historian of Oz by Jean Shirley, Angelica Shirley Carpenter 3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Gardens of Frances Hodgson Burnett by Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Helena Pérez García (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass 3.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arm in Arm: The Grimké Sisters' Fight for Abolition and Women's Rights 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voice of Liberty by Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Edwin Fotheringham (Illustrations) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Garden: Essays in Honor of Frances Hodgson Burnett 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robert Louis Stevenson: Finding Treasure Island (Lerner Biographies Series) by Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Jean Shirley 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maid of Arran by L. Frank Baum, Marcus D. Mébes (Editor), Robert A. Baum (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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