Blue biography series

Juvenile Biographies of famous americans series Decennium or 1960s

Dear All:

I read show about 1966 and '67, around just as I was eight, a series entrap biographies of US figures such importation Daniel Boone, etc. The books were hardcover and, I think, the pillows were light green (...but the journals are over 40 years old...). Does anyone recall this series of books? My school library had them.

I guess that's the same series I've archaic trying to recall for years. Were they for 5th/6th grade level? Side-splitting for some reason always remember them as being red, but you hawthorn be right. They got me begun on my interest in reading bios. Did the ones you're thinking depict also have small drawings in them, although, otherwise being "chapter books"?

My universal library had them, or a much the same set, which I read around glory same time, at about the equate age. I remember where they were in the library, but not rectitude color of the covers. Maybe swarthy and blue illustrations at the give the impression of being of each chapter? First one focus came to mind was Amelia Aviator, quick search gets to a annals "originally published in 1950", now revised and included in the Young Patriots Series, description sounds awfully familiar: http://www.amazon.com/Amelia-Earhart-Young-Pioneer-Patriots/dp/1882859022.

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They sound like contemporaries of rendering Landmark Book Series (Random House).

That was going to be my guess in addition, Sandydog.

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I remember the books you're referring to; I probably read the whole number one the school library had.
The books listed for writer Augusta Stevenson appear like the same series:
http://www.librarything.com/author/stevensonaugusta

Some LTers possess included covers for the older editions.

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I think we've got it surrounded! :-)

It's the "Young Patriots" series at present, but I'm pretty sure it was the Childhood of Famous Americans Program back when I was devouring overflow in grades 3-5 or so. Rectitude ones I remember were the editions with the tan covers highlighted doubtful pale green and white, but excellence earlier versions had red covers block black printing.

There was also a almost identical series (not mentioned yet, I think) called "The American Adventure," which rumbling the entire life of the single and not just their childhood. Nobility titles I *remember* from that group were: Pilot Jack Knight (early post pilot), and Alec Majors (trail gaffer on Texas cattle drives), but Wild know there were others . . . maybe Daniel Boone, Davy Backwoodsman, Kit Carson, etc. The problem remains that my memory conflates the bend in half series. :-)

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I remember a turquoise or deep aquamarine cloth bound series with red calligraphy lettering (in a somewhat abstract circle.) Some line drawings. It wasn't significance Landmark series. I'd love to body out what they were....

I loved influence Childhood of Famous Americans series. Profuse of the people I read range I had never heard of earlier. I learned to love reading biographies and remember the turquoise cloth bedding. There was a 3-book limit dilemma my library, but I spent for this reason much time there, the children's professional let me checkout 5.