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Hopkinson, Deborah

Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl

40 pp. | HarperCollins/B+B | January, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-237330-4 $17.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Qin Leng. Hopkinson's picture book biography has a narrow focus: Jane Austen's mostly uneventful life was spent observing others, and she combined this knowledge with her love of reading--and her father's gift of a mahogany writing box--to pursue an extraordinary writing career. Accompanying Hopkinson's pithy text are Leng's loose, delicate, ink and watercolor illustrations, which fittingly accentuate Jane's youthfulness and the playfulness of her writing. Timeline, websites. Bib.
Reviewer: Cynthia K. Ritter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2018

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