James Rumford
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
$19.99 Add to cartA 2005 Sibert Honor Book
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea–to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of rea- Author: Rumford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0618369473
- Language: English
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Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1802, Jean-Francois Champollion was eleven years old. That year, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt’s ancient hieroglyphs. Champollion’s dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncove
- Series: Rise and Shine
- Author: Rumford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0618333452
- Language: English
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Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354
$9.99 Add to cartJames Rumford, himself a world traveler, has retold Ibn Battuta’s story in words and pictures, adding the element of ancient Arab maps–maps as colorful and evocative as a Persian miniature, as intric
- Author: Rumford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0618432337
- Language: English
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Rain School
$19.99 Add to cartIt is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road.
“Will they give us a notebook?” Thomas asks. “Will they give us a pencil? Will I learn to read?”
But when he and the other
- Author: Rumford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 25, 2010
- ISBN10: 0547243073
- Language: English
