The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy)

top Susy Clemens thought the world was wrong about her papa. They saw Mark Twain as ”a humorist joking at everything.” But he was so much more, and Susy was determined to set the record straight. In a journal she kept under her pillow, Susy documented her world-famous father-from his habits (good and bad!) to his writing routine to their family’s colorful home life. Her frank, funny, tender biography (which came to be one of Twain’s most prized possessions) gives rare insight and an unforgettable perspective on an American icon. Inserts with excerpts from Susy’s actual journal give added appeal. PRAISE AND HONORS FOR WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALICE?: * ”Kerley’s text gallops along with a vitality to match her subject’s antics...” --School Library Journal, starred review * ”Irrespressible Alice Roosevelt gets a treatment every bit as attractive and exuberant as she was.” -- Booklist, starred review - Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book - Parents’ Choice 2008 Approved Award Winner - Kirkus Reviews ”Best of Children’s Books 2009” -Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year作者簡介 Barbara Kerley’s award-winning picture books include What To Do About Alice?; The Dinosaur of Waterhouse Hawkins, a Caldecott Honor and ALA Notable Book; and Walt Whitman: Words for America, a Sibert Honor Book. She lives in McKinleyville, California. Edwin Fotherinham made his picture book debut with the multi-award-winning What to Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley. The illustrations in his second book, Mermaid Queen by Shana Corey, were hailed by School Library Journal in a starred review as ”glorious”. he lives in Seattle, Washington.