Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 6.4
Lexile Measure®: 970L
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: R
Genre
- Biography
- General Poetry
Theme/Subject
- Achievement and Success
- Social Studies
- Civil War Period and Reconstruction
- American Civil War
- Cleverness
- Writing
- Communities and Ways of Life
- Creativity and Imagination
- Kindness and Compassion
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About This Book
Serving as a nurse in Civil War-era Washington, Walt Whitman treated all soldiers who needed his aid-Union and Confederate, black and white. In time, Walt saw that his writing could give these men a voice and capture the true spirit of America. The brilliantly inventive paintings add vibrant testimonial to the nuanced text.-SLJAbout the Authors or Illustrators
Barbara Kerley is the author of Walt Whitman: Words for America, The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins and Greetings from Planet Earth
Brian Selznick is the illustrator of the Caldecott Honor winner, The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, and the New York Times-Best Illustrated Walt Whitman: Words for America, both by Barbara Kerley, as well as the Sibert Honor winner When Marian Sang, by Pam Muñoz Ryan. In 2008 he won the Caldecott Medal for the groundbreaking title, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
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