Book Description
With empathy, artistic skill, and a journalist’s unrelenting passion for truth, Laurie Lawlor has stripped away all the legends surrounding Daniel Boone to expose the fascinating real life and times of this famous frontiersman.
Awards and Recognition
Booklist Children’s Editors’ Choice, 1989
Reviews and Comments
“The results of meticulous research are fully evident in this powerfully drawn biography … Lawlor’s penetrating insight into Boone’s character makes for a stirring read.” (Booklist)
“This is as solidly researched and dynamic as children’s biography should be.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
written by Laurie Lawlor
illustrated by Bert Dodson
Albert Whitman, 1988
Please look for this book at
your favorite public library
or used bookseller.