The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy), (Hardcover)

from LisaMcG

A great picture book not so much as a biography of Mark Twain, but as encouragement to children to write and keep a journal. I did enjoy Twain's complaint about how often "mentally dead people brought their corpses with them for a long visit." Also a humorous and warm depiction of a positive fath...

from Remy_Ferrell

The Extraordinary Mark Twain is a biography picture book that uses Twain's daughter's autobiography of him as its basis. I really enjoyed the book because I got to learn a lot more about Mark Twain and even more thanks to the footnotes by the author at the end of the book. The book also contained...

from AbigailAdams26

I've had this picture-book biography of Mark Twain - really, it's about Twain and his daughter Susy - on my "to-be-read" shelf for some time now, but my recent viewing of a PBS documentary on the great man (I think it was the Ken Burns film, but I can't remember...), which discussed his relations...

from eputney87

Summary- Mark Twain lived an extraordinary life but most people did not know what his everyday living looked like. They only knew his professional side so his daughter, Susy, decides to write a biography about her dad so the whole world can learn about his extraordinary true sides. Strength- On e...

from jenniferm14

Barbara Kerley flows between realistic fiction and biography in this book about Mark Twain. The author uses the biography Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, wrote on her father and elaborates on how Susy wrote the biography. This book relies more on biography and is appropriate for intermediate readers.