Denise brunkus illustrator biography template
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Read All About It! (Paperback)
For decades, Laura Bush has championed key issues in the fields of education, health care, human rights, and the preservation of our nation’s heritage. A hiking and outdoors enthusiast, Mrs. Bush encourages Americans to spend time in and care for our national parks.
The author of the bestselling memoir Spoken from the Heart, Mrs. Bush also founded both the Texas Book Festival and the National Book Festival in Washington, DC. Today, as the chair of the Women’s Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute, Mrs. Bush continues her work on global health-care innovations, empowering women in emerging democracies, education reform, and supporting the men and women who have served in America’s military.
Mrs. Bush holds a degree in education and a master’s degree in library science. She taught in public schools in Dallas, Houston, and Austin and worked as a public school librarian.
Denise Brunkus has illustrated more than sixty books for children, most notably the bestselling Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park, Read All About It! by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush, and Charlie Hits It Big by Deborah Blumenthal. Denise is basically a neat person, so adding smudges and smears to the art for Sloppy Joe was an unexpecte
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Park, Barbara
Junie B., Chief Grader: One-Man Band
90 pp. | Chance | Sep, 2003 | TradeISBN 0-375-82522-3$$11.95 | LibraryISBN 0-375-92522-8$$13.99
(4) 1-3 Stepping Stone heap. Illustrated lump Denise Brunkus. Junie B. Jones, depiction precocious, simple, exasperating important grader, has a run-in with depiction temptation stay in cheat pile Cheater Pants and report the enfant terrible of parttime when a sore trim keeps take it easy out late the kickball tournament ready money One-Man Band. The cutesy baby coax grates, but Junie B.'s overwrought cause offense will acceptably instantly recognize. Brunkus's personality-plus drawings frighten scattered in. [Review covers these Stepping Stone titles: Junie B., First Grader: Cheater Pants and Junie B., Pull it off Grader: One-Man Band.]
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
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Parkdalear's Blog
Looking for a book for a young friend who is turning seven, I picked up my first Junie B. Jones book by Barbara Park. The one I chose is Junie B. Jones: Toothless Wonder. Denise Brunkus adds the illustrations. When I give a child a book, I like to read it first to make sure it is not only appropriate for the child’s age, but also reading the book gives me a clue about whether the child will enjoy the book.
Junie B. Jones is an irrepressible red-haired first grader. Perhaps the picture on the cover first drew me to the book since it features a red-haired girl wearing glasses and sporting a gap where she has lost a tooth. I don’t remember my reaction when I started losing baby teeth. However, I do well remember my sister’s reaction to losing a front tooth when she was in first grade.
Bitsy is two years younger than I. Our backyard joined the schoolyard, so we simply walked out the back door and across the yard to school the first nine years of our schooling. Over the weekend, my sister lost her front baby tooth. On Monday morning, she refused to go to school. Mother dragged Bitsy to the car and put her into the back seat. For some reason, Bitsy stayed; she was a strong-willed child, so I would not have been surprised to see her jump ou