Big Machines: The Story of Virginia Lee Burton
by Sherri Duskey Rinker and John Rocco
This picture book biography of the writer/illustrator of Mike Mulligan and His... read more
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- Grade
- PK-2
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2017
Word Count 814
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 640L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 500810
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Authorship
- 20th century
- Children's stories--Authorship--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Women illustrators
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Illustration of books--Juvenile literature
- Burton, Virginia Lee
- Authors, American
- Illustrators--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Illustration of books
- Biographies
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Illustrators
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Literary
- Children's stories
- Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968--Juvenile literature
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