Annal:1987 Golden Kite Nonfiction Award
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Results of the Golden Kite Nonfiction Award in the year 1987. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Golden Kite Nonfiction Award
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark
- 1987 Golden Kite-nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.37
A lively, gritty account of Lewis and Clark’s incredible journey west across uncharted North America — a two-and-a-half year odyssey filled with danger, disappointment, and discovery.
Lincoln: A Photobiography
- 1988 Newbery winner
- 1987 Golden Kite-nonfiction honor
- Score: 16.38
Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. Here is a warm, appealing biography of our Civil War president, illustrated with dozens of carefully chosen photographs and prints.
Russell Freedman begins with a lively account of Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood, his career as a country lawyer, and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd. Then the author focuses on the presidential years (1861 to 1865), skillfully explaining the many complex issues Lincoln grappled with as he led a deeply divided nation through the Civil War. The book’s final chapter is a moving account of that tragic evening in Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865.
Lincoln: A Photobiography concludes with a sampling of Lincoln writings and a detailed list of Lincoln historical sites. Russell Freedman visited all the major Lincoln historical sites while researching this book. At the Illinois State Historical Library, he was taken into a vault containing many Civil War and Lincoln documents. It was a thrill to see one of Lincoln’s handwritten letters to his wife and notes…
