Elizabeth MacLeod is a

Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

author. Her biographies are written for elementary students.

Bibliography

Biographies

Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian Americans, Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He als ...

: ''An Inventive Life'', Kids Can Press (

Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

, Ontario, Canada), 1999. **Review, ''School Library Journal'', 1999 **Review, ''Booklist'', 1999 *

Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with '' Anne of Green Gables''. Sh ...

: ''A Writer's Life'', Kids Can Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2001. * The Wright Brothers: ''A Flying Start'', Kids Can Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2002. **Review, ''School Library Journal'', 2002 **Review, ''Booklist'', 2002 *

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence f ...

: ''A Life of Genius'', Kids Can Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2003. *

Helen Keller Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when ...

: ''A Determined Life'', Kids Can Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2004. **Review, ''School Library Journal'', 2004 **Review, ''Booklist'', 2004 *

Marie Curie Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (; ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( ; ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was List of female ...

: ''A Brilliant Life'', Kids Can Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2004. **Review, ''Booklist'', 2004 *

Harry Houdini Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known professionally as Harry Houdini ( ), was a Hungarian-American escapologist, illusionist, and stunt performer noted for his escape acts. Houdini first attracted notice in vaudeville in ...

: ''A Magical Life'', Kids Can Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2005.

Other works

*MacLeod, Elizabeth, and June Bradford. ''Bake and Make Amazing Cakes.'' Kids can do it. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2001. ISBNin 567 WorldCat libraries
/ref> **Review, ''School Library Journal'', 2001. *MacLeod, Elizabeth and Frieda Wishinsky. Illustrated by Qin Leng. ''A History of Just About Everything: 180 Events, People and Inventions That Changed the World'' Toronto:Kids Can Press (2013), finalist for

Norma Fleck Award The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction is a lucrative literary award founded in May 1999 by the Fleck Family Foundation and the Canadian Children's Book Centre, and presented to the year's best non-fiction book for a youth audien ...

*MacLeod, Elizabeth, illustrated by

Sydney Smith Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric. Besides his energetic parochial work, he was known for his writing and philosophy, founding the ''Edinburgh Review'', lecturing at the Royal Inst ...

''Canada Year by Year'' Toronto: Kids Can Press (2016). received the Norma Fleck Award

References

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