Mike Venezia
Mike Venezia is a children's book author and illustrator born in New York City, who spent his early years moving between New York and Chicago due to his family's ties in both cities. He began his writing career in 1978, creating and illustrating books for Childrens Press (Grolier/Scholastic), and is known for his engaging biographies of famous figures in the 'Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists' and similar series. He continues to produce educational literature for young readers.
New York City, USA
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Children's Nonfiction
Biography
Art
Johann Sebastian Bach (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
Jimmy Carter: Thirty-Ninth President 1977-1981 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Horace Pippin
The Wright Brothers: Inventors Whose Ideas Really Took Flight
Diego Rivera
William Howard Taft: Twenty-Seventh President 1909-1913 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Ronald Reagan: Fortieth President 1981-1989
Thomas Alva Edison: Inventor with a Lot of Bright Ideas
Marie Curie: Scientist Who Made Glowing Discoveries
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Thirty-Fourth President 1953-1961 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Calvin Coolidge: Thirtieth President 1923-1929 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Georgia O'Keefe
James A. Garfield (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Rutherford B. Hayes: Nineteenth President 1877-1881 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Rachel Carson: Clearing the Way for Environmental Protection
Lyndon B. Johnson: Thirty-Sixth President 1963-1969 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak: Geek Heroes Who Put the Personal in Computers
Gerald R. Ford: Thirty-Eighth President 1974-1977
Benjamin Harrison (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
William McKinley: Twenty-Fifth President 1897-1901 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Grover Cleveland: Twenty-Second and Twenty-Fourth President, 1885-1889, 1893-1897 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
Stephen Hawking: Cosmologist Who Gets a Big Bang Out of the Universe
Charles Drew: Doctor Who Got the World Pumped Up to Donate Blood
Herbert Hoover: Thirty-First President 1929-1933 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)