![]() Jean Fritz is credited for making history interesting. She was not shy about expressing her dislike for the fact that Robert Lawson named Paul Revere's horse Scheherazade "Sherry" for short in his supposedly historical novel But she eventually, after the book was published, found that the real name for Paul Revere's horse was "Brown Beauty." If she had known that when the book was published it is doubtful that picturing Revere's horse on the cover as a gray dapple would not have passed her critical eye.Īny information she included in a book was done so with verification from meticulous research. ![]() ![]() Revere and I (Little Brown, 1953).įritz had declined to name Revere's horse in her book And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? ( Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973). She is known for having solidified the notion that biographies for children should be accurate to a word. She was born in Wuhan (Hankow), China while her parents were working there. Jean Fritz was born on November 16, 1915, and thus, this year (2015) she is celebrating her 100th birthday. ![]()
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