New Kids' Books Tell Stories of Women

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Byline: Nicholas Basbanes For The Register-Guard

March is a month to celebrate women's history and the arrival of spring, a welcome event that makes us think of the outdoors around us, with a little time left over to enjoy a chuckle or two.

Eleanor, Quiet No More: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt

By Doreen Rappaport; illustrations by Gary Kelley

(Hyperion, 48 pages, $16.99); age 6 to 12

Caldecott Honor author Doreen Rappaport takes on another larger-than-life figure - her previous subjects have included Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln - with a penetrating profile of Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) that pays close attention to the …