Children of the Great Depression

Title: Children of the Great Depression

Author: Russell Freedman

Illustrator: Photographs taken by different photographers    

Date of publication: 2005 

Publishing Company: Clarion Books 

Awards: Orbis Pictus winner

Genre: Non-Fiction

Subgenre: Bibliography

Theme: A look at children’s lives during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Primary Characters: children of the Great Depression era

Secondary characters: n/a

Classroom Use: Informational book that can be used during a history lesson especially when learning about the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Summary: This book gives a look of what the children’s lives were like through the Great Depression. It lets you know about their lives, rough living conditions and their hardships through details and actual photos taken during the time of despair and poverty that struck America.