In this welcome reissue, celebrated author and illustrator Diane
Stanley and her husband, Peter Vennema, paint an impressive portrait of
the remarkable queen who loved her people so dearly and ruled them so
well. Elizabeth's forceful personality, colorful court, and devoted
subjects come vividly to life in this stellar picture-book biography.
When it was first published, Good Queen Bess was named a Notable Book
in the Field of Social Studies, an American Library Association Notable
Book, a Booklist Editors' Choice, an American Bookseller Pick of the
Lists, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and an IRA Teachers'
Choice.