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Frederick Banting: Hero, Healer, Artist)
Author(s): Stephen Eaton Hume (Author)
- Publisher: XYZ Publishing
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2000
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 178 pages
- ISBN-10: 0968816630
- ISBN-13: 9780968816639
Book Description
Frederick Banting was a surgeon and a decorated war hero when he had the idea to develop insulin in 1920, This achievement earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world.
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About the Author
Stephen Eaton Hume teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. He has published three picture books: Midnight on the Farm, Rainbow Bay, and Red Moon Follows Truck. His children’s novel A Miracle for Maggie, available from Dundurn, was nominated for the Canadian Library Association’s Children’s Book of the Year. He has also published the biography Frederick Banting: Hero, Healer, Artist for young people.
