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Bruce Goldstone

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ4977561 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bruce Goldstone is an American children’s book author and illustrator.

Goldstone grew up in Ohio. In addition to his children’s book work, he also writes textbooks and is a graphic designer for a theater company.

His New York Times-bestselling book Great Estimations and its sequel, Greater Estimations, teach children the skill of visually estimating large quantities.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 56-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bruce, Goldstone and writer can be independently traced.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4977561. VIAF identifies the subject as 22366245. The Library of Congress control number is n97026353. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bruce Goldstone” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.