Leonard S. Marcus
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sharing candid interviews with 13 top children's and young adult authors who discuss why their books have faced censorship, a historian and critic puts First Amendment challenges into historical context and examines the support network that protects and defends young people's rights.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles six Caldecott award winning books and their authors, including Robert McCloskey's "Make Way for Ducklings," Marcia Brown's "Cinderella," Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," William Steig's "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble," Chris Van Allsburg's "Jumanji," and David Wiesner's "Tuesday."
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Paul Galdone created hundreds of books in his lifetime. Many of his picture books quickly became accepted as the definitive version of traditional stories. Collected here are four of his most popular picture books: The Three Pigs, The Three Bears, The Little Red Hen, and Cat Goes Fiddle-i-fee. Parents who grew up with these whimsical retellings will enjoy revisiting them and sharing them with the family, bringing Galdone's timeless artistry and bright,...
7) 75 years of Children's Book Week posters: celebrating great American children's book illustrators
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This second volume gathers the final four Kairos novels, in which Meg and Calvin's daughter Polly takes center stage. In The Arm of the Starfish, Polly disappears, and Calvin's research assistant is implicated in her kidnapping. In Dragons in the Waters, Polly and her brother Charles are on a steamer bound for Venezuela when they help solve a murder connected to a stolen portrait of Simon Bolivar. Polly receives an education in different kinds of...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This first volume gathers Wrinkle with three books that chronicle the continuing adventures of Meg and her siblings. In A Wind in the Door, Meg and Calvin descend into the microverse to save Charles Wallace from the Echthroi, evil beings who are trying to unname existence. When a madman threatens nuclear war in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace must save the future by traveling into the past. And in Many Waters, Sandy and Dennys, Meg's twin...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Presents an annotated edition of Norton Juster's story about ten-year-old Milo, who is the owner of a magic tollbooth, and his experiences in the "Lands Beyond," and includes interviews with the author and illustrator, excerpts from Juster's notes and drafts, commentary, and more