![]() (“Thank you, clouds,” he writes in the media statement.) Sweet and sunny. The author even uses rainwater for the watercolor pictures. The whimsy would nicely complement a preschool or primary weather unit. She spies a frog in a former pond, now just a puddle of cracked mud, and has a helpful “brainstorm.” Lichtenheld’s depictions of Cloudette puffing herself up for a fulsome downpour will delight children, and funny turns of phrase (“Even the higher-ups were impressed”) will engage adults, too. No one seems to need a little cloud, but when she’s blown clear out of her neighborhood, she’s welcomed by new friends-an eagle, a bear and fluffy cumuli. ![]() “he thought nothing would be more fun than giving some kids a day off from school,” accompanies a snowscape with banks billowing up to the windows of the school and buses clearly going nowhere. Her imagination yields lots of wishes, depicted in ink-and-watercolor spot illustrations. But she’s wistful when other clouds do big things, like create cold fronts and water crops. Cloudette usually enjoys being small-she can cavort with birds and kites, and hide between skyscrapers. ![]() Lichtenheld takes a charming turn with the "tiny but mighty" theme. ![]()
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Complete The One and Only Ivan Book Series in Order The One and Only Ivan Book set The One And Only Ivan The One And Only Bob Ivan: The Remarkable True. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL112043W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.26 Pages 266 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0763651559 Despite having traveled the world, today he lives just a few blocks away, on. Urn:lcp:feed00ande:epub:28b73785-eb3a-4f9f-bcf2-6ed32a4dd152 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier feed00ande Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6155fp0q Isbn 0763617261 Lccn 2002023738 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Matthew Tobin Anderson Tobin to his friends was born in 1968 at Mount Auburn Hospital. Satie The Serpent Came to Gloucester and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. His picture books include Handel Who Knew What He Liked Strange Mr. Anderson lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ![]() Urn:lcp:feed00ande:lcpdf:a131ba8e-20e6-4242-afa1-15390151eb4b Anderson), (1968- ) is an author, primarily of picture books for children and novels for young adults. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:00:52 Boxid IA130716 Boxid_2 CH115301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Cambridge, MA Curatenote shipped DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition 1st ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006). 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