Sierra

Informationen zum Autor Diane Siebert is the author of Mojave, a 1988 Booklist Children’s Editors’ Choice, a 1988 Notable Children’s Trade Book in Social Studies, and a 1989 Teachers Choice, and Heartland , a 1989 Booklist Children’s Editors’ Choice, a 1989 Notable Children’s Trade Book in Social Studies, and a 1990 Notable Children’s Book in the Language Arts. Ms. Siebert lives at Crooked River Ranch, Oregon. Wendell Minor is nationally known for the artwork he has created for over sixty award-winning children’s books. His many collaborators include Jean Craighead George, Robert Burleigh, Buzz Aldrin, Tony Johnston, Nikki Grimes, Mary Higgins Clark, and, last but not least, his wife, Florence. He is also the author and illustrator of My Farm Friends. Klappentext "In this celebration of the American landscape, Siebert's measured verses convey the majesty of the mountain personified, Sierra herself. Minor's stunning acrylic paintings evoke the breathtaking beauty of his subject. There is a siren's-song quality to this lovely book [and] readers might well feel how tragically possible it is for us to love our wilderness to death." -- SLJ. 1992 Teachers' Choices (IRA) Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1991 (NSTA/CBC) John and Patricia Beatty Award (California Library Association) Zusammenfassung "In this celebration of the American landscape, Siebert's measured verses convey the majesty of the mountain personified, Sierra herself. Minor's stunning acrylic paintings evoke the breathtaking beauty of his subject. There is a siren's-song quality to this lovely book [and] readers might well feel how tragically possible it is for us to love our wilderness to death." -- SLJ. 1992 Teachers' Choices (IRA) Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1991 (NSTA/CBC) John and Patricia Beatty Award (California Library Association)...

Product details

• Authors: Diane Siebert
• Assisted by: Wendell Minor (Illustration)
• Publisher: Trophy Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.1996
• EAN: 9780064434416
• ISBN: 978-0-06-443441-6
• Dimensions: 285 mm x 228 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Trophy Picture Books (Paperbac
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Poetry, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Plants and trees, Children’s / Teenage: Poetry, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, POETRY: American / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Poetry / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Science & Nature / Trees & Forests, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: History / United States / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Science & Nature / Zoology, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Places / United States