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"Verde's unique style and simple yet increasingly important
messages of peace, mindfulness, and community make her stories a
must-share...A must-purchase." --School Library Journal (starred
review) "Walls do not just create barriers and divide spaces. They
can be canvases for artmaking; opportunities to shape a community."
--The Horn Book "This story of urban renewal sends a welcome double
message by Verde: neighbors and neighborhoods are more than the way
they look, and ordinary people can band together to transform big
things." --Publishers Weekly A boy takes on a community art project
in order to make his neighborhood more beautiful in this empowering
and inspiring picture book by Susan Verde, stunningly illustrated
by award-winning artist John Parra. One creative boy. One bare,
abandoned wall. One BIG idea. There is a wall in Angel's
neighborhood. Around it, the community bustles with life: music,
dancing, laughing. Not the wall. It is bleak. One boy decides to
change that. But he can't do it alone. Told in elegant verse by
Susan Verde and vibrantly illustrated by John Parra, this inspiring
picture book celebrates the power of art to tell a story and bring
a community together.
In this lively picture book that Booklist described as "a cheerful
color-concept book that presents a slice of Latino culture through
food and fun," children discover a world of colors all around them:
red is spices and swirling skirts, yellow is masa, tortillas, and
sweet corn cake. Many of the featured objects are Latino in origin,
and all are universal in appeal. With rich, boisterous
illustrations, fun-to-read rhyming text, and an informative
glossary, this playful concept book will reinforce the colors found
in every child's day!
In New Orleans, there lived a man who saw the streets as his
calling, and he swept them clean. He danced up one avenue and down
another and everyone danced along. The old ladies whistled and
whirled. The old men hooted and hollered. The barbers, bead
twirlers, and beignet bakers bounded behind that one-man parade.
But then came the rising Mississippi-and a storm greater than
anyone had seen before. In this heartwarming book about a real
garbage man, Phil Bildner and John Parra tell the inspiring story
of a humble man and the heroic difference he made in the aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina.
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Round Is a Tortilla (Hardcover)
Roseanne Greenfield-Thong; Illustrated by John Parra
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R475
R399
Discovery Miles 3 990
Save R76 (16%)
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In this lively picture book, children discover a world of shapes
all around them: rectangles are ice-cream carts and stone metates ,
triangles are slices of watermelon and quesadillas . Many of the
featured objects are Latino in origin, and all are universal in
appeal. With rich, boisterous illustrations, a fun-to-read rhyming
text, and an informative glossary, this playful concept book will
reinforce the shapes found in every child's day!
In this lively picture book, children discover shapes all around
them: rectangles are ice-cream carts and stone metates, while
triangles are slices of watermelon and quesadillas. Many of the
featured objects are Latino in origin, and all are universal in
appeal. With rich illustrations, a fun-to-read rhyming text, and an
informative glossary, this playful concept book will reinforce the
shapes found in every child's day!
Based on first-hand experience battling forest fires in Italy, John
Parras's debut novel, Fire on Mount Maggiore, tells the story of
Matteo Arteli, a firefighter harrowed by survivor's guilt after a
fierce blaze kills five men in his brigade, leaving him an unlikely
phoenix emerging from the ashes. Amid rumors of flawed firefighting
operations, mismanagement of state lands, underworld involvement,
and serial arson, Matteo probes suspicions swirling around the
circumstances of the deaths and finds himself at the center of an
intricate conspiracy. Fire on Mount Maggiore is written in a fluid
voice that illuminates the beauty as well as the destructiveness
that is fire; it describes both the thrill and the psychological
toll of chasing burns across mountain landscapes. Displaying craft
and originality, this is fiction that signals the emergence of an
outstanding talent.The book was awarded the 2004 Peter Taylor Prize
for the Novel, named for one of the South's most celebrated
writers. The annual prize, co-sponsored by the Knoxville Writers'
Guild and the University of Tennessee Press, endeavors to bring to
light novels of high literary quality, thereby honoring Peter
Taylor's own practice of assisting writers who care about the craft
of fiction.
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