Peter Sis
6) Fire truck
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Matt, who loves fire trucks, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a fire truck, with one driver, two ladders, three hoses, and ten boots. Features a gate-fold illustration that opens into a three-page spread.
8) Dinosaur!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
While taking a bath, a young boy is joined by all sorts of dinosaurs.
9) Madlenka
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.
10) The dreamer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and Caldecott Honoree Peter Sís: a transcendent picture book featuring the poem that will travel into space aboard NASA's Europa Clipper. As part of her tenure as US poet laureate, Ada Limón has written 'In Praise of Mystery,' which will be engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft that launches to Jupiter and its moons in October 2024. Published here as Limón's debut picture book, this luminous poem is illustrated...