Red Tin Box

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Like modern-day Miss Rumphius, this luminous story brings the scope of a lifetime into focus for a child reader, and fills it with the magic of gifts given and received.On the morning of her eighth birthday,Maude buries a secretat the foot of a flowering dogwood-and inside it,a tiny toy elephant,a marble like a tiger's eye,a bird's nest with purple string woven through the twigs,and more.A special box.A gift, waiting for the right moment to be opened again.Matthew Burgess and Evan Turk offer readers a moving and radiant story of the relationship between a grandmother and granddaughter, and the joy and promise passed down between them. At once lyrical and profound, this book is a joyful celebration of intergenerational relationships, and of the secret treasure houses of childhood. Young readers will delight in the memories and magic tucked away in the red tin box.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-04-27
Mått254 x 244 x 13 mm
Vikt530 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor64
FörlagChronicle Books
IllustratörTurk, Evan
ISBN9781452179735

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Matthew Burgess is an assistant professor at Brooklyn College and a poet-in-residence in New York City schools through Teachers & Writers Collaborative. His award-winning first children's book, Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings, was a Junior Library Guild selection and an ALA Notable Children's Book. He is also the author of The Bear and the Moon. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.Evan Turk is an award-winning illustrator, author, and animator living in Riverside, California, with his husband, Chris, and two cats, Pica and Bert. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as on NPR. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, his illustration and animation have been shown all over the world, including at the Society of Illustrators, ArtsWestchester, Mystic Seaport Museum, and the Petit Palais. He grew up in Colorado and loves nature and being outdoors. He continues his studies with Dalvero Academy, a private illustration school in New York City. Evan loves to travel and learn about other people and places through drawing and the interactions that come from it.