Kyo Maclear
1) Hello, rain!
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A young girl experiences a rain storm from seeing the storm roll in, to splashing in the puddles, and then finally watching the sun coming back out.
2) Spork
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A humorous "multi-cutlery" tale about how Spork — half spoon, half fork — finally finds his place at the table. A charming story for anyone who has ever wondered about their place in the world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
By the 1930s Elsa Schiaparelli had captivated the fashion world in Paris, but before that, she was a little girl in Rome who didn t feel pretty at all. Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli is the enchanting story for young readers of how a young girl used her imagination and emerged from plain to extraordinary.
6) Story boat
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a sister and brother are forced along with their family to flee their home, they learn to make a new home for themselves--wherever they are.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Vanessa's sister, Virginia, is in a "wolfish" mood -- growling, howling and acting very strange. Vanessa tries everything she can think of to cheer her up, but nothing seems to work. Loosely based on the relationship between author Virginia Woolf and her sister, painter Vanessa Bell.
8) Operatic
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"About to graduate from middle school, Charlie is preoccupied with a crush, Emile, and the absence of Luka, a boy in her class, who has not come to school in days. In Mr. P's music class, she hears the songs of opera singer Maria Callas and falls in love with opera. Maria's story helps Charlie navigate her own world."--
10) The wish tree
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In winter Charles and his trusty toboggan set out to find the wish tree, and along the way he helps to make the wishes of his friends Squirrel, Fox, and Beaver come true.
11) Flo
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While the other pandas try to rush her from one activity to another, Flo enjoys relaxing, stopping to smell the roses, and really seeing the world around her.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life--a field guide to things small and significant. When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn't seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and harbors, along eaves and on wires. In a world that values big and fast, Maclear looks to the small, the steady,...
13) The fog
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When the fog arrives on his island, a bird with a passion for people watching sets out to discover if anyone else has noticed it taking over the island.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Three months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? Unearthing is a...story...
15) Julia, child
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A fictional story about Julia Child as young girl in which she and her best friend Simca have many cooking adventures.
16) Yak and Dove
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After listing all their differences, best friends Yak and Dove decide that maybe they aren't meant to be friends, but soon learn that their differences are not that important.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"While banished to a dusty study one day "to think things over", a boy pulls a book off a shelf and with great reluctance begins to read. As the afternoon passes, the story nabs him and carries him away. Before long, this good little book becomes his loyal companion, accompanying him everywhere ... until, one day, the book is lost. Will this bad little boy get back his good little book? Will the good little book survive on its own without a proper...
18) Mr. Flux
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A tongue-in-cheek tale loosely inspired by the 1960s Fluxus art movement finds Martin and his neighbors confronting their fears about change when an eccentric newcomer demonstrates how change can be big or little or even small enough to fit in a not-so-scary box.
19) The Liszts
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Liszts make lists. They make lists most usual and lists most unusual. They make lists in winter, spring, summer and fall. They make lists every day except Sundays, which are listless. Mama Liszt, Papa Liszt, Winifred, Edward, Frederick and Grandpa make lists all day long. So does their cat. Then one day a visitor arrives. He's not on anyone's list. Will the Liszts be able to make room on their lists for this new visitor? How will they handle...
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