Peter Sís
2) Fire truck
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
9) Dinosaur!
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While taking a bath, a young boy is joined by all sorts of dinosaurs.
12) Follow the dream
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
In a pictorial retelling, Christopher Columbus overcomes a number of obstacles to fulfill his dream of sailing west to find a new route to the Orient.
13) Rainbow Rhino
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Rhino's good friends, the rainbow birds, leave him for better places to live, but they soon discover that beautiful places can have secret dangers.
16) An ocean world
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
A whale sails new seas and, after several unsuccessful attempts, makes a friend.
17) The whipping boy
Author
Language
English
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Description
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
19) The dreamer
Author
Language
English
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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.
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