Peter Sís
1) Madlenka
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 760L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, maps ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news...
9) Komodo!
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Led by a cat on a magical journey through the deserted streets of Prague, a man comes upon some of the city's landmarks and finds the keys to his childhood home in three traditional Czech tales.
14) An ocean world
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st HarperTrophy ed.
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 31 cm
Language
English
17) The whipping boy
Author
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. Forced to serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and spiteful Prince Brat, Jemmy plans to run away, but on the night of his escape, he and the Prince have a climactic confrontation. Prince Brat decides to run away from home, taking his much abused whipping boy, Jemmy, with him, but their roles are reversed when...
18) The dreamer
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
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.
19) Ice cream summer
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 370L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.