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A Toni Morrison Treasury

A Toni Morrison Treasury

The Big Box; the Ant or the Grasshopper?; the Lion or the Mouse?; Poppy or the Snake?; Peeny Butter Fudge; the Tortoise or the Hare; Little Cloud and Lady Wind; Please, Louise

by Toni MorrisonSlade Morrison Joe Cepeda and others
Hardback
Publication Date: 02/08/2023

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Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Toni Morrison's eight children's books, cowritten with her son, are collected in one hardcover volume for the first time in this beautiful keepsake treasury with a foreword by Oprah Winfrey!

The three Who's Got Game books slyly and exuberantly retell some of Aesop's fables. Three of the stories feature illustrations by Pascal Lemaitre: The Ant or the Grasshopper? examines friendship, betrayal, and survival while The Lion or the Mouse? takes a hilarious, subversive look at bullying and ego, big and small, and The Poppy or the Snake? shows how an accidental injury spirals into a battle of wills.

In The Tortoise or the Hare?, illustrated by Joe Cepeda, slow and steady wins the race...or does it?

Peeny Butter Fudge, also illustrated by Joe Cepeda, celebrates the relationship between three kids and their Nana. Nana can take an ordinary afternoon and make it extra special! Nap time, story time, and playtime are transformed by fairies, dragons, dancing, and pretending--and then mixing and fixing yummy, yummy fudge just like Nana and Mommy did not so many years ago. A lot can happen when Nana is left in charge!

Little Cloud and Lady Wind features artwork by Sean Qualls and follows Little Cloud, who likes her own place in the sky. Away from the other clouds, the sky is all hers. Can Lady Wind show Little Cloud the power of being with others?

Shadra Strickland's charming illustrations illuminate Please, Louise. One gray afternoon, Louise makes a trip to the library. With the help of a new library card and through the transformative power of books, what started out as a dull day turns into one of surprises, ideas, and curiosity! This engaging picture book celebrates the wonders of reading, the enchanting capacity of the imagination, and, of course, the splendor of libraries.

Toni Morrison's first book for children, The Big Box, illustrated by Giselle Potter, introduces three feisty children who show grown-ups what it really means to be a kid.

ISBN:
9781665915540
9781665915540
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
02-08-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
254x226.06x25.4mm
Weight:
1.42kg
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison passed away in August 2019, aged 88.

Joe Cepeda

Joe Cepeda was born and raised in East Los Angeles. Joe’s journey through college began with studying engineering at Cornell and finished with a BFA in Illustration from Long Beach State. Months from leaving school, Joe went to New York and secured a book contract after his first meeting with a publisher. He’s now the award-winning illustrator of more than thirty books for children.

Giselle Potter

Giselle Potter and her sister, Chloe, traveled a lot with their parents' puppet theater. They often had just each other for companionship and therefore became very close. So Potter feels so lucky to have two daughters who are also very close. Watching their relationship, she is reminded of the unique, unmatchable bond of sisters. Potter has illustrated more than thirty children's books, and many of the books she both wrote and illustrated are either about or inspired by sisters.

Sean Qualls

Sean Qualls is an award winning, Brooklyn-based children's book illustrator, artist, and author. He has illustrated a number of celebrated books for children, including, Giant Steps to Change the World by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis-Lee, Little Cloud and Lady Wind by Toni and Slade Morrison, and Before Jon was a Jazz Giant, for which he received a Coretta Scott King Illustration Honour.

His work has received two Blue Ribbon citations from the Bulletin of the Centre for Children's Books, where he was also cited for his "serious craftsmanship" and "original stlye". He lives in Brooklyn (where you can find him DJing on occasion) with his wife, illustrator/author Selina Alko and their two children, Ginger and Isaiah.

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