Summary
Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, grandmother, and mother. Full description
Summary: |
Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, grandmother, and mother. |
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Item Description: |
Art techniques used: Gouache painting with complementary rainbow bright hand painted text. |
Physical Description: |
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
Awards: |
Caldecott Honor Book, 1991. |
ISBN: |
0688091733 9780688091736 0688091741 9780688091743 0688156347 9780688156343 0688147364 9780688147365 |
Author Notes: |
She worked as a teacher and artist before becoming a writer and illustrator of children's books. She won a Caldecott Medal award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book award in the picture book category in 1983 for A Chair for My Mother, a Caldecott Medal award in 1991 for "More More More" Said the Baby: Three Love Stories, the Boston Globe-Horn Book award in fiction in 1994 for Scooter, and the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2009. She was a member of the executive committee of the War Resisters League from 1984 to 1987, and served a month at a federal penitentiary for participating in a women's peaceful blockade of the Pentagon. She died on October 16, 2015 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) |