Series
Summary
Mother, Aunt Rosie, and two children make a three-day camping trip by canoe. Full description
Summary: |
Mother, Aunt Rosie, and two children make a three-day camping trip by canoe. |
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Physical Description: |
[30] p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: |
0688803075 : 9780688803070 0688843077 (lib. bdg.) : 9780688843076 (lib. bdg.) 0688040721 (pbk.) 9780688040727 (pbk.) |
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) |