Please, Louise by Morrison, Toni

Please, Louise (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781416983385)

Vendor: Toni Morrison
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Please, Louise by Morrison, Toni

Please, Louise

$19.99
Please, Louise by Morrison, Toni

Please, Louise

$19.99
Format: Hardcover
Description
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A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power of imagination, from the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.

On one gray afternoon, Louise makes a fateful 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 fun, fun, fun!

Inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's experience working in a library as a young girl, this engaging picture book celebrates the wonders of reading, the enchanting capacity of the imagination, and, of course, the splendor of libraries.

Author: Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison
ISBN-10: 1416983384
ISBN-13: 9781416983385
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2014
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 10.31h x 9.36w x 0.41d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.3
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 174511 / Please, Louise


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/16/2013
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2014
School Library Journal 03/01/2014 pg. 121
Booklist 02/15/2014 pg. 83
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2014 pg. 38 - Marginal, Seriously Flawed
By Toni Morrison
By Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her contributions to the modern canon are numerous. Some of her acclaimed titles include: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. She won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Slade Morrison was born in Ohio and educated in New York City. He studied art at SUNY Purchase and collaborated with his mother, Toni Morrison, on their books for children.

Shadra Strickland studied, design, writing, and illustration at Syracuse University and later went on to complete her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent in 2009 for her work in her first picture book, Bird, written by Zetta Elliott. Strickland coillustrated Our Children Can Soar, winner of a 2010 NAACP Image Award. She teaches illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit her online at ShadraStrickland.com.

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