The Flint Heart by Paterson, Katherine

The Flint Heart (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780763647124)

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The Flint Heart by Paterson, Katherine

The Flint Heart

$19.99
The Flint Heart by Paterson, Katherine

The Flint Heart

$19.99
Format: Hardcover
Description
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A robust and wildly entertaining fairy tale, freely abridged from Eden Phillpotts's 1910 fantasy and wryly retold by Katherine and John Paterson.

An ambitious Stone Age man demands a talisman that will harden his heart, allowing him to take control of his tribe. Against his better judgment, the tribe's magic man creates the Flint Heart, but the cruelty of it causes the destruction of the tribe. Thousands of years later, the talisman reemerges to corrupt a kindly farmer, an innocent fairy creature, and a familial badger. Can Charles and his sister Unity, who have consulted with fairies such as the mysterious Zagabog, wisest creature in the universe, find a way to rescue humans, fairies, and animals alike from the dark influence of the Flint Heart? This humorous, hearty, utterly delightful fairy tale is the sort for an entire family to savor together or an adventurous youngster to devour.

Author: Katherine Paterson, John Paterson
ISBN-10: 0763647128
ISBN-13: 9780763647124
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2011
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 8.53h x 7.18w x 0.98d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.4
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 146506 / Flint Heart

Award: E.B. White Read Aloud Award - Finalist
Award: Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) - Silver Medal Winner
Award: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2011
Publishers Weekly 07/18/2011
School Library Journal 08/01/2011 pg. 82
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2011 pg. 1486
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2011 pg. 94
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2011
Booklist 09/01/2011 pg. 119
New York Times Book Review 09/18/2011 pg. 21
Shelf Awareness 10/21/2011
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/07/2011 pg. 40
Shelf Awareness 07/27/2011
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2012 pg. 80 - Superior,Well Above Average
BookPage 10/01/2011
By Katherine Paterson
By Katherine Paterson
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Katherine Paterson is a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Her international fame rests not only on her widely acclaimed novels but also on her efforts to promote literacy in the United States and abroad. She is a two-time winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award, and she has received many other accolades for her works, including the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, given by her home state of Vermont. Katherine Paterson also was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress in 2000. She lives in Barre, Vermont.

John Paterson Sr. (1932 - 2013) collaborated with his wife, Newbery Award-winning author Katherine Paterson, on Consider the Lilies, Images of God, and Blueberries for the Queen. He also collaborated with his son, John B. Paterson Jr., on Roberto's Trip to the Top.

John Rocco collaborated with Whoopie Goldberg on the picture book Alice and was Creative Director at Walt Disney Imagineering and served as pre-production art director at Dreamworks for the film Shrek. His children's books include Fu Finds the Way, Wolf! Wolf!, and Moondust, and his illustrations are also featured on the jackets of Rick Riordan's best-selling YA series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. John Rocco lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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