Ann Grifalconi, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-32862-3
Tos is an actual village, on the side of an inactive volcano in Central Africa. It is the village in the book's title, where women dwell in round thatch-roofed huts and men live in square ones. This book tells the story of how the houses were so...
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Ann Grifalconi, Author Little Brown and Company $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-32863-0
As with last year's Caldecott honor book, The Village of Round and Square Houses, this is a beautifully evocative tale of childhood in an African tribal setting. Through vivid color paintings and a well-paced narrative, Grifalconi relates the tale...
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Ann Grifalconi, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-32865-4
Set in the same African village as The Village of Round and Square Houses and Darkness and the Butterfly , this tale of (an older) Osa concerns her excessive pride--so great that she makes up stories in order to make herself feel better than all her
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Ann Grifalconi, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-32866-1
To tell its African story, Grifalconi's latest employs dramatically composed collages of photographic images (primarily from National Geographic ) coupled with indigenous woodcut decorations. The overall effect, while exotic and authentic-seeming,...
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Ann Grifalconi, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-32869-2
``I had me a fit of lonely. / I was feelin' kinda blue.'' So speaks young Sissy, who grows sad thinking about her father, who died shortly after his daughter was born. The text continues in the same easy style--ideal for reading aloud--with a...
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Ann Grifalconi, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-316-32905-7
Picture book author and illustrator Grifalconi (The Lion's Whiskers, reviewed above) displays her prowess in another genre with this heartrending novel. When their mother is hospitalized, Tommy and his younger brother, Dicky, must move into an inner-
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Ann Grifalconi, Author, Kadir Nelson, Illustrator , illus. by Kadir Nelson. Dial $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2623-9
The creator of The Village of Round and Square Houses
sets another moving tale on African soil, this time recounting how a small village escapes a band of slave traders. Young Abikanile and her mother, Njemile, guide their fellow villagers in an...
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Ann Grifalconi, Author, Kadir Nelson, Illustrator , illus. by Kadir Nelson. Puffin $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-14-240190-3
In what PW
described as "an uplifting tale of inner strength and courage," a small African village escapes a band of slave traders. Ages 5-up. (Dec.)
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Ann Grifalconi, Author, Ann Grifalconi, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-027654-6
Tiny remembers warm and wonderful times filled with laughter, stories and Daddy's ""sweet-sad"" trumpet playing as he holds his hat over the horn to ""soften the sound."" But when he stays away to play far-away gigs, Tiny misses him ""much too much."
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Ann Grifalconi, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator , illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1857-0
This resonant, moving story spotlights both the loving rapport between a girl and her grandfather, and the story of his family's escape to freedom. Grifalconi's (The Village of Round and Square Houses
) narrator recalls accompanying her...
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