Anne Sibley O'Brien, Author Henry Holt & Company $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0049-8
In these thoughtfully conceived board books, O'Brien offers portraits of four children experiencing difficult emotions. Jessie feels frustrated when everyone in her family tells her what not to do. Adam isn't ready to leave the playground when his...
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Anne Sibley O'Brien, Author Scholastic $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-590-46092-7
Written with a strongly feminist slant, this atmospheric story focuses on the determination of a girl ``known to all as the Weeping Princess.'' The young woman, refusing to marry solely on the basis of outward status, chooses the village beggar as a
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Anne Sibley O’Brien. Charlesbridge, $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-57091-735-6
Commissioned by the Maine Humanities Council, O’Brien (the Jamaica books) pens a tale about a Cambodian-American family, beginning with vibrant scenes of food and celebration, as young narrator Dara shares her grandmother’s reminiscences about life...
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Anne Sibley O’Brien. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-545-90574-9
Twelve-year old Mia, adopted from South Korea and raised in Connecticut, has mixed feelings about her aid-worker father’s decision to take her and her older brother, Simon, on a tour of North Korea. After arriving there, she further questions the...
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Anne Sibley O’Brien, illus. by Susan Gal. Abrams Appleseed, $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2125-0
O’Brien and Gal maintain that there’s something downright magical in the changing seasons in this follow-up to Abracadabra, It’s Spring! Gentle rhymes—broken up by phrases like “Open sesame!” and “Razzle dazzle!”—highlight cooling temperatures, the...
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Anne Sibley O'Brien, Author, Anne Sibley O'Brien, Illustrator . Charlesbridge $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-58089-302-2
This uniquely formatted tale owes its strength to O'Brien's (the illustrator of the Jamaica
books) meticulous research. In multiple-paneled comic-book style, the author/artist retells the story of the illegitimate son of a high Korean...
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Margy Burns Knight, Author, Margy Burns Knight, Author, Anne Sibley O'brien, Author Tilbury House Publishers $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-88448-110-2
Following their well-received Talking Walls , Knight and O'Brien again team up for an affectionate if didactic exploration of connections among people world-wide. This time the message is filtered through the experience of Nary, a Cambodian refugee...
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Anne Sibley O’Brien, illus. by Hanna Cha. Charlesbridge, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62354-152-1
One basketball, two bicycle wheels, three hula hoops, four frisbees, and other circular objects up to 10 provide children of varying skin tones, genders, and abilities the chance to interact through play in this lively counting book. Emphasizing...
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