Marcia Sewall, Retold by, Marcia Sewall, Author, Marcia Sewall, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-90013-0
Sewall's (Thunder from a Clear Sky) esoteric adaptation of an English legend is set in a time long past when ""there were, so to say, two churches: the one with priests and such, the other just a lot of old ways kept all hidden-like amidst the...
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Jane Resh Thomas, Author, Marcia Sewall, Author, James Cross Giblin, Author Clarion Books $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-89919-645-9
Told from the point of view of a seven-year-old named Suzie, this tenderly rendered story explores the rituals of death and the loss of a loved one. When Grandma passes away, Suzie and her parents take a bittersweet car trip back to the small...
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Marcia Sewall, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $6.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-689-80861-6
Well-chosen facts, ""set like jewels into the text,"" and ""splendid"" pictures mark this picture book as ""the finest of nonfiction,"" said PW. Ages 7-up. (Sept.)
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Marcia Sewall, Author Atheneum Books $17 (48p) ISBN 978-0-689-31407-0
In this companion volume to The Pilgrims of Plimoth , Sewall's gentle, often poetic text and impressionistic paintings present an intriguing portrait of the Wampanoags, the tribe that lived in southeastern Massachusetts when the first English...
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Marcia Sewall, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $5.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-689-82176-9
The follow-up to Pilgrims of Plimoth and People of the Breaking Day describes the evolving relations between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags as they head toward war in 1675. Ages 7-up. (Oct.)
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Marcia Sewall, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $0 (32p) ISBN 978-0-87113-053-2
Sewall has adapted an old rhyme about ""the world turned upside down;/ Watch dog and ox some music make/ while cat rides hog to town./ To see a farmer feed his hog/ is no news;/ But to see a hare run after a dog is strange indeed!'' As the verse...
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Marcia Sewall, Author Joy Street Books $14.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-316-78191-6
""Alligator, Hedgehog, Anteater, Bear, Billy Goat, Brown Cow, Damselfly, Hare,'' implores the crow as he invites most of the animal kingdom to join him in a revelry of singing, dancing and picnicking. Adapted from a collection of songs from Southern
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Marcia Sewall, Author, Marcia Sewall, Illustrator Atheneum Books $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-81814-1
Marcia Sewall's James Towne: Struggle for Survival, told from the point of view of a settler, tracks the early days of Jamestown, Va. An economical text and Sewall's dramatic watercolor-and-ink illustrations chronicle the 1606 voyage from ...
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Marcia Sewall, Author, Marcia Sewall, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-689-31250-2
In journal-like passages that include quotes from original sources, Sewall gracefully and unerringly reconstructs the lives of the pilgrims. She takes readers from the journey out of England, financed by English merchants (""hoping to prosper in...
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Sid Fleischman, Author, Marcia Sewall, Author, Marcia Sewall, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-688-10886-1
In this comic, suspense-laden Western adventure, Jake searches for his supposedly dead father, an itinerant actor, with the help of Jim Ugly, his father's wolf-like dog. The hunt takes them from Blowfly, Nev., to San Francisco, with Jim Ugly...
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