This comical, occasionally slapstick novel by Australian author Hirsch (Bartlett and the Ice Voyage; Hazel Green) offers readers a glimpse of the work and serendipity required to pull off a theatrical performance. Young Antonio S, the son of a...
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Odo Hirsch, Author . Delacorte $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-90224-3
Hirsch (Bartlett and the City of Flames
) introduces Yoss, who lives in a mountain village that practices a peculiar coming-of-age ritual: during a boy's 14th summer, he leaves home overnight, returning the next morning having "become a man.&
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Odo Hirsch, Author Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-58234-931-2
The hero of Bartlett and the Ice Voyage (""a charming fantasy about the perils of desire,"" according to PW) features in a third episode, Bartlett and the Forest of Plenty by Odo Hirsch, illus. by Andrew McLean. Bartlett, Jacques le Grand and their...
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Odo Hirsch, Author, Andrew McLean, Illustrator , illus. by Andrew McLean. Bloomsbury $14.95 (175p) ISBN 978-1-58234-797-4
Be careful of what you wish for and what is required to get it—is only one of the lessons covered in Hirsch's (author of the Antonio S. series) charming fantasy about the perils of desire. Legendary "mouth-watering melidrops" grow
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Odo Hirsch, Author, Andrew McLean, Illustrator Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $15.95 (150p) ISBN 978-1-58234-831-5
In Bartlett and the City of Flames by Odo Hirsch, the sequel to Bartlett and the Ice Voyage, the explorers Bartlett, Jacques le Grand and young Gozo are captured by guards from the City of Sun, and the powerful Pasha thinks Gozo is his long-lost...
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Odo Hirsch, Author, Andrew McLean, Illustrator . Bloomsbury $6.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-58234-918-3
A queen had tasted every fruit that grew in her empire except the melidrop that must be eaten the day it is picked, and the explorer Bartlett is the man to get it for her. "Be careful of what you wish for and what is required to get it—is
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