Shelley Moore Thomas, illus. by Dan Craig. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-36745-9
Thomas (the Good Knight series) spins tales worthy of her heroine’s aspirations in this nimbly structured collection of seven magical adventures that build into a highly rewarding story. When 11-year-old Trinket’s mother dies, Trinket sets off to...
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Shelley Moore Thomas, Author, Abby Levine, Editor, Eric Futran, Photographer Albert Whitman & Company $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8075-7545-1
This affirming prose poem asserts that peace begins with simple gestures--acts in which any child might take part: ""someone/ is/ visiting/ a/ friend/ who/ is/ old""; ""someone/ is/ planting/ a/ tree."" Some of the peace-promoting acts involve...
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Shelley Moore Thomas, Author, Eric Futran, Photographer , photos by Eric Futran. Albert Whitman Prairie $6.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8075-7544-4
"This affirming prose poem asserts that peace begins with simple gestures. The author wisely averts didacticism through her use of cogent, everyday examples," said PW. Ages 5-9. (Mar.)
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Shelley Moore Thomas, Author, Bonnie Christensen, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-71283-2
The soothing cadences of cumulative verse will easily lull young readers of this beguiling bedtime book. As the text begins, ``The moon climbs over the mountain each night,/ putting the world to sleep''; with each turn of the page nightfall advances
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Shelley Moore Thomas, Author, Lucia Monfried, Editor, Jennifer Plecas, Illustrator Dutton Books $14.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-46326-9
In this magical bedtime tale set in a dense forest in a faraway kingdom, three wide-eyed little dragons are lonely--but not for long. Thomas (Somewhere Today) introduces a Good Knight who nightly keeps watch from a ""crumbly tumbly tower"" atop a ""v
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Shelley Moore Thomas, illus. by Jennifer Plecas. Dutton, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-42195-5
In his sixth outing, Thomas's Good Knight decides it's time for a vacation, but when his rowdy dragon friends insist on coming, his journey proves anything but restful. As the overpacked wagon hobbles along, the first dragon asks: "How much longer?"
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Shelley Moore Thomas, illus. by Julie Mellan. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-17353-4
Thomas (Secrets of Selkie Bay) blends life lessons and magical elements in an imaginative journey of mourning and maturation. After the deaths of their magician mother and pilot father in WWII London, narrator Albie and her three sisters, all Irish,
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Shelley Moore Thomas, illus. by Christopher Silas Neal. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9531-8
Illustrated by Neal (Everyone) with serene, spacious landscapes, lyrical free verse by Thomas (This Book Is Not About Dragons) explores lessons to be found in the natural world. One voice narrates, but many children appear in the spreads. “Trees...
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