Peter Sís
1) Robinson
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages: color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Robin and his friends are planning to dress up as pirates for their school's annual costume party, but instead his mother creates a Robinson Crusoe costume for him, and while the adults love it, his friends are less welcoming.
Author
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. Forced to serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and spiteful Prince Brat, Jemmy plans to run away, but on the night of his escape, he and the Prince have a climactic confrontation. Prince Brat decides to run away from home, taking his much abused whipping boy, Jemmy, with him, but their roles are reversed when...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 760L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, maps ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news...
7) The dreamer
Author
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 370L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.
Author
Language
English
Description
The master, writing with sometime collaborator Guerrero, compiled 82 one- and two-page descriptions of everything from "The Borametz" (a Chinese "plant shaped like a lamb, covered with golden fleece") to "The Simurgh" ("an immortal bird that makes its nest in the tree of science") and "The Zaratan" (a particularly cunning whale) in An Anthology of Fantastic Zoology in 1954. He added 34 more (and illustrations) for a 1967 edition, giving it the present...
10) Madlenka's dog
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
310L
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
13) Scranimals
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 26 X 29 cm
Language
English
Description
So put on your pith helmet and prepare to explore a wilderness of puns and rhymes where birds, beasts, vegetables, and flowers have been mysteriously scrambled together to create creatures you've never seen before -- and are unlikely to meet again! Your guides -- Jack Prelutsky, poet laureate of the elementary school set, and two-time Caldecott Honor artist Peter Sis -- invite you to join them on an adventure you will never forget!
Author
Series
Wind on fire volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Hyperion paperback ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
xx, 540 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having saved their family and the rest of the Manth people from slavery, twins Bowman and Kestrel are free to seek their promised land.
Author
Series
Wind on fire volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Hyperion Paperback ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
x, 582 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Bowman uses his newly-discovered powers to join with his twin sister Kestrel in an attempt to liberate their people from the "beautiful but cruel" civilization which has enslaved them.
Author
Series
Wind on fire volume 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
After Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules of Amaranth society and is forced to flee, she, along with her twin brother and a tagalong classmate, follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary silver voice of the wind singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth and its people.
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Led by a cat on a magical journey through the deserted streets of Prague, a man comes upon some of the city's landmarks and finds the keys to his childhood home in three traditional Czech tales.
20) Komodo!
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English