The Secret Box
The Secret Box
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Author(s): Lehman, Barbara
ISBN No.: 9780547238685
Pages: 48
Year: 201103
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 23.79
Status: Out Of Print

"A provocative example of the complexity that can be conveyed using only pictures."- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Ending with a modern boy and girl contemplating the culvert's entrance, she [Lehman] invites readers (her wordless pictures clearly beg to be read, pored over) to feel the tenuous bonds of child life loosen. Wonderful!"- Kirkus , starred review "Lehman's clean-lined, highly-detailed artwork creates an ingenious visual puzzle that invites repeated viewings and flights of imagination."- Booklist   The Red Book A Caldecott Honor Book An ALA Notable Book A New York Times Bestseller A Junior Library Guild Selection Starred review in SLJ "Captures the magical possibility that exists ever time readers open a book." - School Library Journal, starred review Museum Trip 3 starred reviews (Booklist, Kirkus, PW)   Great New York Times Book Review, 11/12/06 A CCBC Best-Book-of-the-Year A 2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book "A winning picture book that blurs real and imagined worlds." - Booklist , starred review Rainstorm ALA Notable Book 3 starred reviews (Kirkus, PW, SLJ) A Junior Library Guild Selection A Kirkus Best Book of the Year A New York Public Library's selection for the 100 TITLES FOR READING AND SHARING (2007) "Lehman compacts a wealth of storytelling into her wordless narrative. Another surrealist triumph from a vigorous emerging talent." - Kirkus , starred review Trainstop A Junior Library Guild PREMIER Selection Award Starred review in Publishers Weekly A 2008 Parent's Choice Gold Award A Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year "The crisp, clean drawings and comics-style framings generate visual momentum; the author knows when to give the big picture (literally) and when to break down the action into smaller steps.


" - Publishers Weekly, starred review.


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