| All God's Critters Contributor(s): Staines, Bill (Author), Nelson, Kadir (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0689869592 ISBN-13: 9780689869594 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2009 Annotation: The rollicking lyrics of a favorite folk song provide Caldecott medalist Margot Zemach a chance to display her own special twang--so come and join the critters in the choir. "An animalia of delight greets readers with a melting-pot grand finale. A beautifully wrapped package of fun!"--School Library Journal, starred review. Full color. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - General - Juvenile Fiction | Religious - General |
| Dewey: E |
| LCCN: 2008023624 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 10.2" W x 11" (1.15 lbs) 36 pages |
| Themes: - Catalog Heading - Language Arts - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 128660 Reading Level: 3.2 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Big...small...quiet...loud...feathered, flippered, or furred.... All God's critters have a place in the choir And this jubilant and raucous bunch is waiting for you to join in because everybody has a part to sing. It doesn't matter if you sing like a bird...howl like a wolf...or croak like a frog |
Contributor Bio(s): Nelson, Kadir: - Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. Nelson is the illustrator of many beloved, award-winning, and bestselling picture books including, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, winner of the Coretta Scott King and Robert F. Sibert Award; Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award; Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life, written by Jerdine Nolen, which won the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal; and Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya by Donna Jo Napoli called "stunning" by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. He is also the illustrator of Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan's Salt in His Shoes and Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee's Please, Baby, Please and Please, Puppy, Please. Kadir Nelson lives in Los Angeles. |