| California, the Magic Island Contributor(s): Hansen, Doug (Author) |
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ISBN: 1597143324 ISBN-13: 9781597143325 Publisher: Heyday Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts - Alphabet - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015015206 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 9.1" W x 12.1" (1.15 lbs) 48 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Queen Calafia, the main character of a sixteenth-century Spanish romance about an island overflowing with gold and populated by Amazon-like women, is incensed when she hears that we have adopted her name for our state. Being the good and reasonable queen that she is, she's willing to hear from twenty-six animals about why California is worthy of her name. But if she decides it isn't, she'll launch an army of goddesses riding griffins to wreak her vengeance Each animal characterizes California in a key cultural object or historical event: for example, the swordfish describes the tomols of the Chumash people, while the gull tells Calafia about the Gold Rush. Large, intricate illustrations display a wealth of research into every subject, rendered with the highest level of artistic skill. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hansen, Doug: - Doug Hansen was born in Fresno, California, and is the eldest of six children in an artistic family. Doug has worked as a Fresno Bee newsroom artist, freelance illustrator, and cartoonist, and he illustrated David Mas Masumoto's books Letters to the Valley: A Harvest of Memories and Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer, as well as Mother Goose in California, Aesop in California, and California, the Magic Island. |