Peter Sís
1) Komodo!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A young boy who loves dragons goes with his parents to the Indonesian island of Komodo in hopes of seeing a real dragon. Includes factual information about the Komodo dragon.
2) Fire truck
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Description
Matt, who loves fire trucks, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a fire truck, with one driver, two ladders, three hoses, and ten boots. Features a gate-fold illustration that opens into a three-page spread.
5) Ship ahoy!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A child on a sofa imagines it turning into a succession of ships, culminating in an encounter with a sea monster.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In New York, Peter Sis receives a letter from his father. "The Red Box is now yours," it says. The brief note worries him and pulls him back to Prague, where the contents of the red box explain the mystery of his father's long absence during the 1950s. Czechoslovakia was behind the iron curtain; Vladimir Sis, a documentary filmmaker of considerable talent, was drafted into the army and sent to China to teach filmmaking. He left his wife, daughter,...
8) Robinson
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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.
10) Madlenka
Author
Series
Madlenka books volume 1
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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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...
13) Train of states
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Gives information about each state, including capital, motto, state tree, state bird, source of name, and date of statehood.
15) The dreamer
Author
Language
English
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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.
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