Ana Maria Machado, Author, Laurent Cardon, Illustrator, Elisa Amado, Translator , trans. from the Portuguese by Elisa Amado, illus. by Laurent Cardon. Groundwood $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-88899-880-4
Combining the wildly disparate themes of job hunting and wolves, Hans Christian Andersen Medalist Machado (From Another World
) and Cardon, in his U.S. debut, follow Manny Wolf (a human with the last name Wolf) as he responds to a pile of...
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Ana Maria Machado, trans. from the Spanish by Elisa Amado, illus. by H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne Moreau. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55498-168-7
If a boy crafts a highly open-ended invitation to his birthday party, there's no telling what might happen. "Come to my party. It's my birthday. Bring along whoever you want and whatever you like to eat," he writes. Machado (Wolf Wanted) structures...
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Ana Maria Machado, trans. from the Portuguese by Jane Springer. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-55498-455-8
Machado’s (From Another World) finely sketched characters and settings propel this historical novel, set in the early 17th century, which follows two orphaned siblings from Lisbon to colonial Brazil. After losing their family to the plague, the...
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Ana Maria Machado, Author, Louí Sa Baeta, Translator, Louisa Baeta, Translator , trans. by Luisa Baeta, illus. by Lúcia Brandão. Groundwood $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-88899-597-1
One of Brazil's best known writers mixes magical realism with history to tell about the evils of slavery. Narrator Mariano finds reading "boring and tiring," but becomes "slave to a promise made to a ghost" who orders him to...
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Ana Maria Machado, Author, David Unger, Translator, Caroline Merola, Illustrator Groundwood Books $14.95 (110p) ISBN 978-0-88899-463-9
Ana Maria Machado, winner of the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Award, tells of a 10-year-old girl who becomes possessed by competing voices after finding a photo of her great-grandmother in Me in the Middle, trans. by David Unger, illus. in b&w by
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Ana Maria Machado, Author, Rosona Faria, Illustrator Ekare $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-980-257-165-9
This enchanting story of diversity, in which a very white rabbit falls in love with a very dark girl and longs to discover the secret for being so dark and pretty, juxtaposes soft illustrations with simple text. It is perfect for reading alone ...
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