Jeanette Winter, S&S/Beach Lane, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9778-8
Winter (Nasreen's Secret School) again roots a heartening and informative story in real life. Festive acrylic paintings transport readers to the lush Colombian jungle, where the wife of an avid reader grumbles that his extensive book collection is...
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Jeanette Winter, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-205110-5
Jeanette Winter (illustrator of Tony Johnston's Day of the Dead) offers another visual extravaganza set against the Mexican festival in Calavera Abecedario: A Day of the Dead Alphabet Book. The neon bordered artwork begins with Don Pedro, his sons...
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Jeanette Winter, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200857-4
Born in St. Louis ""in the days when buffalo still roamed the West,"" Charlie dreams of being a cowboy. At 15, he travels to the Montana frontier, and there he spends the rest of his days, riding the range, hunting and trapping, even living with the
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Jeanette Winter, Author Philomel Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22693-9
This bittersweet tale is based on the true story of Herman Schuenemann, who, beginning in 1887, sailed down Lake Michigan each year from upper Michigan to bring a shipload of Christmas trees to the city. One year, tragedy strikes and his ship goes...
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Jeanette Winter, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-80626-4
Written in the first-person, this compelling, original tale of an immigrant family's journey from Sweden to America is aimed at independent readers rather than the usual picture book read-aloud crowd. The story unfolds through the eyes of eight-year-
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Jeanette Winter, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-394-87742-6
""Girls and boys, come out to play,/ the moon is shining bright as day . . . '' In Come Out to Play, Winter has taken a centuries-old nursery rhyme and set it in a modern Chicago neighborhood. A boy skips through the streets of his community, urging
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Jeanette Winter, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-200629-7
Winter sets a mythic backdrop for her picture book biography as she shows the lineage of the esteemed composer: ""In the days of castles and kings,/ the birds listened/ when Vitus Bach played his cittern."" While her profile of Georgia O'Keeffe in...
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Jeanette Winter, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-201091-1
Inan expertly polished picture book, Winter (Shaker Boy) tale submerges a counting lesson within a tour of a foreign country. The author/artist imagines a day in the life of Josefina Aguilar, a real-life Mexican folk artist who makes and sells...
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Jeanette Winter, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-394-89694-6
Before the Civil War, Peg Leg Joe traveled from one plantation to another, trying to help the slaves. He hired himself out as a farm hand, then taught the slaves a song to help them find the Underground Railroad heading north, by following the ``drin
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Jeanette Winter, Author . Harcourt $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-206545-4
Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner whose Green Belt Movement has planted 30 million trees in Kenya, is the subject of Winter’s (The Librarian of Basra
) eloquent picture biography. Much like Claire Nivola’s recent...
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Jeanette Winter, Author . FSG/Foster $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-30349-5
In Winter's (September Roses
) warm story, a Jamaican girl now living in New York City nightly dreams "of my island in the sun." Each morning, when she tells her mother that she wants to go home, Mama responds, "We are home, Angelina.
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Jeanette Winter, Author . Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205972-9
Winter's (The Librarian of Basra
) fluid, accessible narrative relays the true tale of two Red-tailed hawks that took up residence at the top of a Manhattan apartment building. Excited bird-watchers observe from the street as Pale Male and his...
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Jeanette Winter, Author . Harcourt $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-205445-8
Relaying the same story told in Alia's Mission
(reviewed below), Winter (September Roses
) deftly pares down for a picture-book audience the events surrounding Alia Muhammad Baker's courageous book rescue mission in Basra, Iraq, in spring...
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Jeanette Winter, Author . FSG/Foster $14 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-36736-7
Winter's spare, understated narrative and deceptively simple illustrations belie the intense emotional impact of this handsize volume. The author's introductory note puts the story in a personal context: "At 8:50 a.m. on September 11,...
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Jeanette Winter, Author . FSG/Foster $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-32118-5
Winter's small-format book about the Basotho women of southern Africa who paint their houses to bring rain has an intriguing premise, but generally lacks the warmth and passion of her My Name Is Georgia
or her artwork for Day of the Dead
....
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Jeanette Winter, Author . Harcourt/Voyager $6 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-204597-5
"Winter takes command of the picture book format to distill the essence of artist Georgia O'Keeffe," said PW
in a starred review. "A superb and inspiring introduction to an exceptional American artist." Ages 6-9. (Mar.)
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Jeanette Winter, Author . Dial $15.99 (34p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2807-3
Winter (Josefina; Day of the Dead) revisits Mexico and its traditions in this chipper original tale. Niño dreams of playing a role in the annual village Fiesta of the Tigre (festival of the jaguar). "Can I wear a mask this year?" he...
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Jeanette Winter. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-2294-9
Winter (Henri’s Scissors) continues her series of illustrated biographies with a two-in-one volume. One side memorializes Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy sold to the carpet industry to pay off his parents’ $12 debt. The reverse tells the now well-known
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Jeanette Winter, Author, Jeanette Winter, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-201649-4
Winter (illustrator of Diego) takes command of the picture book format to distill the essence of artist Georgia O'Keeffe. In prose as vivid as an O'Keeffe painting, Winter traces the life of this extraordinary woman who dedicated herself from...
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Jeanette Winter. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-4667-9
Winter (Mr. Cornell’s Dream Boxes) examines the life of Nanuk, a polar bear (or “ice bear,” as she refers to her), against a changing polar landscape. She tints flat, folk-art-style images, set in small rectangular boxes, with the pale blues and...
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Jeanette Winter. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-9900-3
Winter follows her picture-book biographies of artists including Matisse, O’Keeffe, and Rivera with a look at reclusive artist Joseph Cornell, who made glass-fronted wooden boxes filled with delicate, surreal collections of objects—star charts,...
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Jeanette Winter. S&S/Beach Lane, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-6484-1
After quickly tracing French painter Matisse’s journey to becoming an artist (“He was happy, and his paintings made people happy”) and explaining how illness left him unable to paint at the end of his life, Winter (Kali’s Song) describes his...
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Jeanette Winter. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-87022-4
Winter (The Watcher) takes a break from picture-book nonfiction to tell the story of Kali, a boy from prehistoric times. He’s skinny, friendly-looking, and wears fur, and he’d rather play his bow like a musical instrument than shoot with it. “Soon...
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Jeanette Winter. Beach Lane, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4814-4669-3
Direct quotations from Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid pepper this spare but engrossing biography from Winter (Nanuk the Ice Bear). After moving quickly through Hadid’s childhood, highlighting her fascination with local “rivers and marshes and...
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Jeanette Winter, Author, Jeanette Winter, Illustrator Dial Books for Young Readers $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2524-9
Winter's (My Name Is Georgia) cheerful, acrylic pictures have a folk-art quality well suited to this familiar, cumulative tale, which she supplements with several original verses (an early one places Jack's house on top of a hill and a final verse...
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Jeanette Winter, Author, Jeanette Winter, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-35103-8
Winter travels to Mali with aplomb in this picture book exploration of a traditional textile art. As a child, Nakunte learns from her mother how to create the patterned cloth called b g lan (""Her painting stick goes CLICK-CLICK in and out of the...
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Jeanette Winter, Author, Jeanette Winter, Illustrator . FSG/Foster $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-32147-5
"My sister Emily was buried today," begins this wisp of a picture book, part thumbnail biography and part miniature poetry anthology. For the next several pages, a mournful Lavinia reminisces about her reclusive sister ("Emily never went
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Jeanette Winter, Author, Jeanette Winter, Illustrator S&S/Beach Lane $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9437-4
Winter’s (The Librarian of Basra
) understated but powerful story is set in modern Afghanistan under the Taliban when girls were forbidden to attend school. Offering an adult’s perspective on the changes the country has seen, Nasreen̵
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Jeanette Winter, Author, Jeanette Winter, Illustrator . Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205495-3
This visually poetic book's subtitle is longer than its entire text: "A true story in which a baby hippo loses his Mama during a tsunami, but finds a new home, and a new Mama." Using only two words, "Mama" and "Baby,"...
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Jeanette Winter, Author, Jeanette Winter, Illustrator . FSG/Foster $15 (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-30655-7
Winter (Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World) spotlights another literary icon in this elegantly designed biography of Beatrix Potter. The book's diminutive size (approximately 6" × 6") belies its subject's forceful...
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Jeanette Winter. Beach Lane, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5344-3121-8
Winter begins her understated biography of the Williams sisters in their childhood in Compton, Calif.: “Early morning, Daddy takes the sisters to the court, where some older boys still think it’s night.” The sisters are first pictured playing on a...
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Jeanette Winter. Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-6778-1
As in Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story of Africa, Winter once again offers a stirring profile of an environmental hero, this time teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. After learning about climate change at school, Greta, a quiet...
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Jeanette Winter. Beach Lane, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5344-9601-9
Winter’s biographical narrative of Sister Corita Kent (1918–1986) depicts her art as “letters and words and shapes and writing” that “tell us what she believes—she believes in Goodness and in God.” Straightforward language tells a simple story of a...
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