Peter Sís. FSG/Foster, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-38069-4
Following biographies of Darwin and Galileo, Sís celebrates legendary pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944). As in The Tree of Life, Sís supplements a main narrative with time lines and insets, wrapping squint-inducing italics around dreamlike...
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Peter Sis, Author . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-057838-1
Uncle Sam conducts the patriotic engine of this line of 50 railroad cars (one per state), and Washington, D.C., brings up the rear as caboose. Czechoslovakian-born Sís combines his love for his adopted country (his home for more than two...
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Peter Sís. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-73161-4
Sís, whose multilayered The Pilot and the Little Prince and The Tree of Life show a boundless curiosity, turns his research attention to a sweeter subject: ice cream. In this appealing book, watercolored in sherbet hues of raspberry and tangerine, a
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Peter Sis, Author Greenwillow Books $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-09067-8
In this practically wordless picture book, a whale that has been raised in captivity is returned to the open ocean. Never having seen another of her kind, she mistakes several objects for fellow whales--a spouting boat, a submarine, a whale-shaped...
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Peter Sis, Author Greenwillow Books $47.5 (28p) ISBN 978-0-688-07159-2
Mary and her mother wave for a cab; two bicyclists, driving in front of the taxi, respond by waving back. Soon a chain reaction of people waving consumes the city with warmth and friendliness. The scene involves three boys walking dogs, four girls...
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Peter Sis, Author Greenwillow Books $14.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-16644-1
A couch metamorphoses into a series of seaworthy vessels as a boy imagines himself sailing over the waters of a small blue rug. Much of the charm of this wordless, nearly monochromatic book lies in the play between the similarities and differences...
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Peter Sis, Author Doubleday Books $22.5 (1p) ISBN 978-0-385-47292-0
With his stunning artwork and resonant, enigmatic prose, Sis (Komodo; Follow the Dream) fashions an entrancing, mystical allegory about the complicated history of his native Prague. After a ``wild and turbulent storm'' blows him ``far off course,''...
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Peter Sis, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-679-84345-0
Sis ( Follow the Dream ) draws on boyhood memories for this imaginative yarn about a maybe-real, maybe-fictitious Czech explorer, Jan Welzl. As the tale begins, Welzl breaks free from a drab existence and lights out for the Far North, where he...
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Peter Sis, Author Greenwillow Books $15 (26p) ISBN 978-0-688-09181-1
A stiff breeze blows Mary's beach ball along the water's edge for miles and miles. People, objects and animals appear and disappear as Mary gallops from page to page, chasing the ball that remains just a bit ahead of her. Her mostly wordless quest...
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Peter Sis, Author Frances Foster Books $24.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-37525-6
Caldecott Honor artist Peter Sis (Tibet Through the Red Box) unlocks the mystery of his native Prague with The Three Golden Keys (1994). When his wayward hot air balloon alights in the city of his youth, a young man journeys through memory-laden
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Peter Sis, Author Frances Foster Books $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-39969-6
Incorporating many of the visually astonishing methods of Tibet Through the Red Box, S!s chronicles the adventures of a New York City girl (based on S!s's own daughter) whose loose tooth occasions a one-of-a-kind round-the-world tour. S!s reels...
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Peter Sis, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-37552-2
In this visually enticing, magically appealing, oversized volume, Czechoslovakian-born illustrator Sis applies his considerable gifts to painting a spellbinding portrait of his father's experiences in Tibet, where he was sent in the 1950s to...
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Peter Sís, FSG/Foster, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-34702-4
"In the universe, on a planet, on a continent, in a country, in a city, on a block, in a house, lives a little girl named Madlenka, who dreams of being a soccer star." Madlenka's home remains a place that's at once familiar and fantastic, where no...
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Peter Sis, Author . FSG/Foster $18 (56p) ISBN 978-0-374-34701-7
Born out of a question posed to Sís (Play, Mozart, Play!
) by his children (“Are you a settler, Dad?”), the author pairs his remarkable artistry with journal entries, historical context and period photography to create a powerful...
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Peter Sis, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-37075-6
A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North by Peter S s chronicles the life of Czech folk hero Jan Welzl who, as legend has it, left his home 100 years ago headed for the Arctic illustrated with maps, storyboard vignettes (relating how the explorer...
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Peter Sis, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-17944-1
S s here uses the format of his successful series for very young boys (Fire Truck; Ship Ahoy!) to strong effect in exploring a girl's love of ballet. Equipped with a trunkful of dress-up clothes, her dancing aspirations and a full-length mirror,...
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Peter Sis, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-688-16276-4
In this well-conceived book, a boys love for his prized toys feeds his imagination. Ss (Fire Truck) opens with a predominantly white spread of a boys room, the furnishings outlined in fine black line, populated with yellow miniature trucks and a...
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Peter Sis, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-34699-7
Favorite characters return for more fun and games. Her persistent requests for a dog denied, Madlenka takes matters into her own hands (and gets more than she bargained for) in Madlenka's Dog by Peter Sis. As Madlenka strolls her city block with
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Peter Sis, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $18 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-37191-3
Extraordinary pictures light up this tribute to Galileo, telling the story of his discoveries, rise to prominence and excoriation by the Church. Sis (Follow the Dream), an experienced and sophisticated chronicler of history's visionaries, outdoes...
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Peter Sis, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-11583-8
A young aficionado of dragons gets the chance of a lifetime when his parents take him to the Indonesian island of Komodo, home to the Komodo dragon--the world's largest lizard, and the sole extant carnivorous dinosaur. The place proves a tourist...
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Peter Sis, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-679-80628-8
Portraying Columbus from his boyhood to his first landing in the Americas, Sis's ( Waving ; Alphabet Soup ) account is straightforward but somewhat flat. Though his minimal text often reads like a rushed summary, his artwork is extraordinary. With...
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Peter Sis, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $5.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-17518-4
A whale raised in captivity discovers a new world when it is returned to the ocean. PW said, ""S s illustrates this gentle, quixotic tale with shimmering watercolors in all the hues of sea and sky."" Ages 3-up. (Apr.)
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Peter Sis, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-112181-4
Sís's (Starry Messenger
) whimsical imagination is in full play here as he presents an intriguing if somewhat unsettling portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unconventional childhood. After learning that "His father turned him...
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Peter Sis, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator . FSG/Foster $18 (44p) ISBN 978-0-374-45628-3
In another stunning picture book biography, Sís (Starry Messenger
) trains his attention on Charles Darwin. From the naturalist's early days ("Charles doesn't like... school") to his father's initial refusal to let him...
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Peter Sís. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-545-73166-9
Sís’s story, based on a childhood incident, opens at a school’s costume party. The narrator, Peter, comes dressed as Robinson Crusoe, in fur garments carefully sewn by his mother. His friends, dressed as pirates, jeer him. Shaken, Peter retreats to...
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