Books by Ted Lewin and Complete Book Reviews

Scott O'Dell, Author, Ted Lewin, Author, Ted Lewin, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17 (240p) ISBN 978-0-395-44242-5
This latest historical novel by the award-winning author transports readers from a lavish 17th century English castle across the Atlantic to a shipwreck off Bermuda and finally to the struggling early settlement at Jamestown. As always, O'Dell...
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Ted Lewin, Author . Clarion $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-37839-5
"Lewin illuminates this picture book about the Ganges River with some of his finest artwork to date," said PW . Ages 6-10. (Nov.)
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Ted Lewin, Author . Roaring Brook/Porter $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-231-4
In both words and pictures, Lewin (I Was a Teenage Professional Wrestler ) effectively evokes the sounds, smells and action of Gleason’s Gym, a celebrated boxing gym located “on the Brooklyn waterfront just a left hook away from the...
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Ted Lewin, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-02-757390-9
Dressed in gaily trimmed tunic and reindeer-skin boots with curving toes, Ola joins other Laplanders to follow the reindeer herds in their spring migration. Taking the reader with Ola, Lewin (Amazon Boy; When the Rivers Go Home) introduces the Sami...
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Ted Lewin, Author Clarion Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-395-69846-4
Lewin (The Reindeer People) illuminates this picture book about the Ganges River with some of his finest artwork to date. Inspired by a visit to Benares, the sweeping, full-spread watercolors reflect a familiarity with the locale-its riverbanks...
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Ted Lewin, Author HarperCollins $16.5 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-12850-0
With memorable paintings marked by the same clarity and vivacity as those he created for Market!, Lewin sets another diverting scene, this time at a county fair. Beginning with the elaborate set-up to the inner workings and ending with what appears...
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Ted Lewin, Author Scholastic $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-96004-5
Lewin (The Storytellers) describes the night a boy spends stranded on one of the Galapagos Islands, through vivid watercolors. Young Nilo stands on the island's shore, calmly accepting the circumstance that his father's fishing boat has been swept...
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Ted Lewin, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15 (80p) ISBN 978-0-688-14109-7
In an introductory note to this aptly titled travel memoir, Lewin comments that his journeys to various countries have inspired many of his children's books. He adds that ""often some of my most memorable travel moments--my brief acquaintances with...
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Ted Lewin, Author, Betsy Lewin, Joint Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-16509-3
The Lewins' first collaboration recounts their 1997 journey to southern Uganda to view mountain gorillas. Before taking readers along on their expedition, the authors explain the phenomenon of ecotourism that makes such sightings possible: trackers...
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Ted Lewin, Author, Ted Lewin, Illustrator . HarperCollins $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-16024-1
Lewin (Market; Peppe the Lamplighter) leads readers to the heart of a military skirmish in this emotional picture-book look at a Civil War reenactment. Young Stephen accompanies his father to a battle reenactment in which the nine-year-old plays the
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Ted Lewin, Author, Ted Lewin, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-399-23302-9
With lush and detailed watercolors, Lewin guides readers high into the almost otherworldly mountains of Peru. In retracing the steps of Hiram Bingham, who in 1911 searched for the lost city of Vilcapampa and discovered the 500-year-old Incan ruins...
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Ted Lewin, Author, Ted Lewin, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-12161-7
famous marketplaces takes an everyday experience as an occasion to explore ethnic diversity. In Uganda, barefoot people walk to market ""through the rain forest beneath the Mountains of the Moon,"" while at New York's Fulton Fish Market, ""hard men...
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Ted Lewin, Author, Ted Lewin, Illustrator HarperCollins $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-15178-2
Lewin (Market!) once again demonstrates his remarkable gift for bringing faraway locales to life for young readers, even if this tale of Abdul and his storyteller-grandfather, who head to work on the outskirts of an ancient Moroccan city, falls flat.
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Ted Lewin, Author, Ted Lewin, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-16026-5
A young narrator takes readers behind the scenes at his family's restaurant, and serves up a surprise in the end, in Big Jimmy's Kum Kau Chinese Take Out by Caldecott Honor artist Ted Lewin. Realistic watercolors depict the food, family and...
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Ted Lewin, Author, Betsy Lewin, Author . Lee & Low $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60060-265-8
Rich watercolors and as-it-happens writing bring the story of India's royal elephants into sharp focus. On the Lewins' (Gorilla Walk ) first trip to India, they hear about Drona, a beloved elephant chosen to head the parade of a religious...
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Ted and Betsy Lewin. Roaring Brook/Porter, $22.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-59643-616-9
Ardent wildlife explorers, the Lewins take readers on a whirlwind tour of their travels, beginning with a 1970 trip to East Africa, where they spotted enormous herds of wildebeests and zebras, a gazelle, and a rare black rhino. Organized...
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