Hey World, Here I Am!
What's This Book About
An ALA Notable Children’s Book * Multiple starred reviews”Engaging” – ALA Booklist (starred review)”A compelling portrait.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)”Funny and poignant.” – School Library Journal (starred review)Honest and engaging, award-winning author Jean Little’s beloved Hey World, Here I Am! is told in a series of poems, observations, and vignettes.Kate Bloomfield has got a lot to say–about school and friends and parents, about cartwheels (she can’t do them), about parsnips (she won’t eat them), about being alone and being herself, about life and love…even about Dave Nelson, who doesn’t know she’s alive. Outspoken, funny, sometimes confused but always observant, Kate is writing it all down–“Hey World, Here I Am!”
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The Creatives Behind the Book
Born in Taiwan, celebrated children’s author Jean Little grew up in Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto with an honors degree in English. A member of the Order of Canada, Little has received six honorary degrees and was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages and have won numerous awards, including a Canada Council Children’s Literature Award (now known as the Governor General’s Literary Award), a cla Book of the Year, the Little, Brown Children’s Book Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award. She lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Sue Truesdell has illustrated many children’s books over her two-decade career, including Betsy Byars’s I Can Read! series about the adventuresome Golly Sisters and Chicken Said, “Cluck!” by Judyann Ackerman Grant, winner of a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor in 2009.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780064403849
- Publication Date
- April 25, 1990
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Original Publication Date
- January 1, 1986
- Page Count
- 96
- Word Count
- 10260
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Reading Age
- 8 - 12 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 88010987
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 36336890
- Lexile® Level
- 570L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~O
- ATOS® Book Level
- 3.7
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 1
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 8068
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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