Home Place
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Deep in the woods there used to be a house where a family once lived. Over there was the chimney. Just imagine little toes warming up beside it. And see those daffodils? Someone took special care to plant and tend to them so that every spring they blossomed as brightly as the year before. Both the house and the family are gone now, but if you go to that spot in the woods, you’ll find the chimney and the flowers. Then all you have to do is close your eyes and imagine…With Crescent Dragonwagon’s poetic text and Jerry Pinkney’s rich watercolors, past and present briefly touch in this remarkable book.
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Crescent Dragonwagon is the author of more than fifty books, including Half a Moon and One Whole Star. She lives in Vermont.
Jerry Pinkney is one of America’s most admired children’s book illustrators. He has won the Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Awards, the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the Society of Illustrators’ Original Art Show Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other prizes and honors. Recently a member of the National Council of the Arts and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has also served on the U.S. Postal Service Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Committee. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. Jerry Pinkney lives with his wife, author Gloria Jean Pinkney, in Westchester County, New York.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780027331905
- Publication Date
- August 30, 1990
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Page Count
- 40
- Words Per Page
- 21
- Reading Age
- 4 - 8 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 89032911
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 19739875
- Lexile® Level
- AD840L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~T
- ATOS® Book Level
- 4.4
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 6120
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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