The Paper Bird

Written and illustrated by Lisa Anchin

Hardcover

$17.99

$16.73

4 - 8

Reading age

Page count

AD810L

Lexile measure

Jan 11, 2022

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What's The Paper Bird About

Publisher Summary

A sumptuously illustrated exploration of the joy that comes with creating art for one’s own self There once was a time when all the colors, from midsummer blue to sunrise orange, lived at the tips of Annie’s fingers… But when her classmates’ sidelong glances cause Annie to notice all the tiny flaws in her art, her colorful creative spark fades–quite literally–to gray. With lyrical prose and eye-catching illustration author-artist Lisa Anchin shows readers how to find the beauty in imperfections and celebrate the joy of creation for creations’ sake.

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The Creative Behind the Book

Author & Illustrator

Lisa Anchin

Lisa Anchin has been drawing since she could hold a pencil and making up stories since she could speak. She received her BA from Smith College and took a long, circuitous route to an MFA at the School of Visual Art in New York. She is often holed up in her studio stringing words together and compulsively doodling, but she also loves meeting other kidlit folks and volunteers as the Illustration Coordinator for SCBWI‘s Metro NY chapter. She is the illustrator of A Penguin Named Patience by Suzanne Lewis (Sleeping Bear Press 2015) and I Will Love You by Alyssa Satin Capucilli (Scholastic 2017). The Little Green Girl (Dial 2019) is her first author/illustrated title. Lisa lives in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter, and their two studio kittens.