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Picture Book · Ages 4–8 · October 22, 2019
The Shortest Day
By Susan Cooper · With Carson Ellis
Celebrate the winter solstice's magic and mystery as light returns to the world.
32 pages· 120 words· Est. 1 min read-aloud
Hardcover
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Susan Cooper
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Susan Cooper is one of our foremost children’s authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Her many books have won the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and been shortlisted five times for the Carnegie Medal. She combines fantasy with history in Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten for Children novel), King of Shadows and Ghost Hawk, and her magical The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, won the Scottish Arts Council’s Children’s Book Award. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.
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