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Toni Morrison - Please, Louise - 9781416983392 - V9781416983392
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Please, Louise

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Description for Please, Louise Paperback. A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power of imagination, from Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison. Illustrator(s): Strickland, Shadra. Num Pages: 32 pages, f-c. BIC Classification: YBCS. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 231 x 255 x 7. Weight in Grams: 138.
A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power of imagination, from Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.

On one gray afternoon, Louise makes a trip to the library. With the help of a new library card and through the transformative power of books, what started out as a dull day turns into one of surprises, ideas, and imagination!

Inspired by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Toni Morrison’s experience working in a library as a young girl, this engaging picture book celebrates the wonders of reading, the enchanting capacity of the imagination, and, of course, the splendor of libraries.

Product Details

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781416983392
SKU
V9781416983392
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was a Nobel Prize–winning American author, editor, and professor. Her contributions to the modern canon are numerous. Some of her acclaimed titles include: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. She won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. Slade Morrison was born in Ohio and educated in New York City. He studied art at SUNY Purchase and collaborated with his mother, Toni Morrison, on their books for children. Shadra Strickland studied, design, writing, and illustration at Syracuse University and later went on to complete her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent in 2009 for her work in her first picture book, Bird, written by Zetta Elliott. Strickland coillustrated Our Children Can Soar, winner of a 2010 NAACP Image Award. She teaches illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit her online at ShadraStrickland.com.

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