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Joyful Noise

A Newbery Award Winner

Joyful Noise( )
Author: Fleischman, Paul
Illustrator: Beddows, Eric
ISBN:978-0-06-446093-4
Publication Date:Jun 2019
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:HarperCollins
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $8.99
Book Description:

Written to be read aloud by two voices--sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous--here is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrate the insect world, from the short life of the mayfly to the love song of the book louse. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise.

In this remarkable volume of poetry for two voices, Paul Fleischman verbally re-creates the "Booming/boisterious/joyful noise" of insects. The...
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Book Details
Pages:64
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.747 x 8.892 x 0.195 Inches
Book Weight:0.352 Pounds
Author Biography
Fleischman, Paul (Author)
Paul Fleischman was born in Monterey, California on September 5, 1952. His father is fellow children's author, Sid Fleischman. He attended the University of California at Berkeley for two years, from 1970 to 1972. He dropped out to go on a cross-country train/bicycle trip and along the way took care of a 200-year-old house in New Hampshire. He eventually earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of New Mexico in 1977.

Fleischman has written over 25 books for children and young adults including award winners such as Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Newberry Medal in 1989; Graven Images, Newberry Honor; Bull Run, Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; Breakout, Finalist for the National Book Award in 2003; Saturnalia, Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Honor. He has also garnered numerous awards and recognitions from the American Library Association, School Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, and NCTE.

He founded the grammar watchdog groups ColonWatch and The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to English.

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