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Blue Skies Smiling at Me (page 3)


Cover art for BLUE
CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2005

"Here's a game worth playing—for everyone, not just budding visual artists. (Picture book. 6-9)"
Dupasquier invites readers to battle boredom by taking a good look around. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE NIGHT RAINBOW
ADULT
Released: March 1, 2000

"Picture book poetry."
Paying poetic tribute to the aurora borealis, Esbensen and Davie (Echoes for the Eye, 1996) invoke the legends with which northern peoples have wreathed it. Read full book review >
Cover art for CLOUD NINE
CHILDREN'S
Released: Aug. 21, 1995
by Norman Silver, illustrated by Jan Ormerod

"Science may not allow humans to float on clouds like inner tubes, or sky surf on a jet-powered cumulus, but this book's paean to the imagination will transport readers easily, believably, up to Armstong's cottony retreat. (Picture book. 5-8)"
 When his mother suggests he ``go build something,'' Armstrong constructs a ladder to the clouds, and as the numbered clouds pass bysix, seven, eighthe lassos the ninth as his personal refuge in the sky. Read full book review >