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Little Cloud and Lady Wind

Little Cloud and Lady Wind Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Slade Morrison; Toni Morrison

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Nobel Prize recipient Toni Morrison and her son, Slade, retell Aesop's fable The Bundle of Sticks, in this gentle, environmental tale. Full color.

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Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2010. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Little Cloud and Lady Wind
  • Author Slade Morrison; Toni Morrison
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, New York
  • Date 2010
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1416985239I5N10
  • ISBN 9781416985235 / 1416985239
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.28 x 10.04 x 0.4 in (26.11 x 25.50 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Reading level 550
  • Themes
    • Topical: Self-Esteem
  • Library of Congress subjects Clouds, Individuality
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008046636
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Summary

Little Cloud likes her own place in the sky, away from the other clouds. There, the sky is all hers. She is free to make her own way and go where she wishes. Can Lady Wind show Little Cloud the power of being with others? Will Little Cloud agree there is strength in unity and change her ways? A fresh take on a classic story, Little Cloud and Lady Wind will teach kids how to work together to achieve their goals.

From the publisher

"A Paula Wiseman book."

Media reviews

The Morrisons present a modern fable about the need for independence as well as the beauty of being a part of everything else. Little Cloud discovers "I can be me and part of something too."--Yellow Brick Road, May/June 2010

Citations

  • Booklist, 12/15/2009, Page 46
  • Ebony, 04/01/2010, Page 102
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2010, Page 0
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 02/15/2010, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 02/14/2010, Page 15
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/04/2010, Page 45
  • School Library Journal, 01/01/2010, Page 79

About the author

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.

Sean Qualls's work is a mixed media combination of painting, drawing, and collage. He has illustrated many picture books, including Before John Was a Jazz Giant, which received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award; The Poet Slave of Cuba, a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book; Dizzy, an ALA Notable Book and a Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Child Magazine best book, as well as BCCB Blue Ribbon Book and a Booklist Editor's Choice; and Emmanuel's Dream, which was a Schneider Award winner and an Amazon Best Book of the Month. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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