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Thunder Rose
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Thunder Rose Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Nolen, Jerdine

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An award-winning tall tale that introduces a powerful new African-American heroine: Thunder Rose, who drinks her milk straight from the cow and prefers the company of her bull, Tater, to any puppy or kitten. Full color.

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Details

  • Title Thunder Rose
  • Author Nolen, Jerdine
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Date 2007-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 10175784-6
  • ISBN 9780152060060 / 0152060065
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.78 x 8.04 x 0.16 in (29.92 x 20.42 x 0.41 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 07 years
  • Grade levels P - 2
  • Reading level 910
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Country/Cowboy
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, West (U.S.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002012287
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Summary

Thunder Rose vows to grow up to be more than just big and strong, thank you very kindly--and boy, does she ever! But when a whirling storm on a riotous rampage threatens, has Rose finally met her match?

From the publisher

JERDINE NOLEN is the author of many beloved picture books, including Raising Dragons, which won the Christopher Award and was a Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book for Children. She lives in Maryland.

KADIR NELSON has illustrated many popular books for children, including Just the Two of Us by Will Smith and Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee. He received the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Ellington Was Not a Street by Notzake Shange. He lives in California.

 

Media reviews

"Exuberant . . . A terrific read-aloud."--Booklist
"A wonderful tale of joy and love, as robust and vivid as the wide West . . . A splendid, colorful, and most welcome addition to the tall-tale genre."--School Library Journal

Citations

  • PW Notes and Reprints, 10/01/2007, Page 61

About the author

JERDINE NOLEN is the author of many beloved picture books, including Raising Dragons, which won the Christopher Award and was a Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book for Children. She lives in Maryland.

KADIR NELSON has illustrated many popular books for children, including Just the Two of Us by Will Smith and Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee. He received the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Ellington Was Not a Street by Notzake Shange. He lives in California.