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Islandborn

Islandborn Hardcover - 2018

by DÍAZ, Junot

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From "New York Times" bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner D'az ("The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao") comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. Full color.

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(New York): Dial Books for Young Readers, 2018. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Leo Espinosa. Quarto. Pictorial boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with moderate wear at the spine ends. The first children's book by this Dominican-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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  • Title Islandborn
  • Author DÍAZ, Junot
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 48
  • Publisher Dial Books for Young Readers, (New York)
  • Date 2018
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 569801
  • ISBN 9780735229860
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/15/2018, Page 80
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 04/01/2018, Page 0
  • Horn Book Magazine, 05/01/2018, Page 103
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2018, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2018, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/18/2017, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 02/01/2018, Page 57
  • Shelf Awareness, 03/30/2018, Page 0

About the author

Junot Daz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. A graduate of Rutgers University, Daz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Leo Espinosa is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Bogot, Colombia, whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, Wired, Esquire, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more. Leo's illustrations have been recognized by American Illustration, Communication Arts, Pictoplasma, 3x3, and the Society of Illustrators. Leo lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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