Swamp Angel - Softcover

Isaacs, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140559086 ISBN 13: 9780140559088

Publisher: Puffin Books, 2000

Synopsis

Swamp Angel can lasso a tornado, and drink an entire lake dry. She single-handedly defeats the fearsome bear known as Thundering Tarnation, wrestling him from the top of the Great Smoky Mountains to the bottom of a deep lake. Caldecott Medal-winning artist Paul O. Zelinsky's stunning folk-art paintings are the perfect match for the irony, exaggeration, and sheer good humor of this original tall tale set on the American frontier.

A Caldecott Honor Book
An ALA Notable Book
A Time magazine Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

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Review:

On the day of her birth, nothing about Angelica Longrider suggested that she would one day become the greatest woodswoman of Tennessee. In fact, the newborn was "scarcely taller than her mother and couldn't climb a tree without help." It's not long, though, before Angelica is vanquishing varmints such as Thundering Tarnation, a huge bear with a taste for settlers' winter rations, and swallowing entire lakes in a gulp.

This tallest of tall tales is an original from an intriguing newcomer to children's books, Anne Isaacs. In the tradition of Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill, the story of a self-sufficient, tornado-wielding, unflappable heroine lopes along at a perfect pace. Paul O. Zelinsky's folksy oil illustrations are painted on cherry, maple, or birch veneers, with old-fashioned frames; the extravagant and fanciful paintings have garnered the distinguished illustrator yet another Caldecott Honor. (Zelinsky has already received one Caldecott Medal for Rapunzel and two Caldecott Honors for Hansel and Gretel and Rumpelstiltskin.) The dry and fantastically far-fetched humor of the author-illustrator team will make readers of all ages feel as though Angelica herself has tossed 'em in the air so high that they are still on the way up at nightfall. (Ages 4 and older) --Emilie Coulter

From the Publisher:

SWAMP ANGEL LIST OF AWARDS AND HONORS

1994 Caldecott Honor Book 1995 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book 1994 ALA Notable Book New York Times Best Illustrated Books of 1994 School Library Journal Best Books of 1994 Booklist Children's Editors Choices 1994 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 1994 NCSS--Children's Book Center "Notable" list--Social Studies, 1995 The Bulletin, Blue Ribbon Book, 1994 The Horn Book Fanfare, 1994 Time Magazine's 8 Best Children's Books, 1994 Parenting Magazine Reading-Magic Award, 10 Best Books of 1994 Child Study Children's Book Committee--Children's Book of the Year list 1995 Notable Trade Book in Language Arts, National Council of Teachers of English 1995 New York Book Show (2 awards, Cover and Book categories)

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0140559086
• ISBN 13: 9780140559088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Zelinsky Paul O.