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160 pp.
| Candlewick
| February, 2017
|
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-5706-2$24.99
(3)
YA
Illustrated by
Laila Milevski
&
Karl Stevens.
A military dog handler is sent home to New Hampshire after being injured in an insurgent attack in which dog Ender saved her life. This graphic novel offers a poignant--and very adult--look at contemporary veterans' issues as Liz tries to cope with physical and emotional scars while readjusting to civilian society. The grayscale art seems to shift stylistically with Liz's mood.
32 pp.
| Houghton
| September, 2006
|
TradeISBN 0-618-47310-6$16.00
(2)
K-3
A boy wakes up on the day before Christmas break and hears a snow plow coming down the country road: "Crash / Crush / Clank." With a spare text of mostly onomatopoeic words, Johnson has created an aural portrait of a snowy day. His sandy-textured full-spread paintings use thin lines and broad sweeps of subtly shaded color.
Reviewer: Lolly Robinson
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2006
(2)
PS
Adding some pleasant but superfluous stanzas (and omitting those stanzas concerning beer and wine), the familiar rhyme has here been illustrated with delicate ink, watercolor, and pencil paintings featuring a more-or-less nineteenth-century cast. Visually sophisticated and with a sober palette, this may be a little too low-key for the nursery-rhyme audience, but it is certainly an elegant version of an old favorite.