One Potato, Two Potato

DeFelice, Cynthia

ISBN 10: 0374356408 / ISBN 13: 9780374356408

Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2006

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Synopsis :

This retelling of a Chinese folktale pays tribute to the author's Irish heritage, and to the joys of an old marriage, new friendships, and the impulse to share.

Mr. and Mrs. O'Grady are so poor they have just one of everything to share - one potato a day, one chair, one blanket full of holes, and one gold coin for a rainy day. After digging up the last potato in their patch, Mr. O'Grady comes upon a big black object. It's a pot - no ordinary pot, for what they soon discover is that whatever goes into it comes out doubled! Suddenly the O'Gradys aren't destitute anymore. But what they really long for is one friend apiece. Can the magic pot give them that?

Using pen and gouache, the artist Andrea U'ren shows the "simple" characters in all their winning complexity.

Cynthia DeFelice's One Potato, Two Potato is a Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

À propos des auteurs: Cynthia DeFelice was the author of many bestselling titles for young readers, including the novels Wild Life, The Ghost of Cutler Creek, Signal, and The Missing Manatee, as well as the picture books, One Potato, Two Potato, and Casey in the Bath. Her books were nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award and listed as American Library Association Notable Children's Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, among numerous other honors. Cynthia was born in Philadelphia in 1951. As a child, she was always reading. Summer vacations began with a trip to the bookstore, where she and her sister and brothers were allowed to pick out books for their summer reading. "To me," she said, "those trips to the bookstore were even better than the rare occasions when we were given a quarter and turned loose at the penny-candy store on the boardwalk." Cynthia worked as a bookseller, a barn painter, a storyteller, and a school librarian. She and her husband lived in Geneva, New York. She died at age seventy-two in 2024.

ANDREA U'REN is the writer/illustrator of Mary Smith, winner of the IRA Children's Book Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : One Potato, Two Potato
Éditeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Illustrateur : U'Ren, Andrea
Etat : Good