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40 pp.
| Simon
| February, 2009
|
TradeISBN 978-0-689-86829-0$16.99
(3)
K-3
Starting from the same locale, a butterfly, eel, and bird each proceeds with its own life cycle and annual migration. Expansive double-page watercolor paintings depict the creatures' habitats, and a map shows the separate pathways of their journeys south. The text is spare and concise. Two pages of "real facts" at story's end expand on the natural history of the three animals.
292 pp.
| Simon
| February, 2007
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4169-0770-1$15.99
(3)
4-6
At age nine Jeremy is devastated when his depressed mother deserts his family, leaving him and his older sister to comfort their distraught father. Taking solace in drawing birds, which Prosek shows in realistic black-and-white illustrations that open each chapter, Jeremy slowly learns to live without his mother. Jeremy's terse first-person narration is sad and unflinching.
40 pp.
| Simon
| March, 2004
|
TradeISBN 0-689-85327-0$$15.95
(4)
K-3
A child pores over the lures, flies, hooks, and other paraphernalia in his tackle box while searching for the one item he really needs for a good day's fishing: his hat. Prosek's lush watercolors of fishing equipment and fish species do not always help clarify the terms described in the awkward narration, but an extensive illustrated glossary provides the necessary background.