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Shadow

Shadow

by Marcia Brown, Blaise Cendrars

1989Children's fictioncollectionID:caldecott80PoetryJuvenile poetryShadows
5.0
Open Library
Open Library

First lines

The eye has no shadow.

About this book

Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.

Themes & subjects

Children's fictioncollectionID:caldecott80PoetryJuvenile poetryShadowsFrench poetry
First published 1989

Setting

Africa

About the authors

Marcia Brown
Marcia Brown

13 July 1918 – 28 April 2015

Marcia Joan Brown (July 13, 1918 – April 28, 2015) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She has won three annual Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association, and six Caldecott Medal honors as an illustrator, recognizing the year's best U.S. picture book illustration, and the ALA's Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1992 for her career contribution to children's literature. Many of her titles have been published in translation, including Afrikaans, German, Japanese, Spanish and Xhosa-Bantu editions. Brown is known as one of the most honored illustrators in children's literature.

Blaise Cendrars
Blaise Cendrars

1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961

Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.

Authors

Marcia Brown, Blaise Cendrars

First published

1989

Pages

40

Read time

≈ 1h

Editions

15

Languages

English, French, Chinese

Publisher

Aladdin Books

ISBN

9780684172262

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