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Sís, Peter

Summary: Gives information about each state, including capital, motto, state tree, state bird, source of name, and date of statehood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2004

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Oversized, Call number: J 973.02 SIS

Sís, Peter

Summary: I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: J 943.7040 SIS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB Sis Sis

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 943.7040 SIS

Sís, Peter

Summary: A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SIS

Sís, Peter

Summary: Robin and his friends are planning to dress up as pirates for their school's annual costume party, but instead his mother creates a Robinson Crusoe costume for him, and while the adults love it, his friends are less welcoming.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SIS

Sís, Peter

Summary: While at the beach, Mary and her mother see letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1990

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SIS

Sís, Peter

Summary: Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Foster Books 2000

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Wld Cult Sis

Sís, Peter

Summary: Presents the life of the famous nineteenth-century naturalist using text from Darwin's writings and detailed drawings by Sis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAR

Sís, Peter

Summary: As Madlenka walks her imaginary dog around her city block, her neighbors see in her pet the image of the dogs they had as a children.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2002

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SIS

Sís, Peter

Summary: Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GAL

Sís, Peter

Summary: As a little boy cleans up his room, he gives one word descriptions of the work his various toy trucks do, such as hauling, plowing, and loading. Features a gate-fold illustration that opens into a three-page spread.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1999

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SIS

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 832.6 GOE

Limón, Ada

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and Caldecott Honoree Peter Sís: a transcendent picture book featuring the poem that will travel into space aboard NASA's Europa Clipper. As part of her tenure as US poet laureate, Ada Limón has written 'In Praise of Mystery,' which will be engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft that launches to Jupiter and its moons in October 2024. Published here as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2024

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Domínguez, Carlos María

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOM

Shannon, George.

Summary: Fifteen brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1990

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SHA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHA

Shannon, George.

Summary: Fourteen brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SHA

Shannon, George.

Summary: Brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SHA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHA

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