A Quiet Place

BY DOUGLAS WOOD, ILLUSTRATED BY DAN ANDREASON

Brief Description:
"Readers will relate to the ruddy-cheeked, blond city-dweller, who with hands clamped tightly over his ears yearns for respite from `whistles shrieking and grown-ups talking and engines roaring and ... grown-ups talking....' In prose saturated with simile and metaphor, Wood suggests numerous subdued spots for solitude from ponds and deserts to caverns and museums and then interjects the boy's fantasies into the mix. . These scenarios will hold children rapt until the concluding thought perhaps a bit lofty for the very young that people hold within themselves `the very best quiet place of all.'" -Publishers Weekly Coming in May in Paper!

Simon & Schuster 2005 32 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)