Graven images : three stories / by Paul Fleischman ; illustrations by Bagram Ibatoulline.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2006, c1982.Edition: First Candlewick Press edDescription: 116 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0763627755 (hardcover)
- 0763629847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780763627751 (hardcover)
- 9780763629847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Newbery honor book, 1983.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Fleischm Pau | Available | 33111006797704 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths -- tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.
Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue's ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby's lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in a brand-new afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own author's voice.
The binnacle boy -- Saint Crispin's follower -- The man of influence.
A collection of three stories about a child who reads the lips of those who whisper secrets into a statue's ear; a daydreaming shoemaker's apprentice who must find ways to make the girl he loves notice him; and a stone carver who creates a statue of a ghost.
Ages 11-14.
Newbery honor book, 1983.