- Children's fiction, collectionID:caldecott80, Poetry, Juvenile poetry
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.
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Character-led, contemplative, grave and intimate.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Marcia Brown, Blaise Cendrars
- First published
- December 1989
- Pages
- 40
- Publisher
- Demco Media, Aladdin Books, Nanhai Publishing Comoany
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Chinese, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780689710841
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“The eye has no shadow.”
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.
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