Bad Bye, Good Bye
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"Bad truck, bad guy; bad wave, bad bye . . ." A boy and his family are packing up their old home, and the morning feels scary and sad. But when he arrives at his new home, an evening of good byes awaits: bye to new friends, bye to glowing fireflies, bye to climbing trees. The New York Times bestselling author Deborah Underwood's spare text and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award winner Jonathan Bean's lush, layered illustrations perfectly capture the complex emotions of moving day. The child-centric transition from dreary morning to cheerful evening comforts young readers facing big changes of their own. AGES: 4-8 AUTHOR: Deborah Underwood has written many books for children. She lives in San Francisco. www.DeborahUnderwoodBooks.com. Jonathan has worked for The New York Times, Cricket Magazine, Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, Henry Holt, Bloomsbury and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 'At Night', the first book he wrote and illustrated, won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award and the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award for writing. His illustrations for 'The Apple Pie that Papa Baked' won the Ezra Jack Keats Award for new talent and Publisher's Weekly named him as a newcomer to watch. He is currently finishing his second authored picture book. Colour illustrations
Author: Deborah Underwood
Format: Hardback, 32 pages, 279mm x 203mm
Published: 2014, Houghton Mifflin, United States
Genre: Children's General Non-Fiction
Interest Age: From 4 to 7 years
"Bad truck, bad guy; bad wave, bad bye . . ." A boy and his family are packing up their old home, and the morning feels scary and sad. But when he arrives at his new home, an evening of good byes awaits: bye to new friends, bye to glowing fireflies, bye to climbing trees. The New York Times bestselling author Deborah Underwood's spare text and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award winner Jonathan Bean's lush, layered illustrations perfectly capture the complex emotions of moving day. The child-centric transition from dreary morning to cheerful evening comforts young readers facing big changes of their own. AGES: 4-8 AUTHOR: Deborah Underwood has written many books for children. She lives in San Francisco. www.DeborahUnderwoodBooks.com. Jonathan has worked for The New York Times, Cricket Magazine, Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, Henry Holt, Bloomsbury and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 'At Night', the first book he wrote and illustrated, won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award and the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award for writing. His illustrations for 'The Apple Pie that Papa Baked' won the Ezra Jack Keats Award for new talent and Publisher's Weekly named him as a newcomer to watch. He is currently finishing his second authored picture book. Colour illustrations