A Newbery Christmas: Fourteen Stories of Christmas - Rilegato

Greenberg, Martin Harry; Waugh, Charles G.

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ISBN 10: 0385304854 ISBN 13: 9780385304856

Casa editrice: Delacorte Pr, 1991

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A collection of stories about Christmas, by Newbery Award-winning authors such as Eleanor Estes, E.L. Konigsburg, Madeleine L'Engle, and Katherine Paterson.

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e and the Newbery Medal seem an almost irresistable combination. For what better time than Christmas, that most family-oriented of holidays, to read stories written by authors honored as winners of the John Newbery Medal for their contribution for literature for children? This collection comprises stories by authors today's children know and love, from E.L. Kongsburg and Nancy Willard to Beverly Cleary. It also contain stories by writers familiar to their parents and, perhaps, to their grandparents, from Ruth Sawyer and Rachel Field to Lois Lenski, Eleanor Estes, and Madeleine L'Engle.

Some of these stories are humorous. Childen will laugh at the antics of Ramona Quimby in "Ramona, the Sheep Suit, and the Three Wise Persons" and at Eliot Miles's Christmas wish in E.L. Kongsburg's "Eliot Miles Does Not Wish You a Merry Christmas Because..." Others of the collection recall the christmases of years past, as in "Once in the Year" by Elizabeth Yates and "The

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• Editore: Delacorte Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0385304854
• ISBN 13: 9780385304856
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida