Anna the Bookbinder
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802788319 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Andrea Cheng is the author of the picture book Grandfather Counts, and the middle-grade novel Marika. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her family.Ted Rand has collaborated with Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault on several successful picture books, including The Ghost-Eye Tree
Rand's luminous watercolor illustrations of an early-1900s home and business beautifully re-create the era, and his characterization is exact. Scott School, Leonia, NJCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Longhaired Anna, with her wire-rimmed glasses and blue pinafore dress, is the picture of Edwardian girlhood. Sherman, formerly at Anna C. From School Library Journal Kindergarten-Grade 3-Anna, the young narrator of this quiet picture book, loves to help her father in his bookbindery. When a special rush job needs stitching just as Anna's mother goes into labor, the girl decides to do the work herself. Her father is surprised and delighted to find the job done and done well when he comes to tell her of her new brother's birth. Their motivations are clearly delineated, and it is easy to believe that this serious and determined child could have complet
Five Stars my girls and I love this story and the illustrations are also incredible.. E. R. Bird said Anna and the string. You can write a children's picture book about almost anything these days, but this was the first bookbinding item I'd yet seen. In this simple tale, Anna is the daughter of a bookbinder. Her father is slowly loosing his business to the new competitive binderies, and her mother is pregnant with their second child. When the unexpected birth coincides poorly with an urgent binding order, it's up to Anna to practice the family art and save. Anna the Bookbinder The seller sent the book promptly. It was very carefully wrapped and was as the seller's description. I would buy from this seller again.
Anna loves to sit in the corner of her father's workshop watching his skillful hands as they lovingly repair books. Anna's father works long hours struggling to complete the order, but all seems lost when Anna's pregnant mother goes into labor the night before the order is due. She understands what other people do not: Though the new large binderies that are stealing her father's business can bind books faster, their work will not endure as long. Determined not to let her father fail, Anna decides to take the fate of the family business into her own hands.. To many customers though, speed matters more than skill. Her father's most important client threatens to pull his business unless his latest order of books is rebound in three days