Rivers of sunlight : how the sun moves water around the earth / by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm ; illustrated by Molly Bang.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780545805414
- ISBN: 0545805414
- ISBN: 9780605967342
- ISBN: 0605967342
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : The Blue Sky Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Illustrated by Molly Bang. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 4-8. K to grade 3. AD830L Lexile. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader 4.7. Reading Counts! 3.4. Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.7 0.5 187595. |
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Genre: | Picture books. Paper case bindings. Illustrated case bindings. Book jackets. Illustrated endpapers. Picture books. Juvenile works. Nonfiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | J 551.48 BAN (Text) | 000163768 | Children's Library -- Nonfiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Rivers of Sunlight: How the Sun Moves Water Around the Earth
Molly Bang was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1943. After college, Bang taught English in Japan. She returned to the U.S and earned her graduate degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures, then worked in India, Bangladesh, and West Africa for Johns Hopkins, Unicef and Harvard. Her first books were translations of folktales, which she also illustrated. Bang has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor Book Award three times, for The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, Ten, Nine, Eight and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry. She won the Giverny Award for Best Science Picture Book for Common Ground in 1998. Ten, Nine, Eight also won the ALA Notable Children's Book and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. It was also an ALA Notable Book and a Jane Addams Children's Honor Book Her titles include Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays, Tiger's Fall, Little Rat Sets Sail, My Light, and Picture This: Perception and Composition. (Bowker Author Biography)