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Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 36 Vendor: Balzer + Bray Publication Date: 2012 | Dimensions: 9 X 10 (inches) ISBN: 0061953385 ISBN-13: 9780061953385 Ages: 4-8 |
From bestselling and award-winning author Mac Barnett and illustrator Jon Klassen comes Extra Yarn, a Caldecott Honor Book, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner, and a New York Times bestseller.
A young girl and her box of magical yarn transform a community in this stunning picture book. With spare, gently humorous illustrations and a palette that moves from black-and-white to a range of color, this modern fairy tale has the feel of a new classic.
Fans of Oliver Jeffers and Peter Brown will love this book.
Mac Barnett is the New York Times bestselling author of many picture books, including Extra Yarn and Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, both illustrated by Jon Klassen and both Caldecott Honor award winners. He is also the author of the bestselling Terrible Two series with Jory John. Mac lives in Berkeley, California. You can visit him online at www.macbarnett.com.
Jon Klassen grew up in Niagara Falls, Canada, and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He is the Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator of I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat, as well as the illustrator of Sam and Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett; The Dark by Lemony Snicket; House Held Up by Trees by Ted Kooser; Cats' Night Out by Caroline Stutson; and the first three books in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series.