Gitty and Kvetch
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Gitty and Kvetch  -     By: Caroline Kusin Pritchard & Ariel Landy(ILLUS)

Gitty and Kvetch

Atheneum Books for Young Readers / 2021 / Hardcover

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Title: Gitty and Kvetch
By: Caroline Kusin Pritchard & Ariel Landy(ILLUS)
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 48
Vendor: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: 2021
Dimensions: 10.20 X 10.20 X 0.50 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 1 ounce
ISBN: 1534478264
ISBN-13: 9781534478268
Ages: 4-8
Stock No: WW478265

Publisher's Description

A girl and her best bird friend’s perfect day turns into a perfect opportunity to see things differently in this hilariously sweet story about an opposites-attract friendship, chock-full of Yiddish humor, by Sydney Taylor Honor–winning author Caroline Kusin Pritchard.

Gitty and her feathered-friend Kvetch couldn’t be more different: Gitty always sees the bright side of life, while her curmudgeonly friend Kvetch is always complaining and, well, kvetching about the trouble they get into.

One perfect day, Gitty ropes Kvetch into shlepping off on a new adventure to their perfect purple treehouse. Even when Kvetch sees signs of impending doom everywhere, Gitty finds silver linings and holds onto her super special surprise reason for completing their mission.

But when her perfect plan goes awry, oy vey, suddenly it’s Gitty who’s down in the dumps. Can Kvetch come out of his funk to lift Gitty’s spirits back up?

Author Bio

Caroline Kusin Pritchard grew up as the youngest of four children in Dallas, Texas, where she spent her childhood writing poems and reciting them to her loyal fanbase of stuffed animals. She is the author of many children’s books, including Gitty and KvetchThe Day the Books Disappeared, and The Keeper of Stories, which is a Sydney Taylor Book Award Picture Book Honor, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and received three starred reviews. She has an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and their four kiddos. Visit CarolineKusinPritchard.com to learn more.

As soon as Ariel Landy learned how to draw a sky beyond a blue scribbled line, she knew she wanted to be an illustrator. Raised on coloring books and crayons outside of Boston, she now lives in France with her husband and dog. Visit her online at ArielLandy.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Debuting author Pritchard’s sweet-natured storytelling makes a strong case for friendship’s resilience—and balancing capabilities—while Landy’s  digital cartooning and washlike textures have plenty of bounce and bubble." -- June 2021

"Landy’s pic­tures are buoy­ant, with many bright col­ors against a back­ground of vio­let and rose hues....Young read­ers learn that per­son­al­i­ties may not be as fixed as they seem. The most elat­ed child, con­front­ed by dis­ap­point­ment, often feels as pow­er­less as Kvetch. On the oth­er hand, the grumpy lit­tle owl turns out to be capa­ble of change....Like Yid­dish itself, Kvetch is flex­i­ble. Dis­ap­point­ment can be trans­formed into new alter­na­tives. The fact that the book cen­ters this gen­tle les­son in the con­text of an ordi­nary child­hood event, not a moment of real trau­ma, is impor­tant. Kvetch the owl may not share Gitty’s intense sense of adven­ture, but he helps her to under­stand the impor­tance of hav­ing a friend."

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