This picture-book biography of Gabriel Garcia Mrquez ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") traces the Nobel Prize-winning novelists life from his childhood in Colombia to today, using the imagery from his eclectic novels. Full color.
Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito who could. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He is a tremendous figure, enomously talented, and unabashedly admired. This is his story, lovingly told, for children to enjoy. Using the imagery from his novels, Monica Brown traces the novelist's life in this creative nonfiction picture book from his childhood in Colombia to today. This is an inspring story about an inspring life, full of imagination and beauty.
The war is ending, perhaps ended... For the castle and its occupants the
troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam its lawless land where each
farm and house supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with
the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems after than remaining
in the ancient keep. But the lieutenant of an outlaw band has other ideas,
and the castle becomes the focus for a dangerous game of desire, deceit
and death. Combining a gripping narrative with a soaring, voyaging imagination,
'A Song of Stone' addresses timeless questions of truth, betrayal, duty
and loyalty, weaving them round a complex plot into a seamless, Spellbinding
whole.
