A grandmother\'s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award-winning author--at last back in print Grandmother was a mysterious woman.
He lives in Santa Cruz, California..
Most recently he illustrated The Carpenter\'s Gift by David Rubel and Puma Dreams by Tony Johnston.
Jim LaMarche has illustrated The Rainbabies by Laura Kraus Melmed, Albert by Donna Jo Napoli (a New York Times Best Illustrated Book), and Up and The Raft , which he also wrote.
She operates Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore in Minneapolis.
The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and she has twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award, for her debut novel Love Medicine and for LaRose .
Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction.
About author(s): Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, short stories, a memoir of early motherhood, and children\'s books, including The Range Eternal (Minnesota, 2020).
Mixing whimsy and gravity with a little science and history, the tale of the family\'s loss, and marvelous find, summons a world as intriguing as it is perfectly clear--a world animated by Louise Erdrich \'s storytelling magic, inviting readers young and old to follow Grandmother, and to wonder.
Through the words of a curious grandchild, and Jim LaMarche\'s evocative artwork, Grandmother\'s legacy unfolds in these pages in all its peculiarity and charm.
Out pop three passenger pigeons--birds of a species long extinct, supposedly.
The mystery deepens when, among Grandmother\'s collection of birds\' nests, the family discovers a clutch of eggs hatching.
But when she hitches a ride to Greenland on a passing porpoise, her family is still surprised--and then concerned.
She could heal with a touch (or with a cup of very bitter tea) or scare off a vicious dog with a look.
A grandmother\'s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award-winning author--at last back in print Grandmother was a mysterious woman
