Eddie's Kingdom - Hardcover

Johnson, D.B.

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618562990 ISBN 13: 9780618562992

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers, 2005

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Trash in the hall! Loud music! Nothing is right with Eddie’s neighbors. Everyone in the Peaceable Building is fighting. And they are blaming Eddie. “Are you the kid who bangs the ball on my wall?” growls Mrs. 4.

How can Eddie help his neighbors to get along?

The ingenious way that Eddie brings everyone together surprises them all.

With his signature art style, author D. B. Johnson portrays the busy life of tenants in an apartment building. In Eddie, he creates an unlikely hero, a child who puts everything into perspective for his neighbors with a little help from his talent and pencil.

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About the Author:

D. B. Johnson has been a freelance illustrator for more than twenty years and has done editorial cartoons, comic strips, and conceptual illustrations for magazines and newspapers around the country. Mr. Johnson’s first picture book, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, was a New York Times bestseller and a Publishers Weekly bestseller, as well as an American Bookseller “Pick of the Lists.” Henry Hikes to Fitchburg also won numerous awards, including the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Books and the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. Mr. Johnson and his wife, Linda, live in New Hampshire.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 3–In a departure from the Henry books that started with Henry Hikes to Fitchburg (Houghton, 2000), a boy creates peace in his apartment building. The residents are fighting with one another and yelling at Eddie. Armed with pencil and paper, he visits each apartment and draws its occupant's picture. Every person has a complaint that Eddie resolves, such as giving earphones to the man who plays his music too loud. The boy's final picture echoes the prophet Isaiah's vision of a peaceful world in which the wolf shall dwell with the lamb. The text and pictures resound with the lesson that a little child shall lead them. Johnson's unique colored-pencil and paint illustrations, influenced by Cubism, glow because of the palette of reds and golds combined with pastels. The large pictures and the steady pace of the text make this a successful selection for storytimes. Johnson is a master at making deep themes accessible to children, which makes this book a good discussion starter for groups or individual sharing.–Debbie Stewart Hoskins, Grand Rapids Public Library, MI
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