Talking Walls - Softcover

Burns Knight, Margy; Sibley O'Brien, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884481549 ISBN 13: 9780884481546

Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

Talking Walls introduces young readers to different cultures by exploring the stories of walls around the world and how they can separate or hold communities together. American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists;" Boston GLobe Top 25 Non-Fiction Children's Books, 1992; ALA Booklist, Starred Review; Horn Book, Noteworthy Book, 1993. Full-color illustrations.

About this title

About the Author:

MARGY BURNS KNIGHT received the National Education Association’s Author-Illustrator Human & Civil Rights Award for her work with Anne Sibley O’Brien and the Children’s Africana Book Award for Africa Is Not a Country. She is the author of Talking Walls, which has sold more than 200,000 copies. She writes a blog, “Discover Your World,” and is a Service Learning Coordinator, an English teacher, and a Peace Corps veteran.

ANNE SIBLEY O’BRIEN has illustrated 31 books, including Talking Walls, and is the author and illustrator of the picture book I’m New Here and the graphic novel The Legend of Hong Kil Dong. Annie’s passion for multiracial, multicultural, and global subjects grew out of her experience of being raised bilingual and bicultural in South Korea as the daughter of medical missionaries. She writes the column “The Illustrator’s Perspective” for the Bulletin of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and a blog, “Coloring Between the Lines.” The mother of two grown children, she lives with her husband on an island in Maine.

From Publishers Weekly:

Knight and O'Brien explore notable walls the world over as both symbols and vehicles for cultural connection; PW called this book "a praiseworthy celebration of similarities and differences among the world's peoples." Ages 5-13.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0884481549
• ISBN 13: 9780884481546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40