Stargone John (Redfeather Paperbacks) - Softcover

McKenzie, Ellen Kindt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805020691 ISBN 13: 9780805020694

Publisher: Redfeather Book from Henry Holt, 1992

Synopsis

"The boy's plain star gone," Ma said, and tugged John forward, and everybody in the classroom heard her words."

About this title

About the Author:

Ellen Kindt McKenzie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California and spends her summers in rual Wisconsin. She is the author of several books for young readers, including Taash and Jesters, an ALA Notable Book, and The King, the Princess, and the Tinker, a 1992 American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. Stargone John is a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book and winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award of 1991.

William Low is an award-winning illustrator and graduate of the Parsons School of Design. Illustrator of both Stargone John and The King, the Princess, and the Tinker, he lives on Long Island, New York, and teaches at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6-- John is a child who sees and hears and smells and feels things most people don't. He and his invisible friend, the Meesong, travel to places most can't imagine. John attends a rural, one-room school under the tutelage of Miss Vordig, a tartar of a teacher who out of cruelty or ignorance punishes him for his apparent lack of interest. He sits, submits--but doesn't learn. Luckily his sister, who narrates, takes him to visit a former teacher who is blind with cataracts and supposedly a little peculiar. She becomes the shining jewel in John's life; soon he is learning--in his own way. This is an introspective novel with little action or plot, and readers may have difficulty ascertaining setting or time period. It is, however, a gentle statement about the value of individuality. Sophisticated and sensitively written, it's a book for sharing between adult and child. --Pamela K. Bomboy, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Redfeather Book from Henry Holt
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0805020691
• ISBN 13: 9780805020694
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 68
• Illustrator: Low William