Scooter (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Williams, Vera B.

ISBN 10: 0613337263 ISBN 13: 9780613337267

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2001

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A child's silver blue scooter helps her to adjust to her new home.

About this title

About the Author:

Vera B. Williams began her career in children’s books by illustrating Hooray for Me!, written by Remy Charlip with Lilian Moore. Her beloved A Chair for My Mother won multiple awards, including a Caldecott Honor, and “More, More, More,” Said the Baby also received a Caldecott Honor. Vera B. Williams was the recipient of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award; she was awarded the 2009 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature; and she was the US nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2004. Vera B. Williams died on October 16, 2015, shortly before this book was completed.

From Kirkus Reviews:

In a narrative akin, in its liveliness and immediacy, to Williams's Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea (1988), Elana Rose Rosen describes her first ``2 months + 1 week or 9 weeks + 6 days or...5,961,600 seconds'' in Melon Hill, an urban complex where she and her mom share one-room apartment 8E. From the first day (``I don't know any of those kids...I'm not moping'') to the Labor Day celebration when Elana and the kids she's gotten to know--plus her best friend/cousin, visiting from Toronto--shine in their individual ways, Williams builds a sense of a particular community with every casual-seeming detail. Many of these relate to little Petey, who has selfish, inept parents and has never spoken until he whispers an important message to Elana; to old Mrs. Greiner (``the Whiner''), who turns out to be lovable as well as capable; and to Elana's hard-working mom, who goes to school and holds down a job. The rough marginal illustrations, while credibly childlike, deftly capture both character and action; with creative dexterity, Williams also varies the format with lists, charts (``Diagram of the Zig Zag Day'' of trials and triumphs), healthful recipes (a soup from leftovers could be adapted to any refrigerator's contents), and succinct themes built on initials from chapter titles (``Petey'': ``Petey doesn't/Ever/Talk/Even when he wants to--/Y?''). Disarming in its apparent simplicity, an upbeat, innovative, delightfully engaging, and beautifully crafted first novel about everyday life in the inner city. (Fiction. 7-11) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0613337263
• ISBN 13: 9780613337267
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Williams Vera B.