Lizzie Nonsense - Hardcover

Ormerod, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 061857493X ISBN 13: 9780618574933

Publisher: Clarion Books, 2005

Synopsis

Her mother calls it nonsense when Lizzie pretends that their house is pretty or that a bath is the sea, but it turns out that imagination runs in the family.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Ormerod is the acclaimed illustrator of more than 50 books for children. She lives in England.

From Booklist:

PreS-Gr. 2. Like Eve Bunting's Dandelions (1995) and Deborah Hopkinson's Packet of Seeds (2004), this strikingly illustrated picture book captures the loneliness, hard work, and stark beauty of pioneer life, but here the setting is the Australian bush. After Papa leaves on a long trip, young Lizzie, Mama, and the baby are alone in the little house. Lizzie's vivid imagination brightens the tedium of daily tasks: instead of turnips for dinner, Lizzie envisions "peaches and cream," and instead of tattered mending, she imagines a dress "with lots of frills and lace and bows." Her practical mother calls her daughter's dreaming "Lizzie Nonsense," but Mama imagines, too, when she dresses in Sunday best and pretends that the family is strolling to church. This Australian import is more situation than story, but its simple language has a smooth cadence that's just right for reading aloud, and Ormerod's ethereal watercolor illustrations, layered with sun-spotted textures, powerfully evoke the history, the heat, the dust, and the brave, strong family. A poignant title that extends the pioneer story beyond the American plains. Gillian Engberg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 061857493X
• ISBN 13: 9780618574933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Omerod Paul