Kisses from Rosa (German Parents' Choice Award Book for Illustration)

Mathers, Petra

ISBN 10: 0679826866 / ISBN 13: 9780679826866

Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1995

About this Item

Inscribed and signed by author on back of FFEP. Very Good green floral and lavender boards with black lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; Contents clean and unmarked, except inscription and signature of author. VG dust jacket not price clipped; light rubbing along edges, sun fading on spine of dj. From the collection of John Stewig, Caldecott committee member.

Seller Inventory # 042095

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kisses from Rosa (German Parents' Choice Award Book for Illustration)
• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679826866
• ISBN 13: 9780679826866
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 16 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction:Juvenile:Picture books

About this title

Synopsis

Illustrated in full color. When her mother becomes ill, young Rosa is sent off to stay at her Aunt Mookie's farm in the Black Forest of Germany.  Although she misses her mother terribly, Rosa is quickly caught up in all the activity of farm life--from picking blueberries with Mrs. Schmidt to visiting the cows with Cousin Birgit.  In between, she sends kiss-filled letters to Mami via Otto the mailman.  And one day soon, she knows they will be together again.  The illustrations in Petra Mathers's lovingly drawn memoir have irresistible folkloric charm.  Here's a book straight from the heart--certain to strike a chord in anyone who's ever been homesick or separated from a loved one.  

About the Author

* Petra Mathers was born and raised in Germany and moved to the United States as a young woman.  She now lives in Portland, Oregon.

* Petra is an illustrator first, and a writer second.  While she brews a story of her own on some burner in the back of her mind, she is busy illustrating other people's books.  

* Petra compares illustrating other people's books to "visiting".  A certain politeness, consideration, and modesty are necessary.

* She is a self-described "sucker for love" and her stories are always about love -- she finds unsung heroes very endearing, as well as the clumsy, balding, fumbling, shy creatures who are quietly heroic, risking everything for love.