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2023

Format:	Book
Author:	Yolen, Jane, author.
Title:	What to do with a stick / Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Paolo Domeniconi.
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	Mankato, MN : Creative Editions, 2023.
Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Summary:	Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the remarkable joys of a sick that can anchor a daydream, fend off monsters, and even make music.
Target Audience Note:	Ages 5-9. Creative Editions.
Subjects:	Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) -- Juvenile fiction. Imagination -- Juvenile fiction Play -- Juvenile fiction Stories in rhyme
Genre:	Picture books Stories in rhyme
Other Author:	Domeniconi, Paolo, illustrator.
LCCN:	2022001847
ISBN:	9781568463650 1568463650 9781685055233 1685055230
Other Number:	1298712724
# Local items:	3
# Local items in:	0
Current Holds:	0

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Jane Yolen was born February 11, 1939 in New York City. She received a bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. After college, she became an editor in New York City and wrote during her lunch break. She sold her first children's book, Pirates in Petticoats, at the age of 22. Since then, she has written over 300 books for children, young adults, and adults.

Her other works include the Emperor and the Kite, Owl Moon, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? and The Devil's Arithmetic. She has won numerous awards including the Kerlan Award, the Regina Medal, the Keene State Children's Literature Award, the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the World Fantasy Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Kirkus Review

With an active imagination, the sky (er…the stick) is the limit! When an expressive young child with straight brown hair and pale skin--and their equally expressive dog--finds a stick in the yard, the child recognizes it as a "remarkable toy" that can be used for a variety of purposes, from battling nighttime closet monsters to pretending to be a seal balancing it on their nose to using it as a magic wand. The story is a love letter to both creativity and the childhood exuberance of imaginative play. Yolen's verse is pithy and direct: "A stick is a sword / to tame monsters of dread. / Or bend it to use as a / large bow instead. // It can anchor a ship. // It can hold down a pulley. // A stick draws the line / between you and a bully." The real stars of the show, however, are the illustrations, which capture the actions and joys of the child, although at times their excitement is overshadowed by the expressions of the black-and-white dog, who skirts the line between realism and caricature. Readers, both solo and in large groups, will love the rhymes, the big, bold illustrative choices, and the message that imagination is the best playmate of them all. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Stick with this story--it's a winner. (Picture book. 4-8) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Summary

original artworkIn this last installment of Jane Yolen's trio of books about ordinary objects with extraordinary uses, the humble stick is lauded as "a sword to tame monsters of dread" and "an oar for a rowboat in puddle or pond," among other imaginative functions. As with most things, though, it fulfills its truest purpose when combined with others: what can be made with a stick, a box, and a string? "Music that goes with ... everything!"

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