Category: poetry

Red Light, Green Light
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and Ken Wilson-Max (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Roll into one little boy’s make-believe traffic world, filled with flashing lights, zooming cars, whirring helicopters, and racing fire engines.

Snippet:

The What is your favorite vehicle? mini-comic answers questions about why I wrote this book. The mini-comic also asks young readers a question they can answer by drawing on page 8.

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Window Music
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and Wade Zahares (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Window music is an old railroad term for the scenery outside the window. When I found these words in a library book, I knew I had to write this 80-word poem about the scenery between my hometown Los Angeles and the seaside town of Santa Barbara.

The illustrator lived in Maine, so he added snow! I was surprised at first because it doesn’t snow on that route, but as you can see in the illustration below, it’s a nice touch.

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After Window Music came out in 1998, it was a Book of the Month selection and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book! (I’m not the only one who likes to look out the window!) In 2014, thanks to Liz Nealon, it was published as an e-book, the format it still exists in today.

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