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Escargot  Cover Image Book Book

Escargot / story by Dashka Slater ; pictures by Sydney Hanson.

Slater, Dashka, (author.). Hanson, Sydney, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Escargot is a beautiful French snail who only wants to be your favorite animal and get to the delicious salad at the end of the book, even if he has to try a carrot, which he hates.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374302818
  • ISBN: 0374302812
  • ISBN: 9781549075483
  • ISBN: 1549075489
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017.

Content descriptions

Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader 2.8.
Accelerated Reader AR LG 2.8 0.5 192286.
Awards Note:
Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award, 2017.
Kentucky Bluegrass Award, 2019
Subject: Snails > Juvenile fiction.
Snails > Fiction
Humorous stories
JUVENILE FICTION > Animals > Insects, Spiders, etc.
JUVENILE FICTION > Social Issues > New Experience.
JUVENILE FICTION > Humorous Stories.
Humorous stories.
Snails.
Humorous fiction.
Snails > Fiction.
Genre: Picture books for children
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Picture books.
Humorous fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Picture books.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Burlington Public Library E SLATER 39851001645812 Picture Books – Animals (Teal) Copy hold Available -

Dashka Slater has written many picture books, including Escargot, which won the Wanda Gag Book Award; A Book for Escargot; Love, Escargot; Escargot and the Search for Spring; Baby Shoes; and The Antlered Ship, which was a Junior Library Guild Selection and received four starred reviews. Her New York Times–bestselling nonfiction young adult novel The 57 Bus won several accolades including the Stonewall Book Award and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Sydney Hanson is a children’s book illustrator living in Sierra Madre, California. She works in a combination of traditional and digital media to create her illustrations—her favorites are watercolor and colored pencil. She loves the outdoors and is a certified naturalist who spends most of her spare time poking around the woods with her Labrador retriever, Cash. To see all of her latest animals and illustrations, follow her on Instagram.


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