Paul Fleischman, in his Newbery Honor winning book, spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths — tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.
Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman’s trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue’s ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby’s lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in an afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own author’s voice.
- ISBN10 0763629847
- ISBN13 9780763629847
- Publish Date 27 December 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Candlewick Press
- Imprint Candlewick
- Format Paperback (US Digest)
- Pages 128
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780763629847