Goldfinches

Praise for Goldfinches:

★ “The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet’s tribute to the relationship between goldfinches and thistles finds new life in picture-book form… A superlative union of verse and visual art.”—Kirkus, starred review

★ “An essential purchase for young-reader collections that asks, ‘Have you ever been so happy in your life?’”—Booklist, starred review

★ “Sweet vibrantly illuminates an incisive and joyful work from the late poet Oliver in a picture book that takes the feel of a naturalist’s notebook.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

★ “Sweet’s art treats Oliver’s poem with respect but never stuffiness, using vivid yellows, pinks, and blues and occasionally incorporating natural-world materials.”—The Horn Book, starred review

★ “Readers, particularly reflective ones, will be moved by this sensitive celebration of natural cycles and interrelationships.”—School Library Journal, starred review

Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was born in a small town in Ohio and published her first work of poetry in 1963 at the age of twenty-eight. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching.

Melissa Sweet is a celebrated author and illustrator. She has written and illustrated many award-winning children’s books, including Balloons Over Broadway and Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White, and is a three-time recipient of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book, as well as a two-time Caldecott Honoree. She is an avid birder and Maine Master Naturalist, and lives in Portland, Maine.

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