Ruthie Rose's Big Idea: A Poetry Story
$39.96
- Hardcover
40 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
From the New York Times bestselling John Schu comes a celebration of poetry and possibilities that follows a child who sparks to life a special space in her school for exploring ideas of all kinds.
Ruthie Rose wakes up with an idea. A big, bright, beautiful idea.
An idea so great! An idea so grand! Ruthie Rose can’t wait to share it with her idea-loving librarian, her art teacher, and her best friend. As the idea gets shared, it sparkles through her classmates, shouts down the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781536226492 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1536226491 |
| Author: | John Schu, Holly Hatam |
| Publisher: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 425g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 260mm x 238mm |
| Series: | The School of Sharing |
| Audience Age: | 4-8 |
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Critics Review
A sweet reminder that tending to our bright ideas can be transformative.
—Kirkus Reviews
It’s hard to imagine an audience that wouldn’t be inspired by Ruthie Rose’s idea or a setting that wouldn’t be improved by implementing it.
—School Library Journal
An enthusiastic picture book celebration of poetry.
—Publishers Weekly
John Schu
John Schu is the author of the picture books This Is a School, illustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison, and This Is a Story, illustrated by Lauren Castillo, as well as the young adult novel Louder Than Hunger. He is also a children’s librarian at Bookelicious and a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University. He was previously the Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic Book Fairs and has worked as a classroom teacher and school librarian. He travels all over the world visiting schools and meeting with students, teachers, and administrators as he advocates for the people and things he cares about most: kids, books, schools, and the libraries—and librarians—that connect them. John Schu lives in Naperville, Illinois.
Holly Hatam is an artist and author who has been drawing since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Even as a kid, she held art gallery openings in her tiny bedroom and charged her family a whopping twenty-five-cent admission fee! Today she is an author and illustrator working in bookmaking and animation. Best known for the #1 New York Times best-selling books Dear Girl and Dear Boy by Paris Rosenthal and Jason B. Rosenthal, Holly Hatam has worked on more than thirty books, both as an illustrator and as an author. She lives in Waterloo, Ontario.
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