Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com
[Gooney's] eccentric outfits and words of wisdom are peppered
throughout to keep the story moving along while Thomas's
characteristic black-and-white illustrations provide nice visuals.
Full of new vocabulary words and information about fables . . . a
must for Gooney Bird fans.
School Library Journal Lowry nicely individualizes her characters
and gets readers interested in their problems.
Booklist, ALA If Aesop met Gooney Bird Greene, what would result?
Fabulous fables, of course. . . . Gooney's outlandish outfits,
take-charge (even bossy) attitude and boisterous spirit continue to
be humorously likable--and fabulous. No doubt there'll be a fourth;
meanwhile, this one offers a clever writing exercise for a
class.
Kirkus Reviews "The irrepressible Gooney Bird Green returns to
entertain youngsters." Dallas Morning News 7/1/07 Dallas Morning
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