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Awards and honors for Tour America:
IRA Teachers' Choices 2007
CCBC Choices 2007
Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book 2007
ALA Book Links, Lasting Connections, Best Books of 2006
San Francisco Chronicle, Best Books, Children's Collections, 2006
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2007
Oregon Book Award for Children's Literature, The Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award 2006
Cybils, Children's and YA Bloggers Literature Awards finalist
Society of Illustrators, "The Original Art" 2006
School Library Journal, starred review

Tour America

A Journey Through Poems and Art By Diane Siebert
Illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson

10 x 9-5/8 in; 64 pp ; full-color throughout, ages 8 and up
Hardcover
Published in April, 2006
ISBN 0811850560
ISBN13 9780811850568

$17.95  

Tour America -- From New Hampshire's formidable Mount Washington to San Francisco's spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, the scenic treasures of the United States are brilliantly captured in this artistic tour de force. Award-winning poet Diane Seibert's inventive poems are perfectly paired with Caldecott Honor–recipient Stephen Johnson's compelling imagery. Each turn of the page offers a surprise—whether it's an impressionistic painting of Niagara Falls, a wild collage of Las Vegas, or an evocative tallgrass prairie landscape. Additional facts about each site and a list of art media are provided, making this distinguished volume a gem for the study of literature, art, history, or geography.

Diane Siebert and her husband left their jobs, sold their possessions, and set out on an incredible ten-year journey around the United States (and some of Mexico). This experience inspired her many award- winning children's books: Truck Song, Train Song, Plane Song, Motorcycle Song, Heartland, Mojave, Sierra, Rhyolite, Mississippi, and Cave. She lives in Oregon.

Stephen Johnson is the author-illustrator of such well-known books as My Little Red Toolbox, City by Number, and the Caldecott Honor–winning Alphabet City. He lives in Kansas with his wife and two daughters.

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"A colorful portrait of the American landscape that could awaken anyone's travel bug." —New York Times