Me, All Alone, at the End of the World

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From the celebrated picture-book team of M. T. Anderson and Kevin Hawkes comes a wistful, wondrous ode to the natural pleasures of peace and solitude.

The boy lives alone at the End of the World, hunting treasure with old maps, finding fossils, whistling tunes, playing ball by the drop. It's a peaceful, contemplative life, and the boy is content. Until, that is, a self-styled Professional Visionary arrives and puts up a sign: CONSTANTINE SHIMMER'S GALVANO-MAGICAL END OF THE WORLD TOURS. FUN ALL THE TIME! Soon men with machines come to pave a clearing for the inn and theme park, and the touring children seem nice, but still. . . . M. T. Anderson's lyric homage to simplicity and self-reliance is brought to life in arresting detail by the masterful artwork of Kevin Hawkes, creating a fantastical yet evocative world sure to resonate with everyone who enters it.

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Anderson's text is gloriously cadenced, celebrating simple pleasures even as it acknowledges the dangerous appeal of man-made attractions.
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Author Bio

M. T. Andersonis the author of several distinguished picture books, includingHandel, Who Knew What He Liked, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, named an American Library Association Notable Children's Book and aBoston Globe-Horn BookHonor Book, andThe Serpent Came to Gloucester, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline, a Junior Library Guild Selection. He is also the author of several young adult novels, includingFeed, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize.

Kevin Hawkesis the illustrator of numerous award-winning picture books, includingWeslandiaandSidewalk Circus, both written by Paul Fleischman.Weslandiawas named an American Library Association Notable Book and was a finalist for the Kate Greenaway Medal.Sidewalk Circus, also an American Library Association Notable Children's Book, won the Society of Illustrators Silver Medal.