Lambslide

(Hardback)

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From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth, Ann Patchett, and the bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, Robin Preiss Glasser, comes a hilarious childrens story about a slide made just for lambs.

Nicolette Farmer is running for class president, and the rest of the Farmer family tells her shell win by a landslide. A pack of overconfident lambs mistakenly hear lambslide and cant believe theres a slide made just for them. But when they cant find one on the farm, theres only one thing left to do: take a vote!

They campaign. They bargain. They ask all the other animals if they, too, would like a lambslide.

Will the lambs ever get their special slide

Find out in this epic collaboration between Patchett and Glasser, who create the perfect childrens book.

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A good story about cooperationand the democratic process. Kirkus Reviews Patchetts first childrens book is pleasantly old-fashioned, with some modern touches... Kirkus Reviews [Glassers] art amiably captures the daily milieu of farm life, from piglets cheerfully rolling in the muck to farmers chucking hay bales to Nicolettes daydreaming under dappled leaves and swaying branches. Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books [Patchetts] gentle humor [respects] the whimsy of childhood. Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books Award-winning adult author Patchett makes her picture-book debut with this feel-good story, stuffed with tips on how to solve a problem and execute a plan. Booklist And what a slide it is! Its a stunning success... Booklist A fun way to introduce the concepts of campaigning and voting to young readers. School Library Journal

Author Bio

Ann Patchett is originally from Los Angeles and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of two earlier novels, The Patron Saint of Liars and Taft. She lives in Nashville and is the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of the South Robin Preiss Glasser is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of many books for children, including the Fancy Nancy series, written by Jane O'Connor, You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum, written by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman, You Made Me a Mother, written by Laurenne Sala, and Escape Goat and Lambslide, written by Ann Patchett. She lives in California with her husband, Bob. https://robinpreissglasser.com/