Bounce and Beans and Burn Contributor(s): Groenendyk, Doretta (Author), Murray, Shannon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1894838289 ISBN-13: 9781894838283 Publisher: Acorn Press OUR PRICE: $7.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2007 Annotation: After breakfast Sam is so excited that he's bouncing off the walls. His mother tells him to go out to the garden to play. At lunch he's so full of beans that all he can get up to is mischief. His grandmother tells him to go out to the garden to play. After supper he has so much energy to burn that he can't sit still. His father tells him to go out to the garden to play. Little do they know that when Sam does, he turns into a ferocious Samurai, goes on an adventure with Jack and the Beanstalk, and meets a fire-breathing dragon. Bounce & Beans & Burn follows Sam through an ordinary day of extraordinary adventure. Shannon Murray is a professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island. Her first book won the 2006 Lucy Maud Montgomery PEI Children's Literature Award. |
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BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction |
Dewey: E |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 7.8" W x 7.8" (0.45 lbs) 24 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Murray, Shannon: - Winner of the L. M. Montgomery Children's Literature Award, Bounce and Beans and Burn is Shannon Murray's first book. She lives in Prince Edward Island with her husband and two children.Groenendyk, Doretta: - Doretta, a painter, writer and teacher, lives with her husband and three children on a small spot of land in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. She is the author and illustrator of Snow for Christmas, and Thank you for My Bed, both of which were shortlisted for the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration. Her other titles include Step Outside, I'm Writing a Story, and Bully 101. She is also the co-author of Spin to Sea with her daughter, Izra Fitch. |