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Books with author Peter Catalanotto

  • My Mother's Voice

    Joanne Ryder, Peter Catalanotto

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, March 28, 2006)
    My mother calls mefrom darkness to light. . . .I wrap her words around me,warm with good wishesfor the day to come.Joanne Ryder's heartwarming text and Peter Catalanotto's glowing art celebrate the tender, everyday moments shared between a mother and daughter. In every welcome and whisper, laugh and farewell, the ever-changing tones of a mother's voice express a gift a daughter can treasure -- her mother's constant love.
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  • Artifacts

    Pete Catalano

    Paperback (Month9Books, LLC, May 17, 2016)
    It's funny how one little letter can change a person's life. Jax and his friends have been planning the summer of a lifetime at Camp Runamuck. However, when one of them is facing summer at a school desk for failing English, they watch those plans crash and burn!At the last moment they're given a way out. An extra credit assignment to find several fake artifacts for a fairy tale display their teacher is presenting at the local library. Thinking they've hit the easiest-extra-credit-ever jackpot, they begin rummaging through any piles of junk they can find. As they start putting the clues together, they realize that what they're really searching for is one authentic artifact that can rewrite fairy tales!Enlisting the aid of the Lost Boys, Jax and his friends battle fairy tale villains to see who can get their hand, or their hook, on it first.
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  • Dreamplace

    George Lyon, Peter Catalanotto

    Hardcover (Scholastic, March 1, 1993)
    Present-day visitors describe what they see when they visit the pueblos where the Anasazi lived long ago
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  • Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat

    Vedat Dalokay, Peter Catalanotto

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, April 29, 1994)
    A nostalgic and powerfully honest memoir of growing up in eastern Turkey tells of a young boy's transforming encounter with a remarkable woman, left alone with her goats after her husband and sons are killed in a vendetta.
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  • My Mother's Voice

    Joanne Ryder, Peter Catalanotto

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, March 28, 2006)
    My mother calls me from darkness to light. . . . I wrap her words around me, warm with good wishes for the day to come. Joanne Ryder's heartwarming text and Peter Catalanotto's glowing art celebrate the tender, everyday moments shared between a mother and daughter. In every welcome and whisper, laugh and farewell, the ever-changing tones of a mother's voice express a gift a daughter can treasure -- her mother's constant love.
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  • The Catspring Somersault Flying One-Handed Flip-Flop

    Suann Kiser, Peter Catalanotto

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, June 1, 1993)
    When everyone in her large family seems too busy around the farm to pay any attention to her, a young girl decides to run away to find someone who will watch her do her new trick
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  • Dark Cloud Strong Breeze

    Susan Patron, Peter Catalanotto

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, March 1, 1994)
    A cumulative rhyme relates the sequence of events that takes place before Daddy can get into the car where he has locked his keys.
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  • Catching the Sun

    Coleen Paratore, Peter Catalanotto

    Hardcover (Charlesbridge Publishing, Jan. 15, 2008)
    It's a family tradition. At dawn on the last morning of vacation, Dylan and his mom "catch the sun". But next year, things will be different. Soon Dylan will have a enw baby brother or sister. Coleen Paratore captures the mixture of excitement and worry an older child feels about the arrival of a new sibling.
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  • My House Has Stars

    Megan McDonald, Peter Catalanotto

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, Sept. 1, 1996)
    Eight children--from the Philippines, Ghana, Japan, the American Southwest, Brazil, Alaska, Mongolia, and Nepal--share stories of the stars that they can see from their homelands.
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  • An Angel for Solomon Singer

    Cynthia Rylant, Peter Catalanotto

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, March 1, 1992)
    A lonely New York City resident finds companionship and good cheer at the Westway Cafe where dreams come true.
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  • All I See

    Cynthia Rylant, Peter Catalanotto

    Library Binding (Orchard Books, June 1, 1988)
    A child paints with an artist friend who sees and paints only whales.
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  • Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat

    Vedat Dalokay, Peter Catalanotto

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, April 29, 1994)
    Translated from the Turkish by Guner Ener. Sister Shako's husband and two sons were killed as part of a vendetta. Instead of being bitter, however, she allowed her abiding faith, her harmony with the land, and her exuberant spirit to see her through. "A vivid and elegiac portrayal of an elemental wise woman and of the rural Turkey where she lived half a century ago."--Kirkus Reviews.
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