Description
Six Starred Reviews!
Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book of 2019
A 2019 New York Public Library Best Book for Kids
Imagination meets reality in this poetic and tender ode to childhood, illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner, John Rocco.
Every year, a boy and his family go camping at Mountain Pond.
Usually, they see things like an eagle fishing for his dinner, a salamander with red spots on its back, and chipmunks that come to steal food while the family sits by the campfire.
But this year is different. This year, the boy is going into first grade, and his mother is encouraging him to do things on his own, just like his older brother. And the most different thing of all . . . this year, a tiger comes to the woods.
With lyrical prose and dazzling art, Pulitzer Prize finalist Susan Choi and Caldecott-honor winning artist John Rocco have created a moving and joyful ode to growing up.
About the Author
Susan Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana and was raised there and in Houston, Texas. She studied literature at Yale and writing at Cornell, and worked for several years as a fact-checker forThe New Yorker.Her latest novel,Trust Exercise, was the winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, and was a national bestseller.Trust Exercisewas also named a best book of 2019 byThe Washington Post,Vanity Fair,New York Magazine,Marie Claire,Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed,Entertainment Weekly,Los Angeles Times,ELLE, Bustle,Town & Country,Publishers Weekly, The Millions,The Chicago Tribune, andTIME.Her first novel,The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second novel,American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.With David Remnick she co-edited the anthologyWonderful Town: New York StoriesfromThe New Yorker, and her non-fiction has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Tin House, Allure, O, andThe New York Timesand in anthologies such asMoney Changes EverythingandBrooklyn Was Mine.A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Pete Wells and their sons Dexter and Elliot
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