Böcker av Mary Logue

A magical bedtime story, honored as a Caldecott Honor Book.In sincere and imaginative dialogue between a child and her kind and understanding parents, the little girl decides ?in a cocoon of sheets, a nest of blankets,? she is ready to sleep, warm and strong, just like a tiger.The lyrical narrative echoes a Runaway Bunny?like cadence: ?Does everything in the world go to sleep?? the little girl asks.Artist Pamela Zagarenski's rich, luminous mixed-media paintings effervesce with charming details that non-yet-sleepy children can examine for hours. A rare gem.

Wisconsin winter weather plays as important a role as any individual in this nicely paced tale of domestic abuse and murder. Claire Watkins is still adjusting to life in little Fort St. Antoine when she notices the bruises and stiff gait of a local woman named Stephanie Klaus. Small town or big city, Claire knows the signs of abuse when she sees them. Stephanie, however, won't talk, even when her new boyfriend, Buck, is tied into his car, driven out on the treacherous ice of Lake Pepin and left there to sink and drown.When Stephanie, accompanied by Buck's delightful dog, Snooper, tries to leave town, she is once again beaten; this time, she barely survives . . .