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    Swamp Angel

    Author Anne Isaacs
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    On sale Jun 26, 2018 | 12 Minutes | 9780525596585
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    Swamp Angel can lasso a tornado, and drink an entire lake dry. She single-handedly defeats the fearsome bear known as Thundering Tarnation, wrestling him from the top of the Great Smoky Mountains to the bottom of a deep lake. 

    A Caldecott Honor Book
    An ALA Notable Book
    A Time magazine Best Book of the Year
    A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
    Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
    A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
    Anne Isaacs was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She feels most at home in rural environments, such as the redwood forest near her Santa Cruz, California, home, where she lives with her husband and three children. The family has built their own treehouse, which they share with several squirrels and blue jays. Isaacs is the author of the Caldecott Honor Book Swamp Angel, and her other works include Cat Up a Tree and Treehouse Tales. View titles by Anne Isaacs
    • WINNER
      Caldecott Honor Book
    • WINNER
      New York Times Best Illustrated Book

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    Swamp Angel can lasso a tornado, and drink an entire lake dry. She single-handedly defeats the fearsome bear known as Thundering Tarnation, wrestling him from the top of the Great Smoky Mountains to the bottom of a deep lake. 

    A Caldecott Honor Book
    An ALA Notable Book
    A Time magazine Best Book of the Year
    A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
    Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
    A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

    Author

    Anne Isaacs was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She feels most at home in rural environments, such as the redwood forest near her Santa Cruz, California, home, where she lives with her husband and three children. The family has built their own treehouse, which they share with several squirrels and blue jays. Isaacs is the author of the Caldecott Honor Book Swamp Angel, and her other works include Cat Up a Tree and Treehouse Tales. View titles by Anne Isaacs

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    • WINNER
      Caldecott Honor Book
    • WINNER
      New York Times Best Illustrated Book

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