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    Goldfinches

    Author Mary Oliver
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet On Tour
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    Penguin Young Readers | Viking Books for Young Readers
    On sale Mar 03, 2026 | 40 Pages | 9780593692424
    Preschool - 3
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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet gorgeously illustrates the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver for the first time in picture book form.

    Have you heard them singing in the wind, above the final fields?
    Have you ever been so happy in your life?

    Mary Oliver, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's most beloved poets. Introducing her unforgettable words to children for the very first time, her poem "Goldfinches" joyfully observes the power of the natural world as only Mary Oliver can.

    Illuminated by the exquisite mixed-media artwork of Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet, Goldfinches fills the reader with wonder for the beauty around them and gratitude for the ability to bear witness to it.
    © Mariana Cook
    Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She died in 2019. View titles by Mary Oliver
    Melissa Sweet is a celebrated author and illustrator. She has written and illustrated many award-winning children's books, including Balloons Over Broadway and Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White, and is a three-time recipient of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book, as well as a two-time Caldecott Honoree. She is an avid birder and Maine Master Naturalist, and lives in Portland, Maine.

    Please visit her at MelissaSweet.net. View titles by Melissa Sweet
    Praise for Goldfinches:

    ★ "The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet’s tribute to the relationship between goldfinches and thistles finds new life in picture-book form… A superlative union of verse and visual art."—Kirkus, starred review

    ★ "An essential purchase for young-reader collections that asks, ‘Have you ever been so happy in your life?’"—Booklist, starred review

    ★ "Sweet vibrantly illuminates an incisive and joyful work from the late poet Oliver in a picture book that takes the feel of a naturalist’s notebook."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

    ★ “Sweet’s art treats Oliver’s poem with respect but never stuffiness, using vivid yellows, pinks, and blues and occasionally incorporating natural-world materials.”—The Horn Book, starred review

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet gorgeously illustrates the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver for the first time in picture book form.

    Have you heard them singing in the wind, above the final fields?
    Have you ever been so happy in your life?

    Mary Oliver, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's most beloved poets. Introducing her unforgettable words to children for the very first time, her poem "Goldfinches" joyfully observes the power of the natural world as only Mary Oliver can.

    Illuminated by the exquisite mixed-media artwork of Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet, Goldfinches fills the reader with wonder for the beauty around them and gratitude for the ability to bear witness to it.

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    © Mariana Cook
    Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She died in 2019. View titles by Mary Oliver
    Melissa Sweet is a celebrated author and illustrator. She has written and illustrated many award-winning children's books, including Balloons Over Broadway and Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White, and is a three-time recipient of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book, as well as a two-time Caldecott Honoree. She is an avid birder and Maine Master Naturalist, and lives in Portland, Maine.

    Please visit her at MelissaSweet.net. View titles by Melissa Sweet

    Praise

    Praise for Goldfinches:

    ★ "The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet’s tribute to the relationship between goldfinches and thistles finds new life in picture-book form… A superlative union of verse and visual art."—Kirkus, starred review

    ★ "An essential purchase for young-reader collections that asks, ‘Have you ever been so happy in your life?’"—Booklist, starred review

    ★ "Sweet vibrantly illuminates an incisive and joyful work from the late poet Oliver in a picture book that takes the feel of a naturalist’s notebook."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

    ★ “Sweet’s art treats Oliver’s poem with respect but never stuffiness, using vivid yellows, pinks, and blues and occasionally incorporating natural-world materials.”—The Horn Book, starred review

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