| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780374467258 | | Publisher: Sunburst | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30715596 | | Item#: RDF7Q4 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 10.25L x 0.25T | | Pages: 40 | | Age Range: 10 to UP |
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| | | | "Oh, misery! There must be a better life than this. I'm going to find it..." (from the first line) In this reissue of one of his earlier works, an award-winning author/artist explores the life of Czechoslovakian folk hero Jan Welzl, recreating Welzl's 30-year Arctic odyssey by mixing facts with legend. Full-color illustrations.
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The life of Czech folk hero Jan Welzl who explored the Arctic for 30 years. Jan spent many of those years alone, living in a cave, surviving on whatever wildlife he could catch; however, he was also befriended by the native peoples who taught him some very important survival skills. Illustrated with maps, storyboards, panoramas, and pictographs.
| Author Bio| Peter Sis | | Raised in Prague, Czechoslovakia, author and illustrator Peter Sis attended that city's Academy of Fine Arts from which he received both a B.A. and an M.A. He also attended the Royal College of Art in London. In addition to writing and illustrating his own books for children, Sis has also illustrated works by such other authors as Kate Banks, Sid Fleischman, and George Shannon. The illustrations for his 1997 picture-book biography of Galileo, STARRY MESSENGER, earned that book a Caldecott Honor Award. Peter Sis immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1988. His critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic picture book, THE WALL, was a 2008 Caldecott Honor Book. |
| Awards |
Horn Book Award (1994) |  | finalist, Picture Book | | |
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