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Sarah Stewart; Illustrated by David Small

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Elizabeth Brown doesn’t like to play with dolls, and she doesn’t like to skate. What she does like to do is read books. Lots of them, all the time. Over the years, her collection has grown to such enormous proportions that there’s not even room in Elizabeth’s house for Elizabeth. The way she solves the problem will warm the hearts of book lovers, young and old.

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“Reading has never looked quite so delicious.”—Booklist

“A story told in witty rhyme, about a bookish Elizabeth Brown, who . . . takes her greatest pleasures in life from her literary treats . . . This is a funny, heartwarming story about a quirky woman with a not-so-peculiar obsession. Cheers for Elizabeth Brown, a true patron of the arts.”—School Library Journal

“The author and illustrator have created [a] strong, independent, iconoclastic heroine . . . The illustrations of glorious piles of more and more books and of happy, red-headed Elizabeth Brown and a friend reading by the fire . . . depict the acme of utter bliss for bibliomaniacs.”—The Horn Book Magazine

“A joy to look at.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Sarah Stewart; Illustrated by David Small

Husband and wife duo Sarah Stewart and David Small have worked together on several picture books, including The Gardener, a Caldecott Honor book available from Square Fish. Small has also illustrated other books, including the 2001 Caldecott Medal winner So You Want to Be President?, by Judith St. George. Stewart and Small live in a historic home on a bend of the St. Joseph River in Michigan.

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September 2008
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ISBN: 9780312384548
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8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, 40 pages, Full-color illustrations
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 1995
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ISBN: 9780374343880
ISBN10: 0374343888
Picture Book
8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, 40 pages, Full-color illustrations throughout
Age Range: 5 to 9
Grade Range: k to 4 Information for Librarians

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Lexile: NPL
F&P Level A-Z: S
AR Quiz Number: 135484
AR Book Level: 5.9
AR Points: 15

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