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The secret river

Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.

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Main Author: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953
Other Authors: Dillon, Leo (Illustrator), Dillon, Diane (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Fishing > Juvenile fiction.
Hunger > Juvenile fiction.
Forests and forestry > Juvenile fiction.
Dogs > Juvenile fiction.
Forest animals > Juvenile fiction.
Florida > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
ISBN:9781416911791
1416911790
Author Notes:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) lived for twenty-five years in Cross Creek, Florida, the area that is the setting for The Yearling , which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. She is the author of several earlier novels as well as a memoir, Cross Creek , which inspired the acclaimed motion picture of the same name.

Leo and Diane Dillon are an award winning illustrator pair that have collaborated of book projects for more than fifty years, winning two consecutive Caldecott Medals for Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears and Ashanti To Zulu: African Traditions . They have also received five New York Times Best Illustrated Books Awards, five Coretta Scott King Honors and one Coretta Scott King Award and many other awards and distinctions. They live and work in Brooklyn, New York.

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