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The grey lady and the strawberry snatcher

The strawberry snatcher tries to wrest the strawberries from the grey lady but as he follows her through shops and woods he discovers some delicious blackberries instead.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bang, Molly
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Adladdin Paperbacks, 1996.
Edition:	1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Subjects:	Wordless picture books. Strawberries > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	The strawberry snatcher tries to wrest the strawberries from the grey lady but as he follows her through shops and woods he discovers some delicious blackberries instead.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Audience:	Ages 4 to 8.
Awards:	Caldecott Honor Book, 1981.
ISBN:	0689803818
Author Notes:	Molly Bang was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1943. After college, Bang taught English in Japan. She returned to the U.S and earned her graduate degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures, then worked in India, Bangladesh, and West Africa for Johns Hopkins, Unicef and Harvard. Her first books were translations of folktales, which she also illustrated. Bang has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor Book Award three times, for The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, Ten, Nine, Eight and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry. She won the Giverny Award for Best Science Picture Book for Common Ground in 1998. Ten, Nine, Eight also won the ALA Notable Children's Book and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. It was also an ALA Notable Book and a Jane Addams Children's Honor Book Her titles include Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays, Tiger's Fall, Little Rat Sets Sail, My Light, and Picture This: Perception and Composition. (Bowker Author Biography)