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Deborah Hopkinson's Books
There are 17 books
11.
Apples to Oregon
Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by: Nancy Carpenter
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2004
Ages: 4 - 8
Apples, ho! When Papa decides to pull up roots and move from Iowa to Oregon, he can't bear to leave his precious apple trees behind. Or his peaches, plums, grapes, cherries, and pears. Oh, and he takes his family along too....
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
12.
Maria's Comet
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by: Deborah Lanino
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2003
Ages: 4 - 8
Maria's wish burns as brightly as a star.
Maria longs to be an astronomer and imagines all the strange worlds she can travel to by looking though her papa's telescope. One night Maria gets her chance to look through the...
13.
Cabin in the Snow
(Part of Prairie Skies)
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by: Patrick Faricy
This edition: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2002
Ages: 6 - 9
STORMS ARE BREWING When Charlie and Papa arrive in Lawrence for supplies, they find the bustling Kansas town threatened by border ruffians from proslave Missouri. Papa decides to remain behind with other free-soil settlers...
Other Formats: eBook
14.
Under the Quilt of Night
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by: James E. Ransome
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2002
Ages: 5 - 10
Award-winning duo Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome combine their talents once more for this sequel to the best-selling Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Traveling late one night, a runaway slave girl spies a quilt...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
15.
A Band of Angels
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by: Raul Colon
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2002
Ages: 5 - 9
A Band of Angels is fiction, but it is based on real events and people. The character of Ella was inspired by Ella Sheppard Moore, who was born February 4, 1851, in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father was able to free himself...
16.
Fannie in the Kitchen
The Whole Story From Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented Recipes with Precise Measurements
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by: Nancy Carpenter
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: May 1, 2001
Ages: 4 - 9
Marcia enjoys being her mother's helper, so she's hurt when Mother hires Fannie Farmer to prepare family's meals. But sure enough Fannie's charm (and griddle cakes!) win Marcia over, and she finds herself cooking up delights...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
17.
Birdie's Lighthouse
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by: Kimberly Bucklen Root
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2000
Ages: 4 - 8
December 1, 1855
The sea is never still. Sometimes it roars so load that it drowns our voices. Mama says there hasn't been a storm this fierce since the night I was born. She thinks it too dangerous for me to go to the tower...
