Beyond The Pawpaw Trees by Palmer Brown

Beyond The Pawpaw Trees by Palmer Brown

It all began on a lavender blue day--the kind of day when anything can happen. It was on such a day that Anna Lavinia's father saw a double rainbow and went chasing after it. And it is on such a day that she and her cat, Strawberry, set off on their journey beyond the walled garden where the pawpaw trees grow, to a place where the buttercups bloom pink and the laws of gravity don't always apply. Here Anna Lavinia will test her mother's advice "Never believe what you see," against her father's wise words "Believe only what you see," and just maybe she'll finally be able to use the mysterious silver key her father left behind when he went chasing after rainbows.

Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice's looking glass. It is a place to return to again and again, beautifully brought to life in Palmer Brown's fanciful words and intricate, sugar-spun drawings.

Palmer Brown (1920-2012) was born in Chicago and attended Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author and illustrator of five books for children: Beyond the Pawpaw Trees and its sequel, The Silver Nutmeg, Something for Christmas, Cheerful, and Hickory (all available from the New York Review Children's Collection). About Beyond the Pawpaw Trees, his first published book, Brown said, If it has any moral at all, it is hoped that it will always be a deep secret between the author and those of his readers who still know that believing is seeing.

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ISBN 13	9781590174616
ISBN 10	1590174615
Title	Beyond The Pawpaw Trees
Author	Palmer Brown
Series	Anna Lavinia Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2011-10-18
Number of pages	136
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.