One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia C Defelice

One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia C Defelice

Mr. and Mrs. O'Grady are so poor they have just one of everything to share - one potato a day, one chair, one blanket full of holes, and one gold coin for a rainy day. After digging up the last potato in their patch, Mr. O'Grady comes upon a big black object. It's a pot - no ordinary pot, for what they soon discover is that whatever goes into it comes out doubled Suddenly the O'Gradys aren't destitute anymore. But what they really long for is one friend apiece. Can the magic pot give them that?

This retelling of a Chinese folktale pays tribute to the author's Irish heritage, and to the joys of an old marriage, new friendships, and the impulse to share. Using pen and gouache, the artist shows the simple characters in all their winning complexity.

One Potato, Two Potato is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

DeFelice, Cynthia: - Cynthia DeFelice is the author of many bestselling titles for young readers, including the novels Wild Life, The Ghost of Cutler Creek, Signal, and The Missing Manatee, as well as the picture books, One Potato, Two Potato, and Casey in the Bath. Her books have been nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award and listed as American Library Association Notable Children's Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, among numerous other honors. Cynthia was born in Philadelphia in 1951. As a child, she was always reading. Summer vacations began with a trip to the bookstore, where she and her sister and brothers were allowed to pick out books for their summer reading. To me, she says, those trips to the bookstore were even better than the rare occasions when we were given a quarter and turned loose at the penny-candy store on the boardwalk. Cynthia has worked as a bookseller, a barn painter, a storyteller, and a school librarian. When asked what she loves best about being an author, she can't pick just one answer: I love the feeling of being caught up in the lives of the characters I am writing about. I enjoy the challenge of trying to write as honestly as I can, and I find enormous satisfaction in hearing from readers that something I wrote touched them, delighted them, made them shiver with fear or shake with laughter, or think about something new. Cynthia and her husband live in Geneva, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780374356408
ISBN 10	0374356408
Title	One Potato, Two Potato
Author	Cynthia C Defelice
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Year published	2006-08-08
Number of pages	32
Prizes	Winner of Bluebonnet Awards 2009, Winner of Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) (Gold) 2006, Winner of Alabama Camellia Award (Grades K-1) 2007, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Seven to Ten) 2007, Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Picture Book) 2008, Short-listed for Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award 2008, Short-listed for Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award 2008
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