WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY MELISSA SWEET
AFTERWORD BY MARTHA WHITE
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Here on these pages you will find the grandfather I knew so well….Now thanks to Melissa Sweet, you can know him too.”
Sweet mixes White’s personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and children’s book author who loved words his whole life. This authorized tribute, a New York Times bestseller, includes an afterword by Martha White, his granddaughter.
Find this award-winning book at local independent bookstores, through IndieBound, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or in your local library. Available soon in paperback!
FOR EDUCATORS: The Classroom Bookshelf gives teachers and educators a comprehensive guide across the curriculum, including Primary Sources, Answers to Hard Questions, Author and Illustrator Study, and much more.
Visit the book trailer, the NPR Interview, a short film with Martha White talking about her grandfather, and Curious City’s Art Activity using E. B. White’s words.
2018 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Award
Amazon Top 20 Children’s Books of 2016
Booklist Editors' Choice 2016
Book Links’ Lasting Connections 2016
Book Page Best of 2016
Bulletin Blue Ribbon 2016
Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books of 2016
Horn Book Fanfare
Kirkus Best of 2016
Nerdy Book Club Nerdies 2016 Longform Nonfiction
New York Times Bestseller
People Best Children’s Books of 2016
Publishers Weekly Best of 2016
Raleigh News & Observer Best of 2016
San Francisco Chronicle Best of 2016
School Library Journal Best of 2016
Shelf Awareness Best Books of the Year
Nonfiction Detectives: Best of 2016
Washington Post Best of 2016
2016 NEIBA Book Award, children’s
“Drop everything and share widely.
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“An excellent guide to the life of a celebrated writer.
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“Sweet raises her collage skills to new heights while bringing her love and admiration for fellow Mainer E. B. White to the page for everyone to appreciate. Just as her astounding collages blend materials that might have been found in a barn in Maine, the text carefully blends her words with those of the beloved writer of children’s books... Sweet has written and drawn a fast-moving, thorough, deeply researched, and accessible biography.
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“What elevates this book to the stratosphere is the art. Practically glowing, it turns a very fine biography into something original, creative, and marvelous.
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“ E. B. White is such a fixture in the children’s literature landscape that it’s hard to think of him as a regular person. Fortunately, Melissa Sweet comes to the rescue in this individual, creative, and thoroughly artistic chronicle of the noted writer’s life.
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“Like Charlotte, Sweet spins a terrific story. A masterful biography.
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“This beautiful piece of bookmaking with enchanting artwork will easily draw in young readers, and the warm account of the adored author will keep them turning pages.
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“An E. B. White biography like no other.
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