Bibliograph

Cress watercress, Gregory Maguire

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Cress watercress, Gregory Maguire

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

4.3, ATOS Level

resource.interestGradeLevel

MG/Middle grades (4th-8th)

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Cress watercress

Nature of contents

dictionaries

resource.readingGradeLevel

Text Difficulty 3

Responsibility statement

Gregory Maguire

Summary

A lavishly illustrated woodland tale with a classic sensibility and modern flair—from the fertile imagination behind Wicked Gregory Maguire turns his trademark wit and wisdom to an animal adventure about growing up, moving on, and finding community. When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying neighbors, and no Papa, ever be home ? In the timeless spirit of E. B. White and The Wind and the Willows— yet thoroughly of its time—this read-aloud and read-alone gem for animal lovers of all ages features an unforgettable cast that leaps off the page in glowing illustrations by David Litchfield. This tender meditation on coming-of-age invites us to flourish wherever we find ourselves

Target audience

juvenile

Classification

Creator