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Marvelous Cornelius

Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans

Marvelous Cornelius( )
Author: Bildner, Phil
Illustrator: Parra, John
ISBN:978-1-4521-2578-7
Publication Date:Sep 2015
Publisher:Chronicle Books LLC
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $37.99
Book Description:

In New Orleans, there lived a man who saw the streets as his calling, and he swept them clean. He danced up one avenue and down another and everyone danced along. The old ladies whistled and whirled. The old men hooted and hollered. The barbers, bead twirlers, and beignet bakers bounded behind that one-man parade. But then came the rising Mississippi--and a storm greater than anyone had seen before. In this heartwarming book about a real garbage man, Phil Bildner and John Parra tell...
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Book Details
Pages:44
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / African American & Black
Juvenile Fiction / Places / United States
Juvenile Fiction / Recycling & Green Living
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):24.765 x 28.651 x 0.991 cm
Book Weight:0.51 Kilograms
Author Biography
Bildner, Phil (Author)
Phil Bildner received a B. A. in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and a J. D. from New York University School of Law in 1993. He was admitted to the bar in both New York and New Jersey and got a job as an associate at a large Manhattan law firm. After practicing law for a year, he decided to pursue a career in education. He received a master's degree in early childhood and elementary education from Long Island University in 1995. He stopped teaching in 2006 in order to write full time.

His picture books include Shoeless Joe and Black Betsy, The Shot Heard 'Round the World, Twenty-One Elephants, Turkey Bowl, The Hallelujah Flight, and The Soccer Fence. Marvelous Cornelius won the 2016 Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children's Literature. His young adult novels include Playing the Field and Busted. He also co-created the Sluggers series with Loren Long.

In 2007, he began chaperoning student-volunteer trips to Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. He co-founded The NOLA Tree, a non-profit service organization.

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