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The Drummer Boy

The Drummer Boy( )
Author: Long, Loren
Illustrator: Long, Loren
ISBN:978-0-399-25174-0
Publication Date:Nov 2008
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Philomel
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $32.99
Book Description:

In this enchanting, original story, Loren Long brings stunningly to life a new little drummer boy at whose heart is the true and giving spirit of Christmas. In a wintry little town, a toy drummer boy appears mysteriously on a child's doorstep. The child loves the little drummer boy, and the drummer boy loves the child, giving the child the only gift he can.He playshis drum- boom pum pum boom pum. But when heaccidentally falls into thetrash, the...
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Author Biography
Long, Loren (Author)
Loren Long received a BA in graphic design/art studio from the University of Kentucky and did graduate-level studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He worked as an illustrator for a greeting card company in Cincinnati before beginning his career as a freelance illustrator.

His first picture book, Angela Johnson's I Dream of Trains, won the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration. He has illustrated numerous other works including The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper, Mr. Peabody's Apples by Madonna, Toy Boat by Randall DeSeve which won the 2008 Great Lakes Book Award for Children's Picture Book, Angela and the Baby Jesus by Frank McCourt, and the chapter book series Sluggers that he created with Phil Bildner. His version of Walt Whitman's When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer was a Golden Kite Honor Book. He has written and illustrated several books including Drummer Boy and the Otis series.

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