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The balcony  Cover Image Book Book

The balcony / Melissa Castrillón.

Castrillón, Melissa, (author,, illustrator.).

Summary:

When a little girl moves from her home to an apartment in the city, she takes her plants with her and one by one they grow and bloom and change both her world and the world all around her as she makes a new friend.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781534405882
  • ISBN: 1534405887
  • Physical Description: 38 pages, primarily illustrations
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2019]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Paula Wiseman Book."
Subject: Moving, Household > Fiction.
Apartment houses > Fiction.
Plants > Fiction.
Gardens > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
City and town life > Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship.
JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / City & Town Life.
JUVENILE FICTION / Nature & the Natural World / General (see also headings under Animals).

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Melissa Castrillon is a freelance illustrator currently based in Cambridge, England. She grew up in a small town called Hitchin before moving to Cambridge where she earned a First-Class Honors degree in illustration. In 2014 she earned a master's degree in children's book illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. She is the illustrator of If I Had a Little Dream, Yellow Kayak, and Dear Little One, and the author-illustrator of The Balcony.

Melissa Castrillon studied at the Cambridge School of Art where she earned a first class honors degree in illustration and a master’s degree in children’s book illustration. She is the illustrator of If I Had a Little Dream by Nina Laden. She is also the author-illustrator of The Balcony, which received the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Her book Dear Little One, by Nina Laden, was a School Library Journal best picture book of the year. Her books have been published all over the world. She lives in Cambridge, England, with her husband.


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