The Conference of the Birds - Hardcover

Sis, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594203067 ISBN 13: 9781594203060

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2011

Synopsis

A first adult book by the author of the Caldecott Honor-winning The Wall is an uplifting adaptation of the 12th-century Sufi epic poem about a flight of birds under the leadership of a hoopoe who search for a true king while enduring profound spiritual challenges. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1949, he began his film career by winning the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short. His film work is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He turned to publishing in 1984 and quickly became one of the leading artists in the field. With more than twenty books to his credit and almost as many honors, Peter is a seven-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Most recently, in 2007, he publishedThe Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain, which was awarded the Robert F. Sibert Medal and was also named a Caldecott Honor Book. Peter Sís was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003. He lives in the New York City area with his wife and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1594203067
• ISBN 13: 9781594203060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1