Dillon Dillon - Softcover

Banks, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374417156 ISBN 13: 9780374417154

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005

Synopsis

During the summer that he turns ten years old, Dillon Dillon learns the surprising story behind his name and develops a relationship with three loons, living on the lake near his family's New Hampshire cabin, that help him make sense of his life. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

"Established as a skillful writer of deceptively simple picture books . . . Banks's first novel is intriguingly complex, enigmatic, and brilliant . . . The flow of language is as smooth as calm water, the imagery graceful . . . Banks has crafted a poignant quest for understanding by an unforgettable character." - Starred," ""Kirkus Reviews"
"This introspective, somewhat magical story is perfect for all children who wonder about their place in the universe." - Starred, "School Library Journal"
"Rhythmic and beautiful" --Boxed review, "Booklist"
"Kate Banks has written a gentle book about the nature of being." --Polly Horvath
"This is a book to be experienced with all the senses. The ache of reckoning as Dillon's summer brings him face-to-face with the unexpected truths of his life is turned by Banks's sensitive prose into a wonder-filled, moving quest for understanding. Beautifully rendered, this summer by the lake will linger with readers as surely as if they had rowed to Dillon's island and befriended his loons themselves." --Karen Hesse "Established as a skillful writer of deceptively simple picture books . . . Banks's first novel is intriguingly complex, enigmatic, and brilliant . . . The flow of language is as smooth as calm water, the imagery graceful . . . Banks has crafted a poignant quest for understanding by an unforgettable character." --Starred," ""Kirkus Reviews"
"This introspective, somewhat magical story is perfect for all children who wonder about their place in the universe." --Starred, "School Library Journal"
"Rhythmic and beautiful." --Boxed review, "Booklist"

About the Author:

Kate Banks is the author of Walk Softly, Rachel, Friends of the Heart / Amici del Cuore, and Lenny's Space. She is also the author of many award-winning picture books, among them Max's Words, And If the Moon Could Talk, winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and The Night Worker, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. She grew up in Maine, where she and her two sisters and brother spent a lot of time outdoors, and where Banks developed an early love of reading. Banks attended Wellesley College and received her masters in history at Columbia University. She lived in Rome for eight years but now lives in the South of France with her husband and two sons, Peter Anton and Maximilian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0374417156
• ISBN 13: 9780374417154
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 149