Meet Windell Minor @ Hickory Stick Bookshop

Bring your children to meet beloved author and illustrator Wendell Minor at The Hickory Stick Bookshop on Saturday, July 15th at 2pm in celebration of two new books: The 25th anniversary release of The Seashore Book by Charlotte Zolotow (Charlesbridge, $16.99) and a brand new book, Ben’s Revolution: Benjamin Russell and the Battle of Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick (Penguin Random House, $17.99), both illustrated by Wendell Minor.

About The Seashore Book:

From the jacket: A mother's words help a little boy imagine the sights and sounds of the seashore, even though he has never seen the ocean. This summer classic by two masters has been reissued and redesigned for contemporary audiences. Wendell Minor's elegant artwork and Charlotte Zolotow's simple, evocative prose brings a day at the beach vividly to life as a boy and his mother imagine what it would be like to spend a day at the seashore
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“Zolotow carefully chooses her words to create a poem full of the colors, sound, and sights of a day at the beach. Minor’s softly detailed renderings reinforce the gentle mood.” – School Library Journal

“As in Sierra and Heartland, Minor's crisply detailed watercolors evoke place with imaginative accuracy and visual grace.” Publishers Weekly

About Ben’s Revolution:

From the jacket: History comes alive in this gripping account of a young boy caught up in the start of the Revolutionary War. Based on an episode in National Book Award-winning author Nathaniel Philbrick's New York Times bestseller Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution, this engrossing story allows readers to experience history from a child's perspective, and Wendell Minor's stunning paintings will transport readers back to the early days of the Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Russell is in school on the morning of April 19th, 1775, when his teacher announces, "The war's begun, and you may run " Ben knew this day was coming; after all, tensions had been mounting between the colonists and the British troops ever since the Boston Tea Party. And now they have finally reached the breaking point. Ben and his friends excitedly rush out of their classroom to bear witness, and follow the throngs of Redcoats marching out of Boston toward Concord. Much to Ben's surprise, Boston is sealed off later that day--leaving the boys stuck outside the city, in the middle of a war, with no way to reach their families. But Ben isn't worried--he's eager to help the Patriots. He soon becomes a clerk to the jovial Israel Putnam, a general in the provincial army. For months he watches the militia grow into an organized army, and when the Battle of Bunker Hill erupts, Ben is awed by the bravery of the Patriots, although saddened by the toll war takes. He later goes on to become an apprentice at a Revolutionary newspaper, and it's a happy day when they get to report on the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Praise:
"Masterly narrative . . . Philbrick tells the complex story superbly . . . gripping book."--The Wall Street Journal

“…one-to-two page chapters, interspersed with Minor’s luxuriant gouache and watercolor illustrations,…..Publishers Weekly