As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth
By Lynne Rae Perkins
(Greenwillow Books, Hardcover, 9780061870903, 368pp.)
Publication Date: May 2010
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback
Categories: General
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Train.
Car.
Plane.
Boat.
Feet.
He'll get there.
Won't he?
Lynne Rae Perkins was awarded the Newbery Medal for Criss Cross. She is also the author of the novel All Alone in the Universe, the award-winning companion to Criss Cross. An artist as well as a writer, Lynne Rae Perkins has published several acclaimed picture books, including The Broken Cat, Snow Music, Pictures from Our Vacation, and The Cardboard Piano.
The author lives with her family in northern Michigan.
“A long, immensely enjoyable, curiously comforting ramble through an absurd-but-benign world.”
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“[Perkins’s] observations and turns of phrase are as unexpected and delightful as the travels she weaves together.”
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice “Relentlessly entertaining…an absolute delight.”
-Booklist (starred review)
“Wherever Perkins’s warm, funny, wise narrative goes is where a reader wants to be.”
-Horn Book (starred review)
“A rich, eventful, and extremely entertaining summer road trip.”
-New York Times Book Review
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