Fortune Cookies

Albert Bitterman, Chris Raschka (Illustrator)

Hardcover

List Price: 14.99*
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Spring 2011 Kids' Next List

“You literally get to pull the fortune out of seven different cookies as you work your way through this delightful pop-up book. The art seems simple at first, but the effect that art and words have together is anything but simple as the poetic language and poignant story unfolds. 'On Monday my fortune said: Money is like the wind. And guess what? I found a dollar under my pillow! So I bought a kite.' Wonderful!”
— Leon Archibald, Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT
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Description

A box arrives for Fortune from her Uncle Albert with seven fortune cookies. How wonderful! A cookie and a fortune for each day of the week! Best of all, each fortune comes true...but not in ways that Fortune expects.


Praise For Fortune Cookies…

"A tidy, perfectly paced story with subtle grace and a kernel of wisdom."--Publishers Weekly

* "Seven fortune cookies guide a young child through an eventful week in this elegantly spare collaboration between a debut author and a Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator.... A buoyant celebration of pure, unalloyed joy."

--Kirkus Reviews, November 1, 2011, *STAR

Beach Lane Books, 9781416968146, 28pp.

Publication Date: January 4, 2011



About the Author

A. Bitterman is the pen name of Pete Cowdin, owner of the beloved
independent children's bookstore Reading Reptile.  He lives with his family is Kansas City, MO.  This is his first book.

Chris Raschka is the illustrator of The Hello, Goodbye Window, which was awarded the Caldecott Medal. He is also the illustrator of the Caldecott Honor Book Yo! Yes?; Charlie Parker Played Be Bop; Mysterious Thelonious; John Coltrane’s Giant Steps; Can’t Sleep; In the City; and The Magic Flute. He lives with his wife and son in New York City.