Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati
Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati

Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati

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Ages: 5–9 years

From award-winning author Matthew Burgess and Caldecott medalist Doug Salati comes a spellbinding collection of poems for young readers that celebrates the power of words to awaken the imagination and alchemize the everyday. A gorgeous gift book for fans of Shel Silverstein with seven die-cut spreads throughout.

Beyond the doorway of the first page of this collection awaits a dragon piñata, an alligator on the A train, a hungry yeti, an ice cream dream, jetpack sneakers, midnight firelight, a gray day, a plump tomato, a serious question and so much more. Whether you're feeling blue, lemon yellow or Day-Glo green, this inviting and magical book of poems takes young readers on an uplifting journey through everyday moments, moods and experiences, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. With enchanting illustrations throughout and seven die-cut portals that open into the realms of Welcome, Wonder, Wild, Weee!, Whoops & Wallops, Windows and Whispers & Well Wishes, Words With Wings and Magic Things explores how words can awaken us to a world of wonder and possibility. Step inside . . . and take flight!

Format: Hardcover

Matthew Burgess is a full-time professor at Brooklyn College and a part-time teaching artist in New York City public schools. He was fascinated by the lives of saints as a child, and now he loves sharing the stories of his artistic heroes with young readers. Matthew is the author of Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings, Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring, and Make Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent. He lives with his husband in Brooklyn and Berlin.

Doug Salati is the creator of the picture book Hot Dog, recipient of the 2023 Randolph Caldecott Medal and Ezra Jack Keats Award, and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and the New York Public Library. The first book he illustrated was In a Small Kingdom by Tomie dePaola, and his second, Lawrence in the Fall by Matthew Farina, was an Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award Honoree, a Society of Illustrators Original Art Show selection and Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection. Doug graduated from the MFA Illustration As Visual Essay Program at the School of Visual Arts in 2014. He was a 2015 Sendak Fellow. He lives and works in New York City.

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