Brock Cole
Born: 1938 in Charlotte, Michigan
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Cole lived in Illinois from 1975 - 1992. Biography: Brock Cole is an award-winning author and illustrator of picture books for children. He also writes novels for young adults. Cole graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in English and received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Minnesota. He taught philosophy at the University of Wisconsin for a number of years, before he started to write and illustrate books for children. He currently lives in Buffalo, New York.
Awards:
- '''Body of Work'''
- -- Carl Sandburg Award ''''The Goats''''
- -- Notable Book, New York Times
- -- Best Book for Young Adults, American Library Association
Selected Titles
Alpha ISBN: 076367852X OCLC: 900179876 The NATO phonetic alphabet, or more accurately, the International Radiotelephany Spelling Alphabet is used by various emergency services ...as a way to communicate clearly and precisely in urgent situations. |
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Alpha and the Dirty Baby ISBN: 0613095081 OCLC: 33962082 Rebound by Sagebrush 1991 |
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Buttons ISBN: 0374410135 OCLC: 56389580 Recorded Books, Prince Frederick, MD : ℗2000. When their father eats so much that he pops the buttons off his britches, each of his three daughters tries a different plan to find replacements. |
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Buttons / ISBN: 0374310017 OCLC: 41284990 Farrar Straus Giroux, New York : 2000. When their father eats so much that he pops the buttons off his britches, each of his three daughters tries a different plan to find replacements. |
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Celine ISBN: 078872133X OCLC: 39330473 Recorded Books, Prince Frederick, MD : ℗1998. Sixteen-year-old artist Celine suffers the painful experiences of adolescence--school problems, an uneasy love, and unwanted responsibilities--but she learns much about the adult world that she will soon join. |
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Celine / ISBN: 0374410828 OCLC: 24439316 Sixteen-year-old artist Celine suffers the painful experiences of adolescence--school problems, an uneasy love, and unwanted responsibilities--but she learns much about the adult world that she will soon join. |
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Facts speak for themselves. ISBN: 9780606000017 OCLC: 876804585 Turtleback Books, 2006. |
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Fair Monaco / ISBN: 1932425071 OCLC: 54865266 Front Street, Asheville, N.C. : ©2003. Maggie, Katie, and Nora try to help their always-worried and fearful grandmother by entering her dreams and replacing her fears of burglars, trains, and bills with images of sails, sun, and the sea. |
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Gaffer Samson's luck / ISBN: 0374425132 OCLC: 23232621 Farrar/Straus/Giroux, [New York] : 1990, ©1984. James's difficulty in adjusting to a new school and life in the Fens is further complicated by the request of an elderly neighbor to find his lucky piece, a task which puts James in some danger. |
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George Washington's Teeth / ISBN: 0312376049 OCLC: 154806773 Square Fish, New York : 2008, ©2003. A rollicking rhyme portrays George Washington's lifelong struggle with bad teeth. A timeline taken from diary entries and other nonfiction sources follows. |
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Giotto : ISBN: 080761310X OCLC: 27680132 George Braziller, New York : 1993. "Thirty miles to the southwest of Venice, in a small park in Padua, lies a modest red brick building, the Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel, that contains one of the jewels of Early Renaissance art: the most extensive fresco cycle by Giotto. Perfectly preserved, it established Giotto's genius for displacing the Byzantine style of painting and introducing the fundamental principles of Renaissance humanism into art. Painted around 1306, the nearly forty large frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Chapel tell stories from the lives of the Virgin, Christ, and the Virgin's parents, Sts. Joachim and Anne. Created with a subtle yet brilliant array of colors - shimmering blues, golden reds, subtle ivories - these easy-to-read narrative panels have remained comprehensible and evocative to viewers for generations; this may be because, unlike much of the art that preceded Giotto, his images contain sacred figures that behave in human ways, bodies as well as faces that register human feelings familiar to us all. The Scrovegni Chapel is Giotto's masterpiece; it established him as the most famous artist of his day, not only in Italy but in all of Europe. It is little wonder that the art of Giotto has held the attention of Western civilization for over half a millennium"--Bookjacket. |
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Gully's travels / ISBN: 0545025060 OCLC: 192081861 Michael Di Capua Books/Scholastic, [New York] : 2008. Gulliver leads a life of luxury with his master. But when his master falls in love with a woman who is allergic to dogs, Gulliver is sent to a new home. He finds himself with a family of raucous human beings and three mutts. But just as Gulliver begins to make a grudging peace with his new reality, he gets swept up in a harrowing new adventure. |
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Hen hao chi = ISBN: 9787556806065 OCLC: 994245960 Er shi yi shi ji chu ban she ji tuan, Nanchang : 2015. |
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Larky Mavis / ISBN: 0374343659 OCLC: 45418936 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York : 2001. Having found a tiny baby in a peanut shell, Larky Mavis calls him Heart's Delight and carries him around as he grows bigger, to the confusion and anger of the adults around her. |
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No more baths / ISBN: 0374455147 OCLC: 19965506 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [New York] : 1989, ©1980. A little girl with a particular aversion to taking baths decides to run away the next time her mother tells her to take one. |
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Nothing but a pig / ISBN: 0374455414 OCLC: 21488818 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [New York] : 1990, ©1981. A spoiled pig, the new possession of a rich banker who is fond of bacon and ham, comes to appreciate his former owner who considered him his best friend. |
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The facts speak for themselves / ISBN: 1932425713 OCLC: 62744888 Front Street, Asheville, N.C. : 2005, ©1997. At the request of her social worker, thirteen-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed. |
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The giant's toe / ISBN: 0374425574 OCLC: 48210982 A giant accidentally cuts off his toe and it develops a character of its own. |
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The goats ISBN: 9780616677902 OCLC: 1011734059 CNIB, Toronto : 2012. When the kids at a camp play a cruel joke by leaving two campers marooned on an island without clothes, Howie and Laura quickly decide that they will never return to the camp. As they wait for Laura's mother to arrive, they give each other warmth, support, friendship and love. For junior and senior high readers. c1987. |
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The goats / ISBN: 0312611919 OCLC: 16539126 Farrar/Straus/Giroux, New York : 1987. Two misfits at summer camp find inner strength and self-knowledge when they are cruelly marooned on an island by fellow campers. Literature of Delight. Two children are stripped of their clothes and marooned on an island for the night by their fellow campers. They are the "goats." They escape and learn, in addition to survival-on-the-run skills such as petty thievery and grand theft/auto, cooperation, intimacy, and loyalty. Quietly witty, this remarkable book yields new depths with each reading. Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace. |
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The Indian in the cupboard / ISBN: 0380600129 OCLC: 6737212 A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him. |
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The king at the door / ISBN: 0374440417 OCLC: 24467963 A poorly dressed old man appears at an inn and declares he is really the king, but only a servant believes him. |
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The money we'll save / ISBN: 0374350116 OCLC: 676062178 Farrar Straus Giroux, New York : 2011. In nineteenth-century New York City, when Pa brings home a young turkey in hopes of saving money on their Christmas dinner, his family faces all sorts of trouble--and expense--in their tiny apartment. |
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The winter wren / ISBN: 0374484082 OCLC: 18809394 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York : 1988, ©1984. When his village suffers from a hard winter, Simon, whose mother laughs at his foolishness, goes in search of spring. |