Graven Images

ISBN: 0763627755

Author: Fleischman, Paul

Condition: Used

Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artists creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischmans trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statues ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a babys lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in a brand-new afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own authors voice.