Leda Schubert

My Books
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A nonfiction picture book, published by Roaring Brook Press and illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.

Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List, 2007-8
Horn Book Fanfare, December 2006
Kirkus Editor's Choice, December 2006
NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, 2006
New York Times Book Review: May 14
New York Times Editor's Choice, May 21
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Starred in Kirkus, 3/15/06
Starred in Horn Book, July/August 06

"Leda Schubert's deft, incisive way of telling the incredible story will set young minds spinning." Jed Perl, NYTBR

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NATHAN'S SONG
For the Boston Globe Online, as part of Newspapers in Education, I wrote a chapter book that was published in six installments beginning in February, 07.
Only available to subscribers.

HERE COMES DARRELL
Illustrated by Mary Azarian. Houghton Mifflin. October '05.
A BOOK SENSE WINTER PICK FOR CHILDREN!!! Hooray for independent bookstores.
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WINNIE PLAYS BALL and WINNIE ALL DAY LONG
Funny easy readers about Winnie and her loving but beleaguered family.



COMING SOON

FEEDING THE SHEEP

Farrar, Straus and Giroux; to be illustrated by Andrea U'Ren.
A mother and daughter discuss how to care for sheep, and throughout their conversation the mother creates a sweater to keep her daughter warm.

DONNA AND THE ROBBERS
Donna the horse foils a robbery in rural Maine. Part of the Vermont Folklife Center Children's Book Series.



Now Available or Coming Soon
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BALLET OF THE ELEPHANTS
A nonfiction picture book illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.
NATHAN'S SONG
Serial Novel for the Boston Globe's Newspapers in Education
HERE COMES DARRELL
Throughout the seasons in northern Vermont, Darrell helps his neighbors with snowplowing, supplying wood, and excavation work, never finding time to fix his own barn, but when a windstorm passes through town, he finds his kindness to his neighbors returned.
WINNIE PLAYS BALL and WINNIE ALL DAY LONG
Illustrated by William Benedict. Candlewick, 2000.
COMING SOON FEEDING THE SHEEP
To be illustrated by Andrea U'Ren and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in fall, 2009 (notice new date).
DONNA AND THE ROBBERS
Coming soon from the Vermont Folklife Center.



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