Author56 booksPatricia Polacco
Patricia Barber Polacco is an American author and illustrator. Throughout her school years, Polacco struggled to learn to read but found relief by expressing herself through art. Polacco endured teasing and hid her disability until a school teacher recognized she could not read and began to help her. Her book Thank You, Mr. Falker is Polacco's retelling of this encounter and its outcome. She also wrote such books as Mr. Lincoln's Way and The Lemonade Club.
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Thank You, Mr. Falker
Thunder Cake
The Keeping Quilt
The Bee Tree
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother
Pink and Say
Chicken Sunday
Rechenka's Eggs
Mr. Lincoln's way
Junkyard wonders
Babushka Baba Yaga
Mrs. Katz and Tush (Reading Rainbow Book)
The Graves Family Goes Camping
Emma Kate
Babushka's Doll
The butterfly
I Can Hear the Sun
January's sparrow
Uncle Vova's Tree
Meteor!
Trees of the Dancing Goats
Luba and the Wren
Just Plain Fancy (Dell Picture Yearling)
For the Love of Autumn
A Christmas tapestry
Uncle Isaaco
Mrs. Mack
An orange for Frankie
The Graves family
Aunt Chip & the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair
Rotten Richie and the ultimate dare
The art of Miss Chew
Picnic at Mudsock Meadow
John Philip Duck
Clara and Davie
Fiona's lace
Bully
Betty Doll
Oh, look!
In our mothers' house
Appelemando's dreams
Tikvah means hope
Someone for Mr. Sussman
Bravest Man in the World
Welcome Comfort
Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln
Tucky Jo and Little Heart
Babushka's Mother Goose
My Ol' Man (Picture Books)
Sticks and Stones
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