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Swamp Angel

by Anne Isaacs, Paul O. Zelinsky · 1994

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Swamp Angel can lasso a tornado, and drink an entire lake dry. She single-handedly defeats the fearsome bear known as Thundering Tarnation, wrestling him from the top of the Great Smoky Mountains to the bottom of a deep lake. Caldecott Medal-winning artist Paul O. Zelinsky's stunning folk-art paintings are the perfect match for the irony, exaggeration, and sheer good humor of this original tall tale set on the American frontier.

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A Caldecott Honor Book

An ALA Notable Book

A Time magazine Best Book of the Year

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year

Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

Genre
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Themes
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Setting
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Subject
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Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 40 pages

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