Paul Fleischman, in his Newbery Honor winning book, spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's 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 Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue's 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 baby's lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in an afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own author's voice.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 01/01/2006
ISBN: 9780763629847
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.64h x 5.16w x 0.37d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 72381 / Graven Images
Reading Level: 5.5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 2