7/3/20

Ladybug Nominee


Truman
by Jean Reidy, illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019)

Truman the tortoise lives with his Sarah, high above the taxis and the trash trucks and the number eleven bus, which travels south. He never worries about the world below…until one day, when Sarah straps on a big backpack and does something Truman has never seen before. She boards the bus! Truman waits for her to return. He waits.And waits. And waits.
And when he can wait no longer, he knows what he must do. Even if it seems…impossible!

About Jean Reidy

Jean Reidy lives in Colorado, right across the street from her neighborhood library.

Her website is http://jeanreidy.com

There is a profile of her in Kite Tales: SCBWI Chapter Newsletter at
http://jeanreidy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/KIteTales_with_Profile.pdf

About Lucy Ruth Cummins

Born in Canada, she is the youngest of six children, and her family lived in an actual log cabin. She grew up in Cortland, New York, and she now lives with her little family in Brooklyn, New York.

Her website is http://lucyruthcummins.squarespace.com/

Activities & Links

This is one of ten titles nominated for the 2020 Ladybug Picture Book Award.
We will be posting information about a different nominee each Friday throughout the summer and will issue a pdf voters guide featuring all ten titles at Labor Day.

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