Your Own Best Secret Place [Hardcover]

Byrd Baylor (Author), Peter Parnall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1991

Considers the pleasures to be found in one's very own private place, whether it be a hollow in a tree, a sandy gully, or a secret sand dune.

Editorial Reviews

From Kirkus Reviews

From a team with three Caldecott Honor books to their credit, a gentle exploration of how a particular place can have special meaning. The narrator describes finding one such place in a cave under the roots of a cottonwood tree, where a previous occupant has left several brown-paper notes (``I will be back no matter what/if you are cold you can use the blanket but do not use my other stuff'') and some treasured possessions; she reminisces about other secret places ``a sandy gully cutting through the hard flat Texas earth...a whole world by itself and I was the only person three''; a boy she knows has ``fifty bales of hay [that] make mountains and tunnels and craters and caves.'' Baylor's spare, lyrical prose celebrates the magic of these private worlds, sometimes shared with a friend or other fellow creatures. Parnall's flat areas of warm color form themselves protectively around the delicately drawn ``places and the imaginative young people who treasure them. An unusual, beautifully wrought concept book. (Picture book. 6-10) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Atheneum (April 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684161117
• ISBN-13: 978-0684161112
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #610,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)