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This classic story by two-time Caldecott Honor winner Zolotow is a gentle, reassuring tale about loss, a subject that's always challenging for parents to discuss with children. Full color.
Author Notes
Charlotte Zolotow was born Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro on June 26, 1915 in Norfolk, Virginia. She studied at the University of Wisconsin, where she took classes in art, writing and child psychology. She began her publishing career in New York, in the adult trade-book division of what is now known as HarperCollins, but eventually took a job in the children's division. As an editor, she presided over her own imprint, Charlotte Zolotow Books. She was named publisher emerita at HarperCollins in 1991.
Her first picture book, The Park Book, was published in 1944. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 90 children's books including Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, My Grandson Lew, William's Doll, The Hating Book, and The Seashore Book. In 1998, the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) at the Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison's School of Education established the Charlotte Zolotow Award, which is an American literary award presented annually for outstanding picture book writing published in the United States in the preceding year. Zolotow died on November 19, 2013 at the age of 98.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
A girl longs for her faraway father in If You Listen (1980) by Charlotte Zolotow, newly illustrated with serene illustrations painted on wood by Stefano Vitale. "If I can't see him, or hear him, or feel his hugs, how can I know he loves me when he isn't here?" she asks her mother. In one spread of mother and daughter listening and waiting, Vitale's surreal scene recalls Chirico in composition and palette. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
This gentle book begins with the question of a young girl whose father has been away for a long time: How do you know if someone far away is loving you? Her mother explains how to listen inside yourself: If you listen hard you'll feel someone far away sending love to you. This edition has glowing illustrations and is a welcome addition to the shelf of books dealing with loss and separation. From HORN BOOK Spring 2003, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Wispy. A mother consoles her little girl, who's missing her long-absent father, by telling her to listen--""the way you do when you can't see the church steeple, but suddenly the sound of bells comes through the air to you,"" or as one might for other unseen, unexpected sounds--and then ""you'll feel someone far away sending love to you."" The little girl wistfully agrees, then adds--injecting some welcome realism--""but I wish he'd come home."" Accompanying the pretty, fuzzy sentiment are pretty, fuzzy pictures. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
