The ingenious author of 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore and a brilliant illustrator and production designer of the Coraline movie have created a hilarious, touching picture book perfect for young animal lovers. Like the Caldecott Medal-winning Officer Buckle and Gloria, Sparky stars a pet who has more to offer than meets the eye. When our narrator orders a sloth through the mail, the creature that arrives isn't good at tricks or hide-and-seek . . . or much of anything. Still, there's something about Sparky that is irresistible.
Winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award
WINNER
| 2015 Charlotte Zolotow Award
AWARD ALA Alex Award
NOMINEE
| 2016 New York State Charlotte Award
NOMINEE
| 2016 ALA Alex Award
NOMINEE
| 2016 Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
NOMINEE
| 2016 Florida Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
NOMINEE
| 2016 Colorado Children's Book Award
AWARD
| 2015 ALA Alex Award
NOMINEE
| 2015 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Children's and Teens
Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award), and Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award and the International Dublin Award. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low residency program at Queens University.
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The ingenious author of 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore and a brilliant illustrator and production designer of the Coraline movie have created a hilarious, touching picture book perfect for young animal lovers. Like the Caldecott Medal-winning Officer Buckle and Gloria, Sparky stars a pet who has more to offer than meets the eye. When our narrator orders a sloth through the mail, the creature that arrives isn't good at tricks or hide-and-seek . . . or much of anything. Still, there's something about Sparky that is irresistible.
Winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award
Awards
WINNER
| 2015 Charlotte Zolotow Award
AWARD ALA Alex Award
NOMINEE
| 2016 New York State Charlotte Award
NOMINEE
| 2016 ALA Alex Award
NOMINEE
| 2016 Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
NOMINEE
| 2016 Florida Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
NOMINEE
| 2016 Colorado Children's Book Award
AWARD
| 2015 ALA Alex Award
NOMINEE
| 2015 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Children's and Teens
Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award), and Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award and the International Dublin Award. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low residency program at Queens University.
View titles by Jenny Offill
