Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Johnson once again successfully seeks ways to achieve a 'peaceable kingdom.'" --Publishers Weekly
Review
"Johnson once again successfully seeks ways to achieve a 'peaceable kingdom.'" --Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly
"Fun for all."--Kirkus Kirkus Reviews
"Johnson is a master at making deep themes accessible to children, which makes this book a good discussion starter for groups or individual sharing."and#150;and#150;School Library Journal School Library Journal
Synopsis
Trash in the hall! Loud music! Nothing is right with Eddieand#8217;s neighbors. Everyone in the Peaceable Building is fighting. And they are blaming Eddie. and#147;Are you the kid who bangs the ball on my wall?and#8221; growls Mrs. 4.
How can Eddie help his neighbors to get along?
The ingenious way that Eddie brings everyone together surprises them all.
With his signature art style, author D. B. Johnson portrays the busy life of tenants in an apartment building. In Eddie, he creates an unlikely hero, a child who puts everything into perspective for his neighbors with a little help from his talent and pencil.
About the Author
'D. B. Johnson read Walden in college and was fascinated by the way it mixed nature with politics. He took from Thoreau a lifelong interest in peaceful social change, a belief in the power of ideas, and a road map that made the life of an artist possible through simple living. He has been a freelance illustrator for more than twenty years and has done editorial cartoons, comic strips, and conceptual illustrations for magazines and newspapers around the country. Mr. Johnson\'s first picture book, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, was a New York Times Bestseller, a Publishers Weekly Bestseller as well as an American Bookseller \"Pick of the Lists.\"Henry Hikes to Fitchburg also won numerous awards and accolades including the Boston GlobeHorn Book Award for Picture Books, the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, the Massachusetts Book Award for Best Children\'s Picture Book, a Booklist Editors\'Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and a Publishers Weekly Flying Start. He and his wife Linda live in New Hampshire.'