Linda Ashman
Children's Book Author
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RUB-A-DUB SUBView it on Google Books here. Find out more about the illustrator and download some terrific activity sheets at Jeff Mack's website.
From RUB-A-DUB SUB. Illustrations copyright 2003 by Jeff Mack. With permission of Harcourt, Inc.
Author's NoteSinking in my submarine, my sub (glub glub) marine. Diving with a silky seal. Darting by a dancing eel. Peering through a kelpy haze at rainbow fish and manta rays. Waving to a whiskered shrimp. Floating by a blowfish-blimp. All the research I'd done for an ill-fated undersea poetry collection came to good use with this book. It began with just one line that kept going through my head. But nothing else came, so I gave up and put it aside. When I took it out again a year later, the rest of the story just followed -- probably the quickest book I've written (not counting the year it sat in my drawer!). I love Jeff Mack's vibrant paintings for this book, so full of energy and childlike wonder at this amazing undersea world. And I was thrilled when Jeff agreed to do STARRY SAFARI, a companion adventure, which Harcourt published in 2005. To learn more about Jeff and his work, click on the link below: |
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A "captivating collaboration." Starred Review, KIRKUS SAILING OFF TO SLEEP
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Wagmore is "a charming, gentle hero." KIRKUS REVIEWS |
