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Clorinda Plays Baseball! Hardcover – Picture Book, February 21, 2012

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Robert Kinerk’s and beloved artist Steven Kellogg’s Clorinda returns to play ball!

Clorinda the irrepressible cow is back! This time the bovine’s at bat for her favorite team, the Red Hats of BossTown. And the rival team is in trouble…because when Clorinda steps up to the plate—it’s a win for the home team for sure!

Whimsical, rhyming text from Robert Kinerk paired with humorously detailed illustrations from acclaimed illustrator Steven Kellogg,makes for a charming tale of teamwork that reinforces the importance of self esteem.
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Clorinda Plays Baseball!

By Robert Kinerk and illustrated by Steven Kellogg

(Paula Wiseman; ISBN 9780689868658; February 2012; Spring catalog p. 17)

In previous books about the audacious cow Clorinda, she has been a ballerina and a pilot. Next up: playing ball with the Red Hats of Bosstown. The improbable story of how Clorinda gets to “batter up” involves a pig named Hop, a farmer named Len and a shy boy, Deke, who just happens to be a crack baseball player. Kinerk’s rollicking, inventive rhymes and Kellogg’s action-packed watercolors will have children laughing even as the story touches on jealousy, disappointment, thwarted ambition and that great unsung hero, the supporting player.

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New York Times Book Review, April 8, 2012

PreS-Gr 2–Through a rhyming text, children take a joyous romp on and off the baseball diamond, learning to be better friends along the way. Clorinda the cow dreams of playing for the Bosstown Red Hats and works with several animals and human neighbors to find their places on the field or in the stands. First, she helps her friend Hop, a pig, find his true calling, and then teaches Deke, a neighbor boy, to play the game and launches him into the big leagues. Kellogg uses his signature style to capture the action and the personalities. Vibrant watercolor illustrations dance across the barnyard and the stadium, capturing the characters’ delightful expressions and moods on every page. Predominant themes include sports, friendship, coaching, self-confidence, and helping others achieve their dreams, even if it means subverting one’s own. This book is certain to be loved by both listeners and readers alike. --
School Library Journal, March 2012

"As in the previous Clorinda books, Kinerk's couplets are buoyant ("One day he knocked/such a powerful fly,/it bounced off a copter/just then whumping by"), and his plotting is over-the-top; Kellogg's characteristically expressive, gold-infused illustrations have no trouble keeping pace." --
Publishers Weekly, February 6, 2012

"Kinerk’s easy, breezy verse, with some wonderfully inventive rhymes, moves the story along at a breathless pace, with one madcap event after another. See a home run that knocks a storm out of the park, and be amazed at a cow that pilots a helicopter. It’s over-the-top baseball fantasy, but there’s also friendship and loving selflessness. Kellogg’s signature cartoon watercolors and text placement vary pleasingly in layout. As always, they not only match the plot but add layers of details and special effects.
Hilarious and joyful; hooray, Clorinda." (Picture book. 3-9) --
Kirkus Reviews, February 1, 2012

About the Author

Robert Kinerk is the author of Clorinda, illustrated by Steven Kellogg, which was an IRA Children's Book Award Notable Book, and about which Booklist said in a starred review, "Much applause for Clorinda." Mr. Kinerk grew up in Alaska and has worked as a journalist and playwright. He now lives with his wife, Anne, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Steven Kellogg is the beloved illustrator of more than one hundred books for children including Clorinda and Clorinda Takes Flight, and he has been awarded the Regina Medal for his entire body of work. Mr. Kellogg works in an old barn overlooking Lake Champlain in Essex, New York, where he lives with his family.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books (February 21, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0689868650
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0689868658
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 4 - 8 years
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool - 3
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 0.3 x 11 inches
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Tales from the Territory: Stories of Southeast Alaska is Robert Kinerk’s first collection of Alaska stories. In compiling it, Bob, who grew up in Ketchikan, drew on his experiences as an Alaskan newspaper reporter, radio announcer, logger, ambulance attendant, bakery-truck driver, grocery-store clerk, and pulp mill employee.

He is also the author of Alaska’s longest-running Alaska play, The Fish Pirate’s Daughter, a musical melodrama cited by the Legislature for its contribution to the 49th State’s arts scene. His first book for children, Slim and Miss Prim, won the Western Writers of America Storyteller award in 1997. His next children’s book, Clorinda, was named a Best Book by Child Magazine in 2003. He has written 5 other children’s books and has written musical plays for children. For adults, he has written plays and fiction. His short stories on Alaska subjects have been winning readers on-line and in print for more than thirty years. Tales From the Territory, published in August 2022, is to be followed by another collection and a southeast Alaska novel.

Bob has workshopped plays at the Eugene O’Neill Conference and Sundance. He has worked on his fiction at the Bread Loaf Conference, the Writers’ Hotel, and with Tom Jenks in New York City. He and his wife, Anne, make their home in Cambridge, Ma., where he continues to draw on his wide-ranging and heart-felt Alaskan experience for stories and novels and poems

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