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  • Picnic

Picnic

Author
Emily Arnold McCully
Illustrator
Emily Arnold McCully
Publication Date
March 18, 2003
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  K − 1st
Language
English
Picnic
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Description

Beautiful day!
Not a cloud in the sky!
A-picnicking we go!

When Picnic was first published in 1984, readers fell in love with Emily Arnold McCully's lush watercolors and charming story about a little mouse who is reunited with her family. Now the Caldecott artist has added words and painted bigger illustrations in her signature whimsical style to accommodate a larger-sized read-aloud book. But what has not changed is a timeless story about the hurt of being lost, and the joy of being found again.

Publication date
March 18, 2003
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780066238548
Publisher
HarperCollins
BISAC categories
JUV002180 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, etc.
JUV013000 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | General
Library of Congress categories
Mice
Lost children
Picnicking

Publishers Weekly

Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully's Picnic, initially published in 1984 as the first in a series of wordless books about an endearing mouse family, returns here in a larger format with text added by the author/artist. The smallest member of the mouse family gets lost, but the family soon reunites for a cloudless meal al fresco.
Emily Arnold McCully
Emily Arnold McCully was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and grew up "a daredevil child," always climbing trees or buildings. She made it to college intact, however, and received her B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. in art history from Columbia University.

Emily McCully's artwork has been included in the International Biennale at Bratislava, and she has won a Christopher Award for Picnic, one of the many picture books that she has both written and illustrated.

Writing also for adults, Ms. McCully has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. Her book, A Craving was nominated for an American Book Award.

The idea for Mirette on the High Wire began as a biography of real-life daredevil Blondin. But the author changed her mind to accomodate the tree-climbing child and risk-taking adult she was and is.

copyright ? 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.

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