Fox & Chick: Up and Down: and Other Stories written by Sergio Ruzzier’s
I was so proud of Charlie this morning as he got up to attend Church with his Aunt Debbie. As Charlie was leaving, he asked if I had something he could take Lily and Jason. Before I could answer Charlie said I will take them your copy of Fox & Chick: Up and Down: and Other Stories.
I asked Charlie what he was going to do with the book. Charlie said he was going to read the story with Lily and Jason and that they would call me so I could join them in Storytime. I was so excited because I’ve never been able to do this with Lily or Jason.
As I was working my phone rand and Charlie was on Facetime with Lily and Jason and all three of them read a chapter of the book to me with help from Debbie, I loved how they all had different questions and opinions of the story. I found myself laughing and crying.
With Easter here before we know it both Lily and Jason let me know they would like to have their own copy of Fox & Chick: Up and Down: and Other Stories and for Charlie I want to see if the Author has other books about Fox + Chick Charlie would enjoy.
I can see beginning readers enjoying and reading this book on their own and even advanced readers enjoying the story and learning how and why things work or wouldn’t work. Fox & Chick: Up and Down: and Other Stories should be in all School Libraries.
About:
Fox and Chick are back in this newest book in the hilarious early reader series by Geisel honoree Sergio Ruzzier.
In the tradition of Frog and Toad, this critically acclaimed early reader series features Fox and Chick – two unlikely friends who, despite their differences, always manage to find a way to get along. In this fourth book in the series, Fox and Chick climb a tree, build a bookcase, and catch snowflakes!
About: Sergio Ruzzier
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I was born in Milan, Italy, in 1966.
I grew up reading comics and picture books.
Among my favorite books were the Minarik/Sendak’s Little Bear series, Bruno Munari’s “Cappuccetto Verde” (“Little Green Riding Hood”), and Dino Buzzati’s “La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia”.
As a young teenager, I discovered and fell in love with the old American comics: Krazy Kat, Popeye, Dick Tracy, and many more.
At the same time, I was surrounded and fascinated by Medieval and Early Renaissance art, especially Giotto, Simone Martini, Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, and many other wonderful, lesser-known painters and illuminators. But before all this, my first, true love was for Hieronymus Bosch. I spent hours studying his paintings in a book that now shows more wear than any other, in my father’s well-supplied art library.
In 1989 I started to collaborate to the Italian leading comics magazine “Linus”, with a series of comic strips, and then I went on to create the character Bruno, for “Lupo Alberto Magazine”.
In 1994 I came to New York, where I immediately had the fortune to receive my first editorial commission from The New Yorker. That very drawing, an imaginary portrait of Dante Alighieri, was chosen the same year by American Illustration. From then on, I began my career as an editorial illustrator.
But what I really wanted to do was picture books, and I tried to enter that world. Compare to Italy, the American market offered an incredible quantity and variety of books, and I was excited to discover Arnold Lobel, Edward Gorey, James Marshall, William Steig…
It was not easy at the beginning getting the attention and the trust of editors and art directors, but then I had the luck to meet Frances Foster, and later Laura Geringer, Christy Ottaviano, Neal Porter, and others, who believed in my sensibility and graciously gave me the opportunity to show my ideas and my imagination on the printed page.
In 2011, Maurice Sendak invited me to spend one month at his place in Connecticut as one of that year’s Sendak Fellows..
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
