Lambslide

Name: Lambslide
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ann Patchett
ISBN: 9780062945259

Author: Ann Patchett

Narrator: Ann Patchett

Unabridged: 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 05/07/2019

Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories, Children's Humor

Synopsis

From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth, Ann Patchett, comes a hilarious children’s story about a slide made just for lambs.Nicolette Farmer is running for class president, and the rest of the Farmer family tells her she’ll win by a landslide. A pack of overconfident lambs mistakenly hear lambslide and can’t believe there’s a slide made just for them. But when they can’t find one on the farm, there’s only one thing left to do: take a vote!They campaign. They bargain. They ask all the other animals if they, too, would like a lambslide.Will the lambs ever get their special slide?

About Ann Patchett

It seems that some people are just natural born authors. American author, Ann Patchett, is one of those people. She was born in Los Angeles, California in 1963 to a police captain and a nurse, who divorced when Ann was a young girl. Her mother remarried and moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee in 1969.

Ann attended St Bernard Academy school for girls in Nashville, then attended Sarah Lawrence College, followed by the Iowa Writer's Workshop at University of Iowa and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It was Provincetown where she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, followed by Taft, The Magician's Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder, and Commonwealth. Three of her books are non-fiction......Truth and Beauty, What Now?, and This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Her first children's book came in 2019, Lambslide, and was beautifully illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Her books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

After winning numerous literary awards and being on bestseller lists, Ann co-founded her own bookstore, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee with Karen Hayes. She currently lives in Nashville with her husband, Karl VanDevender, and their dog Sparky.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abigail

Award-winning adult novelist Ann Patchett tries her hand at children's literature with this debut picture-book, in which a group of lambs misunderstand the word "landslide," and decide they need a slide themselves. Their wise mother instructs them to gather the opinions of the other farm animals, an......more

Goodreads review by Karan

Fun. Tidy explanation community engagement and decision-making, as they might work. See Alan's review for how we came to find this book, and thanks to Alan for passing it on to me. Now I'll take it over the the Shamsa's for reading out loud!......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly Wright Oelkers

Cute, fun book from my favorite illustrator!......more

Goodreads review by Michelle

When the farmer’s daughter tells her parents that she is running for class president her father says that she will in a “landslide”. The nearby farm animals overhear this conversation; however, it is the lambs whose interest is piqued. What the lambs thought they heard was “lamb-slide” which sounds......more