In the Half Room Shawn Harris ✦ Pura Belpré Honor Book

✦ Pura Belpré Honor Book for Children's Text ✦

so when an opportunity arises to rid herself of the girl

hidden life of a backyard jumping spider

Under the watchful eye of her adoptive mother Marilla

director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973

In the Half Room Shawn Harris ✦ Pura Belpré Honor BookFrom the Caldecott Honorwinning creator of Home and Du Iz Tak? comes a striking tale of a wholly extraordinary room where everything is a half. The light of the half moon Shines down on the half room . . . The half room is full of half things. A half chair, a half cat, even half shoesall just as nice as whole things. When half a knock comes on half a door, who in the world could it be? With inventive flair, Caldecott Honor winner Carson Ellis explores