Anna Grossnickle Hines
Books Currently in Print
Text only list of complete published works, including awards and honors.
Books—Out of Print
Take cloth and buttons and thread. Add a classic nursery rhyme and a counting game. Stitch them together and what do you have? A patchwork of numbers and fun!
With bold and beautiful quilted illustrations, author-illustrator Anna Grossnickle Hines has created a read-aloud that's sure to become a cozy household favorite.
HARCOURT TRADE PUBLISHERS
May 2008
ISBN: 9780152063054
Trim Size: 10 x 11 32 pages
$16.00
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Reviews 
Imagine the lights on a Christmas tree, the northern lights, a candle in a window on a winter night, a warm fire, a walkway lined with farolitos, a lit menorah, moonlight on snow . . . Now imagine sitting down and designing and then stitching original quilts that capture all of these winter lights. Anna has done just that, sometimes spending more that four hundred hours per quilt (see "Solstice"), sometimes using over 8,450 triangles of fabric per quilt (see "Star Catcher"), and all in all using more that eleven miles of thread. The resulting fifteen creations serve as breathtaking illustrations to sixteen poems about the allure of light during the dark months. There is nothing as warming and sustaining in the gloom of winter as a glimpse of light--except perhaps the snug embrace of a hand-sewn quilt. Includes an illustrated note on the making of the quilts.
Greenwillow Books October 2005
Tr 0-06-000817-2 $16.99 Tr ISBN 13: 978-0-06-000817-8
Lb 0-06-000818-0 $17.89 Lb ISBN 13: 978-0-06-000818-5
Three of the quilts were accepted and shown at the Road to California Quilt Show, January 2006.
Bank Street Best Books List for 2005
Winter Lights Reviews
Winter Lights Activity Guide from HarperCollins
Quilts in the Classroom
Quilts, Dolls, and Books: How they tie together in the author/illustrator's life.
Quilter's Page
When a familiar phone voice is suddenly there in person, Albert develops a major case of shyness, but it's nothing that sharing some favorite rhymes can't cure.
Candlewick Press April 2003
ISBN: 0-7636-1237-5 $13.00
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You can be anything with the right hat.
Which hat is that?
Take a guess then lift the flap to find out!
Harcourt Inc., August 2002
ISBN 0-15-2167477-4 $15.00
Shoes are for pretending!
Play along with a mouse as she puts herself into everyone else's shoes.
Whose shoes go jump, skippity, hop?
Whose shoes go glump, glomp, clomp?
Whose shoes go creep, sneak, squeak?
Take a guess and then open the flap to find out!
Harcourt Inc., August 2001
ISBN 0-15-201773-9 $14.00
Winner of the 2001 Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Children's Poetry!
Nineteen handmade quilts grace the pages of this collection of seasonal
poems. Taking inspiration from the magic that is winter, spring, summer, and
fall, and stitching together varied forms of poetry (including haiku) with
something entirely her own, Anna Grossnickle Hines presents her vision of
nature's year-round drama. The author learned to quilt from her mother,
and her talent and enthusiasm for the traditional craft are evident on every
glorious page. A fascinating note on the making of the quilts is included.
Greenwillow Books, March 2001
Tr 0-688-16963-5 $15.95
Lb 0-688-16964-3 $15.89
Paperback 0-06-055960-8 $6.99
Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Children's Poetry 2002
Junior Library Guild Selection
National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA): Poetry and Folklore 2001
Society of Illustrator's Original Art Show, October 2001
NCTE Notable Children's Books 2002
Kentucky Bluegrass Award Nominee for 2002-2003
Texas Bluebonnet Awrds master List 2002-2003
Oregon's Beverly Cleary children's Choice Award Nominee for 2004
Miniature Quilts, pattern for "To Each His Own", Issue 52, 2001
American Quilter, "Quilts in a Children's Book, The Making of PIECES: A YEAR IN POEMS AND QUILTS" Winter 2002
Reviews STARS from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publisher's Weekly!!
Things To Do: Including quilt patterns for fabric and paper.
Quilts in the Classroom
Quilts, Dolls, and Books: How they tie together in the author/illustrator's life.
Quilter's Page
The other children run races, jump rope, and bounce balls while William patiently waits for his turn. William is waiting for something special? What does he get to do?
Children's Press, 2001
A Division of Scholastic Inc.
Grolier Publishing
Lib. 0-516-221777-9 $18.00
Pbk. 0-516-259-69-5
Le toca a Guillermo
Lib. 0-516-22357-7
Pbk. 0-516-26304-8
In this Rookie Reader Sam's older brother Mike keeps fooling him, but Sam thinks of a way to turn the tables.
Children's Press, 2001
A Division of Scholastic Inc.
Grolier Publishing
Lib. 0-516-22176-0 $18.00
Pbk. 0-516-272294-2
Sleeping in a big bed--for the first time!
The independent little girl in this snug story loves her brand new big bed,
but . . . What if I fall out? What if I get lonely? What if I get lost? What if I get scared? Just right for young children making the transition from crib to bed, and featuring Mary Watson's comforting and realistic paintings, My Own Big Bed celebrates self-reliance, eases fears, and --with a tuck and a kiss from Mommy and Daddy -- promises a safe and cozy night's sleep.
Greenwillow Books October 1998
ISBN: 0-688-15599-5 TR $15.00; 0-688-15600-2 LE $14.93
Things to do
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The illustrations "capture the circumscribed world of the preschooler while celebrating the joys to be found in daily events...Corey has parents who share household tasks to make his life, as well as theirs, not only secure but also fun. The book conveys the kind of marital respect which can exist within today's family with charm and vitality." Horn Book 9/86.
Children's Choice, IRA/CBC.
Junior Literary Guild Selection.
Book-of-the-Month Club.
Trumpet Book Club.
Clarion 1986
ISBN 0-89919-388-9 $13.95;
Paperback 0-89919-794-9 $5.95
CarryAlong Book and Cassette 0-395-51998-5 $7.95
Board Book 0-395-98036-4
Things to do
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A collection of ghost stories edited by Jane Yolen and Martin Greenberg
Every kid who has ever lived in the house at 66 Brown's End agrees that it is haunted; but no one agrees on the kind of haunting that goes on there. Lyssa hears a strange crying in the night coming from the basement in Mary K. Whittington's "Somewhere a Puppy Cries." In Bruce Coville's "Biscuits of Glory," Benji Perkins encounters a spirit in the kitchen. Jason is taunted by a mischievous bathroom ghost in "And the Light Flickered" by Barbara Diamond Goldin. While the spooks in these seven mysterious tales may lurk in different rooms, the fear is always the same. Grown-up always make excused, but the children known the haunting is real.
The story I wrote for this collection, "The Paperdoll Ghost", is about one of my favorite pastimes as a girl.
HarperCollins 1995
ISBN: 0060244682 $15.89 Grades: 2-5
