num_pages: 128
description: Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist’s creations reveal truths — tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman’s trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue’s ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby’s lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in a brand-new afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own author’s voice.
language: English
title: Graven Images
titlecomplete: Graven Images
genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Childrens, Juvenile, Short Stories, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction
ratings_count: 756
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Newbery Medal
publisher: Candlewick Press