The Lady in the Box

Ann McGovern

Jun 2014 · StarWalk Kids Media

About this ebook

It is wintertime in the city and freezing cold, but not everyone is inside and warm. Ben and his sister Lizzie know that there is a lady who lives outside in a box over a warm air vent. Gently told and powerfully illustrated in rich hues, The Lady in the Box deals candidly with the issue of homelessness.

About the author

"LOVE AND LOSS AND WIDE-EYED WONDER. ANN MCGOVERN SEES SO MUCH AND SPEAKS VOLUMES." -- Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, novelist, playwright, writer and illustrator of numerous children's books. Ann has embraced poetry after 45 years as a prize-winning author of more than 55 books for children, including the now classic Stone Soup and Too Much Noise. Her books in print number 25 million copies. A tireless traveler who has visited every continent, McGovern is always refueling ideas of place and purpose into her poems. And as a scuba diver, she writes about the underwater world of coral reefs from the Caribbean to China. Her 70 poems have appeared in more than 50 journals, including Confrontation, Georgetown Review, Nimrod, Rosebud and Fulcrum. Her poems have been printed in many anthologies and have won numerous prizes. She has been featured in many poetry readings at libraries, The National Arts Club, and coffeehouses in the USA and abroad. She says, "It's a challenging, heady experience to weave reflections, insights, sensations, thoughts and feelings into the many-faceted fabric of a poem."