Jason Chin
Jason Chin is the author of the award-winning REDWOODS; CORAL REEFS, nominated for a Texas Bluebonnet Award; and ISLAND: A STORY OF THE GALÁPAGOS, winner of the 2013 Gryphon Award, named a 2012 Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, and named a Fanfare title by The...
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Jason Chin is the author of the award-winning REDWOODS; CORAL REEFS, nominated for a Texas Bluebonnet Award; and ISLAND: A STORY OF THE GALÁPAGOS, winner of the 2013 Gryphon Award, named a 2012 Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, and named a Fanfare title by The Horn Book. His newest book GRAVITY, has received four starred reviews. Jason grew up in a small town in New Hampshire. He studied illustration at Syracuse University and started his career while working at a children's bookstore in New York City. He now lives with his wife Deirdre Gill and their children in Vermont.
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The graphic design in this book was remarkable, and the palette drew me right in--amazing work on the cover! But the strength in this book is the back-and-forth between full page or full double-page pictures and the many small cameo cutout pictures Chin used on the other pages. This gave the book a ...
Excellent! Non-fiction books for kids seem to be getting better and better these days. This one does such a great job of making the material immediately engaging and relevant for kids. Beautiful illustrations! I can't wait to read the others by this author - Coral Reefs and Island: A Story of the Ga...
Let's see.... How many picture books are there that discuss huge scientific concepts like natural selection and evolution, plate tectonics and island formation, species migration and colonization, and environmental change in an interesting way that little kids can understand all in the covers of on...
Redwoods was absolutely jam packed with fascinating facts about redwood trees, but the information was all presented in a way that was not overwhelming to kids. I was impressed with how Jason Chin was able to capture the extraordinarily interesting facts about these beings, and convey the absolute...
Redwoods was my introduction to the wonderful Jason Chin a couple of years back, but it was a bit too fiction-y for the other Cybils panelists back then. Times have changed, though, and we readers are more open to a whisk here and there of fiction elements in our nonfiction. And (at least I think) i...
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