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at dawn.”

for Charlie Harrison

Copyright © 2006 by Jim LaMarche.
All rights reserved.
    Book design by Sara Gillingham.
Typeset in Cochin.
The illustrations in this book were rendered in acrylic washes and colored pencil on Arches watercolor paper.
    ISBN 978-1-4521-2609-8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available under ISBN 978-1-4521-2572-5
    Chronicle Books LLC
680 Second Street, San Francisco, California 94107
    www.chroniclekids.com

    Jim LaMarche has been mixing magic with the everyday since 1992, when his illustrations for Laura Krauss Melmed’s
The Rainbabies
earned him international acclaim. Jim’s illustrations “indicate a deep kind of thinking about illustration in children’s books,” said the
New York Times
.

Jim’s first venture into writing earned him similar praise. “This dazzling picture book is an artistic triumph,” raved
School Library Journal
of
The Raft
. “The luminous illustrations evoke a magical aura,” added the Horn Book.

Of his illustrations for The Elves and the Shoemaker, “LaMarche creates a set of honey-toned illustrations that make the familiar Grimm tale less an odd encounter with the supernatural than a warm-hearted exchange of gifts,” said
Kirkus Reviews
in a starred review.

Up
is the second book Jim has both written and illustrated.