Fall 2008! Pirate Treasure Hunt!

  Pelican Publishing Company

  by Jan Peck

  Illustrated by Adrian Tans

       To see some more pages of the book, go to Adrian's site:  http://www.adriantansart.com/gallery/illustration/illustration_from_pirate_treasure_hunt_sample_1 

Way Up High in a Tall Green Tree is on the PBS Teacher Resource Recommended Science Book List.  Also see http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2/theme/index.shtm.

PBS is the broadcast network of Sesame Street etc.  Also featured in Time Magazine for Kids, April 2006 Issue.

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• The Kentucky Bluegrass Award 1999 Master List
• Named to the 2000-2001 Arkansas Diamond Award Master List
• Named to the 1999-2000 Pennsylvania Young Readers’ Choice Award Master List
• Named to the 1999-2000 Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award Master List
• “Best Children’s Books of the Year” for 1998--Bank Street College
• Starred Review in School Library Journal

“A delightful variation of the folktale ‘The Turnip.’ This tale begs to be read aloud . . . a fine, humorous sense of story . . . a succulent story to savor.”
                                                                                — School Library Journal Book Review Star

Jan Peck is an organic gardener and a former cook for Auntie Em’s, a vegetarian, health-food restaurant in Cowtown, so she knows plenty about giant carrots.  She is the 2008 Critique Group Coordinator for the North Central/Northeast Texas Chapter of SCBWI.

She’s the author of The Giant Carrot (Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998)  
Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004)
Way Up High in a Tall Green Tree (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005)
Way Far Away on a Wild Safari (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006) 
other books include: The Ballerina Princess (About You! Books, 1992) The First Christmas (About You! Books, 1992) and The Time Travelers (About You! Books, 1993.) She also has stories and articles in Highlights for Children, Boys’ Life, Humpty Dumpty, and Turtle magazines. Jan has short stories in the anthologies Distant Lights and The Neighborhood Nine, published by Boyds Mills press. Her story “The Perfect Dog” is in the bestselling book Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul (1998).  

Jan is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators,
the past Regional Advisor and President for the North Central/ Northeast Texas Chapter
and has been a freelance editor for Boys' Life magazine.

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