Thinker

Ages 4 to 8, Grades K to 4

A new collection of poetry from Coretta Scott King Book Award winner Eloise Greenfield!

Seven-year-old Jace and his puppy, Thinker, are poets, putting everything they do into verse, from going to the park to philosophizing to playing ball. One day, they’ll have the whole world figured out, but for now, Thinker has to keep quiet in public. And he can’t go to school with Jace for fear he might recite a poem in front of Jace’s classmates. But when Pets’ Day comes, and Thinker is allowed into the classroom at last, he finds it harder than he expected to keep his rhyming skills a secret.

About the Author

ELOISE GREENFIELD received the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2018. She is also the recipient of the Foundation for Children's Literature Hope S. Dean Award and the National Council for the Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Book Award. Eloise lives in Washington, DC. You can follow her on Twitter @ELGreenfield.EHSAN ABDOLLAHI teaches at Tehran’s top Honar (Art) University and has illustrated a number of children’s books, including When I Coloured in the World, by one of Iran’s best-known living poets, Ahmadreza Ahmadi.