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Brian Floca

Brian Floca

Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Lightship, also a Sibert Honor Book; The Racecar Alphabet, an ALA Notable Children’s Book, and Locomotive, which explores America’s first transcontinental railroad. He has illustrated Avi’s Poppy Stories, Kate Messner’s Marty McGuire novels, and Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan’s Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, a Sibert Honor Book and winner of the Orbis Pictus Award. You can visit him online at BrianFloca.com.

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Locomotive
Locomotive By: Brian Floca
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publication date: September 3, 2013
Ages: 4 - 10
All aboard! From the creator of the “stunning” (Booklist) Moonshot, a rich and detailed sensory exploration of America’s early railroads.It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling...
Other Formats: eBook
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The True Gift A Christmas Story By: Patricia MacLachlan
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: October 6, 2009
Ages: 7 - 11
All year long Lily and Liam look forward to Christmas on their grandparents' farm. It's always the perfect trip -- walking to the lilac library, trimming the tree, giving gifts. But this year, thanks to a white cow alone in...
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Moonshot
Moonshot The Flight of Apollo 11 By: Brian Floca
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: April 7, 2009
Ages: 4 - 10
Simply told, grandly shown, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts, clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats....
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The Hinky-Pink
The Hinky-Pink An Old Tale
Illustrated by: Brian Floca / Retold by: Megan McDonald
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: September 9, 2008
Ages: 4 - 8
A happy Hinky-Pink is a fine thing. An unhappy Hinky-Pink pinches! That is what happens to Anabel, a young seamstress in Old Italy who has only days to finish her dream: sewing a gown for the princess to wear at the...
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Max & Mo's Halloween Surprise
Max & Mo's Halloween Surprise (Part of Ready-to-Reads) By: Patricia Lakin
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: August 5, 2008
Ages: 4 - 6
The students in Max and Mo's classroom are getting ready for Halloween by making masks. Once the kids go home, it's time for Max and Mo to make their own masks -- but what kind of mask should a hamster wear?
Other Formats: eBook
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Max & Mo Make a Snowman (Part of Ready-to-Reads) By: Patricia Lakin
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: December 26, 2007
Ages: 4 - 6
It is wintertime and Max and Mo want to go play in the snow. If only it was not so cold out there! Instead, Max and Mo decide to make a snowman in the warmth of the art room. Would you like to make a snowman too?
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Max & Mo Go Apple Picking (Part of Ready-to-Reads) By: Patricia Lakin
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: August 28, 2007
Ages: 4 - 6
Max and Mo are tired of eating corn. Luckily the big ones -- the kids -- just went apple picking. Everyone knows you can make applesauce with apples, but is there anything else you can make with them?
Other Formats: eBook
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Max & Mo's First Day at School (Part of Ready-to-Reads) By: Patricia Lakin
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: June 26, 2007
Ages: 4 - 6
In a series of adorable Level 1 Ready-to-Reads, award-winning author Patricia Lakin and the ever-talented Brian Floca tell the story of two hamsters who live in a classroom as pets. Mo, a hamster who likes to know things, and...
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Lightship By: Brian Floca
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 6, 2007
Ages: 4 - 7
You may never have heard of a lightship. Once, lightships anchored on waters across America, on the oceans and in the Great Lakes, floating where lighthouses could not be built. Smaller than most ships, but more steadfast,...
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From Slave to Soldier Based on a True Civil War Story (Part of Ready-to-Reads) By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2005
Ages: 6 - 8
Johnny loves his Uncle Silas and his master's mule, Nell, but he hates being a slave. So when a group of soldiers marches by the farm and asks Johnny if he wants to join the Union Army, Johnny accepts, even though it means...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback