Age group: Ages 9-12. Downloadable audio file. Duration: 2:06:09. Grade range: Grade 4 - Grade 8. The binnacle boy -- Saint Crispin's follower -- The man of influence. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Read by Paul Michael.
Summary:
Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue's ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby's lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in a brand-new afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own author's voice.
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