A Stone for Sascha by Aaron Becker has been chosen as the 2019 One Book Habersham (OBH) – Together We Read picture book. The featured book was revealed during the Habersham School System’s Board Work Session on Tuesday.
A Caldecott winner, in this “achingly beautiful wordless epic,” a young girl grieves the loss of her dog as the family takes a vacation by the ocean without him.
A Stone for Sascha is the first book written by Becker since his 2014 Caldecott Honor Book, Journey, in which a lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world full of wonder, adventure, and danger.
Author visit
The author will visit Habersham county April 9 – 11, when every K-8th grade student in the Habersham County School System will have an opportunity to hear him speak.
An evening event with the author will be held on Tuesday, April 9. Time and location will be announced at a later date.
Three hundred copies of the book will be circulating in Habersham schools, Clarkesville and Cornelia Libraries, medical offices, businesses and restaurants. The One Book Habersham committee encourages everyone to look for a copy, read and sign it.
The sponsoring partners for One Book Habersham are the Habersham County School System, Volunteers For Literacy, Piedmont College School of Education, Tallulah Falls School and Habersham County Libraries.
For more information or to get a copy of the book, go to www.onebookhabersham.org after Friday, February 8.
For sponsorship information contact Phylecia Wilson at [email protected] or Helen O’Brien at [email protected].
