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    Cress Watercress author: Gregory Maguire illustrator: David Litchfield A lavishly illustrated woodland tale with a classic sensibility and modern flair—from the fertile imagination behind Wicked.

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    A masterful middle-grade novel by best-selling and acclaimed author

    GREGORY MAGUIRE
    With luminous illustrations by celebrated artist
    David Litchfield

    CRESS WATERCRESS
    Gregory Maguire turns his trademark wit and
    wisdom to an animal adventure about growing up,
    moving on, and nding community. When Papa
    doesn’t return from a nocturnal honey-gathering
    expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother
    assumes the worst. It’s a dangerous world for rabbits,
    after all. Mama moves what’s left of the Watercress
    family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a
    run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord,
    a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels,
    and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone’s
    business. Can a dead tree full of annoying neighbors,
    and no Papa, ever be home?

    In the timeless spirit of E. B. White and The Wind


    and the Willows—yet thoroughly of its time—this
    read-aloud and read-alone gem for animal lovers of
    all ages features an unforgettable cast that leaps off
    the page in glowing illustrations by David Litcheld.
    Maguire’s tender meditation on coming-of-age invites
    readers to ourish wherever they nd themselves.

    ON SALE MARCH 29, 2022


    HC: 978-1-5362-1100-9 • $19.99 ($25.99 CAN)
    Ages 8–12 • 224 pages • Also available as an e-book

    #cresswatercress Illustrations copyright © 2022 by David Litchfield


    ABOUT THE CREATORS
    GREGORY MAGUIRE is the author of the incredibly
    popular books in the Wicked Years series, including Wicked:
    The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which inspired
    the musical. He is also the author of several books for children,
    including What-the-Dickens, a New York Times bestseller, and
    Egg & Spoon, a New York Times Book Review Notable Children’s
    Book of the Year. Gregory Maguire lives outside Boston.

    About the book, he says, “Some of


    David Litcheld’s artwork for Cress
    Watercress seems to me like Aesop’s
    fables done in stained glass. Other pieces are scattershot
    windmill art, breezy and incidental as a summer’s day.
    Homespun, handsome, and as full of feeling as any child.

    “In fact, it is the child’s life of feelings that I was eager to capture
    in Cress Watercress. When young, we are lovingly shown by
    our parents and teachers that feelings are real and that they
    are valid, but we’re given little guidance as to their schedule
    or life cycle. We’re expected to learn of the timetable of moods
    all on our own. If we’re traumatized—and who isn’t?—we can
    be strengthened when we understand that dark moods may often return, but they will
    lift again. Cress Watercress, through its lighthearted adventures, portrays this dawning
    realization in a young creature.”

    DAVID LITCHFIELD started to draw when he was very


    young, creating comics for his older brother and sister. Since then
    his work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and books and
    on T-shirts. His rst picture book, The Bear and the Piano, won
    the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. He is also the illustrator
    of Rain Before Rainbows by Smriti Prasadam-Halls, War Is Over
    Photo by Andrew Foster

    by David Almond, and When Paul Met Artie by G. Neri. David


    Litcheld lives in Bedford, England.

    About Cress Watercress, he says, “It was


    such a massive honor to be asked to
    illustrate Gregory Maguire’s beautiful book. I fell in love with Cress
    instantly, and visualizing her story has been a very real treat. I
    was actually pretty sad when I nished the drawings because I just
    wanted to stay in that forest and be around those characters forever.
    Having said that, I’m incredibly excited that everyone else can now
    discover this magical book for themselves and get lost in the truly
    engrossing world that Gregory Maguire has created.”

    Illustrations copyright © 2022 by David Litchfield

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