by Anne Ylvisaker

Candlewick Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-3359-2
ISBN-10: 0-7636-3359-3
$15.99 Hardcover
Middle-grade novel

Also by Anne Ylvisaker:
DEAR PAPA
Candlewick Press
ISBN-10: 0-7636-3402-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-3402-5
$5.99 Paperback, Middle grade novel

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• Q&A with the author Anne Ylvisaker (PDF)
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About the Book

“I loved LITTLE KLEIN! This book is a wonderful combination of nostalgia for childhood’s seemingly limitless freedom and the dreams of every littlest brother to be the hero. This short novel makes a terrific kids’ book club pick and classroom read-aloud.”
- Ellen Scott, The Bookworm, Omaha, NE

“Big things really do come in ‘Little’ packages. An entertaining, affectionate and heartwarming read, LITTLE KLEIN proves there are few bonds stronger than those forged between an impressionable young boy and his closest friend.”
- Teri Wood TeBockhorst, East Village Books, Des Moines, IA

This wonderful little novel about a boy and his dog is available in hardcover now and ready to sell in your stores. If you liked our 2007 Midwest Connections Picks The Linden Tree, Little Heathens, and In Search of Mockingbird, you’re going to love LITTLE KLEIN!

Born Harold Sylvester George Klein, Little Klein can’t seem to measure up to the “Bigs.” His older brothers are a boisterous gang held together by the bustling, bighearted Mother Klein. Try as he might to stand tall and be heard above the din, Harold often feels little and left out — until one day when a stray dog named LeRoy answers his whistle and the two become inseparable, with LeRoy’s nose leading them from one adventure to the next. Join a cast of colorful characters in a rural river town circa 1949 where boys wrestle and fish, swipe pies, brave perilous waters on homemade rafts — and sometimes quietly become heroes.

Anne Ylvisaker grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and now lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with her family. She is also the author of DEAR PAPA, named one of the Top Ten First Novels for Youth of 2002 by Booklist. She received the 2005 McKinght Artist Fellowship for Writers Loft Award in Children’s Literature for LITTLE KLEIN.

“A lovely coming-of-age tale filled with humor and pathos and several unexpected twists….The author has created something unique and memorable.”
-Kirkus Reviews

“Ylvisaker captures the feeling of summer and boyhood and dog with such ease that you’ll find yourself smelling the dirt road and itching to run through the meadow.”
- Children’s Literature Network

“A lyrical reminder that there never was an easy era for being a Little among the Bigs or for a dog trying to herd his humans.”
- Richard Peck, author of the Newbery Medal-winning A YEAR DOWN YONDER and the Newbery Honor Book A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO