An Alphabet of Angels

by Nancy Willard

An A-to-Z gift collection of angels presents a celestial character for every occasion, such as a wish-delivering angel of Knapsacks and a dew-faced angel of Morning. By the Newbery Award-winning author of A Visit to William Blake's Inn.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1994

About the author

NANCY WILLARD was an award-winning children's author, poet, and essayist who received the Newbery Medal in 1982 for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She wrote dozens of volumes of children's fiction and poetry, including The Flying Bed, Sweep Dreams, and Cinderella's Dress. She also authored two novels for adults, Things Invisible to See and Sister Water, and twelve books of poetry, including Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems. She lived with her husband, photographer Eric Lindbloom, and taught at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Reviews

[MelMon Sanchez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Angels are everywhere. This little book was the perfect read for my son Raphael. Beautiful, calming and sincere.

[Josiah · Rating 1 out of 5]

An Alphabet of Angels is different from most books that teach the alphabet. The text is poetic, and the accompanying pictures have a degree of elegance about them that will give this book appeal even to some adults, especially ones that are partial to items that feature artistically postured angels. Overall, I think that An Alphabet of Angels is a good experiment in its subfield, and Nancy Willard was the right author to conduct it.