New Releases by Sam Winston

From the award-winning creative team of Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston comes an enchanting and imaginative picture book certain to delight word lovers of any age. Dictionary wishes she could tell a story like other books. So one day, she decides to bring her words to life. How exciting it is to finally have an adventure on her very own pages! But what will she do when her characters collide and everything gets all in a jumble, causing the most enormous tantrum to explode? This isn’t what she wanted at all! Luckily her friend Alphabet knows exactly what to do and sings a song that brings calm and order to Dictionary’s pages once again.

"Fine artist Sam Winston, cocreator of the New York Times best-selling A Child of Books, celebrates the power of stories and written languages--and the imperative to preserve them."--Provided by publisher.

A New York Times Bestseller! New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers and fine artist Sam Winston deliver a lyrical picture book inspiring readers of all ages to create, to question, to explore, and to imagine. A little girl sails her raft across a sea of words, arriving at the house of a small boy and calling him away on an adventure. Through forests of fairy tales and across mountains of make-believe, the two travel together on a fantastical journey that unlocks the boy’s imagination. Now a lifetime of magic and adventure lies ahead of him . . . but who will be next? Combining elegant images by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston’s typographical landscapes shaped from excerpts of children’s classics and lullabies, A Child of Books is a stunning prose poem on the rewards of reading and sharing stories—an immersive and unforgettable reading experience that readers will want to pass on to others.

Um convite para leitores de todas as idades explorarem os caminhos da memória e da imaginação. A menina dos livros cruza um mar de palavras em sua jangada. E chega à casa de um menino, e o convida para seguirem juntos numa aventura pelo mundo das histórias. Com ilustrações costuradas por uma narrativa simples, este livro é uma homenagem ao poder das histórias. Dezenas de clássicos infantis e cantigas populares compõem as paisagens tipográficas das páginas, oferecendo aos leitores de todas as idades oportunidades para descobrir, relembrar e compartilhar suas próprias experiências pelo mundo da literatura.

An incessant journey through the imagination that forms in the world of a child when immersed in letters, words and books. A small girl walks among the words that form the classic childhood stories to tag along with a boy, so he can enter into the woods of imagination and provoke the pleasure for reading. With a poetic and evocative language, the authors make a profound reflection on the importance of reading in the formation of an individual.

Sam Winston''s WHAT CAME AFTER was that rarest of achievements-a post-apocalyptic adventure that appealed equally to readers of both sci-fi and literary fiction. Despite an unknown author and no marketing budget, WHAT CAME AFTER quickly found an audience and became an Amazon bestseller in a matter of weeks.Now Winston is back-along with his unassuming hero, Henry Weller-in a big and sprawling sequel, INTO THE SILENT WORLD.Beginning just moments after WHAT CAME AFTER ends, INTO THE SILENT WORLD follows Weller and his family and his new band of followers as they escape Dr. Patel''s ruined bio station in the Northeastern Empowerment Zone and set out for the safety of Spartanburg. They''re not alone, though. And a virus that killed millions of Americans during the Great Dying is about to be pointed their way with the precision and cruelty that only Black Rose, the nation''s most powerful and secretive private army, can muster.

Winston''s print A dictionary of modern English usage/The elements of style appears in an article by Joan Acocella on p. 115 of the May 14, 2012 New Yorker. Acocella''s article The English wars examines the battle over the way we speak.

WHAT CAME AFTER is the Amazon bestseller written by Jon Clinch (THE THIEF OF AUSCHWITZ, FINN, KINGS OF THE EARTH) under his pen name, Sam Winston. The apocalypse doesn''t need plagues or zombies or bombs. All it needs is us. Set in the very near future, WHAT CAME AFTER takes place in a too-credible third-world America that''s been hijacked by corporations in the service of the wealthy. The Federal government has collapsed, health care is inaccessible, and private armies keep order. The upper class is concentrated in the cities, while the middle class-decimated by disease and poisoned by genetically engineered foods-labors on in a handful of desolate Empowerment Zones. One man, Henry Weller, has had enough. With his five-year-old daughter going blind, he sets out across a ruined America to find her the health care she deserves. He''ll have to face a strange and hostile world-from the financial districts of a walled New York to the armed camp of Washington, DC-but if he''s successful, his daughter might see again. And along the way, a revolution might get started. WHAT CAME AFTER is shaped by issues on everyone''s mind right now: poverty, corporate power, access to heath care, the outsourcing of government, parents'' obligations to their children. But at its core, it''s a post-apocalyptic adventure in a desolate and treacherous world: THE WIZARD OF OZ meets HEART OF DARKNESS, at the end of the American dream. From the critics: "Sometimes I just keep hearing about a book on social media and I get so curious, I seek out the book myself. Case in point: Sam Winston''s extraordinary WHAT CAME AFTER, an e-book about the end of the world. I started reading after dinner and didn''t stop until I finished. This is no ordinary book. Character-driven, haunting, and gorgeously written, I think it''s a classic" - Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of PICTURES OF YOU.