title: All About Sam (Sam Krupnik Series)
author:  Lois Lowry 
description: Sam's big sister Anastasia (<i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440408520/${0}">Anastasia Krupnik</a></i>, <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440402905/${0}">Anastasia at Your Service</a></i>) thinks he's, well, there's no other word for it, weird. Their parents say he's precocious. But Sam knows, even on the morning of his birth, when there are bright lights, and he's cold, and someone is messing around with his belly button, that he's just Sam. And as the younger brother of the original drama queen herself, Anastasia, Sam deserves a book all to himself. From those early moments at the hospital, to his first steps and words, to his lively days of nursery school, Sam escorts the reader through his mischief-filled life. His highly developed--and hilarious--verbal skills allow readers to get behind the fascinating logic of a toddler: Why won't it rain lipsticks and plastic pretzels if he flushes them down the toilet? And the King of Worms most certainly does deserve a prize at the pet show. Award-winning Lois Lowry has an uncanny ability to understand children of any age. Without ever patronizing, she manages to make their foibles wildly funny and unerringly true. (Ages 9 to 12) <i>--Emilie Coulter</i>
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  # All About Sam
  
  
  ## Lois Lowry
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Illustrated by Diane deGroat_
  
  
  Houghton Mifflin Company  
  
  
  Boston
  
  
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  Text copyright © 1988 by Lois Lowry  
  
  
  Illustrations copyright © 1988 by Houghton Mifflin Company
  
  
  All rights reserved. For information about permission  
  
  
  to reproduce selections from this book, write to  
  
  
  Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue  
  
  
  South, New York, New York 10003.
  
  
  _Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data_
  
  
  Lowry, Lois.
  
  
  All about Sam / Lois Lowry : illustrated by Diane de Groat,  
  
  
  p. cm.  
  
  
  Summary: The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger  
  
  
  brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous  
  
  
  times as a toddler  
  
  
  ISBN 0-395-48662-9  
  
  
  [1. Family life—Fiction.) I. deGroat, Diane, ill. II. Title.  
  
  
  PZ7.L9673A1 1988 88-13231  
  
  
  [Fic]—dcl9 CIP
  
  
  AC
  
  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  QUM 20 19 18 17 16 15 14
  