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It takes a trip to outer space and a case of role reversal to give a boy bored with his pets some perspective. One day, while searching for ever-more-novel animals, pet-collector Stanley is petnapped himself by an evil, turquoise-hued trader and sold to Jopnar, a three-eyed alien boy. After a failed escape attempt land...
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Nina Laden's illustrations in this simple, rhyming board book are truly magical. The format is straightforward: on alternating two-page spreads, the words "Peek a" are repeated, opposite an illustrated page with a die-cut hole, behind which lurks a cow ("MOO!"), a green ghost ("BOO!"), and a mirror (you guessed it, "YO...
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Hurrydon't miss this bus! The MailboxText: English, Japanese; Title: Bus Stops
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Francesca Crespi spent many years designing sets and costumes for Australian television. She lives in London and has illustrated several books for children.; Title: A Christmas Carousel
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Debut author Thong cleverly uses a concept book to celebrate Chinese culture. "Round is a mooncake/ Round is the moon/ Round are the lanterns/ outside my room," explains the unnamed young heroine as she takes the reader on a tour of her neighborhood, where circles, squares and rectangles abound. Lin's (The Ugly Vegetab...
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"Fa la la la la, la la la la." Ah, the sounds of Christmas! Bestselling illustrator of Sylvia Long's Mother Goose and Hush Little Baby, Sylvia Long embraces the holiday season with her tribute to the ever-popular carol, "Deck the Hall." Each two-page spread features, on the left side, two lines of the song beneath a fe...
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RELATIONSHIP SKILLS; SOCIAL AWARENESSDerek Munson works as a writer, speaker, and all-around daydreamer. He lives in Bellingham Washington with his wife Suzanne, their kids Abby and Zack, and Roger the family dog. Tara Calahan King studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Tara lives in Ohio with her husband Rick. This...
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What colorful friends Gumby has! He himself is green, of course. And "Pokey, his pal, is an orange horse." Then there's Prickle, the yellow fire-breathing dinosaur; Goo, the blue supergirl; and the pair of red Blockheads. This foam-covered rhyming board book reintroduces everyone's favorite clay animation creatures, or...
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Imagine waking Easter morning to find a basket with jelly beans, chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks... and a pretty, sparkly lift-the-flap Easter book! The Golden Egg, while no literary gem, is sure to be appealing to young readers with an eye for all that glitters. Simple rhyming verse tracks Little Duck as she sea...
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Aspiring ship captains can fold 18 boats (all on waterproof paper) and float them with The Amazing Book of Paper Boats by Jerry Roberts, illus. by Willy Bullock. After a brief history of boats and assembly tips and techniques, the work begins. Starting with the simple Bark Canoe, boat fans then progress to the Aircraft...
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Youngsters well know the opening lines of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Sylvia Long revisits the classic and includes the traditional verses "When the blazing sun is gone,/ When he nothing shines upon,/ Then you show/ your little light,/ Twinkle, twinkle,/ all the night" alongside celestial watercolor depictions of cri...
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Damon Burnard invites readers to play the familiar "I Spy" game on each page of I Spy in the Ocean and I Spy in the Jungle, both illus. by Julia Cairns. In a spread for Ocean, for example, "something beginning with the letter A" highlights "A" in a circle, and readers can see part of a sea creature through a die-cut ci...
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Yves Got has illustrated many books for children. He lives in France.; Title: Sweet Dreams, Sam
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Gr 2-5-A loosely rhyming text explores a child's relationship to the natural world and expresses wonder at the world of nature. The text flows through the pages of highly stylized illustrations that look childlike but have an artistic sophistication similar to psychedelic work of decades past. This book is a fine piece...
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The gentle primer Red Is a Dragon by Roseanne Thong, illus. by Grace Lin, does for colors what their Round Is a Mooncake did for shapes, in a felicitous meeting between East and West. The girl who narrated the previous book here serves as tour guide through 10 hues, each of which dominates a spread redolent with the sa...
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PreSchool-K-Jungle begins with the phrase: "I spy with my little eye something beginning with the letter-J." A die-cut circle provides a glimpse of a jaguar's spotted coat through the verdant foliage. Flipping the page reveals the animal, and the word "Jaguar" with the letter "J" from the previous page shown through th...
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Ages 3-6. The fairy godmother has spectacles and a bun. The stepsisters aren't ugly, but they are mean. Otherwise, this is very much the traditional Cinderella fairytale, translated here from a Spanish version and told as part of the Bilingual Editions series, with English text on the top half of the page and the Spani...
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In this poetic ode to the night sky, Barner (Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!) gives a child's awestruck account of the stars and the solar system's nine planets. Collages of cut and torn paper, saturated with deep blues and luminous yellows, suggest early evening. A silhouetted child hoists a telescope and looks up at a sprinkling o...
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Designed for the astronomically inclined, Charles Hobson's Seeing Stars is one stellar tool kit. Inside, 10 die-cut cards feature depictions of the constellations as diagrammed by Greek astronomers. Turned over, they reveal the constellations as seen from Earth. Youngsters can create starlight in a darkened room by bea...
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A companion to The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle, The Sketchbook of Thomas Blue Eagle by Gay Matthaei and Jewel Grutman, illus. by Adam Cvijanovic, begins in 1885, when Blue Eagle is "eighteen winters" after his graduation from the Carlisle School. "White soldiers had wiped away the footprints of the Lakota from our ...
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Ook the Book seems like it's been around forever, dog-eared from decades of readings and rereadings. It could be the jaunty Seussian rhythms at play, but it has a classic quirkiness all its own--a blend of Calef Brown's Polkabats and Octopus Slacks and the good Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat. With poem titles from "Ug ...
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Two board books by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober introduce the works of world-renowned artists to the youngest audience. In each, lyrical text accompanies 10 masterpieces. A Magical Day with Matisse, for example, features his famous ring of dancers in Dance II ("Let's dance and fly, hold hands and sing, and spin roun...
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Christine Corning Malloy is an art teacher in New York where she lives with her husband and their three young children.; Title: The Solar System: Flip Out and Learn (Pull-Out Book)
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Joan Sweeney was born and grew up in Toledo, Ohio. Her most fond memories as a child are walking through the Museum of Art galleries and attending Saturday art classes. This is her first children's book.; Title: Bijou, Bonbon & Beau
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There's a blue moon ("second full moon in a month") in the sky on a hot summer night, and "magic loves blue-moon light," Maxine's grandmother tells her. Sure enough, a ring of silver (the ring and the moon appear in metallic paint on the page) falls from the sky and carries Maxine off to exotic locales: a polar penguin...
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Two board books by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober introduce the works of world-renowned artists to the youngest audience. In each, lyrical text accompanies 10 masterpieces. A Magical Day with Matisse, for example, features his famous ring of dancers in Dance II ("Let's dance and fly, hold hands and sing, and spin roun...
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Christmas Is Coming! by Claire Masurel, illus. by Marie H. Henry, also a board book, captures a child's anticipation. Juliette and her stuffed animals trim the tree and hang the stockings, but only the animals get to sneak a peek at Santa.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Text: English (translation) Orig...
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Their cornfields overrun by mice, two feuding farmers compete to build the best mousetrap. " `Those mice will soon learn who's boss around here!' bragged Farmer Boast. `With my invention they don't stand a chance,' gloated Farmer Bluster." After the rodents mock their convoluted devices, which involve a junkyard's wort...
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Christine Corning Malloy is an art teacher in New York where she lives with her husband and their three young children.; Title: The Blue Whale: Flip Out and Learn (Flip Out & Learn)
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Beginning in the Arctic Circle, traveling all the way to England and making pitstops in places like Nicaragua, Mozambique and the Czech Republic, readers make a poetic pilgrimage in (Aug.) Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Gr. 1-5-A rich collection, both lighthearted and serious, from over 50 different coun...
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Chris Van Dusen has created illustrations that have been published in magazines and books and printed on T-shirts and greeting cards. He lives in Maine with his wife, two sons and, naturally a dog.; Title: A Camping Spree With Mr. Magee
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PreS-Gr. 2 In rhyming first-person voice, an unnamed boy narrates an unfortunate episode with a washing machine. When Mama declares that teddy bear Bo is "World Class Dirty" and puts him in the laundry, a terrible thing happens--he comes out fluffy, clean, and missing one ear! Determined to remedy Bo's fresh state, the...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3-This accessible counting book is a lovely introduction to the Vietnamese New Year. Each spread features a short sentence ("1 mouse plans a party. 2 mice go to market") that is expanded upon by detailed pictures showing the preparations of thevillage. Remarkable, vividly colored, embroidered artwork...
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Holographic enhancements hide behind gatefold flaps in The Hanukkah Mice by Ronne Randall, illus. by Maggie Kneen, in a format adopted by the artist in The Christmas Surprise. In the rhyming text, a mouse family searches a human home for the "wondrous Hanukkah lights." Ages 2-6.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information,...
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This book's endpapers trumpet a corny musical theme, performed by a parade of grinning mice: "If Mount Fuji blows its stack,/ If a monster should attack,/ Don't just hide inside your house!/ Give a call for Sumo Mouse!" The superhero jingle sets the mood for a mock-dramatic story about a "chubby champion of justice," a...
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Grade 1-4-Using the popular diary format, this travelogue takes its spunky nine-year-old heroine and her dachshund from Manhattan to visit her great-aunt in Venice. They tour museums, shop for masks, ride a gondola, and observe a glassblower. Double-page watercolor-and-ink illustrations, as well as smaller framed "snap...
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Grade 3 Up-Here's a fun book that girls will really enjoy. Sinclair presents a basic introduction to braiding techniques, such as cornrows, twists, and braided coils, accompanied by clearly illustrated directions. She then offers 23 unique styles, starting with easy ones and then proceeding to the more complicated. Eac...
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PreS-K. As the title implies, this picture book offers a counting rhyme with an affectionate tone. A mother elephant addresses her little one as they engage in a variety of child-centered activities, such as marching with trumpet and drum, playing hide-and-seek, and riding on a little train. The numbers climb from 1 to...
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*Starred Review* PreS-Gr. 2. What's an old woman to do when a skeleton pays her a birthday visit and beckons her to "come along"? Grandma Beetle, the heroine of this joyful book by the illustrator of Harvesting Hope [BKL Je 1 & 15 03], stalls for time. "Just a minute," she says; there's something she needs to do. One c...
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Linda Martin lives in Colorado Springs, likes crossword puzzles, gourmet food, and antique books and things. This is her first children's book, and she says it was lots of fun to do, but now she is anxious to get started on book number two.; Title: When Dinosaurs Go to School
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PreSchool-Grade 1The Chinese-American girl introduced in Round Is a Mooncake (2000) and Red Is a Dragon (2001, both Chronicle) counts her favorite things. In bouncy verse, she engages in activities with her multicultural friends and family: "Five are the fish balls/on a stick./Five are the fingers/that I lick." Some of...
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Grade 2-3-Mammano's sports-loving rhinos are back, bringing their exuberant sense of fun to the game of baseball. These animals dance across the pages as they illustrate the terms-"They practice SLIDES and KNUCKLEBALLS. They RIP GRASS-CUTTING GROUNDERS across the DIAMOND." The joyous watercolors make the play-by-play a...
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Grade 2-4-The fictional young American diarist of Charlotte in Giverny (Chronicle, 2000) spends part of 1893 with her artist parents in Paris, visiting the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, and Tuileries gardens, among other sights. Her journal chronicles a friendship with Julie Manet and recalls neighborhood gossips who give pers...
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PreS. This playful board book looks at the nature of growth and change: a kitten becomes a cat; a puppy grows into a dog; a chick, a chicken; a tadpole, a frog. There is a short, rhyming text, and the illustration pages feature cut-out holes that offer windows to what's coming next. This simple concept turns the book i...
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PreSchool-K-This book features 26 odd and goofy monsters acting like preschoolers-jumping rope, playing in the sandbox, having a snack, etc. The creatures come in various shapes, colors, and sizes, and have strange snouts and googly eyes. Bold and dynamic, Parkins's acrylic-and-alkyd paintings appear on spreads with lo...
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Chronicle continues its line of successful Block Books with a set based on Sylvia Long's Mother Goose. Sylvia Long's Mother Goose Block Books contains 16 chunky board books just right for small hands to stack, knock down and read repeatedly, all packaged in an attractive box with a gift card attached to a carrying cord...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2-Mr. Peters is an inventor and owner of the Yum, Yum Chocolate Candy factory. His two employees are Johnny, who loves his job almost as much as he loves his yellow rubber ducky, and Pauline, who loves her job and playing the drums. One day the duck falls into the chocolate vat and chaos ensues. Mr. ...
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"This lighthearted romp is highlighted by illustrations that set an appropriately spooky mood....the incorporation of telling time into the story makes this entry in a crowded field a little different." -School Library Journal"Pollack and Belviso have created a spooky, rhyming counting book that will make a fine additi...
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..".the bilingual format makes it easy for students learning either language."; Title: Puss in Boots/El Gato con botas
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Matthew Lore has edited many travel books, including Fodor's USA '98. He lives in New York.; Title: Rubberneckers Jr: Fun for Backseat Travelers
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Text: English (translation) Original Language: FrenchAnne Gutman lives and works in France with her husband Georg Hallensleben and their daughter.Georg Hallensleben was born in Germany, lived in Rome and now lives in Paris. He is the illustrator of several book for children.; Title: Mommy Hugs
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David Fontana, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and the author of the best-selling Learn to Meditate (0-8118-2250-8), Teach Yourself to Dream (0-8118-1628-1), and numerous other books. He lives in Wales.Anne Civardi, who edited these stories, is the author of over 40 children's books and is a children's book editor ...
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Grade 2-6–A delightful parody of Shakespeare's most famous love story. Romeow (the Felinis' favorite cat) and his brothers decide to attend a costume ball at the home of the cat-hating Barkers, where Romeow, of course, instantly falls madly, passionately in puppy-love with the beautiful Drooliet. Starry-eyed, the...
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Grade 4-7-Unusual page design and a fine array of memorable, seldom-mentioned details make this an irresistible invitation to travel along with the astronaut who stayed aloft while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. In a narrative interspersed with the crew's rsums, handwritten passages from Collins's n...
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Kindergarten-Grade 6-A bountiful harvest of lyrical poems that expresses delight in the world of nature. It is hard to resist singing such selections as Dainty Doily Dill Weed: Dainty Doily Dill Weed/dances in the breeze,/waving yellow blossoms,/calling to the peas. The poems are easily committed to memory due to their...
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Text: English (translation) Original Language: FrenchAnne Gutman lives and works in France with her husband Georg Hallensleben and their daughter.Georg Hallensleben was born in Germany, lived in Rome and now lives in Paris. He is the illustrator of several book for children.; Title: Daddy Kisses
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Heres a perfect gift for fans of Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues, and other Nick Jr. characters: a box of 26 alphabet board books that double as blocks! Much like Chronicles ABC Block Books: 26 Board Books in a Box!, each tiny chunky book features a letter of the alphabet on the cover, and four illustrated and captioned...
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Introduce your child to 10 of Claude Monet's world-renowned paintings with this vibrant and accessible text. Rhyming words accompany the art, creating a magical countryside picnic. The board book format is just right for small and curious hands. Scholastic Parent & ChildJulie Merberg is a book packager at Round Tab...
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Julie Merberg is a book packager at Round Table Press Inc. and is the mother of a toddler. She lives in New York.Suzanne Bober, also a resident of New York, is an art collector and mother of three.; Title: Dancing with Degas
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PreSchool-Grade 2This title follows the format of Joosse's Mama, Do You Love Me? (Chronicle, 1991). In Papa, a Maasai father reassures his young son that his love is unconditional and endless. In answer to his son's questions, he explains that he will always protect the boy from the dangers of the Serengeti Plain and t...
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PreSchool-KInsects, worms, and slugs curl up in roses, slumber under leaves, and doze in shells in this bedtime rhyme. While some of Ross's verses are clever ("Cuddle in a huddle/in a grove of tall trees"), others are odd or uninviting ("Snooze away softly/in a puddle of sap"). Long's watercolor illustrations of well-d...
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Grade 3-6A combination of scrapbook and journal, this refreshing retrospective of African-American history is engaging and entertaining. Sienna is skeptical at best when her parents announce that they will do a tour of black historical sites on their drive from Hartford, CT, to a family reunion in North Carolina. She f...
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Grade 3 UpA stunning and uniquely designed picture book. Described as a visual poem about China, the book is comprised of 14 lines, each of which is accompanied by its own double-page illustration, done in cut- and torn-paper collage. Young also provides the ancient characters for the images he presents. Readers are ab...
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PreSchool-Grade 1After a newborn baby in a stable smiles, a small bird spreads the news of his birth throughout the countryside, and all sorts of woodland animals come to welcome the infant. He coos with glee, and the animals fall asleep all around him as his mother sings a lullaby. Although neither the baby nor his mo...
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PreSchool-Grade 2Cheese graters wearing grins? A cookie cutter with a surprised look and a large red clown nose? How about a shoe heel with round eyes and a smiley mouth? These and other unexpected and unique objects are showcased in a fun book that demonstrates that faces can be found anywhere if you look hard enough....
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Grade 3-6Familiar entries from Aesop are extravagantly extended in this stunning, oversized compendium. The tortoise and hare gracing the cover appeared in Ward's The Hare and the Tortoise (Millbrook, 1999). This fable is presented afresh along with 11 others, each introduced with a two-page scene that visually and ver...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2An exceptionally handsome book on eggs, from the delicate ova of the green lacewing to the rosy roe of the Atlantic salmon to the mammoth bulk of an ostrich egg. Aston's simple, readable text celebrates their marvelous diversity, commenting on size, shape, coloration, and where they might be found. ...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3Sophie's family needs a new couch. After a full day of searching, they finally find one that is just right. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, it comes with an odd-looking creature that just sits in the middle of the cushion. Resembling one of Jim Henson's Muppets, the creature, readers learn, suf...
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Grade 4 Up–Archival illustrations and fine-art reproductions from the late-19th and 20th century accompany traditional and popular American tunes. A diverse collection of 53 selections, the book includes the date and origin, melodic musical notation, and a verse or two. Beautiful, occasionally full-page art compl...
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Margaret Park Bridges is the author of Now What Can I Do?, Will You Take Care of Me?, If I Were Your Mother, and If I Were Your Father. She lives in Littleton, Massachusetts.Tracy Dockray illustrated Am I Big or Little? by Margaret Bridges and Hear That? by Tama Janowitz. She lives in New York City.; Title: Am I Big or...
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"Diouf creates strong female characters ... This heartfelt story affords glimpses of West African customs as it touches on children's universal desire to be treated as grown-ups." --Publishers Weekly"The great charm of this book is the way that Bintou is presented in her surroundings, both the real and t...
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PreSchool-Grade 2Little Pea is happy. There are many things he likes to do, such as roll down hills and hang out with his friends. There is one thing, though, that he does not like, and that is to eat candy as the main course every night for dinner. He struggles through, reluctantly swallowing not just one piece but fi...
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Grade 3-6–There's nothing mundane or predictable about Banyai's wordless picture book. As in Zoom and Re-Zoom (both Viking, 1995), the illustrator takes his audience on a visual journey that begins with a nearly blank page that, when turned, reveals instructions for folding a paper airplane. On the next page, a g...
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PreSchool-Grade 3Imagination and creativity are quietly, but fantastically, at work here. Stanley goes for a drive in his pickup on a hot, dry day when there isn't a cloud in the sky. "The pond was so dry that it couldn't even make a reflection." Suddenly, he sees a black-and-white spotted cow amid a herd of black bovi...
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BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS"Use this individually or collectively to spice up a readaloud, or just let kids revel in their pride in their own reading history."SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL"This book is perfect for an interactive read-aloud, especially if the illustrations are held back until after the text has...
[ 27970 ]
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L. Bob Rovetch has written several books for children including Ook the Book, published by Chronicle Books, under the moniker Lissa Rovetch. L. Bob lives with her family in California.; Title: Hot Dog and Bob Adventure 2: and the Particularly Pesky Attack of the Pencil People (Adventure 2) (No. 2)
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Sedgwick's (Floodland) jaunty rhymed couplets and Jay's (The Race) signature stylized artwork ably accentuate the wry humor of this Hans Christian Andersen tale. The author emphasizes the breezy cadence of the verse by sprinkling it with exclamation points and presenting some of the words in larger type sizes for empha...
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Grade 1-3Two itinerant dancers arrive at the same time in the Irish village of Ballyconneely in hopes of teaching the locals a variety of steps. Because the citizens can afford only one instructor, the two must vie for the position. One of them names a tune and the other demonstrates his fancy footwork to the accompani...
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..." pair the beauty of impressionist paintings with rhyming verse for board books that you'll actually like to read."Julie Merberg is a book packager at Round Table Press Inc. and is the mother of a toddler. She lives in New York.Suzanne Bober, also a resident of New York, is an art collector and mother of three.; Tit...
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"...beautifully laid out and a pleasure to view and share." -School Library Journal"This bilingual adaptation of the Grimm brothers' parable is done with style and humor in both languages." -Booklist; Title: The Musicians of Bremen/Los Musicos De Bremen (Bilingual Fairy Tales)
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"A different approach to a well-known tale amusingly wicked instead of innocent and sweet." -Booklist"...beautifully laid out and a pleasure to view and share." -School Library Journal; Title: Hansel and Gretel/Hansel y Gretel: A Bilingual Book (Bilingual Fairy Tales)
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"Kneen's sumptuous watercolor and gouache paintings, embossed with texture and gold foil accents, convey the awesomeness of Jesus' birth in this novel retelling of the Nativity. An angel asks four beasts of burden to assist four different travelers on the trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem, noting that only one animal sha...
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Roxie Munro is a fine artist and the author-illustrator of a number of books for children, including her acclaimed Inside-Outside series; Christmastime in New York City ; and Blimps . She lives in New York City.; Title: Mazescapes
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"Graphic designer Bruno Munari is one of the most inventive picture book creators I know. I have been inspired, entertained, and in awe of his work since I was a graphic design student in Germany more than 50 years ago. And Zoo has been one of my favorites. I am delighted that it is available once again for a new gener...
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PreS-Simplicity is the essence of these charming board books. Using a nostalgic style of illustration, reminiscent of an older, classic time, Wright sets a picture of a bear against a white background. On one page, its activity or appearance is pictured and described in a word. The illustration and words on the opposit...
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PreSchool-Grade 1–This unique book is rendered in soft gouache watercolors, bestowing a traditional Old World look that is full of warmth and charm. Simplicity is the key, as nature's bounty is visually transformed into human treasures. An acorn turns into a tree, the Earth's clay becomes an artistic pottery piec...
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Sandra Markle is a former elementary school science teacher, a nationally known science education consultant, and the author of many award-wining books for children. Animals Robert Scott Saw was inspired by her own experiences in Antarctica.; Title: Animals Christopher Columbus Saw: An Adventure in the New World (Explo...
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PreSchool-Grade 2A bowl of tomato soup is the vehicle for introducing the letters of the alphabet and their corresponding animals. Beginning with a playful ant and an orange-and-purple butterfly, two to three animals and their first letters are introduced on each spread. As the menagerie multiplies, the creatures move ...
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Ann Rand wrote five children's books, four of which were illustrated by her husband.In addition to the four children's books he illustrated, Paul Rand wrote and co-wrote several others, and designed some of the best-known corporate icons of his time, including the logos for ABC, IBM, and UPS.; Title: Sparkle and Spin: ...
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Joan MacPhail Knight lives in New York with her husband.; Title: Charlotte in New York
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The story opens "before humans arrived in North America," with a short-faced bear surprising a band of peccaries inside a cave, catching one, and biting off its foot. Some 55,000 years later, in 2001, a Missouri road crew uses explosives to blow off a hillside and discovers the Riverbluff Cave. Scientists summoned to t...
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Sandra Markle is a former elementary school science teacher, a nationally known science education consultant, and the author of many award-winning books for children. Born and raised in the United States, she now lives in New Zealand.; Title: Animals Charles Darwin Saw (Explorers (Chronicle Books))
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..." pair the beauty of impressionist paintings with rhyming verse for board books that you'll actually like to read."Julie Merberg is a book packager at Round Table Press Inc. and is the mother of a toddler. She lives in New York.Suzanne Bober, also a resident of New York, is an art collector and mother of three.; Tit...
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Like other entries in the publisher's successful series of retellings of world-renowned stories, this title lives up to the promise of the previous books. Told in a simple but richly descriptive style, the story is both entertaining and lends itself very well to reading out loud. Monserrat's pictures, which have a Midd...
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Michael Hague has illustrated more than twenty children's classics. He is also the artist for several popular books written by his wife, Kathleen. He lives in Colorado.; Title: The Nutcracker
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Cooper Edens, with Starsnap Studio, owns one of the largest collections of vintage picture books in the world. And he wrote and illustrated books for the legendary Green Tiger Press.; Title: The Big Book of Little: A Classic Illustrated Edition
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Even when things get all mixed up, Carin Berger tries not to lose her head. She lives in New York with her husband and daughter and their pet fish, Peacock, who knows many marvelous tricks.; Title: All Mixed Up: A Mix-and-Match Book
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PreSchool-KA Halloween-themed counting book inspired by "Over in the Meadow." Mummies, owls, bats, and more help readers count to 13. "Over in the hollow,/wrapped in old sheets and glue,/live an old, moldy mummy/and his little mummies two./'LURCH!' moans the mummy./'WE LURCH!' moan the two./And they lurch into the mist...
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Grade 36This intriguing book discusses generally agreed-upon details of Marco Polo's explorations in Mongolia and the Far East, and speculates about the moths, jackals, van cats, zebu, oxen, Persian lions, snow cats, and camels he may have met along the way. Though this quick read is generally informative, there are a ...
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"A strong addition to the publisher's bilingual fairy tale series...this book will be a good read-aloud for small children." -Booklist; Title: The Three Little Pigs/Los Tres Cerditos (Bilingual Fairy Tales)
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