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5,800 | 7 | The designer of Bob the Builder, creator of Frankenstein's Cat and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion, and the author/illustrator of numerous children's books, Curtis Jobling lives with his family in Cheshire, England. Early work on Aardman's Wallace & Gromit and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks led to him picking up his crayons in 1997 to design the BAFTA winning Bob. The animated series of Frankenstein's Cat, based upon Curtis's book of the same name, picked up the Pulcinella award for Best Children's Show at the 2008 International Cartoons On The Bay festival in Salerno, Italy. His noisy new preschool show, Raa Raa, can be seen on CBeebies, while his original paintings and prints sell in galleries the world over. Although perhaps best known for his work in TV and picture books, Curtis's other love has always been horror and fantasy for an older audience. Wereworld is his first novel. www.curtisjobling.com; Title: Wereworld Shadow of the Hawk Book 3 | [
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5,801 | 0 | Penguin Young Readers unite the best authors, illustrators, and brands from the Penguin Young Readers Group under one umbrella to engage all levels of early readers, from emergent all the way to fluent. With an easy numbered leveling system and the Guided Reading leveling system, these books allow educators, parents, and kids to quickly find the perfect book for any developing reader.; Title: I Am Benjamin (Peter Rabbit Animation) | [
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5,802 | 7 | The designer of Bob the Builder, creator of Frankenstein's Cat and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion, and the author/illustrator of numerous children's books, Curtis Jobling lives with his family in Cheshire, England. Early work on Aardman's Wallace & Gromit and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks led to him picking up his crayons in 1997 to design the BAFTA winning Bob. The animated series of Frankenstein's Cat, based upon Curtis's book of the same name, picked up the Pulcinella award for Best Children's Show at the 2008 International Cartoons On The Bay festival in Salerno, Italy. His noisy new preschool show, Raa Raa, can be seen on CBeebies, while his original paintings and prints sell in galleries the world over. Although perhaps best known for his work in TV and picture books, Curtis's other love has always been horror and fantasy for an older audience. Wereworld is his first novel. www.curtisjobling.com; Title: Wereworld Nest of Serpents | [
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5,803 | 2 | Penguin Young Readers unite the best authors, illustrators, and brands from the Penguin Young Readers Group under one umbrella to engage all levels of early readers, from emergent all the way to fluent. With an easy numbered leveling system and the Guided Reading leveling system, these books allow educators, parents, and kids to quickly find the perfect book for any developing reader.; Title: I Am Peter (Peter Rabbit Animation) | [
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5,804 | 10 | Jan Pienkowski was born in Warsaw in 1936. After creating his first book at the age of eight, Jan went on to excel in his chosen field of design, working in such diverse areas as television, theatre and greetings cards. Published in 1968, A Necklace of Raindrops was the first of several wonderful collaborations between Jan and Joan Aiken - and it was also the very first book Jan illustrated. For over forty years, he has also worked on the Meg and Mog books. He has since twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration, and has created many instantly recognizable classics.; Title: Meg and Mog and the Pirates | [
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5,805 | 6 | Eric Hill (1927-2014) was born in North London and lived there for many years. He started his artistic career as an art studio messenger and from there went on to become a cartoonist and eventually an art director at a leading advertising agency. In 1978 Eric made up a story about a small puppy to read to his son at bedtime and Spot was born. The success of his first bestselling lift-the-flap classic Where's Spot? in 1980 convinced him to become a full-time author, and his Spot books have been enjoyed by children around the world ever since. In 2008 he was awarded an OBE for services to children's literacy.; Title: Spot's Hide and Seek a Search and Find Book | [
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5,806 | 1 | Eric Hill (www.funwithspot.com) left school when he was 15 and took up cartooning while working as a messenger at an art studio. He created Where's Spot? as a bedtime story for his two-year old son. It was published four years later, and the rest is history. Eric Hill passed away in July 2014.; Title: Spot's Peekaboo | [
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5,807 | 1 | Eric Hill (www.funwithspot.com) left school when he was 15 and took up cartooning while working as a messenger at an art studio. He created Where’s Spot? as a bedtime story for his two-year old son. It was published four years later, and the rest is history.; Title: Spot Loves School | [
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5,808 | 7 | Ursula Moray Williams was born on 19 April 1911 at Petersfield, Hampshire, ten minutes after her twin sister, Barbara. She wrote and illustrated over sixty books for children with the most notable being Gobbolino the Witch's Cat and The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse. As well as writing, she became involved in local life around the village of Beckford, where she and her family lived, organizing children's parties, and serving as a magistrate. After her husband's death in 1974, Ursula Moray Williams remained active, writing, gardening, giving talks and visiting her family in various parts of the world. She died in October 2006.; Title: Gobbolino the Witch's Cat (A Puffin Book) | [
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5,810 | 14 | Raymond Briggs is one of our most respected and beloved artists. Born in Wimbledon Park in 1934, he studied at the Wimbledon School of Art and later at the Slade School of Fine Art, and went on to produce a treasure trove of work. He has created characters that are now icons for generations of children, including Fungus the Bogeyman, Father Christmas and, of course, the beloved Snowman. The biography of his parents in graphic novel form, Ethel & Ernest, became a bestseller in the UK, and an animated feature film based on the novel will be released in 2016.He has won many awards over his career including the Kurt Maschler Award, The Children's Book of the Year, Dutch Silver Pen Award, and the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award twice for his Mother Goose Nursery Treasury and Father Christmas. Raymond lives in Sussex.; Title: The Snowman Pull-out Pop-up Book | [
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5,811 | 14 | Janet Ahlberg, along with Allan Ahlberg, created some of the world's most popular picture books, including EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY CHRISTMAS POSTMAN, both winners of Greenaway Medals, and THE BABY'S CATALOGUE, inspired by their daughter Jessica. Janet died in 1994.; Title: Jolly Christmas Postman (Jolly Postman) | [
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5,812 | 2 | Founded in 1865 by a bookseller, the British publisher Frederick Warne & Co. built its reputation publishing children’s books with authors like Edward Lear, Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, and Beatrix Potter — the creator of Peter Rabbit. Since becoming a division of Penguin in 1983, Warne has acquired many other classic book properties including Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies in 1989 and Eric Hill’s Spot in 1993. Today, Warne continues to publish beautifully produced editions of their original works, lively spin-offs, and leveled readers.; Title: Be My Friend (Peter Rabbit Animation) | [
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5,813 | 13 | Good Wives and Warriors is the creative partnership established by Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell after graduating from the Glasgow School of Art. Their experimental collaborative approach to illustration and installation has led to exhibitions and a wide range of projects all over the world.; Title: Escape to Shakespeare's World: A Colouring Book Adventure | [
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5,814 | 14 | Sarah Gomes Harris is the co-creator of Sarah and Duck.; Title: Sarah and Duck have a Quiet Birthday | [
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5,815 | 2 | Puffin Booksis the children's imprint of British publishersPenguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been among the largest publishers ofchildren's booksin the UK and much of the English-speaking world.; Title: Puffin Rock: Goodnight Beautiful Moon | [
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5,816 | 2 | Nick East has been working as a museum designer for the past 16 years but has always been a storyteller, whether as a child, filling sketchbooks with quirky characters, or as a designer displaying a collection of ancient artefacts. Nick lives near York with his wife and two children and, when he isn't drawing, he is out riding bikes and spending time with his family.; Title: Goodnight Spaceman | [
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5,819 | 7 | Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in 1929; her parents were the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber. She writes both poetry and prose, including realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, young children's books, books for young adults, screenplays, essays, verbal texts for musicians, and voicetexts for performance or recording. She has published five books of poetry, seventeen novels, over a hundred short stories (collected in eight volumes), two collections of essays, eleven books for children, and two volumes of translation. Several of Le Guin's major titles have remained continuously in print for over thirty years. Her best known fantasy works, the first four Books of Earthsea, have sold millions of copies in America and England, and have been translated into sixteen languages. Three of Le Guin's books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are the National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula awards, the Kafka award, a Pushcart Prize, the Howard Vursell award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the L.A. Times Robert Kirsch Award.WARRIORS IN THE MISTThe island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. From the towns in its high valleys and the ports on its dark narrow bays many a Gontishman has gone forth to serve the Lords of the Archipelago in their cities as wizard or mage, or, looking for adventure, to wander working magic from isle to isle of all Earthsea. Of these some say the greatest, and surely the greatest voyager, was the man called Sparrowhawk, who in his day became both dragonlord and Archmage. His life is told of in the Deed of Ged and in many songs, but this is a tale of the time before his fame, before the songs were made.He was born in a lonely village called Ten Alders, high on the mountain at the head of the Northward Vale. Below the village the pastures and plow lands of the Vale slope downward level below level towards the sea, and other towns lie on the bends of the River Ar; above the village only forest rises ridge behind ridge to the stone and snow of the heights.The name he bore as a child, Duny, was given him by his mother, and that and his life were all she could give him, for she died before he was a year old. His father, the bronze-smith of the village, was a grim unspeaking man, and since Duny's six brothers were older than he by many years and went one by one from home to farm the land or sail the sea or work as smith in other towns of the Northward Vale, there was no one to bring the child up in tenderness. He grew wild, a thriving weed, a tall, quick boy, loud and proud and full of temper. With the few other children of the village he herded goats on the steep meadows above the river-springs; and when he was strong enough to push and pull the long bellows-sleeves, his father made him work as smith's boy, at a high cost in blows and whippings. There was not much work to be got out of Duny. He was always off and away; roaming deep in the forest, swimming in the pools of the River Ar that like all Gontish rivers runs very quick and cold, or climbing by cliff and scarp to the heights above the forest, from which he could see the sea, that broad northern ocean where, past Perregal, no islands are.A sister of his dead mother lived in the village. She had done what was needful for him as a baby, but she had business of her own and once he could look after himself at all she paid no more heed to him. But one day when the boy was seven years old, untaught and knowing nothing of the arts and powers that are in the world, he heard his aunt crying out words to a goat which had jumped up onto the thatch of a hut and would not come down: but it came jumping when she cried a certain rhyme to it. Next day herding the longhaired goats on the meadows of High Fall, Duny shouted to them the words he had heard, not knowing their use or meaning or what kind of words they were:Noth hierth malk manhiolk han merth han!He yelled the rhyme aloud, and the goats came to him. They came very quickly, all of them together, not making any sound. They looked at him out of the dark slot in their yellow eyes.Duny laughed and shouted it out again, the rhyme that gave him power over the goats. They came closer, crowding and pushing round him. All at once he felt afraid of their thick, ridged horns and their strange eyes and their strange silence. He tried to get free of them and to run away. The goats ran with him keeping in a knot around him, and so they came charging down into the village at last, all the goats going huddled together as if a rope were pulled tight round them, and the boy in the midst of them weeping and bellowing. Villagers ran from their houses to swear at the goats and laugh at the boy. Among them came the boy's aunt, who did not laugh. She said a word to the goats, and the beasts began to bleat and browse and wander, freed from the spell."Come with me," she said to Duny.She took him into her hut where she lived alone. She let no child enter there usually, and the children feared the place. It was low and dusky, windowless, fragrant with herbs that hung drying from the crosspole of the roof, mint and moly and thyme, yarrow and rushwash and paramal, kingsfoil, clovenfoot, tansy and bay. There his aunt sat crosslegged by the firepit, and looking sidelong at the boy through the tangles of her black hair she asked him what he had said to the goats, and if he knew what the rhyme was. When she found that he knew nothing, and yet had spellbound the goats to come to him and follow him, then she saw that he must have in him the makings of power.As her sister's son he had been nothing to her, but now she looked at him with a new eye. She praised him, and told him she might teach him rhymes he would like better, such as the word that makes a snail look out of its shell, or the name that calls a falcon down from the sky."Aye, teach me that name!" he said, being clear over the fright the goats had given him, and puffed up with her praise of his cleverness.The witch said to him, "You will not ever tell that word to the other children, if I teach it to you.""I promise."She smiled at his ready ignorance. "Well and good. But I will bind your promise. Your tongue will be stilled until I choose to unbind it, and even then, though you can speak, you will not be able to speak the word I teach you where another person can hear it. We must keep the secrets of our craft.""Good," said the boy, for he had no wish to tell the secret to his playmates, liking to know and do what they knew not and could not.He sat still while his aunt bound back her uncombed hair, and knotted the belt of her dress, and again sat cross-legged throwing handfuls of leaves into the firepit, so that a smoke spread and filled the darkness of the hut. She began to sing. Her voice changed sometimes to low or high as if another voice sang through her, and the singing went on and on until the boy did not know if he waked or slept, and all the while the witch's old black dog that never barked sat by him with eyes red from the smoke. Then the witch spoke to Duny in a tongue he did not understand, and made him say with her certain rhymes and words until the enchantment came on him and held him still."Speak!" she said to test the spell.The boy could not speak, but he laughed.Then his aunt was a little afraid of his strength, for this was as strong a spell as she knew how to weave: she had tried not only to gain control of his speech and silence, but to bind him at the same time to her service in the craft of sorcery. Yet even as the spell bound him, he had laughed. She said nothing. She threw clear water on the fire till the smoke cleared away, and gave the boy water to drink, and when the air was clear and he could speak again she taught him the true name of the falcon, to which the falcon must come.This was Duny's first step on the way he was to follow all his life, the way of magery, the way that led him at last to hunt a shadow over land and sea to the lightless coasts of death's kingdom. But in those first steps along the way, it seemed a broad, bright road.When he found that the wild falcons stooped down to him from the wind when he summoned them by name, lighting with a thunder of wings on his wrist like the hunting-birds of a prince, then he hungered to know more such names and came to his aunt begging to learn the name of the sparrowhawk and the osprey and the eagle. To earn the words of power he did all the witch asked of him and learned of her all she taught, though not all of it was pleasant to do or know. There is a saying on Gont, Weak as woman's magic, and there is another saying, Wicked as woman's magic. Now the witch of Ten Alders was no black sorceress, nor did she ever meddle with the high arts or traffic with Old Powers; but being an ignorant woman among ignorant folk, she often used her crafts to foolish and dubious ends. She knew nothing of the Balance and the Pattern which the true wizard knows and serves, and which keep him from using his spells unless real need demands. She had a spell for every circumstance, and was forever weaving charms. Much of her lore was mere rubbish and humbug, nor did she know the true spells from the false. She knew many curses, and was better at causing sickness, perhaps, than at curing it. Like any village witch she could brew up a love-potion, but there were other, uglier brews she made to serve men's jealousy and hate. Such practices, however, she kept from her young prentice, and as far as she was able she taught him honest craft.At first all his pleasure in the art-magic was, childlike, the power it gave him over bird and beast, and the knowledge of these. And indeed that pleasure stayed with him all his life. Seeing him in the high pastures often with a bird of prey about him, the other children called him Sparrowhawk, and so he came by the name that he kept in later life as his use-name, when his true-name was not known.As the witch kept talking of the glory and the riches and the great power over men that a sorcerer could gain, he set himself to learn more useful lore. He was very quick at it. The witch praised him and the children of the village began to fear him, and he himself was sure that very soon he would become great among men. So he went on from word to word and from spell to spell with the witch till he was twelve years old and had learned from her a great part of what she knew: not much, but enough for the witchwife of a small village, and more than enough for a boy of twelve. She had taught him all her lore in herbals and healing, and all she knew of the crafts of finding, binding, mending, unsealing and revealing. What she knew of chanters' tales and the great Deeds she had sung him, and all the words of the True Speech that she had learned from the sorcerer that taught her, she taught again to Duny. And from weatherworkers and wandering jugglers who went from town to town of the Northward Vale and the East Forest he had learned various tricks and pleasantries, spells of Illusion. It was with one of these light spells that he first proved the great power that was in him.In those days the Kargad Empire was strong. Those are four great lands that lie between the Northern and the Eastern Reaches: Karego-At, Atuan, Hur-at-Hur, Atnini. The tongue they speak there is not like any spoken in the Archipelago or the other Reaches, and they are a savage people, white-skinned, yellow-haired, and fierce, liking the sight of blood and the smell of burning towns. Last year they had attacked the Torikles and the strong island Torheven, raiding in great force in fleets of red-sailed ships. News of this came north to Gont, but the Lords of Gont were busy with their piracy and paid small heed to the woes of other lands. Then Spevy fell to the Kargs and was looted and laid waste, its people taken as slaves, so that even now it is an isle of ruins. In lust of conquest the Kargs sailed next to Gont, coming in a host, thirty great longships, to East Port. They fought through that town, took it, burned it; leaving their ships under guard at the mouth of the River Ar they went up the Vale wrecking and looting, slaughtering cattle and men. As they went they split into bands, and each of these bands plundered where it chose. Fugitives brought warning to the villages of the heights. Soon the people of Ten Alders saw smoke darken the eastern sky, and that night those who climbed the High Fall looked down on the Vale all hazed and red-streaked with fires where fields ready for harvest had been set ablaze, and orchards burned, the fruit roasting on the blazing boughs, and barns and farmhouses smoldered in ruin.Some of the villagers fled up the ravines and hid in the forest, and some made ready to fight for their lives, and some did neither but stood about lamenting. The witch was one who fled, hiding alone in a cave up on the Kapperding Scarp and sealing the cave-mouth with spells. Duny's father the bronze-smith was one who stayed, for he would not leave his smelting-pit and forge where he had worked for fifty years. All that night he labored beating up what ready metal he had there into spearpoints, and others worked with him binding these to the handles of hoes and rakes, there being no time to make sockets and shaft them properly. There had been no weapons in the village but hunting bows and short knives, for the mountain folk of Gont are not warlike; it is not warriors they are famous for, but goat-thieves, sea-pirates, and wizards.With sunrise came a thick white fog, as on many autumn mornings in the heights of the island. Among their huts and houses down the straggling street of Ten Alders the villagers stood waiting with their hunting bows and new-forged spears, not knowing whether the Kargs might be far off or very near, all silent, all peering into the fog that hid shapes and distances and dangers from their eyes.With them was Duny. He had worked all night at the forge-bellows, pushing and pulling the two long sleeves of goathide that fed the fire with a blast of air. Now his arms so ached and trembled from that work that he could not hold out the spear he had chosen. He did not see how he could fight or be of any good to himself or the villagers. It rankled at his heart that he should die, spitted on a Kargish lance, while still a boy: that he should go into the dark land without ever having known his own name, his true name as a man. He looked down at his thin arms, wet with cold fog-dew, and raged at his weakness, for he knew his strength. There was power in him, if he knew how to use it, and he sought among all the spells he knew for some device that might give him and his companions an advantage, or at least a chance. But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.; Title: A Wizard of Earthsea | [
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5,820 | 5 | Tove Jansson was born in Helsingfors, Finland, in 1914. Her mother was a caricaturist who designed 165 of Finland's stamps and her father was a sculptor. She studied painting in Finland, Sweden and France, and subsequently became a book illustrator. Her extraordinary illustrative style is seen as a design classic the world over. Originally written in Swedish, the Moomintroll books have been translated into over 40 languages and adapted for television, film, radio and opera. Tove Jansson lived alone on a small island in the gulf of Finland, where most of her books were written. She died in 2001.; Title: Moomin and the Wishing Star | [
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5,822 | 6 | James Newman Gray has been working has a professional illustrator for twenty years.Lee Teng Chew is a freelance Illustrator currently based in Malaysia who loves children illustration and picture book.Jan Smith is a British artist specialising in childrens book illustrations, describing her artwork as fun and colourful.Jans bright childrens illustrations that she has created throughout her artistic career have been influenced through childhood comics such as The Beano and Jackie.; Title: Dr. Who: The Colouring Book (Doctor Who) | [
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5,823 | 7 | In this sequel to The Opal Deception (2005), 14-year-old Artemis discovers an unraveling time tunnel connecting demons with the earth. These imps have sworn revenge on humans, and their unpredictable appearances threaten to expose the entire fairy world. As always, Colfer delivers not only continuous action but also witty wordplay and dialogue, understated humor, and plenty of magical technology and gadgetry. A must for kids who have enjoyed Artemis' previous escapades. Kay WeismanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Paperback edition.Eoin Colfer is the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series; The Supernaturalist; Eoin Colfers Legend of Spud Murphy; Eoin Colfers Legend of Captain Crows Teeth; The Wish List; and his latest book, Half Moon Investigations. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.; Title: Artemis Fowl - The Lost Colony | [
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5,824 | 2 | Eric Hill (www.funwithspot.com) left school when he was 15 and took up cartooning while working as a messenger at an art studio. He created Where's Spot? as a bedtime story for his two-year-old son. It was published four years later, and the rest is history. Eric Hill passed away in July 2014.; Title: Find Spot at the Museum: A Lift-the-Flap Book | [
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5,825 | 7 | The designer of Bob the Builder, creator of Frankenstein's Cat and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion, and the author/illustrator of numerous children's books, Curtis Jobling lives with his family in Cheshire, England. Early work on Aardman's Wallace & Gromit and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks led to him picking up his crayons in 1997 to design the BAFTA winning Bob. The animated series of Frankenstein's Cat, based upon Curtis's book of the same name, picked up the Pulcinella award for Best Children's Show at the 2008 International Cartoons On The Bay festival in Salerno, Italy. His noisy new preschool show, Raa Raa, can be seen on CBeebies, while his original paintings and prints sell in galleries the world over. Although perhaps best known for his work in TV and picture books, Curtis's other love has always been horror and fantasy for an older audience. Wereworld is his first novel. www.curtisjobling.com; Title: Wereworld Rage of Lions Book 2 | [
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5,826 | 6 | Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.; Title: Emoji: Official Sticker Book | [
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5,827 | 16 | Beatrix Potter was born on July 28, 1866 at No 2, Bolton Gardens, Kensington, London. She loved nature and drawing as a child. In 1893, Beatrix sat down to write a picture letter to Noel Moore, the five-year-old son of her ex-governess, all about a naughty rabbit called Peter. Noel was ill in bed and so Beatrix wrote to him: "My dear Noel, I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits...." And that's how The Tale of Peter Rabbit was created. It wasn't until 1902 that Frederick Warne published what would become one of the most beloved stories in children's books.; Title: P Is for Peter (Peter Rabbit) | [
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5,828 | 9 | Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college. She has been making up stories all her life. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, went on to study crime fiction at university, and then became a children's book editor. She is now a full-time writer and the creator of the bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Robin lives in London with her husband and her pet bearded dragon, Watson.; Title: Cream Buns and Crime | [
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5,829 | 9 | Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college. She has been making up stories all her life. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, went on to study crime fiction at university, and then became a children's book editor. She is now a full-time writer and the creator of the bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Robin lives in London with her husband and her pet bearded dragon, Watson.; Title: Jolly Foul Play: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery | [
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5,830 | 1 | Sarah Gomes Harris is the co-creator of Sarah and Duck.; Title: Sarah & Duck Have a Sleepover (Sarah and Duck) | [
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5,831 | 19 | This is a split-page board book teaching children the simple concept of words through Eric Carle's inimitable collage illustrations. Here, readers need to line up the word in the top section of the book with the correct image in the bottom section.; Title: My Very First Book of Words | [
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5,832 | 1 | In this brand new pop-up edition of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", fans will experience the classic story in a completely new and interactive way as the intrepid caterpillar literally pops off the page, crawling along branches, munching through food and, finally, turning into an extraordinary butterfly. The classic story is told across seven beautifully engineered pop-up spreads with tabs to pull, dials to turn and flaps to lift. This new version will be treasured by bookworms of all ages.; Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Pop-Up Book | [
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5,833 | 2 | "While this book is perfectly understandable as a stand-alone title, it will be best appreciated by readers of the earlier volumes who are invested in the saga and who will find this title a clever and satisfying way of coming full circle." —School Library Journal on Now"Sequel to the searing Once, this tale of young people trying to survive in Poland during World War II is equally powerful.” Kirkus Reviews, starred review of Then"In a conclusion both devastating and hopeful, the innocence and maturity of Felix's narrative voice conveys human resilience when faced with the impossible.” Publishers Weekly, starred review of ThenMorris Gleitzman is the author of Toad Rage, Once, Then, and Now. ; Title: Maybe (Once/Now/Then/After) | [
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5,834 | 3 | Will Mabbitt likes to write. He writes on the train, in the corner of cafs, and sometimes, when his laptop runs out of power, he writes in his head. Will has a background in children's media, producing digital content for Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. He lives with his family, cats and a woodlouse infestation in Lewes on the south coast of England.; Title: I Can Only Draw Worms | [
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5,835 | 14 | William Morris (1834 – 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain.Liz Catchpole is the Art Director at Penguin Books and a designer and children's illustrator.; Title: V&A: The Twelve Days of Christmas | [
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5,836 | 2 | "While this book is perfectly understandable as a stand-alone title, it will be best appreciated by readers of the earlier volumes who are invested in the saga and who will find this title a clever and satisfying way of coming full circle." —School Library Journal on NowMorris Gleitzman is the author of Toad Rage, Once, Then, and Now. ; Title: Soon (Once/Now/Then/After) | [
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5,837 | 6 | Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to 'a wonderful faraway place'. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.; Title: Roald Dahl 100 PHIZZ-WHIZZING POSTCARDS | [
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5,838 | 16 | Nick East has been working as a museum designer for the past 16 years but has always been a storyteller, whether as a child, filling sketchbooks with quirky characters, or as a designer displaying a collection of ancient artefacts. Nick lives near York with his wife and two children and, when he isn't drawing, he is out riding bikes and spending time with his family.; Title: Goodnight Tractor (Board Book) | [
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5,839 | 1 | A board book version of this bestselling picture book. When Slinky Malinki and Stickybeak Sid are left in the house on their own, they cause absolute mayhem by opening all the craefully shut doorsi the house - a leave a trailof detruction from bathroom to bedroom to kitchen. But then Slinky Malinki opens the final door and comes face to face with his old adversary - Hairy Maclary!; Title: Slinky Malinki, Open the Door | [
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5,840 | 1 | Eric Hill (1927-2014) started his artistic career as an art studio messenger and from there went on to become a cartoonist and eventually an art director at a leading advertising agency. In 1978, Eric made up a story about a small puppy to read to his son at bedtime, and Spot was born. The success of his first bestselling lift-the-flap classic Where's Spot? in 1980 convinced him to become a full-time author, and his Spot books have been enjoyed by children around the world ever since. In 2008 he was awarded an OBE for services to children's literacy.; Title: All About Spot | [
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5,841 | 6 | Good Wives and Warriors is the creative partnership established by Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell after graduating from the Glasgow School of Art. Their experimental collaborative approach to illustration and installation has led to exhibitions and a wide range of projects all over the world.; Title: Escape to Wonderland: A Colouring Book Adventure | [
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5,842 | 1 | Timothy Knapman is both writer and playwright and was cast adrift on a boat made of books when he was small, but finally made his way to Surrey where he now lives.; Title: Mungo and the Dinosaur Island | [
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5,843 | 1 | Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. She went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. She began to work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes. There was no looking back as Lynley went on to write and illustrate her own books for children. Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. As well as being a visual delight, these are some of the most rewarding books for children and adults to read out loud.; Title: Slinky Malinkis Christmas Crackers | [
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5,844 | 2 | Babette Cole was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands. She graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1973 and was the illustrator and author of more than 150 witty, imaginative, irreverent and thought-provoking picture books for children including the bestselling, stereotype-defying Princess Smartypants. She produced animated storyboards for the BBC and illustrated numerous greetings cards and books by other authors as well as her own. Babette adored the countryside and was a keen horse rider and breeder. She spent much of her life in Lincolnshire, before moving to Kent and then westward through Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.; Title: Princess Smartypants Breaks the Rules | [
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5,845 | 2 | Ed Vere is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer & illustrator of picture books, including Max the Brave which was named one of The Sunday Times's '100 Modern Children's Classics'. He studied fine art at Camberwell College of Art and has been writing and illustrating children's books since 1999. Ed's books are published all over the world. He is also a painter, working from his studio in east London, and is represented by galleries in London and Los Angeles.; Title: Banana | [
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5,846 | 1 | Gwen Millward studied illustration in Edinburgh and now spends all her time painting and writing stories for children about her favourite subject - beasts.; Title: The King of Tiny Things | [
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5,847 | 1 | Russell Ayto has illustrated books by many leading picture-book authors, including Ian Whybrow and Cressida Cowell. His book The Witch's Children was shortlisted for the Greenaway Award in 2004 and The Witch's Children and the Queen won the Gold Award for the Nestle Children's Book Prize in 2003. His most recent accolade was the Roald Dahl Funny Prize for The Witch's Children Go to School in 2008.; Title: Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs the Magic Cutlass | [
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5,848 | 1 | Jane Clarke is the author of several Flying Foxes and Blue Bananas titles as well as the recent picture book, Gilbert the Great, illustrated by Charles Fuge. Jane lives in Kent. Garry Parsons is a young and increasingly successful illustrator receiving more acclaim with each book he publishes. He is known for Billy's Bucket (Random) and Emily's Perfect Pet (Gullane), as well as Trouble at the Dinosaur Cafe, which Puffin published in 2006.; Title: Stuck in the Mud | [
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5,849 | 6 | Timothy Knapman is both writer and playwright and was cast adrift on a boat made of books when he was small, but finally made his way to Surrey where he now lives.; Title: Mungo and the Spiders From Space | [
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5,850 | 7 | The designer of Bob the Builder, creator of Frankenstein's Cat and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion, and the author/illustrator of numerous children's books, Curtis Jobling lives with his family in Cheshire, England. Early work on Aardman's Wallace & Gromit and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks led to him picking up his crayons in 1997 to design the BAFTA winning Bob. The animated series of Frankenstein's Cat, based upon Curtis's book of the same name, picked up the Pulcinella award for Best Children's Show at the 2008 International Cartoons On The Bay festival in Salerno, Italy. His noisy new preschool show, Raa Raa, can be seen on CBeebies, while his original paintings and prints sell in galleries the world over. Although perhaps best known for his work in TV and picture books, Curtis's other love has always been horror and fantasy for an older audience. Wereworld is his first novel. www.curtisjobling.com; Title: Wereworld War of the Werelords Book 6 | [
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5,851 | 1 | Adrian Reynolds is a hugely talented illustrator who has worked on many picture books,including the wonderful Harry stories and four adventures featuring Pete and Polo. Adrian lives in Cambridge; Title: Harry and the Dinosuars Make a Splash (Harry and the Dinosaurs) | [
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5,852 | 1 | Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. She went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. She began to work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes. There was no looking back as Lynley went on to write and illustrate her own books for children. Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. As well as being a visual delight, these are some of the most rewarding books for children and adults to read out loud.; Title: Hairy Maclarys Hat Tricks (Hairy Maclary and Friends) | [
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5,853 | 2 | Rachel Bright is a writer, illustrator, designer, printmaker and eternal optimist! She trained in Graphics at Kingston University and is just completing an MA in Printmaking at UWE. She currently works as a copywriter for a successful advertising agency, as well as undertaking both print and illustration commissions. Her newly launched stationery range, The Bright Side, now totals over 40 card designs, gift wrap, gift tags, notebooks and babygros and is sold throughout the UK in independent gift retailers and the John Lewis Partnership. Rachel lives in Bristol.; Title: What Does Daddy Do | [
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5,854 | 10 | Russell Ayto has illustrated books by many leading picture-book authors, including Ian Whybrow and Cressida Cowell. His book The Witch's Children was shortlisted for the Greenaway Award in 2004 and The Witch's Children and the Queen won the Gold Award for the Nestle Children's Book Prize in 2003. His most recent accolade was the Roald Dahl Funny Prize for The Witch's Children Go to School in 2008.; Title: Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs Smuggler's Bay! | [
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5,856 | 13 | Debbie Allen is an award-winning producer, actress, director, and choreographer. Her books include Brothers of the Night, Dancing in the Wings, and Amistad: Give us Free. She lives in Los Angeles, CaliforniaKadir Nelson, New York Times bestselling author and two-time Caldecott Honor winner lives in San Diego, California.; Title: Brothers of the Knight (Picture Puffin Books) | [
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5,857 | 1 | In this series, a Great Dane consistently finds himself in humorous adventures such as flunking out of obedience school, getting disguised as a stegosaurus, behaving like a cat, and getting trapped in a hot air balloon. PW called the "action-filled, colorful pictures, as funny as the story." Ages 4-8. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Steven Kellogg is a beloved author and illustrator who has published than 100 picture books, including the classics The Mysterious Tadpole, Can I Keep Him?, The Island of the Skog, Is Your Mama a Llama?, and this book, Pinkerton, Behave!, which was on Horn Book and Booklists Best of the Year lists and led to four sequels. A winner of the Regina Medal for his lifetime contribution to childrens literature, Steven Kelloggs books have received numerous accolades, such as being named Reading Rainbow featured selections and winning the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the IRA-CBC Childrens Choice Award, and the Parents Choice Award.; Title: Pinkerton, Behave! (Picture Puffins) | [
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5,858 | 2 | Gr 2-4-Horace, who measures 30 inches tall, is the shortest 10-year-old in the town of Blootinville. When his taller, smarter, younger sister makes him eat her experimental cupcakes and wear a purple costume, he becomes a superhero. After flying around town and visiting friends, he decides to go after the man-eating giant guinea pig that has been cruising the school playground. Humorous illustrations add to the lighthearted tone of the story. This fantasy chapter book is reminiscent of Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" series (Scholastic), and reluctant readers will love the quick pace and silly characters.Christina F. Renaud, Attleboro Public Library, MACopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.; Title: Horace Splattly: The Cupcaked Crusader | [
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5,859 | 4 | "This lively tale of an idiosyncratic bus driver may warm a chilly crowd on a would-be snow day," said PW. Ages 4-8.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Born in Elmira, New York, Tedd grew up in a family of six with three brothers. His family lived on a farm in Pennsylvania for several years then returned to Elmira until Tedd was ten years old. His father's work then required that they move to Gainesville, Florida. There, Tedd's first art lessons in an abandoned dentist's office over the Happy Hour pool hall eventually led to a fine arts degree from the University of Florida. He and his wife, Carol, started their family in Tallahassee where Tedd worked as a commercial illustrator. Carol, a Kindergarten teacher, drew Tedd's attention to children's books. Their first son, Walter, inspired his breakthrough picture book, No Jumping on the Bed!. His second son, William, now stars in No More Water in the Tub!, a sequel to his first book. He has now published more than 30 books as author and illustrator. When not working on his books, Tedd's interests include tennis, sketching, reading, coin collecting, and the computer."The inspiration to begin writing and illustrating for children came from my wife, Carol. As a kindergarten teacher, she collected picture books. I was attracted to their colorful pages and the way the words and pictures played with each other, much like the captioned cartoons I had drawn when I was young."Perhaps the biggest surprise of my career as an author is that I'm now going back to elementary school! Visiting young readers in classrooms and libraries is something I love. Kids keep me on my toes and they ask a lot of questions. The number one question seems to be, 'Where do you getyour ideas?' It's also the hardest question to answer because every idea is different. Some ideas seem to pop out of thin air -- while I'm in the shower or walking the dog. Others come from reading or research. But most of my ideas come from my family and the things they do and say."For instance, one time when my first son, Walter, was five years old, I found him lying on the couch, looking pale as a ghost and clutching a Bible to his chest. He was praying! When I asked what was wrong, he wouldn't answer. In fact, he wouldn't even open his mouth. My wife, Carol, finally coaxed a response from him: he pointed inside his mouth. Carol exclaimed, 'You have a loose tooth!' Walter's eyes nearly popped out with fright. We quickly assured him that it was perfectly okay for his tooth to come loose and that a new one would replace it. But Carol and I looked at each other and realized that despite all our efforts to be good parents, we had somehow completely forgotten to warn Walter that teeth fall out! He had thought he was falling apart! I made a little note in my journal; then ten years later, I expanded that memory into my book Parts."Tedd Arnold lives in Elmira, New York, with his wife, Carol, two sons, Walter and William, two cats, Cody and Frankie, and one dog, Hershey.copyright ? 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.; Title: Axle Annie | [
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5,860 | 2 | "I was born and grew up in a small town of about seven thousand people, Rice Lake, Wisconsin. My favorite person was my grandfather, Oscar Lofgren, who taught me Swedish and told me stories. He was a blacksmith and on our land he had a shop where he made things for us out of iron. I loved watching him hammer the hot iron on the anvil and watching the sparks fly. He died when I was six. I think because of my relationship with him, I grew up to be a friendly and warm person."My dad was a small-town lawyer who handled all kinds of cases--sometimes cases of clients who didn't have any money: one family paid him in eggs that they delivered to his office every Saturday morning. My mother had been a high school English teacher before she married and admired writers tremendously. She used to say thought writing was 'the most difficult job in the world.' When I was in third grade, I decided I wanted to be a writer. I don't think the idea that it was 'the most difficult job in the world' was a help to me!"From the time I was seven till I was ten, my inseparable playmate was a boy named Bradley whom I admired tremendously. My memories of that period of my life inform my stories about Julian. So does my relationship with my father, who was a showman like Julian's dad."In the summers, my family lived at our cottage on a lake. My dad taught me how to swim, fish, water ski, hunt and run a motorboat. He bought me a horse--a wonderful pinto pony named Paint--and taught me how to ride. One of the things I liked to do best on a hot summer day was to ride Paint bareback into the lake. He'd get in deep enough so he had to swim, and I'd start floating off his back."By the time I was in high school, I was very interested in lots of things--skiing, acting, politics, science. I graduated valedictorian of my high school class and went East to the big, scary, and exhilarating world of Harvard College, where I got my B.A. with Honors in 1965. At Harvard, I studied writing with Robert Lowell and R.S. Fitzgerald. Both of them gave me confidence that I could indeed be a writer. From Lowell I learned how to go deeper into my imagination to visualize scenes and people before I wrote. From Fitzgerald, I learned to write as sparely as possible. When you use exactly the right words, and not a single unnecessary word, your writing has maximum impact."At Lowell's recommendation, after college I moved to New York to work in publishing. I became an assistant editor in the adult trade department at Harcourt, Brace. I read lots of manuscripts submitted to the publishing house for consideration. I also read the editors' letters of advice that accompanied novels sent back to authors for revision. I hoped--not only hoped, really believed that by reading all these letters I'd learn to avoid all the mistakes the authors had made. No such luck! Occasionally I've written books in which the first draft was the final one and hardly a word was changed--The Stories Julian Tells, More Stories Julian Tells, and The Most Beautiful Place in the World were like that--but most often a book goes through three or more drafts."I entered the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where I got an M.F.A. in 1972. I taught a literature course at Iowa and also was the first reader of all the manuscripts submitted to the Workshop by student applicants. I started two more adult novels and abandoned them when I couldn't see how to organize them. Then I started writing for children. My third try, The Seed, the story of a little seed that is afraid to grow, was published in 1974. Like most writers, I get lots of ideas but don't feel a story irresistibly bubbling up inside of me. I have to push and pull at my mind to make my initial idea fill out with details and meaning. The most important rule for writing is 'apply seat of pants to bottom of chair.' I don't really like to do this! Starting a new book is terribly hard. By the end, I've forgotten how hard the beginning was, am proud of myself and ready to tackle the next book right away. Then, I get involved in other things and much time passes . . ."My first book about Julian was inspired by stories a friend from South Africa, Julian DeWette, told me about his childhood. Julian was then writing an adult novel about his childhood. He was most interested in writing about the painful parts of the story--about living with apartheid, the three-way system of segregation by race--Whites, Blacks, and Coloreds--that, for forty years, forcibly kept people apart in South Africa. When I used Julian's stories, I moved the characters out of South Africa and set the stories in an imaginary country without racism--a country that represents the world we could have, someday."After Iowa, I lived in Berkeley, California for a year and then returned to New York. In 1983, I moved to Guatemala. I had always wanted to immerse myself in another culture. To live in two (or more) countries makes one's life bigger, I think. The more we know, the better we can choose ways of living that suit us and make us happy."In 1989, I met Bill Cherry, who was then working for the United States Congress in Washington, D.C., helping develop laws on agriculture. In 1990 we got married (in one short ceremony I got a husband; two grown daughters, Angela and Cristi; and a granddaughter, Jessica). Bill retired, and now we both live in Guatemala. We have a small house with a view of three volcanoes and a waterfall, and flowers growing over the roof. There's a lemon tree in the back yard, and almost every day we have fresh lemonade from the tree. (My book The Most Beautiful Place in the World is based on stories of Guatemalan children."In 1993, the mayor and city council of Panajachel named me the unpaid supervisor of the municipal library--which had limited open hours, no budget for improvements and almost no children's books. Now, continuing donations from U.S. individuals, schools, libraries and civic organizations enable us to keep the library open six days a week--and buy new children's books in Spanish. Now the library is packed with children learning. One of the reasons I want to work harder and write more is to have more money for it. Back of pants, get on your way to that restaurant and sit down!"Ann Cameron was a guest at Yaddo in 1968 and a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1968 and 1986. She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974.The Stories Julian Tells received the 1981 Irma Simonton Black Award of the Bank Street College of Education. It was also named a Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies by a joint committee of the National Council on the Social Studies and the Children's Book Council. The American Library Association named it a Notable Book of 1981. More Stories Julian Tells was also named an ALA Notable Book.The Most Beautiful Place in the World was a joint winner of the 1989 Jane Addams Children's Book Award and received a 1988 Child Study Children's Book Award, given by the Child Study Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education. It was also selected as a Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.Selected Works: The Stories Julian Tells, 1981; More Stories Julian Tells, 1986; Julian's Glorious Summer, 1987; Julian, Secret Agent, 1988; The Most Beautiful Place in the World, 1988; Julian, Dream Doctor, 1990; The Secret Huey Tells, 1995.; Title: Gloria's Way (Puffin Chapters) | [
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5,861 | 2 | S. D. Schindler lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; Title: Are We There Yet, Daddy? (Picture Puffin Books) | [
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5,862 | 2 | A Korean-American boy living in the U.S. and his grandmother, who lives in Korea, communicate through letters that bypass their language barrier. PW wrote, "Pak's story is economically told and sensitively focused through Juno's eyes." Ages 4-8.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Soyung Pak was born in Seoul, South Korea, but spent her childhood in the suburbs of southern New Jersey. Dear JunoisSoyung's first book, which won her an Ezra Jack Keats Award award. She holds a B.F.A. from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Susan Kathleen Hartung is the acclaimed illustrator of the award-winning Dear Juno. One Dark Night is Susans much anticipated second book with Viking. I was hooked immediately by this wonderfully told story, she said. When I was a kid I used to lie in bed at night and count between the flash and boom to see how close a thunderstorm was. I still do sometimes. When asked about her inspiration for the illustrations, Susan responded, Whenever there was a late night storm, I would get up and wander about the house without turning on any lights. I would watch the way the lightening played around the room, or I would just stare out the window and watch it flash in the clouds and make the rain drops shimmer.In the fall of 1999, after having lived in Brooklyn, New York, for fourteen years, Susan made the move back to her home state of Michigan, where by chance, she moved to the town of Brooklyn. When not in her studio, Susan can be found renovating her 140-year-old farmhouse, or spending time with family and friends in her nearby hometown of Ann Arbor. Susan lives with her two dogs, Bongo and Audie, and her cat, Gomez.; Title: Dear Juno (Picture Puffins) | [
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5,863 | 0 | In this Newbery Honor book, Chicago-bred Mary Alice has been sentenced to a year-long stay in rural Illinois with her irrepressible, rough and gruff grandmother. Soon, however, she becomes Grandma's partner in crime, helping to carry out madcap schemes to benefit friends and avenge enemies. In a starred review, PW called this sequel to A Long Way to Chicago "hilarious and poignant." Ages 10-14. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc."In this hilarious and poignant sequel to A Long Way to Chicago, Peck once again shows that country life is anything but boring." —Publishers Weekly, starred review"Again, Peck has created a delightful, insightful tale that resounds with a storyteller's wit, humor, and vivid description." —School Library Journal"With the same combination of wit, gentleness, and outrageous farce as Peck's Newbery Honor book, Long Way from Chicago, this sequel tells the story of Joey's younger sister, Mary Alice, 15, who spends the year of 1937 back with Grandma Dowdel in a small town in Illinois." —Booklist; Title: A Year Down Yonder | [
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5,864 | 2 | Praise forMorris' Disappearing BagOne of the best.The Chicago Tribune* Irresistible . . . The author-artist does some wonderful things with Morriss cars and eyes, expressing exactly the sentiments of a put-out preschool rabbit.Booklist, starred review"Wells has written and illustrated Morris's Disappearing Bag with her characteristic warm sense of humor. Her rhythmical sentence structure, surprise ending, and expressive characters will entrance readers of all ages."Children's LiteratureRosemary Wells(rosemarywells.com)is the author of 120 books for children, including more than 40 about the beloved bunnies, Max and Ruby, who star in their own television show on Nick, Jr. She travels all over the country as a tireless advocate for literacy. Wells was born in New Jersey to a playwright father and ballet dancer mother who encouraged her artistic bent. She worked as an art director and designer before illustrating her first book. She is the mother of two grown daughters, Victoria and Marguerite, and grandmother to four girls.; Title: Morris' Disappearing Bag | [
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5,865 | 2 | David A. Adler is the author of more than 175 childrens books, including the Young Cam Jansen series. He lives in Woodmere, New York.; Title: Young Cam Jansen and the Pizza Shop Mystery | [
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5,866 | 13 | Jose-Luis Orozco is a bilingual children's performer, recording artist, and author who makes appearances nationwide. He lives in Los Angeles, California.  Elisa Kleven grew up making dollhouses and collages out of doilies and postage stamps. Today, she is thrilled to carry on building her artistic dream worlds in the form of beautiful picture books. Elisa lives in Berkeley, California.; Title: Diez Deditos and Other Play Rhymes and Action Songs from Latin America (Spanish Edition) | [
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5,867 | 7 | Three aging aunts who need help caring for their magical animals resort to kidnapping suitable candidates. PW wrote, "The author's exquisite sense of humor plus an imaginative and memorable cast of characters make this a rollicking escapade." Ages 8-12. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner (1925–2010), was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books. Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years. For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, 2001), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and made the Carnegie Medal, Whitbread Award, and Blue Peter Book Award shortlists. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize at the time of her death. Her last book, The Abominables, was one of eight books on the longlist for the same award in 2012.Kevin Hawkes is the author and illustrator of The Wicked Big Toddlah and The Wicked Big Toddlah Goes to New York, and is the illustrator of many well-loved books for young readers including Imagine That:! How Dr. Seuss Wrote the Cat in the Hat, Library Lion, My Little Sister Ate One Hare, My Little Sister Hugged an Ape, And to Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends, The Road to Oz, Velma Gratch, and The Way Cool Butterfly. He lives in Gorham, Maine.; Title: Island of the Aunts | [
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5,868 | 0 | Peter Maloney spent most of his childhood playing in the woods behind the house he grew up in in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. He wrote his first book, a 165-page novel called Journey Under The Pacific Ocean, when he was eleven years old.After graduating from Rutgers College, Peter took courses in illustration and design at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He began submitting children's picture books to publishing houses. They were all rejected. At the same time he worked at an advertising agency in New York City creating ads, jingles and tv commercials including the original Milk Moustache campaign for Dellwood Milk. Around this time he also met a young college graduate named Felicia Zekauskas. During their very first conversation he discovered she also shared the dream of writing and illustrating children's books.Peter and Felicia then went into business together. They started a graphic design and advertising company called Zinc. In their spare time, they began collaborating on picture books. Their first book, Redbird at Rockefeller Center, is the story of a baby redbird stranded atop the world's most famous Christmas tree. Their second book, The Magic Hockey Stick, is based on what happened to them after they won Wayne Gretzky's hockey stick at a charity auction at Madison Square Garden.In addition to sports stars, Peter's heroes have always included writers, artists and songwriters. As a boy he loved reading books by Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, J.R.R. Tolkien and Kenneth Robeson. His favorite songwriters are Joni Mitchell, Ray Davies and Cole Porter and his favorite illustrators include William Steig, Charles Addams, Jean Pierre Sempe and Edward Sorel.There's nothing Peter would rather do than write and illustrate picture books, although he would also like to be a famous rock star.Peter now lives on the 37th floor of a skyscraper in downtown Manhattan. From his window, he can still see the distant woods he played in as a child.copyright 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.; Title: The Magic Hockey Stick (Picture Puffin Books) | [
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5,869 | 2 | K-Gr 1-These very basic readers contain simple stories, repetition and rhyme, and colorfully illustrated pages. Big, Big Wall is a retelling of "Humpty Dumpty." Though the mouse and bunny are too small to keep him from cracking, a perky pig comes to the rescue, and the three friends cushion the egg as he tumbles into a flower bed. Dewey and Aruego's art lends whimsical good cheer to this familiar tale with a new twist. The second book is not quite as successful. Jack, a cat, and Sam, a mouse, meet in the first vignette and pronounce their friendship in the second, but the final story wanders into Sam's feelings of being big, little, sad, and, finally, happy on the last page when he and Jack are together. Bowers's illustrations are bold and cheerful. Beginning readers will enjoy their success as they read these stories independently.Alice Casey Smith, Sayreville Public Schools, Parlin, NJCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Gr. K-1. Young ones will learn to make pizza from scratch in this colorful entry in the Viking Easy-to-Read series. The rhyming text follows three friends as they collect ingredients, mix and knead the dough, add the toppings, bake, and then clean the kitchen. Although a few lines don't scan well, the rhyme and rhythm work overall and will help propel young readers through the pages, with vocabulary that's just right. The vibrant illustrations, reminiscent of Marjorie Priceman's work, reinforce and extend the action introduced in the words, showing the kids having fun and doing well on their own, with an adult on hand to handle the knives and oven. A pizza recipe concludes. Gillian EngbergCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved; Title: The Pizza That We Made (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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5,870 | 2 | Peg Kehret was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Minnesota, spent fourteen years in California, and now lives with her husband in Washington State. They have two grown children, four grandchildren, one dog, and one cat.Peg's novels for children are regularly recommended by the American Library Association, the International Reading Association, and the Children's Book Council. She has won many state "young reader" or "children's choice" awards. Peg's characters are ordinary kids who find themselves in exciting situations and who use their wits to solve their problems. There is usually humor as well as suspense in her books. A long-time volunteer at The Humane Society, she often uses animals in her stories.Before she began writing books for children, Peg published plays, short stories, articles, and two books for adults. She is a frequent speaker at conferences for librarians and teachers.At the age of twelve, Peg had polio and was paralyzed from the neck down. Because she can remember that experience and her year of recovery so vividly, she finds it easy to write in the viewpoint of a twelve or thirteen year old. Most of her main characters are that age. Her autobiography, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, won the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and the PEN Center USA West Award for Children's Literature.When she is not writing, Peg likes to watch baseball, bake cookies, and pump her old player piano.; Title: Terror at the Zoo | [
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5,871 | 2 | Jillian Lund grew up in Kailua, on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. She has studied art and design at the Honolulu Academy of Art. Currently, she lives way out west in Denver, Colorado, where she works as a painter, illustrator and graphic designer.; Title: Two Cool Coyotes | [
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5,872 | 2 | "The spunk of four multiracial pairs of siblings shines through this photographic celebration of sisterhood," said PW. "The volume has the casual appearance of a scrapbook or family album." Ages 4-8. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.; Title: Big Sister, Little Sister | [
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5,873 | 2 | "Hoffman's text reads easily and is filled with humor and the wide-eyed innocence of young children at play. . . This is sure to be a hit with fans of Amazing Grace and Boundless Grace, both picture books, and will be a fast-paced choice for reluctant readers."--School Library JournalMary Hoffman has written more than 70 books for children, and her powers of observation bring vitality and humour to all her stories and retellings.Her previous titles for Dorling Kindersley include Henry's Baby and A First Bible Story Book. Her best-known picture books are Amazing Grace, Three Wise Women, and An Angel Just Like Me. Mary lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and they have three daughters. The girls were brought up on myths and legends, of which Mary and her husband have an extensive collection.Caroline Binch lives in Cornwall, England.; Title: Starring Grace (Puffin Chapters) | [
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5,874 | 6 | Joan Holub has written and/or illustrated many books for young readers, including Mighty Dads, Little Red Writing, and the Goddess Girls series.She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.Paul Meisel has illustrated more than 70 books, some of which he's also written. Paul won a 2012 ALSC Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for his picture bookSee Me Run.; Title: Hooray for St. Patrick's Day! (Lift-the-Flap, Puffin) | [
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5,875 | 2 | "This chuckler of a bedtime romp pits the wiles of a young procrastinator against his no-nonsense grandmother," said PW. Ages 3-7.Kate Lum and her husband live in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, with their two children.; Title: What! Cried Granny (Picture Puffins) | [
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5,876 | 2 | In this picture book adapted from a speech purportedly delivered by Chief Seattle at treaty negotiations in the 1850s, "Seattle's words and Jeffers's images create a powerful message," said PW. Ages 5-up. (July) Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Susan Jeffers is the illustrator of such distinguished picture books as Three Jovial Huntsmen, a Caldecott Honor book; Rachel Field's Hitty; and the ABBY Award-winning Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, which was also a New York Times besteller. She lives in New York.; Title: Brother Eagle, Sister Sky | [
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5,877 | 13 | After a visit to the Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery, this series' third book finds a girl, her grandparents and a green balloon in Boston, You Can't Take a Balloon into the Museum of Fine Arts by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman, illus. by Robin Preiss Glasser. Like its predecessors, the wordless adventure features actual art reproductions amidst lively line drawings; famous Bostonians appear throughout. You Can't Take a Balloon into the National Gallery is now available in paperback. (May) Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: You Can't Take a Balloon into the National Gallery | [
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5,878 | 0 | James Marshall was born in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up sixteen miles outside of the town on the family farm. His father, who worked for the railroad, had his own dance band in the thirties and appeared on the radio. His mother, also musical, sang in the church choir. So it wasn't surprising when Jim considered playing the viola for a career and received a scholarshipto attend the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. But during an airplane trip he was jerked out of his seat and injured his hand, and that was the end of his musical career.He returned to San AntonioCollege and later Trinity, where he studied French under Harry Allard, his future collaborator. After moving East, Jim graduated from Southern ConnecticutState University with a degree in history and French. The French major somehow wound up trying to teach Spanish in a Catholic school in Boston. Before long he was looking for a new profession.On a fateful summer afternoon in 1971 James Marshall lay on his hammock drawing pictures. His mother was inside the house watching Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf on TV. The strident voices of the movie's protagonists, George and Martha, split the quiet air, and as the sketches began to take shape, history was made ... and James Marshall never had to look for another profession.And so, with" tongue-in cheek" Jim Marshall began his career and became one of the most prolific and successful author/illustrators of children's books. He is best known for his series on the mischievous exploits of Fox, a debonair, lazy showoff; the uproarious adventures of the two Cut-Ups, Spud and Joe; George and Martha; and the misadventures of the Stupidfamily.The Washington Post said in a recent review of his work, "There are few better writers and illustrators for children now than Marshall. Certainly there is no one else working today who more successfully captures the child's point of view than does the creator of George and Martha and the Stupids". The New York Times said about the Fox books: "The miracle of Mr.Marshall's work is that so often his stories are as profound as they are simple". He illustrated new versions of many children's classics, including Goldilocks and the Three Bears, for which he received a Caldecott Honor, Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, and Hansel and Gretel.In an interview with Texas Monthly, Jim Marshall said about his work: "People have very oddideas of what a children's writer should be like. Children always expect me to look like a hippopotamus and adults assume that by nature I have to be a little off the wall".James Marshall died in October of 1992. He divided his time between an apartment in the Chelsea district of New York and his home in Mansfield Hollow Connecticut.copyright ? 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.; Title: James Marshall's Cinderella | [
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5,879 | 2 | Caitlin's perfect sister runs away from home and she finds herself trying to fill the gap the absence creates. "The characterizations have an unmistakable depth," said PW. Ages 12-up. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Sarah Dessen is one of the most popular writers for young adults. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, which have received numerous awards and rave reviews, and have sold more than seven million copies. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband, Jay, and their daughter, Sasha Clementine. Visit her online at www.sarahdessen.com.; Title: Dreamland | [
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5,880 | 13 | This volume, relayed in what PW called "metaphorical language," follows Tallchief through her adolescence, on the way to joining the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. PW wrote, "Kelly's softly focused paintings underscore the lyrical tone, enveloping the characters and settings in gauzy, dreamlike light." Ages 5-9.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc."Tallchief's single-minded passion, conveyed in a clear, poetic narrative, will hold appeal and meaning for an audience beyond that of hopeful ballerinas."--The Horn Book"Kelley's softly focused paintings underscore the lyrical tone, enveloping the characters and settings in gauzy, dreamlike light and concentrating, provocatively, on stillness as opposed to movement."--Publisher's Weekly"Large, rather impressionistic illustrations evoke period and place as well as Maria's love for her art."--Children's Literature"The text and artwork combine to make a pleasing introduction to a fascinating person. Wells's personal connection to ballet and Tallchief, explained in the introduction, makes this effort all the more stirring. All told, a simple, lovely offering."--School Library Journal; Title: Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina | [
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5,881 | 1 | Walter R. Brooks was an American writer best remembered for his short stories on Mister Ed the talking horse and children's books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" in upstate New York. Kurt Wiese illustrated over 400 books, nineteen of which he also wrote, before his death in 1974; Title: Freddy and the Bean Home News | [
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5,882 | 2 | Koss's suspenseful and realistic portrayal of a popular middle school clique's devolution unfolds though six narrators. In a starred review, PW said, "Readers will identify with and remember these characters, and may think twice before sacrificing their individuality for the sake of popularity." Ages 10-14. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc."He got busted for cheating on his midterm? Ick! How gross is that? And, like, broadcast on the PA no less! 'ATTENTION, EVERYONE! Ruby's boyfriend is so totally stupid that he has to cheat to pass his stinking midterm!' Eew! Eew! Eew!; Title: The Girls | [
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5,883 | 11 | Ezra Jack Keats (19161983) is the Caldecott Medal winning author ofThe Snowy Day, which broke ground in 1962 as one of the first picture books for young children to portray a realistic, multi-cultural urban setting. Since its initial publication,The Snowy Dayhas come to be regarded as both a childrens classic and one of the most important picture books ever written/illustrated. Ezra Jack Keats legacy lives on in the popularity of his most famous character, Peterthe star ofThe Snowy Day,Whistle for Willie,Peter's Chair,A Letter to Amy,Goggles, and others. Visit the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation online atwww.ezra-jack-keats.org; Title: Pet Show! (Picture Puffins) | [
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5,884 | 0 | B.G. Hennessy grew up in Wantagh on Long Island, NY. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, she majored in fine art and learned how to design, print and bind handmade books. She also took courses in Childrens Literature. The combination of form and content in the picture book format fascinated her and after graduation she headed for NYC where she worked for 17 years in childrens book publishing as a designer and art director. She is the author of Road Builders and The First Night, as well as many books starring Corduroy, the loveable toy bear created by Don Freeman. She now lives with her family in Arizona.; Title: One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims (Picture Puffin Books) | [
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5,885 | 2 | Kathleen Duey is the author of numerous books for young readers, including the American Diaries series and the Survival series.; Title: Esperanza (Spirit of the Cimarron) | [
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5,886 | 2 | Grade 9 Up-This is the second book in a series that profiles seven weeks in the lives of seven teens. This book features Jeremy, 17, a popular student and athlete. He's got a girlfriend but deep down he realizes that he's gay. He was seen kissing a guy and is outed on his school's Web site. His liberal, social-worker parents turn against him and he's threatened and ridiculed by the other students. As he tries to deal with his feelings, he finds out who his true friends are. Each of the other characters in the series makes an appearance to a lesser or greater degree. Jane is a stressed-out, overachieving brain; Meena, a victim of sexual abuse. Peter is wheelchair-bound after an accident; Danny's a talented composer but emotionally numb because of drugs. Karyn is always fighting with her mother; Reed is in love with Karyn despite the fact that she's dating his brother. The dialogue and situations are realistic and teens will relate to the characters' problems. The main flaw is that many of the secondary figures are stereotypical, and all of the parents are clueless and unsupportive. This, however, is a minor point because each teen's problem is interesting, and the abrupt, cliff-hanger ending compels readers to pick up another book in the series.Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.; Title: Exposed (Sevens, Week 2) | [
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5,887 | 0 | Emily the bunny celebrates in her seventh lift-the-flap book, Merry Christmas, Emily! by Claire Masurel, illus. by Susan Calitri. The publisher uses an identical lift-the-flap format for the informative Kwanzaa title, Kwanzaa Kids by Joan Holub, illus. by Ken Wilson-Max Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Merry Christmas, Emily! | [
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5,888 | 0 | Kellogg revisits the story told in his 1974 The Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten, about a girl who imagines the most exciting locations for her lost mitten, this time with full-color illustrations. Ages 4-8.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Steven Kellogg is a beloved author and illustrator who has published more than 100 picture books, including the classics The Mysterious Tadpole, Can I Keep Him?, The Island of the Skog, and Is Your Mama a Llama?, and Pinkerton, Behave!, which was on Horn Book's and Booklist’s Best of the Year lists and led to four sequels. Kellogg is a winner of the Regina Medal for his lifetime contribution to children’s literature. His books have received numerous accolades, such as being named Reading Rainbow featured selections and winning the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Award, and the Parents’ Choice Award.; Title: The Missing Mitten Mystery | [
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5,889 | 1 | Walter R. Brookswas an American writer best remembered for his short stories onMister Edthe talking horse and children's books, particularly those aboutFreddy the Pigand other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" inupstate New York. Kurt Wiese illustrated over 400 books, nineteen of which he also wrote, before his death in 1974.; Title: Freddy the Pilot (Freddy the Pig) | [
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5,893 | 1 | "This retelling of The Little Red Hen exudes charm, thanks to conversational narration and delightful cut paper images," wrote PW in a starred review. Ages 3-7.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Philemon Sturges, an architect, is the author of Sacred Places, illustrated by Giles Laroche. He lives in Princeton, Massachusetts.; Title: The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) | [
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5,894 | 0 | Joan Holub is the author and/or illustrator of many books for children. She lives in North Carolina, where the famous groundhog Sir Walter Wally helps watch the weather at the Museum of Natural Sciences. You can visit Joan at www.joanholub.com.; Title: Why Do Rabbits Hop? (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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5,895 | 0 | Nikki Grimes is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of dozens of children’s and young adult books as well as a poet and journalist. Among the many accolades she has received are the Golden Dolphin Award (2005),the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children (2006), the Coretta Scott King Award (2003) for Bronx Masquerade, and the Horace Mann Upstanders Award (2011) for Almost Zero: A Dyamonde Daniel Book. Additionally, her book Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope (illustrated by Bryan Collier) was a New York Times bestseller, and she was acknowledged as an NAACP Image Award Finalist in 1993 for her book Malcolm X: a Force for Change. Her books Meet Danitra Brown (illustrated by Floyd Cooper), Jazmin's Notebook, Talkin' About Bessie (illustrated by E.B. Lewis), Dark Sons, The Road to Paris, and Words with Wings were each awarded Coretta Scott King Honors. Visit her online at www.nikkigrimes.com.; Title: My Man Blue (Picture Puffin Books) | [
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5,896 | 0 | Barbara Maitland is a children’s book author. Her works include The Bookstore Burglar and The Bookstore Ghost. David LaRochelle is the author of many books for children including How Martha Saved Her Parents from Green Beans, The Best Pet of All, and The Haunted Hamburger and Other Ghostly Stories. David lives in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.; Title: The Bookstore Valentine (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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5,897 | 2 | "Will alleviate the concerns of children who worry what will happen if their teacher is absent or sick. This book should find a spot on every library shelf."The colorfully detailed illustrations are sure to please. ("The Horn Book") Will alleviate the concerns of children who worry what will happen if their teacher is absent or sick. This book should find a spot on every library shelf. ("School Library Journal")Joseph Slate, a native West Virginian, has always loved to paint and write. Mr. Slate is professor of art emeritus at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he taught for 30 years. He now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Patty. A Marine Air Corps veteran, he and his wife have set foot on all seven continents and traveled in 39 countries. They have lived in both Japan and Italy.Ashley Wolff is the author and/or illustrator of over 55 childrens picture books includingI Love My Mommy Becauseand I Love My Daddy Because, Stella and Roy Go Camping, Me Baby, You Baby, The Wild Little Horse, Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?, I Call My Grandma Nanaand the belovedMiss Bindergarten Series.Her books have won numerous state and national awards.; Title: Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten | [
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5,898 | 2 | A godmother's final "gift" transforms what should be the luckiest princess and most comely of all (born seventh, a good omen) into an ordinary-looking girl. But that does not stop Princess Amy from living an extraordinary life: she runs away from home when she is promised to a royal stranger. Ages 8-up. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.M. M. Kaye is a children’s book author and illustrator of The Ordinary Princess.; Title: The Ordinary Princess | [
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5,899 | 0 | "What wrongdoer is any match for Cam Jansen, the girl with the amazing photographic memory?" ( Booklist) "An uncluttered plot, a clever heroine, clear language, and a dash of humor make for a zestful mystery."(School Library Journal)David A. Adler (www.davidaadler.com and www.camjansen.com) is the author of more than 175 children’s books. Before becoming a children’s book author, he taught math and science, and completed master’s degrees in marketing and economics. He lives in Woodmere, New York.; Title: Cam Jansen & The Mystery of the Television Dog (Cam Jansen) | [
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