Sky is Full of Song by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Lee Bennett Hopkins

"An intriguing picture book celebrates the sense of wonder that motivates scientists," wrote PW. "The surrealistic artwork favors the playfulness Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Like the familiar poems that begin with each letter of a word (M is for the many things you taught me, etc.), Hopkins's (Been to Yesterdays) prosaic picture Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

"Hearts, love and candy come to the fore in a dozen poems, two contributed by Hopkins himself," noted PW . "The artwork incorporates stamped images Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

This joyful poetry collection celebrating urban life combines Hopkins's (Behind the Museum Door ) affectionate odes (a mix of previously published and new Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

In this series of poems about wings and flight, with offerings from Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, April Halprin Wayland, and others, readers can embark on a journey through the skies. The verses Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

In these two novels about a resourceful single mother and her two sons, ""The author packs the tales with merriment and an understated lesson about different kinds of love and companionship,"" said Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins, Murray Tinkelman

With its striking black-and-white drawings, this collection of 18 poems will transport readers back to the days when these behemoths roamed the earth. Ages 3-8. Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Unlike these collaborators' recent Side by Side, this small picture book is really two volumes in one: an extended collection of verse, accompanied by a wordless depiction of a boy's activities on Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

This joyous collection of 21 original poems, written between the early '70s and the present, deftly depicts a sense of delight and wonder in everyday experience. Hopkins brings freshness and Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Inveterate anthologist Hopkins (Side by Side: Poems to Read Together) begins one of his best collections with a verse of his own about a ""freshly-painted-yellow/ school bus"" that carries not only Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins, L. Bennett Hopkins

Poet and anthologist Hopkins gathers prayers that celebrate children's relationships with God in this joyous collection. Noted poets and authors--including Myra Cohn Livingston, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

An intriguing picture book celebrates the sense of wonder that motivates scientists. The first poem, ""What Is Science?"" by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, catalogues the sheer range of phenomena that science Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Like School Supplies, also by Hopkins and Flowers, this collection of poems centers on a single topic: food. This time, however, the match between art and text seems more frenetic than fitting. Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins, Stephen Alcorn

From the mountains to the prairies to the... Jersey shore? Lee Bennett Hopkins brings together 15 original works in Home to Me: Poems Across America, illus. by Stephen Alcorn. Contributors include Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

It sounds like a winning idea: a pair of lift-the-flap books that on one page pose questions based on Mother Goose rhymes, and on the opposite page reveal the correct verse. Unfortunately, it never Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins, Eric Hopkins

A diverse collection of short poems illuminates various clock-centered activities beginning with a 7:00 a.m. wake-up call and ending at midnight that same day. Offerings from familiar children's Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

A companion to Hopkins's Side by Side: Poems to Read Together, this confection-filled collection for younger readers seems slight in comparison. There are plenty of strong poems but few discoveries. Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Lee Bennett Hopkins gathers poems and milestone facts for every occasion in Days to Celebrate: A Full Year of Poetry, People, Holidays, History, Fascinating Facts, and More, illus. by Stephen Alcorn. Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

The team behind City I Love turns from love of place to love of friends in a story structured in three acts. After Katie and Kyle each write a play about friendship (Kyle's observes that two halves Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

As the title suggests, the poems in this collection from contemporary children’s poets focus on the less lovable characteristics of certain insects; Terry’s fuzzy-textured artwork follows suit, with Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Hopkins and Alcorn, the team behind America at War and other titles, present a tender exploration of Mary%E2%80%99s feelings for her infant son, of her natural desire to have quiet intimacy with him, Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Poet and anthologist Hopkins (Nasty Bugs) reads Shakespeare's "All the World's a Stage" soliloquy not as a meditation on the futility of existence, but as a straightforward account of the stages of Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

This joyful collection of new and previously printed poems features creatures great and small heralding the arrival of Baby Jesus on Christmas Eve during the one hour, as legend has it, that God Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Divided into sections that include “Food,” “Family,” and “Play,” this tender, keepsake-worthy collection includes 30 poems about subjects near and dear to the lives of youngest children. Contributors Continue reading »

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Fifteen poems by writers including Nikki Grimes, J. Patrick Lewis, Alice Schertle, and Jane Yolen sing the praises of libraries and reading. In Cynthia S. Cotton’s “My Card,” a child brags about the Continue reading »

Tom Coppinger

Debut author Coppinger relays a rewarding tale with a folksy, old-world charm, a quality reinforced by Zimmer's (Seven Spiders Spinning) puckish, Continue reading »

Margery Cuyler

In the four debut titles of this series for children just beyond the easy readers stage, youngsters encounter a soccer player undergoing the trials of new glasses; a boy who, beset by his sister, Continue reading »

J. Patrick Lewis

Once a year, Bartholomew Bones comes to town with a wagonload of treasures, among them ``a sackful of magic jars with mysterious labels--Sundrops, Snowrays, Moonbows, Rainflakes, and Whistling Continue reading »

Gregory Maguire

Among the ingredients of this high-camp fantasy-mystery (besides the eponymous arachnids) are a club of seven elementary school girls, a meddlesome reporter named Meg Snoople and a romance between an Continue reading »

Steve Sanfield

Cowpokes meet slowpokes in Sanfield's (The Adventures of High John the Conqueror) wry, tall tale set in the Old West. After paying a steep price for a bowl of turtle soup at Frenchy's Gourmet Eating Continue reading »

Ross Martin Madsen, Dirk Zimmer

Take a book about a seven-year-old wizard-to-be, give him a book of magic spells and a wisecracking pet crow named Nevermore, add Zimmer's characteristically quirky illustrations, stir with a snappy Continue reading »

Margery Cuyler

One of four fall titles in Holt's new chapter book series, this story concerns nine-year-old Harry Walpole, who wakes up one night covered with fur and craving a hamburger; he realizes to his horror Continue reading »

Mary Blount Christian, Christian

One hot day in Boston , 1636, Goody Sherman discovers that Piggy Pig has escaped from her pen. When foolish Captain Keayne finds the animal, he puts her in the pound. Since Piggy Pig's litters have Continue reading »

Ann Matthews Martin

One night, as Jonathan Primave wakes up to have breakfast as usual, he is struck by how odd his life is. His parents work nocturnally at the local blood bank, and while the family moves often, Mother Continue reading »

Valerie Scho Carey

Carey ( The Devil and Mother Crump ) sets her jaunty folktale in a Polish village, where Tsugele, with help from her trusty broom, keeps house for her parents. Deciding it is time for their daughter Continue reading »

Alan Arkin

When her aging Grampa comes to live with Molly and her family, he tells outlandish stories that, to her parents' chagrin, Molly believes wholeheartedly. Tipping his hat to the likes of Continue reading »

Eric A. Kimmel

This flavorsome folktale, first told to Kimmel by his grandmother, comes from the Hutzuls, here identified as a Ukrainian-speaking ethnic group living in the Carpathian mountains. As the result of a Continue reading »

Dirk Zimmer, Judith Kinter

This relatively unfamiliar folk tale teaches a familiar lesson: the truest happiness is to be had in one's own home, however humble. Rudolf despises his simple life with his widowed mother; food on Continue reading »

Sky is Full of Song

Lee Bennett Hopkins. HarperCollins Publishers, $4.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-446064-4