Alison Lurie, Author, Jessica Souhami, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2558-4
Baba Yaga, the powerful hag of Russian folklore, comes to spine-tingling life in Lurie's (The Heavenly Zoo) lean, suspenseful retelling of a well-loved tale. When her parents must go to market, Elena is left at home to look after her baby brother....
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J. Patrick Lewis, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Kyrsten Brooker, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2605-5
Could the Princess (and the Pea) have grown up to be the Queen of Trouble? Though this silly ramble is not Lewis's (Riddle-icious) best, he includes some clever turns of phrase and provides Brooker (Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street) with a...
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Elizabeth Waters, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Annie Harris, With DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (42p) ISBN 978-1-56458-348-2
More than 30 renowned works of art, from cave paintings to an expressionist canvas by Mark Rothko, as well as diagrams, charts and photographs, combine to form a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the act of painting. The clear, vivacious...
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Snapshot, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $3.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56458-550-9
Big, arresting color photo silhouettes dominate the pages of these four Big Picture Paperback books from a Dorling Kindersley imprint. Arcs of boldface type introduce the images, mostly posing questions (``Can a bloodhound smile?''), but sometimes...
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Snapshot, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $4.95 (10p) ISBN 978-1-56458-737-4
This quartet of Animal Board Books features silhouetted photographs of birds and animals accompanied by pertinent statements or questions (``Mother penguin collects her own chick''; ``Who wears a collar and leash? Who wears a saddle?''). The photos...
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Snapshot, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $3.95 (10p) ISBN 978-0-7894-1132-7
absolutely tabulous Each of the four Tab Board Books from DK's SnapShot imprint offers a visual table of contents: a row of illustrated tabs down the right side of each book presents the theme for each page. The tabs of Super Senses, for example,...
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Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2553-9
Two families fight their own quiet battles in the modern-day Gettysburg, Pa., of Schroeder's moving second novel (after Solitary Places). Both the Davieses (Cal and Ellen) and the Carvers (Allison and Jeremy) have lost a child. Stephen Davies...
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Jean Jackson, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Vera Rosenberry, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2452-5
Humans' beastly battling is reflected in this formulaic story of two green-scaled, snaggle-toothed monsters. Thorndike and Nelson meet each day for a polite tea of ""bubbling swamp water"" and lemon cakes. But when Nelson's punked-out poodle chews...
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Jean Jackson, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Diane Greenseid, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2580-5
This prolix tale of an anthropomorphic armchair with a penchant for cheese puffs labors hard for little comedy. Struck by a sudden craving for its favorite snack, Mrs. Piccolo's smart-mouthed easy chair (""Mind your own business,"" it snaps to a...
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Ainsley Harriott, Author, DK Publishing, Author . DK $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9302-6
For those who still believe that low-fat diets trump the low-carb kind, the London chef and TV personality (Ainsley Harriott's Gourmet Express) offers 80 easily prepared, generally appealing dishes. Many are accented by such ingredients as...
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Denys Cazet, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2516-4
Staying out till the cows come home takes on a whole new meaning in the first of Cazet's (Never Spit on Your Shoes) spunky new chapter books, especially when it's the cows who are boogying late into the night. Minnie and Moo are best bovine pals...
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Joel Kostman, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $19.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2461-7
If Kostman is as proficient a locksmith as he is a storyteller, New Yorkers who use his services can feel secure. Here, he presents 14 tales of people he has encountered in his work, some of the anecdotes humorous, others poignant, a few of them...
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David Kooharian, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2466-2
Presenting a grave subject in comic-book format, Kooharian (Medieval Tales: The Twelfth Century) endeavors to blend elements of fantasy with an achingly real story of a terminally ill boy. One night Sammy (who is bed-bound) awakens to find three ""gu
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Susan Butler, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2489-1
Leora Moran lives in Village Three in Maynor, a nation under the control of the Rulers and once the state of Maine. It was Leora's Grand Nan, with her gift for drawing visions of the future, who predicted the Disaster--a meteor that struck the earth
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Cynthia Zarin, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Martin Matje, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2523-2
Zarin's (Rose and Sebastian) convoluted tall tale of a small boy benefits from Matje's (A Straw for Two, reviewed below) ominous pen-and-ink illustrations, drawn in a threatening minor key. Eight-year-old Wallace Hoskins hasn't gotten any bigger for
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Kim Golding, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2529-4
This abecedary confection, Golding's debut, combines photos of multiracial toddlers with highly stylized, computer-generated costumes, letters and settings. To illustrate the letter V, for example, a toddler's face is collaged atop a snappy tuxedo-an
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Janice Del Negro, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Leonid Gore, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2514-0
Drawing on elements of a Celtic ghost story, this delectably well told tale has pitch-perfect prose matched by illustrations that seem imbued with mist and moonlight. When a superstitious, wealthy lord is told that a pair of trousers sewn under a...
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Maartje Padt, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Mylo Freeman, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2520-1
Shimmering batik artwork sets a striking backdrop for this story about a zebra at twilight on the African plain. Shanti can feel that ""something"" is going to happen soon, though she doesn't know what it will be. Is it the approach of the lion? As...
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Randy Blume, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2572-0
As this first novel demonstrates, professional pilot and flight instructor Blume knows a great deal about flying, but considerably less about storytelling. The narrative traces the career of female pilot Kendra Davis from her first flying lesson as...
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D. James Smith, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2625-3
This debut novel from a published poet, despite glimmers of strong imagery, gets derailed by a lack of structure. Fifteen-year-olds Cat and Jason alternate chapters in first-person narratives and, initially, the prose is specific and cogent. In Cat's
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Robin McKie, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7894-6262-6
Plentifully adorned with photos and drawings, McKie's very accessible work follows two interwoven, compelling stories. The first is the story of all of us--from the first ""bipedal apemen, probably Australopithecus afarensis,"" to the Neanderthals...
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Pam Spence, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7894-4898-9
In two additions to the Eyewitness 3-D series, readers once again place a mirror in the center of a double, mirrored image to get a three-dimensional effect. In 3-D Space, readers witness the Shuttle blastoff, a view of the earth from space, the sun'
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Kes Gray, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Nick Sharratt, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2667-3
What will it take to get Daisy to eat her peas? Mom starts out with a bribe of ice cream. But even when she cumulatively ups the ante to an inducement that includes never having to go to school again and the purchase of 92 chocolate factories (each...
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Marsha Wilson Chall, Author, Marcia Chall, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2496-9
Rupa, the long-suffering protagonist of this humorous poke at Old World folk tales, has initiated 21,954 sunups and needs a break. Her pre-dawn trips around the ""cookfire"" bring on the sunrise, and after so many repeat performances she has an...
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Marsha Wilson Chall, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2617-8
Fresh as a newly baked croissant, this delightful confection finds a lonely pooch longing for his young master's warm lap and ""determined to find his boy"" after Jean Claude is sent off to boarding school. Sadly, ""La School d'Excellence"" has a...
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Sharon Darrow, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Kathryn Brown, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2619-2
In this spunky picture book, first-time author Darrow introduces perhaps the most charming pair of tornado-tossed characters since Dorothy and Toto. The Washita County Fair is coming up, and Miss Raney Cloud is dead set on winning a blue ribbon,...
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Shirley Hughes, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-4601-5
Hughes (the Alfie books) once again uses small, everyday moments to craft a powerful story. To find work, Abel Grable must journey far and wide, leaving his wife and three boisterous boys. But when each job is over, he returns to his family and...
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Cari Best, Author, Diane Palmiscano, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2513-3
Best's (Taxi! Taxi!) nostalgic paean to the Spaldeen, the pink rubber ball that was once a playground staple, has ample bounce at its start, yet its one-note narrative stretches the concept a bit thin. Fortunately, Palmisciano's (previously teamed...
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Cari Best, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Giselle Potter, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2622-2
Best (Last Licks) and Potter (When Agnes Caws) join their considerable talents for a not-to-be-missed borscht-and-blintzes birthday party for a hardworking Russian grandmother. The tenants in Sara's apartment building have all been invited to...
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Paula Fox, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2467-9
Newbery Medal winner Fox tells a perceptive, sensitive story about pre-teenager Paul Coleman, who is idolized by his Down's syndrome brother, Jacob. The novel opens just before Jacob's seventh birthday, as Paul leaves for school with his back to his
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Lucy Frank, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2538-6
Pithy observations from a 14-year-old narrator and full-blooded characters make this latest from Frank (Will You Be My Brussels Sprout?) a laugh-out-loud tale of teen angst. New Yorker Joy is having one disappointing freshman year: her best friend...
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Diane Lee Wilson, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-7894-6802-4
Fans of Wilson's gripping debut novel, I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade, may be disappointed in her latest horse tale, set in 640 B.C. Assyria. As the novel opens, 13-year-old Soulai broods over his negligence in allowing a lion to claim one of the
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Tim Wynne-Jones, Author, Tim Jones-Wynne, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2623-9
The eponymous ""Lord of the Fries,"" a grouchy cook with two teenage detectives on his trail to discover the cause of his surliness, is just the first of the quirky characters spotlighted in seven vibrant stories. There is also Billy Bones, an...
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Laurie Winn Carlson, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Holly Meade, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2479-2
This picture book, a mix of storytelling and brand-name placement, makes a legend of John Batterson Stetson and takes its title from a trademark cowboy hat. Stetson, the son of a New Jersey hatmaker, goes west in the 1850s. Although disappointed in...
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Cynthia C. DeFelice, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2636-9
DeFelice and Parker (previously paired for The Dancing Skeleton) join forces again, this time to polish up a Scottish ghost story. When ragged, penniless Willie McPhee, ""the finest bagpipe player in all of Scotland,"" stumbles across a dead man in...
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Richard Platt, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7894-7973-0
Vasco Da Gama, Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong all stake a claim in Explorers: Pioneers Who Broke New Boundaries by Richard Platt. This plus seven other additions to DK's Secret Worlds series feature information-packed pages, colorful ...
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Angela Johnson, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2499-0
In these 12 well-honed stories told in first-person narrative, Johnson (Toning the Sweep) zeroes in on the idealism and resiliency that make young people a powerful force in the world. Despite their rough circumstances, these characters have a keen...
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Sally Grindley, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Jason Cockcroft, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-3490-6
The grandma in the title is greatly missed but not dolefully mourned by a boy and his grandfather as they spend a day together at the shore. A red flag on a sand castle is for Grandma, declares the boy narrator. ""This big leap's for Grandma,"" says
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DK Publishing, Author , et al. DK $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7566-5532-7
Appropriately, the die-cut cover of this unflinching guide to the human body, in the vein of graphic reference guides Pick Me Up
and Do Not Open
, reveals human organs. Inside, each of the eightcomprehensive sections discusses a different aspect of
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DK, DK, $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7566-6886-0
Readers can measure the sorts of things they're good at—swimming, biting, sleeping, etc.—against their animal kingdom counterparts in this lively guide. Numerous photos are set against crisp, colorful backdrops as the book explores skin, movement,...
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DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $7.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7894-4889-7
Colorful photographs chronicle toddlers successfully making the transition from diapers to using the potty in My Potty Book for Boys and My Potty Book for Girls. Children will especially enjoy seeing the potty being worn as a hat and two potties...
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DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $7.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7894-4845-3
Colorful photographs chronicle toddlers successfully making the transition from diapers to using the potty in My Potty Book for Boys and My Potty Book for Girls. Children will especially enjoy seeing the potty being worn as a hat and two potties...
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DK. DK, $16.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7566-7228-7
Opening with a chronological time line that dates back to 15,000 B.C.E., this extensive guidebook covers the beliefs and history of the world's major religions. Focusing in particular on Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism,
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DK. DK, $9.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7566-7230-0
"The word ‘bugs' can include not [only] insects but also other creepy crawlies... such as scorpions, millipedes, and woodlice. Come and meet us!" invites this paper-over-board guide to the beetles, butterflies, bees, and more. Full-bleed photographs
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DK. DK, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7566-8269-9
In this panoramic book that ushers readers through assorted topics in the realms of science, culture, and history, photographic spreads are connected by "zoom in" and "zoom out" frames that act like digital camera lenses. Thus a spread about fossils
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DK Publishing, Author, Diane Ackerman, Foreword by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2642-0
In a departure for DK Publishing, Booklist editor Donna Seaman collects 14 diverse and intriguing short works of fiction under the title Our Nature: Stories of Wildness. Contributors include popular nature writers like Linda Hogan and Diane Ackerman,
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DK Publishing, Author, Chris Woodford, Author, Robin Kerrod, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7566-0215-4
DK and Google team up to create a second reference guide utilizing the Internet with e.encyclopedia science. Created with the same format as the initial e.encyclopedia, the book invites readers to visit the book's Web site; when readers enter key...
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DK. DK, $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4654-2940-7
This companion to 2013's Where on Earth? takes an atlas-style approach to history, with world maps highlighting the development of written language and other inventions, the rise and fall of nations, technological advances, and more. Divided into...
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Edited by Don E. Wilson. DK, $50 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4654-3804-1
This gorgeous coffee table book of animal life across the planet, including a section on habitats, is a comprehensive gathering of the world's seven continents divided into their main geological environments and highlighting the creatures that...
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DK. DK, $40 (360p) ISBN 9781465438867
This beautiful illustrated volume tracks modern Western musical theater from its beginnings during the late 19th century. The combination of music, dance, and drama has is origins in the ancient world, but it wasn't until about 150 years ago that...
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Leslie Becker-Phelps, with Megan Kaye. DK, $19.95 paperback (224p) ISBN 978-1-4654-2989-6
This infographic-heavy offering, created by illustrated book publisher DK with the help of consulting psychologist Becker-Phelps, explores the nature of intimate relationships. The text also explains how people looking for love can put the book’s...
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DK. DK, $14.99 (14p) ISBN 978-1-4654-3613-9
Part of a new line of books aimed at families with blind or sight-impaired members, this smartly conceived board book is tactile in more ways than one. As readers count to 10, the numbers and accompanying rhymes appear in both English and raised...
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DK. DK, $14.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5097-5
Sleepover party traditions have remained fairly static for decades, at least judging by the activities in this party-planning notebook aimed at school-age girls. Nail art, facials, hairstyling, horoscopes, paper fortune-tellers, jewelry-making, and...
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John Woodward. DK, $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4654-4600-8
Produced in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, this addition to the Super Encyclopedia series spotlights 100 insects, which appear in vibrant photographs, 3-D models, and detailed illustrations. Individual species are grouped into five...
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Derek Harvey. DK, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5084-5
This addition to the Visual Encyclopedia line uses eye-catching CGI graphics to introduce 150 undersea predators in eight chapters. “Devils of the Dark” highlights animals that lurk in the “darker depths” of the ocean, and “Cruisers and Chasers”...
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Jon Woodcock. DK, $19.99 paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5142-2
In a companion to Woodcock’s recent Coding Games in Scratch, readers are shown how to use the free programming language Scratch to create playful animations, games, and other programs. Woodcock briefly explains coding and its creative applications...
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DK. DK, $9.99 (14p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5125-5
This addition to the Follow the Trail series features glittery, embossed lines that readers can trace across the pages with their fingers while learning about penguins, elephants, bears, and lions. Photographs of the animals as adults and babies are
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DK Publishing, Author, Anne Millard, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $9.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7894-7931-0
DK's My First Word Touch and Feel oversize board book links words to pictures and, in each full-color spread, two textures. A spread for ""Around the House,"" for instance, shows a ""blanket"" and a ""telephone"" and invites youngsters to ""Stroke
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $9.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9625-6
The oversize board book My First Touch and Feel series continues with My First Puppy and My First Kitten. Realistic photographs against a white background contain die-cut shapes that allow youngsters to learn by touch as well as sight. In the...
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $19.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7894-8538-0
Marking the centennial of the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Ultimate Peter Rabbit: A Visual Guide to the World of Beatrix Potter by Camilla Hallinan brings together more than 3oo illustrations, original sketches and memorabilia....
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $6.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9210-4
A new addition to the My First Board Book series, My First Time Board Book opens with a full-spread photograph of a field of sunflowers (labeled ""day""), followed by a spread of ""daytime animals""; next, a crescent moon for ""night"" ushers in...
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $4.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9821-2
The new DK Baby series features an eye-catching design-with a gingham spine and patterned endpapers-and simple words and concepts for babies. Baby Days: A Special Book of Pictures and Words to Share with Your Baby, by Penelope Arlon, with photos...
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $4.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9823-6
The new DK Baby series features an eye-catching design-with a gingham spine and patterned endpapers-and simple words and concepts for babies. Baby Days: A Special Book of Pictures and Words to Share with Your Baby, by Penelope Arlon, with photos...
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $4.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9822-9
The new DK Baby series features an eye-catching design-with a gingham spine and patterned endpapers-and simple words and concepts for babies. Baby Days: A Special Book of Pictures and Words to Share with Your Baby, by Penelope Arlon, with photos...
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $4.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9820-5
The new DK Baby series features an eye-catching design-with a gingham spine and patterned endpapers-and simple words and concepts for babies. Baby Days: A Special Book of Pictures and Words to Share with Your Baby, by Penelope Arlon, with photos...
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $5.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9816-8
The new DK Baby series features an eye-catching design-with a gingham spine and patterned endpapers-and simple words and concepts for babies. Baby Days: A Special Book of Pictures and Words to Share with Your Baby, by Penelope Arlon, with photos...
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9815-1
The new DK Baby series features an eye-catching design-with a gingham spine and patterned endpapers-and simple words and concepts for babies. Baby Days: A Special Book of Pictures and Words to Share with Your Baby, by Penelope Arlon, with photos...
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $6.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9246-3
My First Sticker Board Book series adds four new titles: My First Farm Sticker Board Book; Truck; Number; and ABC. A page of more than two dozen reusable stickers at the back of each book allows youngsters to interact with the concepts presented.
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $9.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9626-3
The oversize board book My First Touch and Feel series continues with My First Puppy and My First Kitten. Realistic photographs against a white background contain die-cut shapes that allow youngsters to learn by touch as well as sight. In the...
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $50 (988p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9068-1
An updated edition of the 1995 original Chronicle of the Cinema, this reverential reference offers a year-by-year timeline of cinema's high-water marks in the form of copious film stills, movie posters and thumbnail reports-like a ""scrapbook of...
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DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $30 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7894-8914-2
Pictures of athletes in motion are often great photographs-qua-photographs, capturing the twitch of a perfectly honed muscle or the flash of magisterial bravado over a beautiful young face-but according to this glossy compendium, they also...
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DK Publishing, Author, DK Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $6.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9525-9
A round-up of new nonfiction titles focuses on plenty of pets. Two bilingual board books introduce youngest readers to their furry companions in Touch and Feel Kitten: A Spanish/English Word Book and Touch and Feel Puppy: A Spanish/English Word...
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DK Publishing, Author, DK Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $6.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9520-4
The bilingual word book My First Spanish Christmas Board Book/Mi primer libro de la Navidad features photos of holiday decorations (""los adornos""), children staging a Nativity pageant, more.
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DK Publishing, Author, DK Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $6.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9523-5
A round-up of new nonfiction titles focuses on plenty of pets. Two bilingual board books introduce youngest readers to their furry companions in Touch and Feel Kitten: A Spanish/English Word Book and Touch and Feel Puppy: A Spanish/English Word...
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DK Publishing, Author, DK Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7566-1403-4
This beautifully photographed cookbook emphasizes fresh, seasonal cooking, separating recipes into chapters dedicated to the bounty of spring, summer, fall and winter. Spring's recipes include a deliciously creamy Asparagus Risotto and a decadent...
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DK Publishing, Author, Brigitte Hafner, Author, Victoria Blashford-Snell, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7566-3974-7
Veteran UK cookbook author and caterer Blashford-Snell (Diva Cooking, One Year at Books for Cooks) shares over a thousand recipes in this colossal ""category-killer"" dedicated to everyday food. Given the full-color, highly-informative DK treatment,
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James Buckley, Jr., Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $6.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-7894-7338-7
In two new board books, youngsters learn all about numbers and letters via major league baseball. In Baseball ABC not only will readers pick up on the basics of the game, such as ""home plate"" for H and ""shortstop"" for S, but they can also glean...
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James Buckley, Jr., Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $7.99 (18p) ISBN 978-0-7894-8508-3
A bevy of new titles arrives just in time for Opening Day. For youngest fans, My Baseball Book, featuring an oversize view of an official Major League Baseball on the cover, provides game basics in a board-book format. Tabbed pages, fanned along...
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James Buckley, Jr., Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7894-8509-0
For those taking the field, Play Ball!: The Official Major League Baseball Guide for Young Players by James Buckley Jr. coaches kids on the basics of catching, pitching, batting and more with photos by Mike Eliason and clear instructions. ""Pro ...
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David C. King, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $29.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7894-8330-0
Produced in association with the Smithsonian Institution, DK's Children's Encyclopedia of American History by David King is a comprehensive overview lavishly illustrated with period photographs, paintings and drawings of people, objects and ...
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Catherine Saunders, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9294-4
For aspiring equestrians, Riding School: Learn How to Ride at a Real Riding School, by Catherine Saunders, photos by David Handley, presents the riding lessons of three girls and a boy. Beginning with a discussion of proper clothing, from boots...
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Megan McDonald, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Ponder Goembel, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2581-2
With strong visual echoes of Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram's Guess How Much I Love You, this slightly forced picture book features long-legged rabbits, a simple text dressed in hand-lettered fonts, and a cozy tone full of warm fuzzies. Rosie is...
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Megan McDonald, Author, G. Brian Karas, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2559-1
In a mythic narrative voice accompanied by primitive images, McDonald (Is This a House for Hermit Crab?) describes a mysterious old woman who sifts sand to find bones. Readers can almost hear a drumbeat accompaniment to the text: ""Like the desert...
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Candace Fleming, Author, DK Publishing, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2573-7
As she did in The Hatmaker's Sign, Fleming once again parlays a little-known historical nugget into a diverting picture book. In the late 19th century, the folks of Cheshire, Mass., a locale known for its delectable cheddar, grow mighty disgruntled...
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Amy Schwartz, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2579-9
Schwartz's (Old MacDonald Had a Farm) girl narrator, ardently in pursuit of a pachyderm, gives her audience some deceptively simple instructions for snaring one. The tools required for the catch, she explains, are few: three cakes, two raisins, one...
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Smithsonian Institution, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Michael Allaby, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $50 (520p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9643-0
Visually spectacular, this standout guide to our planet offers a thorough look at the Earth's physical dynamics. Divided into five major sections--Planet Earth, Land, Ocean, Atmosphere and Tectonic Earth--the book explores the planet's environment,...
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Tres Seymour, Author, Marsha Gray Carrington, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2563-8
Seymour (The Gulls of the Edmund Fitzgerald) has some fun with that old saw, ""stubborn as a mule"" in this leisurely paced picture book. Farmer Puckett plans to use the ""hu-mon-gous"" Jake Johnson to ""haul fireworks to the fairgrounds for the...
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Ian Wallace, Author, Aan Wallace, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2569-0
Wallace (Chin Chiang and the Dragons Dance) takes his inspiration from his grandfathers experience in the coal mines for this suspenseful picture book set in Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. On Jamess first day working alongside his miner father, his...
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Miriam Cohen, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Melanie Hope Greenberg, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2510-2
A routine summer ride on the subway is transformed into a brief, toe-tapping Caribbean holiday in Cohen's (Will I Have a Friend?) animated tale. But Greenberg's (Aunt Lilly's Laundromat) gouache art, with its electric hues and primitive style,...
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Adam Bagdasarian, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2627-7
Drawing on his own great-uncle's experiences, Bagdasarian covers the years 1915-1918 when a boy from a wealthy, well-respected family from Bitlis, Turkey, is stripped of everything simply because he is Armenian. Told from an adult perspective...
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Sheila Greenwald, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2675-8
Living with her struggling actor/waiter parents, the fourth-grade heroine of this witty novel knows that the only sure thing is change: her family has moved half a dozen times already, most recently to Manhattan. However, faced with a class...
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56458-517-2
Thanks to this book's unusually clear photographs and a generous trim size, captivating creatures seem to leap from every page. From ``one greedy gorilla'' to ``one hundred creepy crawlers'' (a sure kid-pleaser), these lifesize likenesses will...
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $29.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-7894-0608-8
The 1996 Olympics in Atlanta will mark the centenary of the modern games, and this lavish volume, with more than 750 photos in color and b&w, is an impressive tribute. Here are the historical background to their founding by French nobleman Pierre de
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Author, Deni Bown, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $3.95 (14p) ISBN 978-0-7894-0621-7
Fierce or friendly, wild or domesticated-the animals that populate this board book bestiary look either awe-inspiring or just plain adorable. Illustrated with gloriously sharp, vivid color photographs, each volume appears in a child-friendly small...
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Author, Deni Bown, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56458-950-7
Youngsters can examine the whole kit and caboodle with a trio of First Activity Packs from Dorling Kindersley, each of which contains two detail-packed paperbacks (12 to 18 pages) and pertinent paraphernalia. In addition to the books, World Explorer
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Author, Deni Bown, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56458-898-2
Youngsters can examine the whole kit and caboodle with a trio of First Activity Packs from Dorling Kindersley, each of which contains two detail-packed paperbacks (12 to 18 pages) and pertinent paraphernalia. In addition to the books, World Explorer
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Author, Deni Bown, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56458-899-9
Youngsters can examine the whole kit and caboodle with a trio of First Activity Packs from Dorling Kindersley, each of which contains two detail-packed paperbacks (12 to 18 pages) and pertinent paraphernalia. In addition to the books, World Explorer
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Author, Deni Bown, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $29.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7894-1195-2
vessels and vehicles Offering a look not just under the hood, but everywhere inside cars--and trains, tanks, rescue vehicles and more--The Ultimate Book of Cross-Sections offers abundant visual detail and many small blocks of explanatory text: it's...
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Author, Deni Bown, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (8p) ISBN 978-0-7894-1113-6
house and garden With the press-out pieces of a new series of playtime cum vocabulary-building books, children can pop muffins into the oven (in Play Kitchen) or, with a hoe from the potting shed, plant some tomatoes (in Play Garden). Each book...
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Karen Ray, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2530-0
A girl's heartfelt letters to the Tooth Fairy propel Ray's (Sleep Song; To Cross a Line) occasionally coy novel. After Alex loses her first tooth (at the rather late age of almost eight), she writes to the ""Tuth Ferry"" to beseech her to leave the...
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Theresa Tomlinson, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2459-4
Themes of courage, survival and rebirth are explored in this story of a teenager coping with her mother's illness. Ellen's excitement over her year-end dance recital and summer vacation at the beach is cut short the day she learns her mother has...
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Angela Royston, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $9.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7894-0579-1
When inquiring young minds want to know the answer to this burning question, it can be all too easy for a flustered adult to offer either too much or too little information. Royston dishes up just the right amount. Here the focus is not on the...
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Roger Priddy, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $9.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7894-0198-4
Photographed with a pop-out crispness and following the format of Baby's Book of Animals and Baby's Book of Nature, this introduction to the parts of the body and their uses features a crowd of chubby, cherub-like babies and toddlers acting, posing...
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Anthony Browne, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2522-5
Browne again proves himself an artist of inventive voice and vision as he creates perhaps his most psychologically complex work to date via a commonplace experience--a brief sojourn to a city park. The author of King Kong and the Willy stories again
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Tim McKee, Author, Karen Ray, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2524-9
Though their country is still bitterly divided by race, ""most South Africans seem to share an almost uncanny confidence that... a stable, vibrant nation will emerge,"" claims the author of this hope-filled volume of profiles. In their own words, 12
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Mitra Modarressi, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2517-1
In this hearty three-course storybook, Modarressi (The Beastly Visits) assembles a cast of sympathetic monsters that trump their human acquaintances. Each chapter revises a classic tale in favor of the underdog, and each cleverly refers to some stew
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Jan Greenberg, Author, Sandra Jane Jordan, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2677-2
Architectural maverick Gehry is both subject and inspiration for this visual feast by accomplished biographers Greenberg and Jordan (Chuck Close: Up Close). Mirroring the architect's vision of life and buildings as chaotic, the book's layout jumbles
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Brian Bates, Author, DK Publishing, Author, John Cleese, With DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7894-7836-8
""The face you see in the mirror had its beginnings in the primeval slime at the bottom of the sea,"" begins this large-format, picture-laden study The Human Face, by psychologist, biologist and sometime acting coach and director Brian Bates,...
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Jane R. McIntosh, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Clint Twist, Joint Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7894-7830-6
In Civilization: Ten Thousand Years of Ancient History, Jane McIntosh (The Practical Archaeologist) and Clint Twist (Historical Atlas of the Celts) explore the first 10,000 years of civic life. Beginning with the first agricultural settlements ""
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David Burnie, Editor, Don E. Wilson, Editor, DK Publishing, Author . DK/Smithsonian $50 (624p) ISBN 978-0-7894-7764-4
HStunning photographs (e.g., of wolves snarling over a half-eaten meal or a falcon's perspective as it perches on a city roof) will elevate this book beyond a coffee-table or reference shelf existence. Every aspect of the book seizes attention....
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Naia Bray-Moffatt, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9228-9
Filled with inviting photographs of six bright-eyed girls and boys at work in a sunny studio, the oversize Ballet School lets readers sit in on classes at a formal ballet school, from the first day to the end-of-the-year performance. The text, ...
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Dave King, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $5.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9819-9
The new DK Baby series features an eye-catching design-with a gingham spine and patterned endpapers-and simple words and concepts for babies. Baby Days: A Special Book of Pictures and Words to Share with Your Baby, by Penelope Arlon, with photos...
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John Lynch, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Keith A. Powell, Joint Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $35 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9775-8
""What is it that makes us human?"" asks Lynch, head of the BBC Science Unit. Published to correspond with a Discovery Channel series of the same name, Lynch's coffee-table exploration of the origins of man runs through the record of the species,
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George Ella Lyon, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2460-0
Lawanda Ingles, the appealing 15-year-old heroine of this resonant debut novel, dreams of being the first person in her family to attend college. Ignoring the scarcity of money in Cardin, Ky., she sets out to sell magazines door to door. At the end...
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Chris Jefferys, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $40 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9658-4
With step-by-step instructions and illustrations of everything from the different types of scissors to the method for facing a waistband, this sewing manual, revised from the 1996 original, offers beginner and intermediate sewers a wealth of...
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David Elliot Cohen, Author, Rick Smolan, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7566-0084-6
With its images of cowboys, oil derricks and the sparkling Dallas skyline, this lavish tribute to Texas would feel like an extended travel brochure for the Lone Star state if it weren't for the few more negative depictions, such as a shot of bundles
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John Hareas, Author, DK Publishing, Author, DK Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $30 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7894-9652-2
The first game of basketball, played in 1891 with wooden peach baskets nailed to the lower rail of a gymnasium balcony, lasted 30 minutes, during which time only one basket was scored. A decade later, during the aptly named Cage Era, the game...
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Allen Weinstein, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Manufactured by . DK $35 (672p) ISBN 978-0-7894-8903-6
An alternative title for this might be "The Treasury of American History" as it's an anthology of our nation's favorite stories: Lewis and Clark's expedition, Nat Turner' s revolt, Custer's last stand, Lindbergh's...
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Berlie Doherty, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2469-3
A vast, Nordic setting and a hauntingly melodic tone evoking the rhythm of its harbors anchor this selkie tale. Weaving together ancient stories from Iceland, Scotland and Ireland, Doherty (The Snake-Stone) tells of Gioga, the daughter taken in by...
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Dk Publishing, Author, Reg Grant, Author, R. G. Grant, Author . DK $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7566-5169-5
This encyclopedic guide to the subject of slavery highlights its history from Mesopotamia through the Atlantic slave trade and into the present day, focusing on such issues as the lives of slaves (“Working on sugar plantations in the West...
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