Keith Hernandez, Author, Golden Books, Author, John Manders, Illustrator Golden Books $12.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-307-10626-1
Former first baseman Keith Hernandez pens a tale of young Sammy, who dreams of going from Little League to the big leagues in First Base Hero, illus. by John Manders. Pop-ups and liftable flaps add action. ( Mar.)
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Tibor Gergely, Author, Golden Books, Author, Tibor Gergely, Illustrator Golden Books $8.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-307-10321-5
Golden Books brings back three Big Little Golden Books, picture books from the 1940s and '50s now available in larger-sized, paper-over-board editions. Originally published in 1954, The Friendly Book by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Garth...
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Debi Gliori, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-17558-8
Nothing goes quite as planned when Mr. Bear offers to take the baby on a picnic while Mrs. Bear sleeps in. The two Grizzly-Bear boys also join the party, but complain about Mr. B.'s choice of lunchtime locales (``Dad always brings us here.... It's...
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Debi Gliori, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-307-17506-9
Father Bear doesn't know best when it comes to baby-sitting in this unconvincing and visually confusing domestic sitcom. While Mr. Bear fumbles through bathing and feeding the neighbor's baby, he's repeatedly reminded of his ineptitude by three...
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Alan Durant, Author, Golden Books, Author, Ant Parker, Illustrator Golden Books $9.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-307-17519-9
Alternating whole and half-pages put a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't twist on a tale of mealtime mayhem. In short order, a hungry snake swallows a mouse, a goat, two chimps and a tiger-but instead of supper, the ravenous reptile winds up with his...
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Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $11.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-307-17562-5
``I have always loved the snow,'' a rabbit grandfather tells the youngster nestled in his lap. A reminiscence of familiar wintery adventures follows, with a few rabbity twists: sledding, snowball fights, making a ``snow rabbit'' (whose carrot serves
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Tomie dePaola, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $3.95 (29p) ISBN 978-0-307-10613-1
DePaola fans who expect delightful sequels to the Kitten Kids board books (published last year by Simon & Schuster) are in for a disappointment. Although these new tales are based on characters he created, they are fairly successful imitations of...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Golden Books, Author, Leonard Weisgard, Illustrator Golden Books $2.08 (28p) ISBN 978-0-307-12096-0
Certainly an occasion worth noting: this is a previously unpublished text by Brown (who died in 1957 after producing some 90 picture books) and illustrated by her most frequent collaborator. The text is characteristically brief, poetic and childlike:
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $2.22 (20p) ISBN 978-0-307-10970-5
Zaza and her family (The Show Must Go On) of theatrical bears are back, and she is harboring doubts about the lives they lead. Her father writes plays like King Bear, which the family troupe then performs. ``Why can't we just be normal?'' Zaza...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $2.22 (20p) ISBN 978-0-307-11970-4
Bruno and Sophie met on stage, and their children Edwin, Sarah and Zaza were born to itthey sleep in steamer trunks or on stage props. Being traveling actors was ""a hard life, but it was in their blood.'' When Sophie's Great-uncle Max leaves them a
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Richard Scarry, Author, Golden Books, Author, Richard Scarry, Illustrator Golden Books $8.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-82718-1
Richard Scarry's 1942 book The Animals of Farmer Jones now appears as a paper-over-board Big Little Golden Book. This classic introduction to farm animals spotlights their familiar barnyard noises, impatient appetites and the kind of food they ...
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Jan Wahl, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $3.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-307-11630-7
The merriment in Wahl's new tale is visible in McQueen's action-packed, full-color pictures. Cheltenham, the marmalade cat, anticipates the pleasures of freedom when his owners, Mr. and Mrs. Rood, go to their Aunt Liza's birthday celebration....
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Eloise Burns Wilkin, Author, Golden Books, Author, Eloise Burns Wilkin, Illustrator Golden Books $7.95 (70p) ISBN 978-0-307-15586-3
Since 1927, Wilkin's books have been enormously popular with parents and children, primarily because of her inimitable pictures. She is hard to beat at evoking a response to the young boys and girls, flowers and wild animals, that she captures in...
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Golden Books, Author, Golden Books, Manufactured by Golden Books $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-83128-7
Contrary to the title, the paper-over-board A Little Golden Book Collection: Animal Tales is quite a meaty package, containing a baker's dozen classics, such as ""The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse,"" ""Home for a Bunny"" and ""Tawny Scrawny Lion.
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Cyndy Szekeres, Author, Golden Books, Author, Cyndy Szekeres, Illustrator Golden Books $3.98 (45p) ISBN 978-0-307-15560-3
Szekeres has crammed her collection of Mother Goose rhymes with rollicking backgrounds, frolicsome animals and calico patch trimmings. The cock that ""crows in the morn'' wears long, white underwear, a downy white Mother Goose bids small mice to...
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Cyndy Szekeres, Author, Golden Books, Author, Cyndy Szekeres, Illustrator Golden Books $7.95 (45p) ISBN 978-0-307-15589-4
In this fairy tale collection, Szekeres has retold and illustrated six well-known classics The Bremen Town Musicians , The Elves and the Shoemaker , The Emperor's New Clothes , Stone Soup , The Sleeping Beauty and The Princess and the Pea. Szekeres'
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Helen Cresswell, Author, Golden Books, Author, Carol Lawson, Illustrator Golden Books $12.95 (62p) ISBN 978-0-307-17503-8
In a refreshing departure from the recent spate of slyly revisionist fairy tales, Cresswell ( Moondial ; The Secret World of Polly Flint ) here offers traditional versions of nine stories aptly described as ``classic.'' Deftly pared down for the...
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James C. Shooter, Author, Golden Books, Author, Peter Barrett, Illustrator Golden Books $8.95 (61p) ISBN 978-0-307-15861-1
Shooter provides a swift look at the evolutionary cycles from the earliest life in ancient seas, through the rise and fall of dinosaurs, the development of the continents, the rise of mammals and the emergence of man. He sometimes resorts to...
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Gregory Scott Kreikemeier, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $10.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-307-15660-0
For Kreikemeier, a photographer and zoologist, the ``African photo safari'' chronicled in this sumptuous book was the fulfillment of a childhood dream. Traveling in a custom-built vehicle, the 12 members of his expedition visited 13 countries and...
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Luise Woelflein, Author, Golden Books, Author, Wendy Smith-Griswold, Illustrator Golden Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-17600-4
Pamina moths, katydids, fireflies and treehoppers are just a few of the insects that appear in this tour de force of paper engineering. Each of the five splashy spreads is organized around a single insect-behavior theme, and features at least one (bu
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Tracey English, Author, Golden Books, Author, Tracey English, Illustrator Golden Books $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-17601-1
English uses die-cut split pages to turn the traditional song into a counting game as well. Festive, batik-like pictures feature farmer MacDonald's animal tenants, introduced in ever-increasing numbers (from one pig to 10 hens) on the recto side of...
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Corinne Mellor, Author, Golden Books, Author, Jonathan Allen, Illustrator Golden Books $12.95 (20p) ISBN 978-0-307-17606-6
Paper engineering lends bite to this lighthearted outing. Toothless and sweet-natured, Clark doesn't fit in with his shark peers: a rotating paper wheel shows the dismayed and fangless fish looking on as his friends swim in enviably menacing circles
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