Adam McCauley, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $9.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2327-2
Fashionably postmodern art teams up, somewhat problematically, with a sweet text in this debut. If thunder rrrumbled and lightning crack-acked/ If the sky rained down pink lemonade.../.../ I wouldnt notice! the narrator announces at the outset. When
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Charles Ghigna, Author, Adam McCauley, Author, Adam McCauley, Illustrator , illus. by Adam McCauley. Running Press $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7624-1552-6
Ghigna's (Animal Trunk) somewhat attenuated, workmanlike poetry collection takes aim at grown-ups, siblings and bedtime fears. One costume-seeker laments, "I've searched through stores all over town/ For one old scary ghoul,/ But none...
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Kathy Duval, illus. by Adam McCauley. Disney-Hyperion, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-2255-5
At home on the range, underneath glorious Western skies, a farmer named Willy is whipping up a modest dinner on his barbecue grill. The delicious smells attract a flying saucer filled with little green men whose endless demands for food and...
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Nina Laden, illus. by Adam McCauley. Chronicle, $16.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-4521-3155-9
A dark-haired boy and his mother drive to his grandmother’s house, and before they’re even out of the neighborhood, he’s asking the question of the title. The voyage turns out to be anything but ordinary as increasingly surreal sights appear in the...
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