Adele Geras, Author . Harcourt $17 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-216492-8
With exceptional grace and enormous energy, Geras (The Tower Room; Pictures of the Night) recreates the saga of the Trojan war from a feminist perspective, by delving into the hearts and minds of the women behind the scenes. The author plunges...
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Adele Geras, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (148p) ISBN 978-0-06-022941-2
Jerusalem is the central character in this collection of five stories spanning four generations of the Genzel family, residents of the ancient city's Jewish quarter. Geras ( My Grandmother's Stories ) warmly chronicles the girlhoods of Pnina, her...
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Adele Geras, Author . Harcourt $17 (360p) ISBN 978-0-15-205603-2
In this sequel to Troy
, Geras once again shows her skill at fashioning multidimensional characters from mythological figures and making them accessible to a 21st-century audience. Set in Ithaka during the aftermath of the Trojan War, the story...
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Adele Geras, Author Harcourt Paperbacks $7.99 (376p) ISBN 978-0-15-204570-8
""With exceptional grace and energy, Geras recreates the saga of the Trojan War by delving into the hearts and minds of the women of Troy,"" wrote PW in our Best Books citation. Ages 14-up. (Sept.)
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Adele Geras, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-15-289627-0
Set in the early 1960s in an English girl's school, Geras's novel--the first of a trilogy--is a loose variation of the Rapunzel story. No evil witch holds Megan captive, however; instead, she and her two best friends choose the privacy of a tower...
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Adele Geras, Author, Jael Jordan, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-80910-4
Readers can almost smell the strudel Grandma makes in these lovingly evoked, beautifully framed Eastern European Jewish folktales. Each of 10 chapters describes a child's visit to Grandma's, during which a simple act--trying on an aunt's high-heeled
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Adele Geras, Author, Tony Ross, Illustrator , illus. by Tony Ross. Delacorte $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-72926-0
Peppy plots, comical line drawings and a large typeface neatly tailor Geras's (Troy) two tales to the needs of reluctant readers—especially those who find felines fetching. Told with plenty of Briticisms, each story affords a cat's-eye
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Adele Geras, Author, Tony Ross, Illustrator Yearling Books $3.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-440-41816-0
Adele Geras's funny feline chapter-book series, The Cats of Cuckoo Square, returns with two new entries: Geejay the Hero and Callie's Kitten, both illus. by Tony Ross. In the first title, a new family moves in next door, banishing Geejay from...
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Adele Geras, Author, Tony Ross, Illustrator Yearling Books $3.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-440-41817-7
Adele Geras's funny feline chapter-book series, The Cats of Cuckoo Square, returns with two new entries: Geejay the Hero and Callie's Kitten, both illus. by Tony Ross. In the first title, a new family moves in next door, banishing Geejay from...
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Adele Geras, Author, Tony Ross, Illustrator, Eric Brace, Illustrator Avon Books $14 (134p) ISBN 978-0-380-97547-1
Delightfully packed with Briticisms, this clever import launches the Fabulous Fantoras series in high style. Geras's (Pictures of the Night) cordial narrator is the cat Ozzy, self-proclaimed ""Keeper of the Files"" for the eccentric Fantora clan of...
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Adele Geras, Author, Catherine Walters, Illustrator , illus. by Catherine Walters. Dutton $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-46771-7
Cat lovers will recognize the familiar scenario depicted in Geras's (Troy, reviewed below) brief text: a kitten that has trouble finding the right place for a nap. Walters (When Will It Be Spring?) portrays the saucer-eyed, pint-sized feline at...
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Adele Geras, Author, Anita Lobel, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-375-82285-8
In addition to the titles for the Jewish holidays reviewed above, a treat is in store for readers of all faiths with the reissue of Adele Geras's My Grandmother's Stories: A Collection of Jewish Folk Tales. The 1990 text is newly re-illustrated...
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Adele Geras, Author, Kathryn Brown, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-80568-4
A mother knitting a blanket by her daughter's bedside croons a lullaby, sweetly recounting the dreams of figures that appear in her needlework. ""Follow the yarns/ What do you find?,"" runs her song's refrain (the order of the lines varies), ""What...
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Adele Geras, Author, Emma Chichester Clark, Author, Emma Chichester Clark, Joint Author Gullane Children's Books $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-86233-236-2
For budding balletomanes and fairytale fans, The Magic of the Ballet series brings to life The Nutcracker; Sleeping Beauty; Giselle; and Swan Lake retold by Adele Geras, illus. by Emma Chichester Clark. A brief description of classical ballet...
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Adele Geras, Author, Sheila Moxley, Illustrator Frances Lincoln $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84507-155-4
Additional Passover titles (see Spring Holiday Reviews, Feb. 9) include Rebecca's Passover by Ad le Geras, illus. by Sheila Moxley, which showcases the notable author's storytelling skill. Here she describes a seder spent with members of an...
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Adele Geras, Author, Shelagh McNicholas, Illustrator , illus. by Shelagh McNicholas. Dial $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2978-0
Rachel Isadora's Lili books describe professional ballet training, and Katharine Holabird's Angelina Ballerina series provide snapshots of a mouse star in the making; but this accessible title offers a view of ballet school more in line with
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Adele Geras, Author, Karen Grove, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (173p) ISBN 978-0-15-233375-1
Mel wins a role in a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters and quickly becomes enmeshed in the lives and loves of her fellow cast members. She forms a strong friendship with Clare, the show's flamboyant designer. When Clare's relationship with the...
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Adele Geras, Author, Cliff Wright, Illustrator , illus. by Cliff Wright. S&S $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-85333-3
With the words, "I wish you..." as an introduction and unspoken refrain, Geras (Troy) launches an extended rhapsody on the hopes and promises that parents lavish upon their offspring. British artist Wright particularizes the blank verse with
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Adele Gerard, Author, Adele Geras, Author, Louise Brierly, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $16.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-670-86652-6
In this handsome collection of eight stories, foggy, almost pointillist paintings reinvent the traditional fairy tale landscape as an empty expanse, sparsely populated by tortured trees and thorny bushes. Brierley (Peacock Pie) uses a palette of...
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