Christina Darling, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator, Alexandra Day, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-34720-8
Like a present-day Alice, the narrator of this beguiling fantasy travels via the looking-glass. At first, the seven-year-old catches glimpses of movement in her gilt-framed bedroom mirror, which is on loan from her mother's best friend. ""Out of the
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Alexandra Day, Author . FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-39952-8
Inspired by a true story, Day (Good Dog Carl
) draws a portrait of Betsy, a child who has "withdrawn so completely that she disliked being touched, would eat no solid food, made no sounds except a kind of hissing or clicking." The teachers...
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Alexandra Day, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-374-34992-9
Pull tabs and pup ups animate all-new offerings. Fans of Alexandra Day's rottweiler, Carl, will embrace the interactive canine companion that escapes his crate in Puppy Trouble. Youngsters can pull a tab or lift a flap to watch the pup upset a...
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Alexandra Day, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-31152-0
That baby-sitting rottweiler cultivates fans still in the cradle-as well as their parents-with the publication of Carl's Baby Journal by Alexandra Day, which has ample fill-in room for hand- and footprints, a family tree, baby gift lists, photos and
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Alexandra Day, Author Scholastic $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-590-45048-5
After decoding diner lingo ( Frank and Ernest ) and baseball banter ( Frank and Ernest Play Ball ), the brown bear and elephant jacks-of-all-trades take on CB jargon in this winning excursion. Hired to make a fruit shipment, they brush up on big-rig
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Alexandra Day, Author Simon & Schuster $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-87105-5
Day gives Carl's many fans the chance to interact with the famous canine baby-sitter in this humorously understated pop-up. The rottweiler, the baby he cares for and selected objects inventively spring from the pages and-with the help of pull-tabs-mo
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Alexandra Day, Author Scholastic $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-41557-6
Frank, a bear, and Ernest, an elephant, specialize in taking care of small businesses while the owner is away. When Mrs. Miller hires them to run her diner for three days, they assure her that they will take good care of it. Then Frank decides they...
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Alexandra Day, Author Scholastic $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-41556-9
As temporary team managers, the dynamic duo take to the baseball diamond where they play havoc with America's favorite pasttime. Ages 5-8. (Apr.)
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Alexandra Day, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-34380-4
Day's latest does not lead the pack of her almost wordless picture books about the baby-sitting rottweiler Carl, but it nevertheless offers an idyllic vision to its readers. Carl and baby Madeleine are supposed to be napping when the neighborhood...
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Alexandra Day, Author . FSG $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-31088-2
Twenty years after making his debut in Good Dog, Carl
, the Rottweiler who has charmed a generation of readers has lost none of his appeal—or his spunk. Here Madeleine's mother tells Carl that she and her daughter are going shopping so he &
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Alexandra Day, Author, Carl Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-36151-8
One of our favorite canine characters boasts a byline on one of his creator's two October titles. Carl, the rottweiler extraordinaire, is listed with Alexandra Day as coauthor of My Puppy's Record Book (FSG, $9.95, ages 5-up ISBN 0-374-36151-7). The
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Alexandra Day, Author, Cooper Edens, Joint Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator , illus. by Day. HarperCollins $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-205151-6
Day and Edens make hay with this sequel to The Christmas We Moved to the Barn. Taffy MacDonald heads a family of 17—two daughters plus a pony, pig, dogs, cats and other assorted creatures, all of them sharing quarters in a barn (the picture of
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Alexandra Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31110-0
Carl the Rottweiler and the inquisitive baby are off and running again. In Good Dog Carl , this delightful duo confined its adventures to the house; here, mother displays more confidence in her ``babysitter'' by leaving the twosome by themselves in...
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Alexandra Day. FSG/Ferguson, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31082-0
What better time than Halloween for rottweiler babysitter Carl and his human charge, Madeleine, to get up to a little mischief? In this holiday addition to Day’s long-running series, when Madeleine’s mother steps out to visit Grandma, she invites...
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Alexandra Day. FSG/Ferguson, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31083-7
In this addition to Day’s long-running
series, Carl accompanies Madeleine to a dog show where a fellow rottweiler is competing. Successive wordless spreads offer warmly naturalistic depictions of the show. Carl and Madeleine watch as the competing...
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Alexandra Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-39973-3
The premise of this nearly wordless book is very simple: a boy gets up in the middle of the night, wanders through his house and yard, notices a few tasks that need doing, does them and returns to bed. Day turns this plot into something of a tour de
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Alexandra Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator . Farrar, Straus and Giroux $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31086-8
Carl and Madeleine enjoy a winter's day in this addition to Carl's long string of escapades. Following her series' winning format, Day sets the scene for the duo's shenanigans with minimal text—the toddler's mother...
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Alexandra Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-81771-7
Carl the rottweiler baby-sits for the first time in this (almost) wordless picture book classic. All ages. (Aug.)
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Alexandra Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31114-8
The words ``Take good care of the baby, Carl''--practically the only words in Day's books about the lovable rottweiler--trigger giggles of delight from readers of all ages. And though Carl's Christmas has much in common with its predecessor, Carl...
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Alexandra Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31094-3
Just when you thought Day had issued the dernier cri on the subject of Carl the capering canine (Carl's Afternoon in the Park , et al.), she tops herself by producing her most atmospheric book yet. Here, the rottweiler is bidden to mind the baby...
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Alexandra Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-82946-0
One blazingly hot summer day, a boy's father takes him for a boat ride on the river. At first, the youngster is a little frightened, but when some of his favorite toys fall into the water, they don't look scared at all. Father gently ties his son...
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Alexandra Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31109-4
Move over, Mary Poppins, and make room for Carl, the ravishing rottweiler cum babysitter who makes his fourth and perhaps finest appearance yet in this gorgeously colored picture book. As with the other Carl books, these adventures are virtually...
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Alexandra Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Puffin Books $3.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-050963-2
An enterprising canine spends his monthly wages in this practically wordless romp. Ages 3-8 . (Feb.)
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Alexandra Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31145-2
Mice, a rottweiler, an arachnid and a few other assorted critters make sturdy reappearances in five board book versions of picture books. In Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint, ``three white mice on a white piece of paper"" enjoy a colorful romp, while
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Alexandra Day, Author, Day, Author, Alexandra Day, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31093-6
Everybody's favorite rottweiler is back for the sixth adventure in Day's immensely popular near-wordless picture book series. This time, the canine Mary Poppins accompanies preschooler Madeleine to daycare. As usual, there's a little intrigue to...
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Alexandra Day, Author, Cooper Edens, Author, Cecile Goyette, Editor Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2496-9
Day (the Carl books) and Edens (the Santa Cows stories) team up for this quirky, not altogether successful tale about a bullterrier puppy. Darby chews and destroys so many things in the Bell family's home that he is banished to a fenced-in doghouse.
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