Alice Povensen, Author, Alice Provensen, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18 (55p) ISBN 978-0-06-024786-7
Provensen was 10 years old in the election year 1928, and in her introduction to this remarkable new work she recalls skating through the streets of Chicago shouting with delight, ``Hoobie Heever for President!'' and echoing Calvin Coolidge's famous
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Two inspiring tales of paradox from the Middle Kingdom captivate Caldecott winner Provensen (The Glorious Flight; A Visit to William Blake's Inn). In the first, the Master, who maintains that he no longer teaches, trains his apprentice Little...
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Alice Provensen, Author Harcourt Children's Books $19.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-15-276642-9
Provensen (The Buck Stops Here) curates a highly personal gallery of American historical figures in this eclectic, large-format volume. ""Not all these Americans are honored in our national imagination, but they live in mine,"" she explains in an...
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Alice Provensen, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-054067-3
""In Provensen's talented hands, the unlovable Punch is skillfully resurrected for a generation perhaps unfamiliar with his dastardly deeds,"" said PW, adding that the ""distinctively detailed illustrations are rendered in the bright, buoyant colors
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Alice Provensen, Author, Martin Provensen, Author Viking Children's Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-81568-5
The Herkimer sisters live in their big house on the hillside of Shaker Lane and sell off pieces of their farm whenever they need a little money. Soon a whole community is settled there: Virgil Oates builds his house first; Sam Kulick and Norbert La...
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Alice Provensen, Author, Martin Provensen, Author Viking Children's Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-670-82790-9
In Provensen's talented hands, the unlovable Punch is skillfully resurrected for a generation perhaps unfamiliar with his dastardly deeds. Brought to New York City in the suitcase of Il Professore Tucci-Piccini, Punch is immediately stolen by a...
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Alice Provensen, Author, Martin Provensen, Author, Martin Provensen, Joint Author . S&S/Aladdin $7.99 (, $7.99 each ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-689-84500-0
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called the latter title from the Caldecott Medal–winning team behind The Glorious Flight "one of the Provensens' loveliest books. Those privileged to experience it are sure to be convinced that country life has special rewards."
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Alice Provensen, Author, Martin Provensen, With Puffin Books $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-14-050729-4
The magnificent Caldecott Medalwinning book about a daring historic event. Ages 3-8. (May)
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Alice Provensen, Author, Alice Provensen, Illustrator . S&S $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84884-1
In this clever canine caper, Caldecott Medalist Provensen (The Glorious Flight) introduces an irrepressibly rambunctious—and chatty—narrator. Actually, he introduces himself: "Murphy-Stop-That is my name. I am a terrier. I bark./ I
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Alice Provensen, Author, Alice Provensen, Illustrator . S&S $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84885-8
In her new book, Provensen effectively puts a human face on the 1897 stampede into Yukon Territory after gold is discovered on the banks of the Klondike River, and bases her narrator on an actual miner. Bill Howell, a bored Boston shopkeeper, agrees
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Alice Provensen. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-1971-1
More than a decade after A Day in the Life of Murphy, Provensen’s opinionated terrier gets a taste of city life. Though Murphy is initially unenthusiastic (“Nothing but cars and concrete. Yuck!”), his tune changes when he sees the dog-centric slate...
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Alice Provensen, Author, Alice Privensen, Author, R. Hayes, Editor Puffin Books $4.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-050713-3
Called ``an unforgettable piece of real estate'' in a boxed PW review, this spare story chronicles the transformation of a rural street into a characterless suburban housing development. All ages. (Oct.)
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