Alison Lester, Author . Houghton/Lorraine $15 (208p) ISBN 978-0-618-25404-0
As in The Quicksand Pony, picture book author/artist Lester sets her multifaceted second novel on an Australian cattle farm. Resourceful, responsible Dusty Riley loves working alongside her father, a proud, fourth-generation cattle farmer, and her...
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Alison Lester, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (144p) ISBN 978-0-395-93749-5
""The moon was full the night they disappeared."" This hushed, cryptic opening sets up readers for disappointment in this disjointed tale told through several viewpoints. The first perspective is from a woman fleeing with a baby by boat under cover...
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Alison Lester, North-South, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7358-4002-7
Lester (the Horse Crazy series) uses Vienna's famous Royal Academy of Dancing Horses as a background for a picture book drama that has the sweep of a novel. It's wartime, and troops are approaching. Stable master Viktor takes his daughter, Nina,...
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Alison Lester. Houghton Mifflin, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-08895-5
Lester’s 2005 journey to Antarctica’s Mawson Station inspired this informative story of a fictional expedition, chronicled through the affable diary entries of a girl named Sophie. The nine-year-old accompanies her father, captain of an Australian...
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Alison Lester, Author, Roland Harvey, Illustrator , illus. by Roland Harvey. Chronicle $4.99 (62p) ISBN 978-0-8118-6554-8
This lighthearted early chapter book, which launches the Horse Crazy series, is set in Lester’s (Are We There Yet?
) and Harvey’s (In the City: Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs
) native Australia. Horse-loving best friends Bonnie and Sam...
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Alison Lester, Author, Alison Lester, Illustrator . Kane/Miller $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-929132-73-7
Lester (The Snow Pony)
takes readers on a sprightly tour of her native Australia, placing them in the pleasant company of narrator Grace, her parents and two brothers. The bustling artwork is as key to this engaging travelogue as is the chirpy...
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Alison Lester, Author, Alison Lester, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-68193-0
Lester ( Imagine ; Isabella's Bed ) opens the barn door, as it were, upon her recollections of life on the Australian farm where she grew up. Family members are introduced up front; the reader then follows the various characters through the ups and...
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Alison Lester. S&S/Beach Lane, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-5959-5
It’s the most adorable title to come down the pike in a long time—and it
delivers on every page, even if it’s little more than a catalogue of the eponymous character’s sunny niceness. Noni, a plump, orange-dappled darling, is “Gentle and kind,/ and
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Allison Lester, Author, Alison Lester, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-74275-4
Readers familiar with Lester's Clive Eats Alligators or Tessa Snaps Snakes will recognize the affable characters whose anecdotal childhood experiences are so fondly celebrated here. Accompanied by single sentences, Lester's characteristically...
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Allison Lester, Author, Alison Lester, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $13.95 (34p) ISBN 978-0-395-40775-2
For breakfast, Frank eats granola, Nicky has a banana, Ernie has porridge, but Clive . . . eats alligators! (Alligator Pops cereal, that is.) As this book unfolds, each of seven children turns out to do something a little differently from the rest. (
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Allison Lester, Author, Alison Lester, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-53355-0
After they dig a deep hole in their sandbox and fall through to the North Pole, Wild and Woolly begin their adventure-filled journey home. Along the way, the brother and sister are guests at the homes of some luminaries most youngsters would love to
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Allison Lester, Author, Alison Lester, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $13.45 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-46477-9
Ruby's patchwork quilt is more than a source of security and warmthone night when Ruby rescues it from the clothes line, she discovers that it flies, just like a magic carpet. They rise together above trees and houses, and soar beyond the city...
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Allison Lester, Author, Alison Lester, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (31p) ISBN 978-0-395-53753-4
The author of Clive Eats Alligators offers a lively--and lovely--exercise in using one's creativity. Seven lines of verse introduce each of seven double-page spreads filled with animals of every imaginable species. Each spread has a different...
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Allison Lester, Author, Alison Lester, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-395-65565-8
A grandmother's mysterious past provides the impetus for Lester's latest offering. Anna and Luis love sleeping in Isabella's bed whenever they visit their grandmother; the silver headboard ornaments intrigue them, as do the souvenirs from...
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Allison Lester, Author, Alison Lester, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-71252-8
Seven stories offer the chance to become one of 56 colorful characters, from Blood and Guts McCoy ``in a raging storm at sea'' to Gory Lips, the fanged housemaid in a monster-infested Transylvanian castle. Written in rollicking verse, each story...
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Allison Lester, Author, Alison Lester, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (16p) ISBN 978-0-395-87092-1
Lester's (Imagine; Yikes!) winsome art is the cornerstone of this alphabet cum story book, an Australian import. Readers follow Alice and her stuffed horse Aldo from the time they ""awake"" to ""breakfast in bed,"" until they ""visit the vegetables""
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