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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