Amy MacDonald, Author, Sarah Fox-Davies, Illustrator, Bryna Stevens, With Putnam Publishing Group $15.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-399-22203-0
``I'm lonely,'' Little Beaver cries, ``I need a friend.'' When a voice answers from across the pond, ``I'm lonely. I need a friend,'' Little Beaver sets off to find this kindred spirit. Along the way, he's joined by a duck, an otter and a turtle,...
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Amy MacDonald, Author, Marjorie Priceman, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-71253-5
The irrepressible Fister family (Rachel Fister's Blister) is back, this time in high dudgeon over a younger clan member's missing tooth. The hunt is on, with the supremely silly family's wild-goose chase charted in an ideal marriage of text and...
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Amy MacDonald, Author, Marjorie Priceman, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-52152-6
Whatever is to be done? Rachel Fister is ailing, and the pandemonium caused by her ``tiny little blister'' is a joy to behold--and hear. MacDonald's sparkling tale has the exceptional virtue of making her verse seem effortless. ``Pastor Masters /...
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Amy MacDonald, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-09505-8
""When the sky was young and the world just a dream, when the stars were still learning their names, a spider named Nobb came floating through the Air, at the end of a long, soft thread."" So begins this well-crafted tale, an original creation myth.
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Amy MacDonald, Author, Cat Bowman Smith, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-35529-6
Great-Aunt Matilda, Simon's guardian from No More Nice, is back in No More Nasty by Amy MacDonald, illus. by Cat Bowman Smith only this time she is the new substitute in Simon's fifth-grade class. The hero and his classmates are in for a ...
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Amy MacDonald, Author, Marjorie Priceman, Author, Marjorie Priceman, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-65744-7
In PW 's words, ``The pandemonium caused by Rachel's `tiny little blister' is a joy to hear--and behold. MacDonald's sparkling tale has the exceptional virtue of making her verse seem effortless. Priceman's harumscarum drawings run riot over the...
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Amy MacDonald, Author, Marjorie Priceman, Illustrator , illus. by Marjorie Priceman. Houghton $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-31099-9
The irrepressible Feister family is back, this time in high dudgeon over a younger clan member's missing tooth. "The hunt is on, with the supremely silly family's wild-goose chase charted in an ideal marriage of text and artwork,"...
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Amy MacDonald, Author, Giselle Potter, Illustrator , illus. by Giselle Potter. FSG/Kroupa $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-36170-9
Tongue-in-cheek moral verse and puckish paintings of the pasty-faced Quentin and his evil clone provide drama, laughs and a reasonable vision of juvenile behavior. In MacDonald's (Cousin Ruth's Tooth) adroit couplets, Quentin Fenton Herter...
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Amy MacDonald, Author, Emily Lasker Hallensleben, Illustrator, Emily Lisker, Illustrator , illus. by Emily Lisker. FSG/Kroupa $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-36000-9
Against an exuberantly painted Caribbean backdrop, a wily man causes so much trouble that his neighbors would rather set him free than keep him in jail. Malese tricks the village cobblers into making him a free pair of shoes and swindles the...
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