Angela McAllister, illus. by Sarah Fox-Davies, Knopf, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-86788-0
In an extended soliloquy, a mother snow leopard introduces her cub, Little Mist, to the magnificent Himalayan wilds and the animals that live there. "This is the world," she tells Little Mist as they emerge from their den to a landscape of snow-cover
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Angela McAllister, Author, A. McAllister, Author, Katherine Lodge, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-3491-3
Proving that cowboys don't just herd cattle, this book's mild-mannered title character enters the Yippeeville Pancake Tossin' Competition. Everyone mixes up a mess of batter, and ""[a]t twelve noon all the frying pans were spit 'n' sizzling hot.""...
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Angela McAllister, illus. by Christopher Corr. Frances Lincoln, $19.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-84780-868-4
Fifty-two traditional stories from across the globe carry readers through a year’s worth of holidays and other seasonal celebrations—secular and religious, modern and ancient. Familiar offerings—such as “The Frog Prince,” paired with Valentine’s Day,
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Angela McAllister, illus. by Alison Edgson, Good Books, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56148-683-0
A monster mother and father are horrified when one of their hatchlings enters the world furry, pink, and sweet—unlike his raucous monster siblings, Horrid and Frightful, who are spiked and warty like their parents. Little Shock, something of a...
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Angela McAllister, illus. by Aitch. Frances Lincoln, $19.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-78603-045-0
In a companion to A Year Full of Stories, McAllister compiles 50 folktales from around the world, retelling them in clear, straightforward prose. Grouped by continent, the stories offer light morals and “just-so” style explanations about animal...
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Angela McAllister, Author, Jason Cockcroft, Illustrator , illus. by Jason Cockcroft. Bloomsbury $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-834-6
A familiar picture book theme (a child misplaces a beloved stuffed animal) gets a twist here: a stuffed animal loses its human owner. McAllister (Barkus) describes Little Blue Rabbit's love for his owner ("Boy was soft and warm and stuffed...
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Angela McAllister, Author, Jill Newton, Illustrator Dial Books $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0838-9
Kindhearted Matepo the monkey wants nothing more than to bring home some fruit ``as a present for his mother,'' but he gets caught up in one situation after another; each involves a trade of goods. A sympathetic snake named Ssurstet starts the chain
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Angela McAllister, Author, Maggie Kneen, Illustrator , illus. by Maggie Kneen. Doubleday $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-32732-9
A sleepless young bunny inhabits an appealing Beatrix Potteresque world of nattily dressed, human-like rabbits, but the plot stretches thin. Kneen's (The Lonely Scarecrow) tranquil, soft-focus watercolor and gouache illustrations steal the show.
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Angela McAllister, Author, Grahame Baker-Smith, Illustrator , illus. by Grahame Baker-Smith. Candlewick/Templar $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4546-5
When young Leon volunteers to take part in a magician's disappearing act, he is transported to a glittering limbo where all magical props—cards, coins, rabbits, a magician's assistant or an audience member like himself—wait...
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Angela McAllister, Author, Sue Hellard, Illustrator , illus. by Sue Hellard. Bloomsbury $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-702-8
In the same vein as Audrey Penn's The Kissing Hand
, British pair McAllister (Just Like Sisters
) and Hellard (Princesses Are Not Quitters!
) add another comforting tale to the many dealing with a youngster's reluctance to go to school....
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Angela McAllister, Author, Angela Barrett, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22784-4
At the height of summer in ``a hot dry land,'' feverish Anna is brought to the garden room so that the cool winds will find her. But the breezes never come, and the ailing Anna depends on her father's stories to transport her to colder climes, to a `
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Angela McAllister, illus. by Alison Edgson. Tiger Tales, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58925-154-0
After a downy, preschool-age mouse named Scurry brings a sunflower seed home to plant for his mother, he’s dismayed when his toddler brother, Scamp, eats it. But there are plenty of wild sunflowers in a grassy meadow nearby. With the help of a...
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Angela McAllister, Author, Jenny Jones, Illustrator , illus. by Jenny Jones. Bloomsbury $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-772-1
McAllister's (Barkus) nimble prose and Jones's (Sandbear) warm illustrations lift a boy, a dog and a cardboard box out of the ordinary. In return for helping his mother at the supermarket, Harry gets to keep the box in which they toted home...
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Angela McAllister, Author, Terry Milne, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1631-4
Youngsters will hear some familiar strains in McAllister's (The Little Blue Rabbit) endearing story about toys who learn the importance of heart. A well-worn stuffed kangaroo and her joey arrive at their new residence, also home to a quartet of...
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Angela McAllister, illus. by Hvass&Hannibal. Wide Eyed Editions, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84780-966-7
Poems offer loving tributes to 13 endangered world habitats, including the rainforest, Arctic, deep sea, outback, and desert. In lyrical free-verse, McAllister treats each environment as a distinctive character, while placing emphasis on vocabulary...
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Shen Roddie, Author, Jenny Jones, Illustrator, Angela McAllister, Author , illus. by Jenny Jones. Bloomsbury $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-758-5
"Out in the dunes, a wild wind blew and the sands shivered. It made quivery sand waves and puffy little sandhills." With this lilting beginning, Roddie (Too Close Friends) launches a magical tale about imagination, creativity and...
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Charles Fuge, Author, Angela McAllister, Author Sterling $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4027-0708-7
The star of Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball returns for a game of Hide and Seek in Found You, Little Wombat! by Angela McAllister, illus. by Charles Fuge. Little Wombat is ""It,"" but grows distracted by his surroundings, wanders off and...
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Angela McAllister, illus. by Christopher Corr. Frances Lincoln, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7112-7258-3
With a folktale-like spin on Easter traditions and vibrant, naïf-style paintings, McAllister and Corr offer up an Easter Bunny origin story in this seasonal picture book. When the sun touches Spring—personified as a light-skinned woman with flowing...
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Angela McAllister, illus. by Madalina Andronic. Frances Lincoln, $19.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7112-4148-0
This cross-cultural collection of supernatural folktales includes such characters as a talking skull, a malevolent giantess, and a clever thief. The stories, arranged by theme and
representing six continents, are concise—most no more than three...
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