Anne F. Rockwell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-029815-9
As she did with Fire Engines, Anne Rockwell wryly populates her At the Firehouse with dalmatians, as she takes readers inside the station on Visitor's Day. Jason and his friend Camilla meet Captain Jack, a real firefighter, and sit in the driver's
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author Greenwillow Books $18 (79p) ISBN 978-0-688-09740-0
Rockwell's ( Our Yard Is Full of Birds ; What We Like ) engaging roundup of 15 tales from Greek mythology opens with a concise introduction to the key residents of Mount Olympus. Subsequent entries range from very familiar myths (of Daedalus's...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author Puffin Books $3.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-525-44888-4
In her typically vibrant style, Rockwell scrutinizes numerous types of train transportation. Ages 3-6. (Jan.)
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-525-44703-0
In PW 's words, ``Rockwell's familiar animals briskly propel the vehicles, toys and tools; each confetti-colored spread is crammed with action. An amiable compendium of information for young readers.'' Ages 3-6. (Feb.)
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0697-1
Handy Hank is a fix-it man, and he clearly loves his work. On this particular day, Hank repairs a chimney flue, a kitchen sink, a broken window, a door and a ceiling. A friendly doctor-client attends to Hank's sore shoulder, and on the way home Hank
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author Crowell $11.89 (32p) ISBN 978-0-690-04644-1
Like Richard Scarry, Rockwell fills the pages of her books with small pictures of everyday life. Her simply rendered illustrations exude a gentle, soothing quality. In Come to Town, readers are introduced to a bear community through representative...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443093-7
Rockwell has adapted 11 classic nursery tales and provided her paintings for each, with such favorites as ""The Tortoise and the Hare,'' ``The Bremen Town Musicians'' and ``The Old Woman and Her Pig.'' PW called her watercolors ``bright, funny and...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author Crowell $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-694-00196-5
Bear Child is back, and this time he's taking his young readers through activities, hour by hour, beginning with waking and lasting through bedtime. Each hour, displayed clearly on a large clock, finds Bear Child helping his mom, playing alone or...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $13.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-02-777274-6
The prolific Rockwell has written a word and phrase book with a canny premise: objects, actions and scenarios that kids know well are also what they like best. Each visual spread is divided into seven to 10 vibrantly hued panels, each containing...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-689-71125-1
This Ready-to-Read story features a frog who convinces a tiger that he is the Big Bossand that he eats tigers. Ages 6-9. (April)
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator , illus. by Paul Meisel. HarperCollins $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-028440-4
When Morgan Brownbear moves into a new house, his next-door neighbor (and confirmed jock) Nina Jane Monkey talks him into going out for soccer. "On Saturday morning Morgan couldn't wait to put on his soccer clothes." But on the field, it&
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-028442-8
Third in the Good Sports series, Chip and the Karate Kick by Anne Rockwell, illus. by Paul Meisel, follows avid martial arts fan Chip O'Hare as he takes karate lessons for the first time. Eager to emulate his cinematic hero, Striper Mee, the...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator , illus. by Paul Meisel. HarperCollins $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-028441-1
The team behind Morgan Plays Soccer
creates a heroine who proves a role model for those who fear the water. When Katie Catz refuses to go to the Porker twins' pool party ("What a dumb place to have it!"), her mother decides it is high...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Cynthia von Buhler, Illustrator , illus. by Cynthia von Buhler. Knopf $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-679-89187-1
George Washington made her a sergeant in the Continental Army for her bravery, and Rockwell (Only Passing Through) gives her star treatment in this stirring picture book biography. She's Mary (better known as Molly) Hays, and in 1777 she...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Hans Christian Andersen, Author HarperCollins Publishers $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443142-2
Colorful pictures portray the classic story. Ages 4-8. (July)
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Melanie Hope Greenberg, Illustrator , illus. by Melanie Hope Greenberg. Viking $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-05959-1
In this tale tailor-made for fans of construction, a boy lands a front row seat as, outside his window, the vacant lot next door is transformed into a new community center. First to show up on the site is Digger, the Numero Uno of heavy equipmentR
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Anne Rockwell, illus. by Colin Bootman. Carolrhoda, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7613-5565-6
Founded in Charleston at the turn of the century by Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins, a pastor and former slave determined to give homeless African-American children a better life, the Jenkins Orphanage Band created an irresistible hybrid of martial...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, R. Gregory Christie, Illustrator , illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Dell/Dragonfly $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-41766-8
The author follows the heroine from age nine, when she is sold at auction, through her transformation into an itinerant preacher against the evils of slavery. In a starred review, PW
called it a "vibrant story with powerful content. The...
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With appealing simplicity, Rockwell (Our Earth) spotlights changes in nature, as a barefoot boy observes the world around him, noting, "Everything is growing, just like me." The lyrical narrative presents examples of natural evolution: "B
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Annette Cable, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-88569-7
A multiracial cast of characters populates this reassuring description of a boy's airplane trip, designed to prepare children for their first flights. Ages 5-8. (June)
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Maggie Smith, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-517-70959-7
Rockwell and Smith take youngsters on a breezy yet exhilarating anticipatory ride aboard a ferry transporting a girl and her family to their ""summer island."" The girl's voice sounds natural even when offering definitions (""Bow is what you call...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Megan Halsey, Illustrator Walker & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8797-2
The team behind One Bean and Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night join up for a lesson on metamorphosis in Becoming Butterflies by Anne Rockwell, illus. by Megan Halsey. Cut-paper collage creates a three-dimensional effect in Miss Dana's classroom; the...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Megan Halsey, Illustrator , illus. by Megan Halsey. Walker $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8840-5
Using a school setting, Rockwell and Halsey (who collaborated on One Bean) share an abundance of bird information in an organic, personal way. A girl with brown hair and glasses narrates as her class watches a pair of blue jays build a nest, lay...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Megan Halsey, Illustrator Walker & Company $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8883-2
This fourth collaboration on a nature topic, Four Seasons Make a Year by Anne Rockwell, illus. by Megan Halsey, takes readers on a journey through the year, marking time with the equinoxes, solstices and agricultural rhythms. Each season, readers
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Vanessa Van Der Baan, Illustrator , color by Vanessa van der Baan. HarperCollins $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-056227-4
Color and sound propel Rockwell's story of a train-crazy cat. Allan loves everything about trains—especially the noises they make—and he even lines up his cereal to resemble railroad cars: “He'd go 'Whooooo-whooo!
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Sucie Stevenson, Illustrator, Susie Stevenson, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-14706-8
In these 10 brief snippets designed for reading aloud to the very young, Rockwell (The Robber Baby) sets out to capture small children's everyday experiences and feelings. But in her quest to portray the ordinary, she turns out tales that are,...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Lizzy Rockwell, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-777631-7
A seemingly unprepossessing subject yields surprising rewards in this attractive picture book. Two moppets tour the kitchen cupboards, pointing out such items as a cast-iron frying pan, a butter warmer, a Bundt pan, Tupperware containers, etc. The...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Lizzy Rockwell, Illustrator , illus. by Lizzy Rockwell. HarperTrophy $5.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-051183-8
Mrs. Madoff's class makes special valentines for their friend Michiko in Japan, and takes a trip to the post office to mail them. Ages 3-6. (Dec.)
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Fahimeh Amiri, Illustrator , illus. by Fahimeh Amiri. Knopf $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-679-89188-8
Amiri's (Babri) traditionally drafted, brilliantly colored Persian miniatures illuminate this retelling of the life of Buddha in every sense of the word. Paintings framed with pools of lotus blossoms and banks of swirling clouds follow the young
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Gregory Christie, Illustrator, R. Gregory Gregory Christie, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-679-89186-4
Though writing in the third person, Rockwell (Bumblebee, Bumblebee, Do You Know Me?) here gives Sojourner Truth an authentic, resonant voice. Ably tailoring her account to a young audience, the author opens her story as nine-year-old Isabella is...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Anne F. Rockwell, Illustrator Dutton Books $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-44287-5
Rockwell's newest picture book shows tigers in a wide variety of locales riding an even greater variety of bikes. Little cubs on tricycles soon give way to bigger ones on two-wheelers and parents riding bikes with baby seats. Unicycles, tandems,...
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Anne F. Rockwell, Illustrator HarperCollins $15.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-027330-9
Just in time to herald spring's flowers, Rockwell (Once Upon a Time This Morning) has created a graceful primer on the inhabitants of the backyard garden. Each spread poses an evocative flower riddle to a different insect: ""Bumblebee, bumblebee, do
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Anne Rockwell, Illustrator Walker & Company $16.85 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8746-0
""Tim, Come meet your kindergarten teacher on Thursday at 3 o'clock."" In Anne Rockwell's Welcome to Kindergarten, Tim visits his new classroom before the start of school. After working in the science center, making ""things out of wet and squishy...
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Terri Cohlene, Author, Elizabeth Sayles, Illustrator, Anne F. Rockwell, Author HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-13093-0
Everything reminds Mikele of ribbons as she goes through the day doing chores alongside her father, and no wonder-she's prepared a blue ribbon (which says ""My Papa"") for a Father's Day gift in Won't Papa Be Surprised! by Terri Cohlene, illus....
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Anne Roskwell, Author, Anne F. Rockwell, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-44241-7
Cars of all kinds (racing cars, old cars, new cars, sporty cars, slow cars) are depicted in this simple introduction. ""Rockwell's neat, brightly hued graphics are instantly recognizable, and little boys and girls will love this entertaining...
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