Anne Isaacs, Author Scholastic Press $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-590-60363-8
HIn a noteworthy departure, Isaacs (Swamp Angel; Treehouse Tales) turns her considerable literary gifts to a painful subjectDher mother-in-law's experiences as a teenage prisoner of a Nazi campDand transforms it into a powerful work of fiction. Like
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Anne Isaacs, Author, Stephen Mackey, Illustrator Dutton Books $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-45994-1
A series of Romantic odes and witty soliloquies inspired by a climbing cat comprises this sumptuous work by Isaacs (Swamp Angel) and British first-time illustrator Mackey. Lush, full-bleed art depicts a rural community as spring blossoms, while each
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Anne Isaacs, illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky, Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-375-86722-4
In this romping sequel, Isaacs's far-fetched tall tale is again paired with Zelinsky's stunning American-primitive paintings, framed by the wood upon which they are painted. Isaacs opens with a nod to the first lines of Adventures of Huckleberry...
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Anne Isaacs, Author, Dan Santat, Illustrator , illus. by Dan Santat. S&S/Atheneum $18.99 (45p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0201-0
Once again Isaacs creates an indelible tall-tale heroine, even though the pairing here with Santat (The Secret Life of Walter Kitty
) proves less than felicitous. Back in the days of the Gold Rush, plucky young Estrella Rivera is renowned for her...
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Anne Isaacs, Author, Paul Zelinsky, Illustrator Dutton Books $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-45271-3
Zelinsky's (Rumpelstiltskin) stunning American-primitive oil paintings, set against an unusual background of cherry, maple and birch veneers, frankly steal the show here. Their success, however, does not diminish the accomplishment of Isaacs, whose...
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Anne Isaacs, illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-375-86745-3
Isaacs (Swamp Angel) teams with Hawkes (The Wicked Big Toddlah) on this Texas humdinger about a wealthy widow and the men vying for her hand. The tall tale opens with a disclaimer (in Texas, “all exaggeration must be restricted to the first twenty-fo
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Anne Isaacs, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator , illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-64483-9
Teague's (Dear Mrs. LaRue
) vibrant, cheekily heroic paintings and Isaacs's (Swamp Angel
) fluid, folksy storytelling offer a twist to The Story of Little
Black Sambo
. Here the setting is a New England back when families rode horse-drawn...
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Anne Issacs, Author, Anne Isaacs, Author, Lloyd Bloom, Illustrator Dutton Books $14.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-525-45611-7
Isaacs (Swamp Angel) rustles up another nourishing batch of tales about American settlers, this time for middle-graders. Set over different years in the early 1880s, each of three stories focuses on one of the three Barrett children and in some way...
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