Lewis Carroll, Author, Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $19.95 (117p) ISBN 978-0-394-80592-4
A clock-face grows like the daisies around it as the White Rabbit hurries by; in the opening pages of the story, Browne hints at his interpretive presence in Carroll's world. A burning key, a fish swimming through space, a green thread winding its...
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Anthony Browne, Illustrator, Anthony Browne, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $14.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1831-5
Anthony Browne takes on the lyrics of Animal Fair: A Spectacular Pop-Up with equal gusto. Readers first spy what appears to be a run-of-the-mill carousel, but a pull of the tab reveals ""The birds and the beasts were there"" (riding on the backs...
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Alix Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Author Lectorum Publications $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-968-16-5959-2
Gr 2-8-Willy, the irrepressible chimp from Willy el campeon (Willy the Champ) and Willy el timido (Willy the Wimp), both from Fondo de Cultura Economica, is at it again. This time, he demonstrates his artistic ability by showing his favorite ...
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Gwen Strauss, Author, Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-80582-3
Strauss explores ``the theme of metamorphosis in fairy tales'' in this stunning collection of 12 dramatic monologues by familiar fairy tale characters at a moment of crisis or confrontation. The voices in these poems are both strong and complex, and
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Anthony Browne, Author Dragonfly Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-82225-9
In Browne's Kate Greenaway Medal-winning story, Hannah loves gorillas and longs to see a real one at the zoo, but her father seems to have no time to take her. Ages 3-7. (Feb.)
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Anthony Browne, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-26524-9
Fans may be surprised and disappointed by the route this talented author/illustrator has taken. Featuring the same character as last season's The Little Bear Book , Browne continues the adventures of an unrelievedly perky small white bear who can...
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Anthony Browne, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $11.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-394-89860-5
Jeremy has it all, or so it seems, while Sam does not have a new bike, a new football or money for a whole bag of sweets. Jeremy keeps showing off and bragging about his good fortune, but Sam is seemingly quiet and content. And when Jeremy's many...
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Anthony Browne, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-394-88416-5
Mr. Piggott and his sons, Simon and Patrick, keep Mrs. Piggott in a state of perpetual domesticity: fixing breakfast, washing dishes, making the beds and vacuuming the carpets. That's before she goes to her own job. After work, she continues this...
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Anthony Browne, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $8.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-394-87907-9
Browne won the Kate Greenaway Award for Gorilla, a hit in England and America, as was his Willy the Wimp. In this sequel, the timid gorilla-youth is still the butt of the big bullies wherever he goes. Graphic, full-color pictures heighten effects,...
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Anthony Browne, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-87644-1
Browne's (Willy the Wimp) fourth book featuring his ingenuous, remarkably human chimp mingles soccer and magic, two topics of indisputable appeal to kids. In wry, splendidly detailed pictures and a characteristically assured narrative, the author/art
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Anthony Browne, Author Dragonfly Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-87654-0
The well-intentioned ape from Willy the Wimp is back; ""Browne deftly adds a subtle sophistication to this affable tale of a friendship between two dissimilar individuals,"" said PW. Ages 5-9. (June)
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Anthony Browne, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-679-83946-0
Browne ( Gorilla ; Willy the Wimp ) again exhibits his inimitable dry wit, describing a less than idyllic family outing to the zoo. The young narrator paints an amusingly bleak picture of the day's incidents: Dad blames him when he and his brother...
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Anthony Browne, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $13 (26p) ISBN 978-0-679-81446-7
The well-intentioned ape who starred in Willy the Wimp and Willy the Champ is back, spiffily attired in his sweater vest and polka-dot tie. Feeling lonely and friendless, Willy takes a walk in the park, where he--literally--runs into a much bigger...
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Anthony Browne, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $5.99 (21p) ISBN 978-0-394-84186-1
A chimp of no specific gender romps through two books, presenting favorite books in the first title (``books about dinosaurs and books about monsters . . . song books . . . and strange books'') and playful pastimes in the second (``Going to birthday
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Anthony Browne, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $4.95 (22p) ISBN 978-0-385-26006-0
With a perhaps unwitting nod to Har old and the Purple Crayon , Browne has created a book for readers younger than his usual audience. A white bear, upon meeting a grouchy gorilla, draws him a stuffed toy to cuddle. The bear's next encounter is with
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Anthony Browne, Author Dragonfly Books $7.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-82610-3
A chimp takes a body-building course in Browne's satirical look at the world of wimps and bullies. Ages 3-7. (Apr.)
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Anthony Browne, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-35100-7
My Dad by Anthony Browne now appears in a paper-over-board miniature edition. Of the original, PW said, ""With well-measured doses of hyperbole, sentiment and humor, Browne delivers an endearing paean to patriarchs.""
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Anthony Browne, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $14 (26p) ISBN 978-0-394-84582-1
With spare text and haunting paintings, Browne ( Gorilla ; Willy the Wimp ) creates an intriguing fantasy about sibling rivalry transformed by experience. In spite of her fears, Rose follows her brother into a mysterious tunnel, through a...
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Anthony Browne, Author Dragonfly Books $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-80837-4
In this moralistic fable, the overworked and underappreciated Mrs. Piggott leaves her swinish husband and two sons to fend for themselves, and they literally turn into pigs. Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
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Anthony Browne, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-34908-0
Browne's urban, contemporary take on the Goldilocks story brilliantly juxtaposes two artistic and narrative styles. One strand of the story is wordless, as sepia-toned panels show a girl—a hint of blond peeks from under her hoodie—and her mother...
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Anthony Browne, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $8.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2162-9
Anthony Browne's 1989 I Like Books makes an ideal convert to the sturdy series as the monkey star enumerates all the books he enjoys. PW called it ""positive and upbeat sends a clear message, encouraging the overlapping events of imaginative play,...
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Anthony Browne, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-81029-2
``On Thursday morning at a quarter past ten, Joseph Kaye noticed something strange about the kettle,'' reads the intriguing first line of this imaginative picture book. Joseph's father tells his son that ``things were going to change,'' and Joseph...
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Anthony Browne. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6352-0
Former U.K. Children’s Laureate Browne has always been interested in primates, as books like Gorilla and his Willy the Chimp series have made clear. Now, the static nature of a counting book allows him to devote maximum attention to each animal,...
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Anthony Browne, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $13 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-84737-3
The creator of Gorilla and Zoo takes deadpan, deadeye aim at certain family dynamics in this canny picture book cum moral tale. Its main character is introduced to the reader as ``John Young's dad'' (tellingly, John Young himself is never seen). Dad,
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Anthony Browne, Author . Candlewick $5.99 (28p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1978-7
Willy the chimp returns in two bright outings. "Browne deftly adds a subtle sophistication to this affable tale of friendship between two dissimilar individuals," said PW
of Hugh. Magic and soccer mingle in Wizard, which PW
praised for its &
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Anthony Browne, Author Turner Publications Inc $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57036-107-4
First, the good news: if ever a couple seemed made for each other artistically, it's the multitalented Browne and King Kong, the celebrated simian star of the 1933 film. In this illustrated retelling, Browne's imagery literally reaches new heights-th
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Anthony Browne, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2522-5
Browne again proves himself an artist of inventive voice and vision as he creates perhaps his most psychologically complex work to date via a commonplace experience--a brief sojourn to a city park. The author of King Kong and the Willy stories again
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1813-1
Anthony Browne's Gorilla reappears this fall, nearly 20 years after its original publication. The surreal story captures Hannah on the eve of her birthday and follows her escapades with a toy gorilla gift that comes to life; art and film fans...
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Anthony Browne. Candlewick, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5862-5
This deceptively simple book introduces an overalls-clad chimp who evokes a spectrum of emotions as he answers the titular question. Though the minimal text is forthright (“Sometimes I feel very happy... and sometimes I feel sad”), Browne’s (Me and...
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Anthony Browne. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7419-9
A nervous boy named Joe is on his way to a birthday party, but he has lost his invitation and doesn’t know the house number. Panels in blue wash show Joe’s mother reassuring him as they walk down the street, considering each house. “What if there’s...
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator . FSG/Sunburst $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-41177-0
A father tells his son that "things [are] going to change," as the boy watches the teakettle turn into a striped cat, the spout of the sink become a nose, and a soccer ball lose its spots and hatch a bird. PW
called Browne's...
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0962-7
Glimpsed imagining himself as a painter in Willy the Dreamer, Browne's versatile chimp now takes up the palette in perhaps his most intriguing outing yet. Willy presents his versions of 16-plus familiar masterpieces, working his own imageDand a...
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Anthony Browne. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7761-9
Former British Children’s Laureate Browne paints his famous chimpanzee hero Willy into 10 scenes from classic children’s literature in a bid to fire readers’ interest in them—and in the libraries where these books can be found. With text on the left-
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0378-6
In his fifth book about Willy the chimp, Browne gives a smart, playful nod to Magritte, Rousseau, Dali and other artists whose paintings were often more the stuff of dreams than of real life. Browne's whimsical borrowings and witty visual puns...
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator Farrar, Straus & Giroux $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-35101-4
With well-measured doses of hyperbole, sentiment and humor, Browne (Voices in the Park) delivers an endearing paean to patriarchs. ""He's all right, my dad,"" begins the young narrator, pictured only in the final painting, receiving a giant hug from
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator . Candlewick $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3959-4
Inspired by the story of Koko, the sign-language-fluent gorilla, and her pet kitten, Browne (Voices in the Park
) imagines a similar interspecies friendship. His nameless signing gorilla seems to have everything he needs: a comfy chair (the...
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator . Candlewick $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3124-6
Browne (Willy the Champ
) here offers another satisfyingly wry take on the trials of childhood. At the tale's center is chronic worrier Billy, whose oversize ears, middle part and festive sweater call to mind Browne's popular chimp, Willy....
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator . Candlewick $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2511-5
The tenor of Browne's (The Shape Game
; My Dad
) latest multifaceted tale moves purposefully and effectively from foreboding to reassuring. Browne builds an aura of uneasiness from the first scene, in which a boy awakens in the night to "a...
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator . FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-36764-0
The family that visited animals in Zoo
here takes a trip to London's Tate Britain museum. Browne, as the museum's writer-and-illustrator-in-residence, taught children from inner-city schools using the Tate's resources, and this book—
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator . Candlewick $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1842-1
In a double act of Brown's satirical look at the world of wimps and bullies, the first story showcases Willy the chimp as he takes a body-building course and, in the second, if only by accident, Willy is hailed as a hero. "Readers will echo
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Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Brown, Author Lectorum Publications $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-968-16-6019-2
Gr 2-What makes Voices in the Park (Transworld Publishers, 1998) so very interesting is its use of insightful humor both in the text and in the illustrations. The book is comprised of one story told in four voices from four very different...
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Anthony Browne. Candlewick, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0260-1
Casting about for a way to cheer themselves up after their dog goes missing, Cy and his older sister, Poppy, decide to play hide-and-seek in the woods around their trailer. It’s autumn; Browne (Willy and the Cloud) paints the tree branches, the long
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Anthony Browne. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3413-8
This dreamy tale by former U.K. children’s laureate Browne starts in a minor key as young Danny, feeling “a little sad and bored” while his brother Mick is out with friends, is encouraged by their busy mother to take the pale-skinned family’s dog...
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