Jim Aylesworth, Author, Barbara McClintock, Author, Barbara McClintock, Illustrator , illus. by Barbara McClintock. Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-39545-8
The team behind The Gingerbread Man
sinks their teeth into this traditional but never dull retelling of a classic. McClintock borrows from Tenniel and Caldecott in her intricate ink-and-watercolor illustrations. Goldilocks may have the thick blonde
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Barbara McClintock, Author . Houghton $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-43230-1
It is turn-of-the-century Paris, and Danielle loves to draw—"the more fantastic the better," while her father encourages her to try realistic pictures. PW
called this story "enticing—and an inspiration to young artists."
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Barbara McClintock, Author . FSG/Foster $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-38044-1
In this nostalgic charmer, McClintock (Dahlia
) imagines a walking tour of Paris circa 1900, traced by two distractible siblings on their way home from school. (The endpapers, taken from a 1907 Baedeker map, chart the roundabout route.) When Ad&egrav
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Barbara McClintock, Author . FSG/Foster $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-39924-5
The young Parisian siblings from McClintock's well-loved Adèle & Simon
embark on a second highly successful adventure, this time on a train journey through the United States with their Aunt Cécile. Sepia-colored endpapers...
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Barbara McClintock, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17 (30p) ISBN 978-0-395-73980-8
It is turn-of-the-century Paris, and Danielle loves to draw: ""dancing storks and dashing foxes--the more fantastic the better."" Her photographer father encourages her to try realistic pictures, but Danielle's imagination is so wild it can't be...
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Barbara McClintock. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-89401-2
Though they do not meet until the end of the book, two ballerinas—an African-American young woman named Julia and a Caucasian girl named Emma—mirror each other throughout the day. McClintock (My Grandfather’s Coat) uses a warm narrative voice and...
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Barbara McClintock, Author, Barbara McClintock, Illustrator . FSG/Foster $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-34999-8
McClintock (Heartaches of a French Cat) does wonders with a modest Charles Dickens story, casting it with Rackham-esque animal characters and placing it in a wintry 19th-century city. Whereas Dickens's 1868 tale "The Magic Fish-Bone"...
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Barbara McClintock, Author, Barbara McClintock, Illustrator . FSG/Foster $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31678-5
In a doll story that will win over even confirmed tomboys, McClintock (Molly and the Magic Wishbone) introduces a Victorian child who, despite her frock and pinafore, enjoys digging in the dirt and climbing trees. After Aunt Edme sends Charlotte a...
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Barbara McClintock, Author, Barbara McLintock, Author, Aesop, Joint Author David R. Godine Publisher $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87923-913-8
McClintock ( Heartaches of a French Cat ) offers her interpretations of nine fables, chosen chiefly from among the better-known of Aesop's tales. Her animals are garbed in exquisite period clothing--breeches, waistcoats, top hats and fine gowns--and
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Barbara McClintock. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62672-216-3
A girl finds an old book with instructions for “forms,” postures taught in Chinese martial arts that “release the power of the animals they represent.” Despite the book’s warning (“There could be unexpected results”), the girl tries the poses alone...
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Barbara McClintock. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62672-217-0
In this high-octane adventure, the hero does just as she pleases and makes it back in time for bed. One evening, Annie fits her helmet over her mass of red curls with a big smile on her face, gets into her race car—a sleek, torpedo-shaped unit that...
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Barbara McClintock. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-338-12587-0
McClintock (Vroom!) notes that TV cartoons were among the inspirations for her latest book, and she cheerfully channels them in single-plane compositions; vivid, stripped-down characterizations; and pencil, watercolor, and gouache vignettes. So too...
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