Benjamin Chaud. Chronicle, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4521-1424-8
In the Buster Keatonesque climax of this glorious romp from Chaud (Pomelo’s Opposites), Papa Bear takes a dive through some opera house scenery and lands in a crystal chandelier onstage, dangling above two very surprised singers. How did he get...
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Benjamin Chaud. Chronicle, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4521-2743-9
Chaud reprises the formula of his acclaimed The Bear’s Song with Papa Bear searching high and low for Little Bear, who’s gone astray. After the bears try to hibernate at a busy shopping emporium, Little Bear and a new human friend make their way to...
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Benjamin Chaud, trans. from the French by Taylor Norman. Chronicle, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-3734-6
In this provocative study of a guilty conscience, Chaud (The Bear’s Song) introduces a boy who’s planning to get rid of his white rabbit, Floppy. “I can’t have a rabbit as a best friend anymore,” he explains. “I’m not a baby.” Echoes of “Hansel and...
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Davide Cali, illus. by Benjamin Chaud. Chronicle, $12.99 (44p) ISBN 978-1-4521-3168-9
The scruffy-suited, shaggy-haired boy from I Didn’t Do My Homework Because... is back, and he has more excuses ready for his teacher, this time regarding why he’s late for school. His circuitous, belief-defying story involves being attacked by...
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Davide Cali, illus. by Benjamin Chaud. Chronicle, $12.99 (44p) ISBN 978-1-4521-2551-0
Chaud's crabbed pen-and-ink drawings give a distinctly Gothic sensibility to Cali's (The Bear with the Sword) sly collection of homework excuses. The narrator, a boy dressed in a suit and tie, negotiates with his teacher. "An airplane full of...
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Benjamin Chaud. Chronicle, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4521-4028-5
Chaud doesn’t rest on his laurels in this wonderfully energetic follow-up to The Bear’s Song and The Bear’s Sea Escape. This time, Little Bear is hunting for his father, and die-cut holes guide readers from location to location. As usual, Chaud’s...
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Davide Cali, illus. by Benjamin Chaud. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-3169-6
Hypocrisy, thy name is grown-up: that’s what a bunch of kid sleuths discover when they tail the adults in their lives in this picture book from frequent collaborators Cali and Chaud (I Didn’t Do My Homework Because...). As the text offers a litany...
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