Bernard Lodge, Author Walter Lorraine Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-11547-1
Kids can count the creatures mounting mayhem in Bernard Lodge's How Scary! In the beginning, ""one Growling Giant"" chases a pair of frightened children. A turn of the page finds ""two Dreadful Dragons"" breathing down the giants' necks then ""thr
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Bernard Lodge, Author Charlesbridge Publishing $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-879085-89-3
Lodge's (There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Glove) fanciful story centers on a giant with an expansive straw hat. When the North Wind and the South Wind happen to arrive at the same time, they send a shepherd's hat flying through the air....
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Bernard Lodge, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-395-84543-1
Run out of the woods by scolding bird neighbors who deplore his messy nest, clumsy Tanglebird flies to the city. He makes several disastrous attempts to scavenge materials for a new home, accidentally ensnaring a bewildered woman in her own knitting
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Bernard Lodge, Author, Bernard Lodge, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-90945-4
Lodge (The Half-Mile Hat; Tanglebird) serves up a rather bland witch's brew using some overly familiar ingredients, including a magic broomstick, a book of magic spells and some predictable bewitching, zapping and reversing of curses. The first two...
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Bernard Lodge, Author, Bernard Lodge, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-96318-0
Featuring a lustrous pastel palette, Lodge's (Mouldylocks) woodcut art emanates a playfulness worthy of his appealing nonsensical verse. He transports youngsters to 11 diverting destinations, all of which appear on clever endpapers that emulate a...
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Bernard Lodge, Author, Bernard Lodge, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-879085-86-2
Latest in a crop of retellings of this classic Russian folktale, Lodge's variation is based on a mid-19th-century version. Here, the famous quest revolves around the feckless Prince Ivan, youngest son of minor royalty, who tracks the thieving...
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Bernard Lodge, Author, Katherine Lodge, Illustrator Random House Books for Young Readers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-81084-8
The title of this flighty and flippant paper-over-board volume by a father-daughter team refers to both the narrator and her shoe store. ""Hello! My name is Shoe Shoe Baby. I come from a great family of shoe mad, shoe people,"" she remarks, before...
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