Betsy Lewin, Author Clarion Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-85816-5
One day a camel who gives rides to children refuses to get up. Habibi's devoted owner can't figure out why, but the camel manages to restore a spring to his step by trading his owner's slippers for a dashing scarlet fez that makes Habibi the object...
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Betsy Lewin, Author Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6748-4
Betsy Lewin's Animal Snackers returns with cheerful new watercolors that serve up the rhymes from the 1980 edition as a delectable new entree. The volume covers everything from the anteater (""His snout is like a hose./ He just sucks ants up his...
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Betsy Lewin. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2901-1
Take that, “Surprised Kitty” and “Keyboard Cat.” Lewin’s Thumpy Feet may exist in an analog format, but he’s as endearingly, idiosyncratically feline as any YouTube star. “Here comes Thumpy Feet! Thumpy thumpy thumpy thump thumpy,” Lewin proclaims,...
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Betsy Lewin, Author, Betsy Lewin, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-92863-9
Realistic watercolors of Botswana wildlife are the backdrop to a story about a hippo who learns to share. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Betsy Lewin, Author, Betsy Lewin, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6747-7
Now appearing in full color, Cat Count, originally published in b&w in 1981, gets a makeover from Betsy Lewin, who revisits her drawings and adds watercolor wash backgrounds to dazzling effect, especially as ""Five cats. Jive cats. Very-much-alive
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Ted Lewin, Author, Betsy Lewin, Author . Lee & Low $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60060-265-8
Rich watercolors and as-it-happens writing bring the story of India's royal elephants into sharp focus. On the Lewins' (Gorilla Walk
) first trip to India, they hear about Drona, a beloved elephant chosen to head the parade of a religious...
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Ted and Betsy Lewin. Roaring Brook/Porter, $22.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-59643-616-9
Ardent wildlife explorers, the Lewins take readers on a whirlwind tour of their travels, beginning with a 1970 trip to East Africa, where they spotted enormous herds of wildebeests and zebras, a gazelle, and a rare black rhino. Organized...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Betsy Lewin, Author, S. D. Schindler, Author , illus. by Betsy Lewin. Holt $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6391-2
It's the more the merrier when a boisterous clan makes its annual descent on Granny's house in Joosse's (Mama, Do You Love Me?) animated and knowing story. Decorations, gifts, carols and, of course, dinner with candied-yam casserole are...
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Doreen Cronin, illus. by Betsy Lewin. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-9673-6
If the sight of Duck—outfitted with night-vision goggles, climbing spurs, and a Santa hat—ziplining across a cold winter’s night toward Farmer Brown’s chimney doesn’t provoke laughs and smiles, then the War on Christmas is as good as over. Cronin...
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