Betty G. Birney, Author . Putnam $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-399-24198-7
"You can learn a lot if you stop spinning and start listening." Such is the deep moral for this breezy, well-crafted first novel, narrated by a hamster purchased by a substitute teacher for a middle-school classroom. Humphrey's heart...
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Betty G. Birney, Author Putnam Publishing Group $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-399-24264-9
PW called The World According to Humphrey a ""breezy, well-crafted first novel, narrated by a hamster."" The comical critter returns to Room 26 in Friendship According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney, only to discover a new class pet, Og the frog....
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Betty G. Birney. Putnam, $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3994-2
This sparkling offshoot of Birney’s Humphrey the hamster series reveals the Room 26 goings-on from the perspective of amphibian Og, a second classroom pet. The narrative leaps back in time to offer Og’s take on his arrival (a story Humphrey relays...
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Betty G. Birney, Author, John C'Brien, Author, John O'Brien, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-67648-6
With his wispy lines and pebble-toned watercolors, New Yorker cartoonist O'Brien ( Six Creepy Sheep ; Six Sleepy Sheep ) adds a quirky charm to this disjointed tale of a toothy dinosaur cowpoke named Tyrannosaurus Tex. Here, five cowboys meet up...
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Betty G. Birney, Author, John O'Brien, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-81654-7
""With his wispy lines and pebble-toned watercolors, New Yorker cartoonist O'Brien adds a quirky charm to this disjointed tale of a toothy dinosaur cowpoke,"" said PW. Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Betty G. Birney, Author, Matt Phelan, Illustrator , illus. by Matt Phelan. S&S/Atheneum $16.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-689-87136-8
How do you keep them down on the farm after they've read about the Seven Wonders of the World? That's one of the heart-tugging questions gently raised in Birney's (The World According to Humphrey
) tender and captivating gem of a novel....
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