William Shakespeare, Author, Bruce Coville, Author, Dennis Nolan, Illustrator Dial Books $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1784-8
Coville follows up his version of The Tempest (see p. 84) with a retelling of another of Shakespeare's most popular plays. The fundamental story of magic, mischief and the trials and tribulations of love is preserved through well-chosen use of the...
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Bruce Coville. S&S/Aladdin, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1440-2
More than 20 years after Coville introduced readers to the enchanted realm of Nilbog in Goblins in the Castle (1992), he returns with the story of Fauna, who lives in the forest near Toad-in-a-Cage castle and who has a big secret. When her cabin is...
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Bruce Coville, illus. by Paul Kidby. Random, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-39247-1
This diary-style first book in the Enchanted Files series introduces hotheaded brownie Angus Cairns, a tiny elfin creature with a penchant for cleanliness and keeping order. He's also cursed and must serve the youngest eligible female of McGonagall...
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Bruce Coville. Harper, $15.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-089095-7
Sixth-grade best friends Jake and Lily (no relation to the headliners of Jerry Spinelli's recent Jake and Lily) narrate alternate chapters of this monster-filled adventure, chronicling their odyssey into a land they had mistakenly believed was a...
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Bruce Coville, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $14 (128p) ISBN 978-0-671-00229-9
Spells backfire to create merry mayhem in Coville's (My Teacher Is an Alien) fluffy tale. Maybelle Clodnowski, a bumbling fairy godmother, has been given one last chance to do her job correctly before her heavenly supervisor strips her of her wings...
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Bruce Coville, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (208p) ISBN 978-0-15-204561-6
In the fifth installment of Bruce Coville's Magic Shop series, Juliet Dove, Queen of Love, a mysterious woman gives shy, plain Juliet a magic amulet. Suddenly, all the boys in her class start noticing her-and falling in love with her. Juliet...
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Bruce Coville, Author Apple Signature (Scholastic) $5.99 (159p) ISBN 978-0-439-10838-6
Cara follows her grandmother's cryptic instructions and winds up in Luster, the land of the unicorns. ""This mild fantasy, the first in the Unicorn Chronicles, opens promisingly... but somewhat dissipates its force,"" said PW. Ages 9-12. (Nov.)
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Bruce Coville, Author Bridgewater Books $13.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8167-3650-8
With mixed results, the popular author of such zany fare as My Teacher Flunked the Planet here tries his hand at historical romance. In 1853, 16-year-old Fortune Plunkett is leading her late father's six-person itinerant acting troupe westward in...
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Bruce Coville, Author Scholastic $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-45955-6
Coville's (My Teacher Is an Alien) mild fantasy, the first in the projected Unicorn Chronicles, opens promisingly, with a suspenseful chase scene, but somewhat dissipates its force. A nameless hunter pursues Cara and her grandmother into an empty...
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Bruce Coville, Author, Ted Lewin, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $9 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-41905-5
Graced with striking, evocative artwork, these stirring anthologies--featuring unicorn lore in the first, works about horses in the second--contain compositions stories and poems by such noted authors as C. S. Lewis, Jane Yolen Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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Bruce Coville, Author, Ruth Sanderson, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-385-32056-6
This dramatic picture book serves as a good introduction to Shakespeare's well-loved play. Coville (Aliens Ate My Homework) retains the play's supernatural elements while strongly developing themes of human weakness, revenge and forgiveness. Wisely,
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Bruce Coville, Author, William Shakespeare, Author, Ruth Sanderson, Illustrator Yearling Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-41297-7
PW called this adaptation ""an admirable introduction"" to Shakespeare's play, and drew attention to the ""old-fashioned oil paintings [that] capture both ethereal spirits and the heavy brocade of the period setting."" All ages. (Oct.)
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Bruce Coville, Author, Katherine Coville, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-671-72712-3
This zany caper showcases Coville's ( My Teacher Is an Alien ) ability to make the unbelievable close to credible. The young hero, down-to-earth Rod Allbright, doesn't quite believe his eyes when a small blue spaceship flies through his bedroom...
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Bruce Coville, Author, Katherine Coville, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-671-00228-2
Spells backfire to create merry mayhem in Coville's (My Teacher Is an Alien) fluffy tale. Maybelle Clodnowski, a bumbling fairy godmother, has been given one last chance to do her job correctly before her heavenly supervisor strips her of her wings...
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Bruce Coville, Author, Katherine Coville, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-15-204618-7
Bruce Coville's first novel, The Monster's Ring: A Magic Shop Book, about a bullied boy whose purchase of a green ring in a magic shop ensures a trouble-free future, returns in an expanded 20th anniversary edition. (Sept.)
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Bruce Coville, Author, Katherine Coville, Illustrator , illus. by Katherine Coville. S&S $14.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-689-85754-6
Despite its title, this inaugural installment of Coville's (the Space Brat books) Moongobble and Me series offers little that is child-pleasingly chilling. Narrator Edward, who lives with his mother at the edge of Pigbone, a seemingly timeless...
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Bruce Coville, Author, Katherine Coville, Illustrator, Katherine Coville, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443229-0
Banned from his town for constantly--inadvertently--causing trouble, Harry the giant finally gets his chance to help by defeating an evil wizard. PW termed the lovable tale ``a treat for beginning readers and grand make-believe.'' Ages 3-7. (Mar.)
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Bruce Coville and Elizabeth Levy, illus. by Tony Ross. Putnam, $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-399-25656-1
The star of Paula Danziger’s series that began in 1994 with Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon makes an exuberant reappearance in this installment, written by two close friends of the late author. Coville (the My Teacher Is an Alien books) and Levy (the...
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Bruce Coville, Author, John Clapp, Illustrator , illus. by John Clapp. Harcourt $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-201454-4
Coville's (Into the Land of the Unicorns) sometimes moving but ultimately puzzling picture book is constructed a bit like a film drama that rolls a documentary-style addendum at the end. One afternoon, a flock of migrating monarch butterflies...
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Bruce Coville, Author, Matthew Cogswell, Illustrator , illus. by Matthew Cogswell. Harcourt $15 (137p) ISBN 978-0-15-201455-1
Seasoned storyteller Coville (the Magic Shop books) presents a frolicsome tale inspired by an ancient Norse poem that the author, in a concluding note, calls "a delicious burlesque of the gods." This is also an apt description of his own...
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Bruce Coville, Author, Patricia MacDonald, Editor, Katherine Coville, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $6.99 (84p) ISBN 978-0-671-74567-7
Far away on the planet Splat lives a boy named Blork whose temper tantrums are nothing short of galactic in their scope. That is, until Blork discovers that tantrums do not ensure that he will always get his way and that, in fact, tantrums are a...
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Bruce Coville, Author, Gary A. Lippincott, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-15-200745-4
This fanciful story questions the value of beauty yet spins out of control after a promising start. Jennifer, a fifth-grader, agonizes over her appearance--``I'm just a kid in the plain brown wrapper''--and her schoolmates' taunts are doubly painful.
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Bruce Coville, Author, Gary A. Lippincott, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (208p) ISBN 978-0-15-275457-0
In this moralistic fantasy, the third in the Magic Shop series that began with Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, Charlie--passionate environmentalist and compulsive liar--stumbles on Mr. Elives's mysterious shop. He comes away carrying a wisecracking
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Bruce Coville, Author, Gary A. Lippincott, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $4.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-671-74782-4
Jeremy forms an unexpected bond with Tiamat the dragon in this sequel to The Monster's Ring. Ages 8-12. (Feb.)
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Jane Yolen, Author, Bruce Coville, Author, Bruce Coville, Joint Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-201767-5
On the heels of Paula Danziger and Ann Martin's P.S. Longer Letter Later (Children's Forecasts, Feb. 16) comes another novel (on a very different subject) co-written by a pair of popular YA authors. The two alternating narrators, Marina and Jed, are
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Bruce Coville. Random House, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-39251-8
Coville (Sixth-Grade Alien) works personal, global, and universal stakes into a compassionate, worlds-spanning quest starring a seemingly
Black 11-year-old Chicagoan named Hurricane. When the wind stops blowing all over Earth, Hurricane—who has...
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