Carolyn Crimi, Author, Linnea A. Riley, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-88688-2
Crimi's first book is a story of contrasts: as Molly awakens in the morning and stretches in her flannel robe, ""Outside, black clouds sink down to the bottom of the sky."" In scenarios alternating between outdoors and indoors, the wind cries, a...
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Carolyn Crimi, Author, Marsha Gray Carrington, Illustrator , illus. by Marsha Gray Carrington. Scholastic/Orchard $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-31768-9
Jazzy, deeply tinted gouaches in lavender and lime and big-headed characters with beady little eyes add oomph to this story about letting yourself go. Tessa the mouse loves to dance, but her mother admonishes her to keep quiet, for safety's sake.
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Carolyn Crimi, illus. by David Roberts, Harper, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-114245-1
Letters, handbills, and newspaper
articles tell the story of advice columnist Tabby D. Cat and her career fixing up the lives of her fellow animals. Crimi's (Where's My Mummy?) plotting skills are solid and her language is suitably hip ("Take deep,
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Carolyn Crimi, illus. by Lynn Munsinger. Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3166-0
Mole has a leather jacket and shades, a classic bad boy strut, and a trio of groupies. But he's no poseur. As Crimi (Principal Fred Won't Go to Bed) writes, "He had a rock-and-roll soul" and is a talented guitarist. Trouble is, no one's heard him...
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Rat is devastated when his best friend moves out of the junkyard, and he meets his match when Dog moves in. A starred PW
review said the author and illustrator "are in perfect sync in this slyly funny and deeply touching story." Ages 4-8. (
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Carolyn Crimi, Author, Lynn M. Munsinger, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-32643-8
Devastated when his best friend moves out of the junkyard, Rat decides to become a recluse. ""Don't need friends, don't need'em at all,"" he grumbles, rejecting overtures of friendship and food from his neighbors. Rat meets his match in churlishness
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Carolyn Crimi, Author, Gris Grimly, Illustrator , illus. by Gris Grimly. Harcourt $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202528-1
As "the messiest monster in Booville," Bella Legrossi naturally feuds with her fastidiously tidy neighbor, vampire Boris Kleanitoff. Both throw Halloween bashes, and neither invites the other. But the town's monster elite shuns the pair...
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Carolyn Crimi, Author, Regan Dunnick, Illustrator , illus. by Regan Dunnick. Cavendish $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5221-8
The arrival of a family transforms a neighborhood in Crimi's (Boris and Bella
) good-natured tale about different styles and the rewards of adaptability. On Earmuffle Avenue, the "quiet neighbors stayed in their quiet homes doing quiet...
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Carolyn Crimi, illus. by Melissa Manwil. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-298918-5
Former shelter dogs Gus, a scruffy terrier, and his pack—Tank the bulldog; anxious, three-legged hunting dog Roo; and smallest, youngest member, Moon Pie the pug—lead an idyllic life with Miss Lottie, a large bespectacled woman with gray frizzy hair,
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Carolyn Crimi, illus. by Corinna Luyken. Candlewick, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9493-7
This quirkily inventive middle grade debut by Crimi (I Am the Boss of This Chair) introduces Penny Rose, a shy 11-year-old who has made no friends in her new town. She spends most of her time alone in the backyard shed creating miniature robots out...
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