Chris Gall, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-316-05847-6
In this surreal romp, garnished with action verbs and visual jokes, Gall (America the Beautiful
) imagines what might happen if ocean creatures explored human neighborhoods. Unlike the frogs in David Wiesner's Tuesday
—referenced in the...
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Chris Gall, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-02777-9
Combine dinosaurs and trucks and what do you get? In Gall's (There's Nothing to Do on Mars
) case, a passel of grateful readers, especially those of the young male variety. With comically overheated narration and typography (think History...
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Chris Gall. Little, Brown, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-08915-9
Six unruly children are in for a shock when a green-speckled, one-eyed, tentacled monster (wearing a neat brown suit) shows up as their substitute teacher. Mr. Creacher also has three eyes on the back of his head, the better to intercept the...
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Chris Gall. Little, Brown, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-13288-6
The Dinotrux’s boisterous second adventure takes them from prehistory into the present day. Fed up with being stuck in a museum, they escape and unleash their vengeance: Dumplodocus carries off houses, Septisaurus drinks an entire swimming pool, and
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Chris Gall. Little, Brown, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-21330-1
With great horsepower comes great responsibility. So learns Dawson, a boy whose mechanical-mindedness lets Gall make full use of his skill for drafting the sort of straight-from-kids’-dreams machines he showcased in Dinotrux and Revenge of the...
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Chris Gall. Little, Brown, $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-23801-4
In a story brimming with sight gags, Gall (Awesome Dawson) mines a Cat and Dog’s odd-couple arrangement for laughs. The reluctant roommates meet when their human caretaker, Mr. Button, visits “the animal shelter to pick out a friendly-looking dog”...
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Chris Gall. Little, Brown, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-37552-8
Gall (the Dinotrux books) introduces miniature robots with infinite potential for adventures on and off the page. A “great inventor”—later pictured as a confident boy in round eyeglasses—builds the microscopic NanoBots, which have specialized shapes
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Chris Gall. Little, Brown, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-39286-0
Having gone big in Dinotrux and microscopic in NanoBots, Gall does a bit of both, sending a tiny train on an enormous adventure. After being accidentally knocked off a tabletop town of crisscrossing wooden tracks (“It was the only neighborhood he...
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Chris Gall, Author, Chris Gall, Illustrator . Little, Brown $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-16684-3
Davey and his pioneer parents may live on the Red Planet, but conditions are far from rosy. “The nights were very cold. The dust storms were terrible.... 'I’m bored!’ Davey shouted one day.” Davey and his leaky robot dog
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Chris Gall. Norton Young Readers, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-324-01539-0
A semi “haulin’ tons of scrap” has rolled over in a swirling snowstorm. The driver is unhurt, but getting this big rig cleared off the road is going to take some serious towing muscle. First on the scene is 14-wheeler Big Orange, whose bearded, pale-
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Chris Gall. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-250-15579-5
In the hours leading up to the Apollo 11 mission, a child imaginatively follows the astronauts’ movements: “The astronauts are ready for the mission, and so am I.” As the boy (dressed in a NASA shirt) is pictured pulling the small rocket he built in
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Chris Gall. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-250-15580-1
Between its first flight in 1970 and its last in 2018, the Boeing 747 “transported the equivalent of 78 percent of the world’s population.” It’s an incredible statistic, but a fraught legacy given the realities of climate change. Gall avoids any...
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