Chris Van Dusen. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5004-9
"Long ago, when people spoke/ with words like ‘thou' and ‘thee,' " a Napoleonic figure (in attitude and physical stature) named King Hugo ruled supreme. While his subjects think he's a joke, they have no choice but abjection: they bow low when he...
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Chris Van Dusen. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4946-3
In this retro rhyming tribute to mind over batter, Van Dusen (King Hugo’s Huge Ego) casts a wide net: anyone who’s a fan of nerds, “Casey at the Bat,” classic science fiction, or mid-century design should find something to like in these eye-popping...
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Chris Van Dusen, Author, Chris Van Dusen, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $14.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2499-6
A chrome kitchen table, a buttercream-yellow Studebaker and other campy 1950s accessories distinguish this ebullient picture book. At daybreak, Mr. Magee, sporting a spiffy straw boater, and his black-and-white beagle, Dee, pack a picnic basket and...
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Chris Van Dusen, Author, Chris Van Dusen, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $15.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3603-6
Readers who enjoyed their trip Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee will look forward to A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen. Mr. Magee and his dog Dee are in for another unexpectedly wild ride, this time thanks to a hungry old bear, who...
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Chris Van Dusen, Author, Chris Van Dusen, Illustrator . Dutton $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-47400-5
Rhyming couplets and illustrations in colors as shiny and sleek as the four wheels they celebrate present the musings of a boy growing up in the placid 1950s suburbs. As Jack, his father and the family dog drive by trim lawns and plastic pink...
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Chris Van Dusen. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3090-4
Mr. Paine, the greedy, mustachioed manager of a 19th-century circus, browbeats his ship's captain into sailing onward on a foggy night: "Don't stop! Keep going!/ I've got a show to do!/ Just get me down to Boston town/ tomorrow, sir, by two!" The...
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Chris Van Dusen. Candlewick, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-536203-93-6
In his signature art style, Van Dusen (the Mercy Watson series) opens with an expansive bird’s-eye spread of a tugboat headed across a northerly bay on “one bright summer day.” Readers can almost taste the salt air as the tug hauls a barge, on which
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