Christoph Niemann, Greenwillow, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-157779-6
Niemann (The Pet Dragon) navigates New York's subterranean system in this playful love letter to public transportation. Readers follow two children and their father, pictured as transit map–style stick figures, who spend a rainy day exploring routes.
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Christoph Niemann, Greenwillow, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-201963-9
Niemann's (Subway) dialogue between a freckle-faced girl and a boy in a red T-shirt provides a carefree antidote to earnest books of diagrams explaining complex mechanisms. "How does a truck work?" the girl asks, her question hanging in an oversize...
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Christoph Niemann. Abrams, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0207-5
If OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) were an art form, Niemann would be Michelangelo. He does best concocting a graph to illustrate his fluctuating coffee cravings; a pie-chart to isolate the components of that slippery beast, the Really Great...
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Christoph Niemann, Author, Christoph Niemann, Illustrator . Random/ Schwartz & Wade $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-83963-4
Graphic illustrator Niemann, a New Yorker
cover artist, makes his picture book debut with an amiable story of a civic-minded cloud. The unnamed, roundish cloud wants a useful career in law enforcement, and convinces a police chief to let him join...
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Christoph Niemann, Author, Christoph Niemann, Illustrator . Greenwillow $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-157776-5
Niemann (The Police Cloud
) introduces readers to 33 Chinese characters via an ingenious, breezy tale about a spunky heroine named Lin who's searching for her runaway pet dragon. Throughout Lin's quest, Niemann superimposes bold, black...
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Christoph Niemann. Greenwillow, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-245550-5
In a remarkable compilation of more than 300 words, Niemann again proves himself a master of evoking emotions, cause and effect, and other concepts in images drawn in chunky black line. Small sentences and rhymes manifest (“come/ here/ help/ him/...
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Christoph Niemann. Greenwillow, $19.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-0632-1979-3
Coming upon a gift box wrapped in yellow paper and a purple ribbon, a round-headed child with paper-white skin and two animated pigtails shakes it vigorously, gives a brief prayer of hope, and tears into the wrapping paper. But the contents remain...
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