Alexandra Day, Author, Cooper Edens, Author, Cecile Goyette, Editor Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2496-9
Day (the Carl books) and Edens (the Santa Cows stories) team up for this quirky, not altogether successful tale about a bullterrier puppy. Darby chews and destroys so many things in the Bell family's home that he is banished to a fenced-in doghouse.
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Cooper Edens, Author Atheneum Books $18 (88p) ISBN 978-0-689-31434-6
With the proliferation of new editions of Mother Goose each year, it's easy to forget that artists have been illustrating these rhymes for centuries. Edens's compilation celebrates the work of some of the best illustrators of the late 19th and early
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Cooper Edens, Author Atheneum Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-31605-0
In a market glutted with alphabet books, The Glorious ABC stands out from the crowd. Here, Edens has collected a sequence of full-color illustrations by such noted artists from the late 1800s and early 1900s as Maxfield Parrish, Edmund Dulac,...
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Cooper Edens, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Sheryl Abrams, Author Chronicle Books $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3312-7
Packaged in a resealable case, Sweet Dreams by Cooper Edens and Sheryl Abrams makes an elegant stocking stuffer. The playing-card-size deck contains 36 ""bedtime wishes,"" just right for tucking under the pillow. Images from 19th-century ...
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Cooper Edens, Author, Daniel Lane, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $5.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-82869-0
In this quirky sequel to Santa Cows, the bovine family sets off for warmer pastures. ""Fans of the earlier book will greet this sequel with much jubilation,"" said PW. Ages 5-up. (Oct.)
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Cooper Edens, Author, Daniel Lane, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-74863-0
As this offbeat parody of ``The Night Before Christmas'' opens, the family is enjoying a Christmas feast of pizza, popcorn and microwaved eel and clam cakes: ``When all of a sudden, not the sound of reindeers, / But the mooing of Santa Cows came to...
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Cooper Edens, Author, Daniel Lane, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-88319-5
COW-a-bunga! Surf's up with a vengeance in this welcome return of those enigmatic gift-giving bovines from Santa Cows. This book picks up where the first left off (``'Twas the day after Christmas''), with mom Schwartz hankering for ``warmer climes.''
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Cooper Edens, Author, Daniel Lane, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-75952-0
The author and illustrator who produced Santa Cows here create a nostalgic, nursery-room Eden of Ferris wheels and fireworks. Shawnee Bill, summertime's answer to Saint Nick, runs his celebrated ``carrousel'' sic at the North Valley Carnival every...
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