Cynthia Zarin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-61015-9
Poet Zarin (Orbit) offers a sly and beguiling love story doubling as a meditation on the nature of time. Caroline, a middle-aged mother of two, stands in Central Park on a snowy evening, waiting for a call on her cellphone from her old love Alastair.
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Cynthia Zarin, Author, Leonid Gore, Illustrator , illus. by Leonid Gore. Atheneum/Jackson $17.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-689-85031-8
In this elegantly designed story collection, inspired by the 1905 book of the same name by Margaret Ward Cole, Zarin (Albert, the Dog Who Liked to Ride in Taxis
) revisits the theme of saints who have been befriended and aided in their mission by...
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Cynthia Zarin, Author, Pierre Pratt, Illustrator Atheneum Books $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-84762-2
Like most literary heroes who set off on their own to see the wide world, the debonair dachshund who stars in this droll, episodic picture book pines for adventure. Albert loves to ride in taxis, and when he sneaks into a cab without being seen...
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Cynthia Zarin, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19 (71p) ISBN 978-0-679-42003-3
Zarin's ( The Swordfish Tooth ) second collection extends the skill and promise of her first: with a voyaging delicacy, she visits surfaces and drops into vast centers without losing balance. An unusual aplomb is at play and at work here, almost...
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Cynthia Zarin, Author Alfred A. Knopf $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-72140-6
In her first book, Zarin, a staff writer at the New Yorker , finds her voice most surely in brief lyric poetry suffused with delicate metaphorical power. In ``Now,'' the poet uncovers the pristine potential at the heart of a dull momentinconspicuous,
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Cynthia Zarin, Author, Sarah Durham, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-75920-2
Rose and her mother live amid the ""CHATTER BANG WHOOSH WHOOSH RING-A-LING SWISH SWISH"" of New York, but nothing makes more noise than their upstairs neighbor, Sebastian--or, as Rose pronounces it, ""martian."" Readers know from the start that...
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Cynthia Zarin, Author . Knopf $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-375-41366-7
Zarin's first book in eight years consistently delights and instructs. Beginning with a "Spode Plate" and looking back to "Harriet" ("She was my age: nine, I don't think ten—/ a kind of taunting I'd not do...
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Cynthia Zarin, Author, Sarah Durham, Author, Cynthia Darin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-76507-4
This fresh, innovative little book issues a series of invitations to readers' imaginations and to the senses. The book's many children answer each question differently: in response to that of the title, ""Dido saw a skinny hen, Henry saw a snail,/...
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Cynthia Zarin, Author, DK Publishing, Author, Martin Matje, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2523-2
Zarin's (Rose and Sebastian) convoluted tall tale of a small boy benefits from Matje's (A Straw for Two, reviewed below) ominous pen-and-ink illustrations, drawn in a threatening minor key. Eight-year-old Wallace Hoskins hasn't gotten any bigger for
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