Kevin Lewis, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator, Daniel Kirk, Author Hyperion Books for Children $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0429-0
First-time author Lewis and Kirk (Breakfast at the Liberty Diner) here embrace an enduring childhood fantasy--the playroom that comes alive at night--and pare it down for very young readers. A toy engineer and his son drive a train loaded with ""frei
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Kevin Lewis, Author, Daniel Kirk, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator , illus. by Daniel Kirk. Hyperion $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0534-1
How many engines does it take to get a pothole-ambushed dump truck unstuck? Readers travel through a stretch of desert road with canines at the wheel before arriving at a shaggy dog of an answer. The pooch driver flags down four vehicles in...
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Daniel Kirk, Author . Hyperion $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0305-7
These 23 poems, sung to twangy guitars and soft drumbeats on an enclosed CD, celebrate modes of transportation from ice-cream trucks to "Grandpa's Motorized Wheelchair." "I love cars and I love trains,/ buses, trucks, and big jet...
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Daniel Kirk. Abrams, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-3199-0
Commemorating World Animal Day on October 4, an author’s note explains, Kirk (Rhino in the House) wishes peace to the inhabitants of earth, sea, and sky, and he entreats readers to remember that these creatures want the same things they do: safety...
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Daniel Kirk. Abrams, $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2316-2
Kirk (the Library Mouse series) unspools the heartwarming true story of how one conservationist rescued and reared an abandoned rhinoceros calf at a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya in 1985. Digitally colored pencil drawings depict the relationship that...
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Daniel Kirk. Abrams, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1492-4
The arrival of spring makes Mouse and Bird “feel warm and happy,” but their friend Rabbit finds a lot to complain about. He anxiously shovels the last remnants of snow into a pail (“We won’t see any more of this until next year!”) and grumbles that...
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Daniel Kirk. Abrams, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1236-4
Dog swipes Monkey’s red ball, and Monkey (who is actually a sock monkey with a tuft of red yarn for hair) decides that they’re through. After all, Monkey says, “Friends are supposed to share,” although from the looks of the spot illustrations that...
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Daniel Kirk. Abrams, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0173-3
Kirk’s fourth book about Sam the library mouse continues the exploration theme of the third book, Library Mouse: A World to Explore, while offering a significant focus on art. Along with Sarah, the adventure-seeking mouse he met in the previous...
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Daniel Kirk, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-23128-5
Despite its far-flying premise, this story of extraterrestrial canines falls short of Kirk's retro-cool Lucky's 24-Hour Garage and his philosophic Bigger. In campy rhymes, the book introduces Willy Joe Jehosephat, a brainy young astronomer who...
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Daniel Kirk, Author Putnam Publishing Group $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22927-5
Sesame Street's Oscar would be hard pressed to match the enthusiasm that Kirk (Lucky's 24-Hour Garage) shows for garbage collection. In this soaring lyric to litter, choreographed to the ""rattle!,"" ""batter!"" and ""crunch!"" of a summer morning,...
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Daniel Kirk, Author . Amulet $18.95 (498p) ISBN 978-0-8109-7069-4
In his debut novel, picture book author/artist Kirk (Library Mouse
) delivers a complicated magical tale, the first installment of a projected trilogy. The veil between the elfin world and the human world has grown thin, and with humans cutting down
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Daniel Kirk, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $9.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-439-45286-1
In this rather thin illustrated paper-over-board chapter book, cat cop Rex Tabby pursues smalltime crooks in Whiskerville, U.S.A. With his undersize sidekick Si Meeze and a knock-knock-joke-cracking policewoman named Frankie Fluff, square-jawed Rex...
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Daniel Kirk, Author . Hyperion $18.99 (45p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1949-2
Kirk (Go!
) celebrates all things canine in this jokey, illustrated collection of 22 poem-songs, which he and an unembarrassable band perform on an enclosed CD. In Kirk's grainy caricatures, the pedigreed and mixed-breed dogs have human-like...
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Clement C. Moore, illus. by Daniel Kirk. Abrams, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1233-3
Fans of Kirk’s Library Mouse series will welcome his fresh take on this poem, since it’s set—as readers will gradually notice—at a human house that’s also home to Sam the mouse and his family. Kirk gives Moore’s verse some tactical tweaks: “Not a...
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Daniel Kirk, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23127-8
In this well-conceived, deceptively simple book about the stages of a child's development, Kirk (Breakfast at the Liberty Diner) conveys a boy's pride at growing bigger. The first two spreads, highlighted in glowing red-gold hues, show tiny snapshot-
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Daniel Kirk, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-698-11824-9
""In this well-conceived, deceptively simple book about the stages of a child's development, Kirk conveys a boy's pride at growing bigger,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 2-6. (Jan.)
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Daniel Kirk, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator . Hyperion $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1942-3
Kirk (Snow Family
) combines the stories of Frosty the Snowman and the Gingerbread Man, minus the somber endings, in this light, bright tale of a speedy Snow Dude. Two children build the boyish Dude and wish he could come to life. They do not notice
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Daniel Kirk. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25288-4
Kirk borrows from the comic rhythms of Abbott and Costello (or is it Burns and Allen?) in his funny tribute to friendship. Pig is sitting thoughtfully at his desk when Rabbit stops by to announce that he's making a list of "ten things I love about...
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Daniel Kirk, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator . Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23553-5
Kirk (Humpty Dumpty) expands a nursery rhyme into a convoluted tale of a single-parent family and a wishing well. Jack, in blue lederhosen, and blonde Jill, in a flouncy dress patched with pink squares, look every bit the storybook urchins....
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Daniel Kirk, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator . Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23333-3
With the color-saturated oils and retro graphics that have become his trademark, Kirk (Bigger) saves his readers a primo seat on a rip-roaring school bus ride. He alternates strong rectilinear double-page compositions of the bus's exterior with...
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Daniel Kirk, Author, Kenneth Geist, Editor, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0304-0
With their rotund white bodies, coal eyes and carrot noses, this strange tale's nine ""snow children"" don't look like classic fairies. Yet they behave like forest imps, making mischief in the winter woods and enticing a human boy named Jacob to...
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Author, Daniel Kirk, Author Hyperion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0200-5
This portrait of New York City circa 1939 tracks the colorful customers (and classic cars) that visit Lucky's 24-Hour Garage in the wee hours. Angelo, the sole night-staffer, looks snappy in his blue jumpsuit, tidy bow tie and brimmed cap--and he's...
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Author, Daniel Kirk, Author Hyperion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0303-3
In Lucky's 24-Hour Garage, Kirk imagined a squeaky-clean urban gas station. Here, he revisits 1939 via a vividly recreated bustling railcar diner (Angelo, Lucky's night attendant, puts in a cameo). Patrons from all walks of life frequent the Liberty
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Daniel Kirk. Abrams, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-3748-0
When a falling apple bonks Newton the squirrel on the noggin, he wonders “Why did that apple fall down and not up?” His curiosity sparked, one question leads to others: Why do swings go back and forth? Why can’t the squirrels get child-size...
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