David Elliott, Author, Timothy Basil Ering, Illustrator , illus. by Timothy Basil Ering. Candlewick $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2356-2
Droll text and exuberant illustrations render a toddler's tantrum in all its magnificence. “Finn likes peaches. Usually,” the book opens, as tiny egg-shaped Finn sits on a chair, dangling his yellow boots and holding his peach. ̶
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David Elliott, Author, Christopher Denise, Illustrator , illus. by Christopher Denise. Candlewick $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3169-7
Denise's (The Great Redwall Feast
) vibrant, old-school acrylic-and-ink pictures dominate this simple story of a mother cat who knits winter gear for her three kittens. There's not a speck of white space; every lush illustration stretches...
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David Elliott, Author . Candlewick $5.99 (115p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1880-3
A fourth grader leads a fairly ordinary life until strange things start happening, and he finds himself undergoing a Kafka-esque metamorphosis. "Colorful plot twists combine with a sassy first-person narration and snappy dialogue to skew the...
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David Elliott, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0601-5
Elliott's (An Alphabet of Rotten Kids!) light and jaunty tale introduces four friends who decide to launch a club. In four short chapters, animated by Meisel's (How to Talk to Your Cat) snappy watercolor-and-ink illustrations, the quartet wrestles...
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David Elliott, Author, True Kelley, Illustrator , illus. by True Kelley. Holiday $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1711-7
In Elliott's (The Transmogrification of Roscoe Wizzle
) motley medley of one-liners, Hazel Nutt stars as a tomboyish scientist, with the requisite lab coat and shock of black hair. "Of course I'm mad!" she admits. "Igor ate my...
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David Elliott, Author, True Kelley, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1843-5
Hazel Nutt, Alien Hunter has landed a new career in this pun-drenched sequel by David Elliott, illus. by True Kelley. Aboard her spaceship, BoobyPrize, she and her two-headed first mate, Igor, are forced by a meatball shower to land on the planet...
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David Elliott, Author, Andrea Wesson, Illustrator , illus. by Andréa Wesson. Candlewick $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1876-6
Elliott's (The Transmogrification of Roscoe Wizzle
) pleasingly far-fetched caper centers on a girl whose primatologist parents have previously dedicated their lives to studying the golden-haired apes that inhabit the remote Ikkinasti Jungle....
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David Elliott, Author, TBA, Read by, David Krumholtz, Read by , read by David Krumholtz. Listening Library $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-0433-7
Film actor Krumholtz's (10 Things I Hate About You; The Santa Clause)
halting reading rhythm and affected, overly exuberant intonation take much of the zing out of Elliott's wacky fantasy about a boy who suddenly finds himself turning into a
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David Elliott, Author, Holly Meade, Illustrator , illus. by Holly Meade. Candlewick $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3322-6
Like the vibrant rooster on this oversize book's jacket, Meade's (Hush! A Thai Lullaby
) colored woodcut prints are so bold they seem to crow at the reader. Leaves look bigger than life, and each chicken scratch in the barnyard dust leaves
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David Elliott, illus. by Holly Meade. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4498-7
In this aquatic companion to In the Wild and On the Farm, Meade’s trademark woodblock prints and watercolors are intricate, action-filled, and artfully designed, while Elliott’s brief poems are a linguistic treat, filled with dramatic metaphors that
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David Elliott, Author, Paul Meisei, Illustrator, Paul Meisel, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1116-3
The neighborhood kids who formed a club in The Cool Crazy Crickets return with a mission to raise money through baby-sitting, pet-sitting or making lemonade and help save a cat in The Cool Crazy Crickets to the Rescue! by David Elliott, illus....
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David Elliott, Author, Ethan Long, Illustrator , illus. by Ethan Long. Holiday $16.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1983-8
Terpsichore-inspired poultry drive this genial counting book. “Five chickens put on five grass skirts,” writes Elliott (And Here’s to You!
)— this being a G-rated book, the hens all wear bikini tops—“Then they...
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David Elliott, Author, Oscar De Mejo, Illustrator Philomel Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22260-3
``Agatha, / bad as they come, / not nearly though as bad as some, / took a wad of chewing gum / and stuck her elbow to her thumb.'' The first of 26 naughty children spotlighted in this offbeat alphabet book, Agatha is one of the more benign...
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David Elliott. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (200p) ISBN 978-0-544-61060-6
Using the cadences and unfiltered directness of rap, Elliott (Nobody’s Perfect) tells the Greek myth of the Minotaur in the seven distinct voices of Poseidon, King Minos, Queen Pasiphae, her half-man/half-bull son Asterion, his sister Ariadne,...
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David Elliott, Author, Vladimir Radunsky, Illustrator . Candlewick $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1173-6
Elliott's (The Cool Crazy Crickets) entertaining and energetic middle-grade novel stars fourth-grader Roscoe Wizzle (whose greatest fear is that "a comet will strike the earth when I am in the bathtub"). He leads a fairly ordinary life,...
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David Elliott, illus. by Lori Nichols. Boyds Mills, $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62091-521-9
Elliott’s (In the Sea) humorously blunted, primitive language and gently shaded pencil drawings from Nichols (Maple) turn what might have been a predictable story about a boy’s attempt to domesticate a woolly mammoth into a sparkling comic monologue.
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David Elliott, illus. by Melissa Sweet. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6074-1
Baabwaa and Wooliam are two sedate sheep who enjoy knitting and reading. “Sounds kind of boring,” writes Elliott (The Two Tims). “But they like it.” Their attempt to inject adventure into their lives gets off to a slow start (“Is this what...
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David Elliott, illus. by Matthew Trueman. Candlewick, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6073-4
Elliott and Trueman take readers to the Cambrian period then work their way forward, highlighting unusual and long-gone creatures, several of which will be new to many readers. There’s more than a whiff of caricature to Trueman’s larger-than-life...
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David Elliott, illus. by Becca Stadtlander. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5324-8
Elliott (On the Farm; In the Wild) adds a celebration of birds to his collection of lighthearted animal poetry. The subjects range from familiar backyard neighbors to birds best from nature documentaries: the Andean condor, the puffin, and the...
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David Elliott, illus. by Lori Nichols. Boyds Mills, $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62091-789-3
Orq the caveboy and his pet woolly mammoth, Woma, return in a story that suggests that bullying is as old as time. Things aren’t easy for Orq and his family (“Cave life tough. Cold cave. Dark night. Raw bison”), but constant torments from an older...
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David Elliott. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-328-98759-4
This collection of poems, each told from the perspective of Joan of Arc and the people and objects central to her life, creates a remarkable portrait of a person whose legend continues to fascinate. The narrative begins from Joan’s perspective as...
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David Elliott, illus. by Rob Dunlavey. Candlewick, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9783-9
With wispy washes of layered watercolor and mixed media twining expressionistic feeling and key details, Dunleavy conjures a forest world to frame Elliott’s engaging poems about woodland creatures. A bear peeks out of a dim cave: “The shadow stirs/...
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David Elliott, illus. by Rovina Cai. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-35825-211-5
Rich with evocative language (to “bake the coarse bread/ And spin the fine thread/ And weave the rough cloth”), this subtle verse novel retells the Grimms’ “The Seven Ravens” through a lens of perseverance and change. Though all his parents want is...
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David Elliott, illus. by Cátia Chien et al. Clarion, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-332192-2
This verse survey of different dog breeds draws its energy from spirited language by Elliott (Color the Sky) and friendly dog portraits by 18 artists. Covering breeds ranging from Afghan Hound to Xoloitzcuintli, each spread features a poem, an...
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David Elliott, illus. by Evan Turk. Little, Brown, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-21207-6
As telegraphic verse lines by Elliott (Baabwaa and Wooliam) express a range of natural colors occurring on wild birds, Turk (The People’s Painter) illustrates with vivid, kinetic avian forms. In charcoal outlines, a large-eyed, curly-haired child...
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