David Ezra Stein, Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4168-9
Stein's earlier books did not foretell an ability to pull off broad comedy, but this father-and-daughter bedtime banter is all the better for being a surprise. A little red chicken, lying in bed in her pajamas, can't help slamming on the brakes when
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David Ezra Stein. Penguin/Paulsen, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25410-9
When Mouserella's mother suggests that she write a letter to her grandmouse, the result is a diary-style story filled with Mouserella's scrawled crayon drawings and Stein's paintings of Polaroid-style photos that the young mouse has purportedly...
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David Ezra Stein, Author, David Ezra Stein, Illustrator . S&S/Wiseman $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0041-2
Man's best friend doesn't necessarily have to be of the pooch persuasion—at least, according to this tale of a man and his dapple-gray steed. Stein's straightforward story traces a journey that ends right where it began. At the...
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David Ezra Stein, Author, David Ezra Stein, Illustrator . Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24636-4
Stein's (Cowboy Ned and Andy
) pen-and-ink illustrations conjure a place readers will wish they could visit, a tiny island that pokes up out of a bay. Drawn in mossy greens and golds, the island is home to a very young bear—so young that...
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David Ezra Stein, Author, David Ezra Stein, Illustrator . Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25051-4
Stein (Leaves
) captures intuitively the way youngsters of every species explore the world around them. Readers will recognize baby kangaroo Joey's antics as he ventures cautiously out of his mother's pouch, is startled by an animal he'
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David Ezra Stein. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4169-6
A series of kindly acts comes full circle in this heartwarming, yet never saccharine story from Stein (Interrupting Chicken). “Because Amelia smiled, coming down the street... Mrs. Higgins smiled, too.
She thought of her grandson, Lionel, in Mexico
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David Ezra Stein. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25672-1
As he did in Interrupting Chicken and Pouch!, Stein again shows his skill at finding laughs in commonplace situations. Ol’ Mama Squirrel keeps her squirrel children safe from a variety of intruders (cats, owls, repairmen) with a combination of noise,
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David Ezra Stein. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6104-5
Chomp! Stomp! Whomp! Dinah is a wide-eyed, speckled baby dinosaur who wants to try everything, but finesse is not her strong point. She has stubby legs, an eager smile, and a matchless set of jaws. When two tiny creatures kiss each other at Dinah’s...
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David Ezra Stein. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6139-7
The cheery, two-fanged grin of Stein’s bulldog testifies to his supreme confidence: “Nobody owns me. I own myself.” In the first half of the book, Stein (Dinosaur Kisses) develops the idea of canine freedom as the bulldog relaxes alone on his rug, a
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David Ezra Stein. Candlewick, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8203-3
Stein’s intrepid ice cube hero wants more from life than a tenuous existence in a freezer and a destiny of being “chosen”—his fatalist family’s euphemism for becoming part of someone’s drink or cold compress. Ignoring everything Ice Boy has been...
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David Ezra Stein. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3786-3
Stein returns to the ursine protagonist and forest setting of his picture book Leaves. After waking up from hibernation, Bear goes on a quest for honey: “spicy, aromatic,/ sparkling with sunlight—Honey!” But it is not yet summer and too early for...
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David Ezra Stein. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8842-4
In the eponymous Chicken’s post–Caldecott Honor book, she learns something new in school: “Every story has an elephant of surprise.” Papa—whose bright red crest and spade-shaped feet match Chicken’s—gently explains that it’s element, not elephant....
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David Ezra Stein. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-284522-1
This version of “Hush Little Baby” moves out of the bedroom rocking chair and into the big, wide world in early spring as a father bunny coaxes his little one (“Come, little bunny, don’t be shy”) into the fast-melting snow. There’s new clover to eat
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David Ezra Stein. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-284524-5
Stein’s (The Worm Family Has Its Picture Taken) wide-eyed, floppy-eared, and utterly adorable protagonist is a small pup in an often overwhelming world, shown in fluid multimedia cartoons as far from in command of his surroundings. Murray worries...
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David Ezra Stein. Penguin Workshop, $18.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-5930-9476-1
In this sprawling inaugural graphic novel by Stein (Don’t Worry, Murray), which kicks off with a dramatis personae, readers meet the eponymous, clucking, human-size chicken, who’s the boon companion of a successful inventor. But the friendship...
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