David Kirk, Illustrator, David Kirk, Author, Antoinette White, Editor Scholastic $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-56866-1
Fresh from entertaining her insect neighbors in the bestselling Miss Spider's Tea Party, Miss Spider the arachnid ingenue prepares to scuttle down the aisle in this sequel. Essentially this offering is more of same-admirers of Kirk's unique...
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David Kirk, Author Scholastic $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-40870-7
David Kirk's famous arachnid and her family expand significantly in the paper-over-board Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids. Opening with the birth of five tykes for Miss Spider and Holley, one of the children, Squirt, finds an abandoned egg. He...
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David Kirk, Author Scholastic $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-28208-6
In this bittersweet tale of sentient robots, Kirk replaces the lush organic scenery of his Miss Spider series with richly colorful industrial shapes. Nova, a square-headed, swivel-jointed droid, owns the title relic: a fanciful wooden ark containing
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David Kirk, Author Scholastic $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-30575-4
The newest star in the hand-sized paper-over-board Biddle Book series by David Kirk is Little Pig Biddle Pig, a fetching pink porker who is ""pretty and clean,/ Sweet as alfalfa/ And grand as a queen."" But she is also lonely until she joins the...
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David Kirk, Author Scholastic $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-33819-6
In the newest addition to David Kirk's Biddle Books series, Little Bunny, Biddle Bunny, rhyming couplets tell the story of the littlest rabbit on an adventure away from home. The hand-size volume shows off Kirk's signature oil paintings on ...
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David Kirk, Author Scholastic Press $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-439-54318-7
The boxed set Biddle Storybooks collects a quartet of stories by David Kirk. In Little Mouse Biddle Mouse, a mouse goes in search of food and learns to share. In Little Bunny Biddle Bunny, a bunny explores sunny meadows, but returns to the cozy...
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David Kirk, Author Scholastic Press $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-439-54317-0
Three Miss Spider stories are collected in the boxed set Miss Spider Board Books by David Kirk with a red plastic handle for easy toting. In Miss Spider's ABC, ""Ants await"" and ""Bumblebees blow balloons"" as the insects prepare a surprise...
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David Kirk, Author, David Kirk, Illustrator Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-30713-0
Kirk's seemingly boundless imagination zips along at impressive speed in this follow-up to Miss Spider's Tea Party and Miss Spider's Wedding. Though some youngsters may not be as familiar with or interested in the themes surrounding those social...
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David Kirk, Author, David Kirk, Illustrator Scholastic $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-08389-8
In a smaller, simpler format, the latest book about Miss Spider takes readers back to her birth and subsequent search for her mother. This winning tale puts a new spin on the subject, for the just-hatched little Miss Spider never locates her...
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David Kirk, Author, David Kirk, Illustrator Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-28279-6
Celebration is de rigueur among Miss Spider's friends, and this ebullient primer shows party preparations in progress from A to Z: ""Bumblebees blow balloons./ Caterpillars circle/ dragonfly decorations."" All sorts of insects assist, from moths...
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David Kirk, Author, David Kirk, Illustrator Scholastic Press $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-26092-3
""Little bird, Biddle bird,/ Time for your snack./ But Mommy is busy/ And hasn't come back."" Little Bird, Biddle Bird is the first book in a new series from David Kirk, creator of Miss Spider. His trademark illustrations add dimension to the...
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David Kirk, Author, David Kirk, Illustrator Scholastic Press $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-54316-3
Miss Spider also appears in new miniature hardcover editions of Little Miss Spider, in which a baby Miss Spider searches for her mother; and Little Miss Spider: Sunny Patch School, in which the tiny spider goes to class and discovers her true...
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David Kirk, Author, David Kirk, Illustrator Scholastic Press $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-54315-6
Miss Spider also appears in new miniature hardcover editions of Little Miss Spider, in which a baby Miss Spider searches for her mother; and Little Miss Spider: Sunny Patch School, in which the tiny spider goes to class and discovers her true...
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David Kirk, Author, Neeley, Author, Antoinette White, Editor Scholastic $17.99 (31p) ISBN 978-0-590-47724-6
What's a sociable spider to do when no one will accept her invitations to tea? Seemingly unaware of her own predatory reputation, the eponymous arachnid is perplexed and saddened when a parade of potential guests scuttles, scampers and scurries away
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David Kirk. Doubleday, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-53663-9
Kirk proves himself a worthy samurai novelist with this brutal account of real-life 17th-century swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, who grew from a pockmarked village outcast to Japan’s best warrior, due to his legendary samurai treatise, The Book of the...
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David Kirk. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-01688-1
Oh So Tiny Bunny has delectable pink ears, enormous glittering eyes, and dreams of being large. Kirk paints him towering like a friendly pajama-clad King Kong over a winding river, with brown bears capering around his feet like mice. Large bunnies...
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David Kirk. Feiwel and Friends, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-01689-8
The fluffy white hero of Kirk's Oh So Tiny Bunny (2013) imagined himself as a giant, towering above the landscape; likewise, the red, scaly narrator of this companion story has no doubt that he's the bravest of them all. "See my bravery as I flap my
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David Kirk. Feiwel and Friends, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-01690-4
Kirk (Oh So Brave Dragon) transports readers to the profoundly weird land of Truckeroo, whose citizens all drive custom-made trucks that correspond to their interests and personalities: “Before they make their diaper wet,/ they build a friend, a...
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