David Soman and Jacky Davis. HarperCollins, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-286917-3
Dressed in a trench coat and fedora, Agent Lion has a cheery disposition and an ardent love for jelly doughnuts—but as a detective, he’s got some shortcomings. Husband-and-wife creators Soman and Davis (the Ladybug Girl series) channel the old Pink...
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Jacky Davis, illus. by David Soman, Grosset & Dunlap, $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-448-45374-3
In this board book spinoff of Soman and Davis's bestselling picture book series, Ladybug Girl (aka Lulu) shares her favorite activities. Along with her steadfast basset hound, Bingo, Ladybug Girl "splashes though huge puddles," goes on a car trip...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3418-0
Ladybug Girl’s sidekick Bumblebee Boy gets a story of his own in this entry in Soman and Davis’s series, an account of a playtime truce between Sam and his younger brother, Owen. The husband-and-wife team bounce between spreads of Sam as Bumblebee...
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David Soman. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3993-2
Soman, co-creator of the bestselling Ladybug Girl series, makes his first solo effort, one that gives his artwork plenty of opportunities to shine. Dash, Theo, and Charlie, three young bears, have broken their mother’s treasured blue shell in an...
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David Soman. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-42784-1
Soman (the Ladybug Girl series) imagines the ways that a growing number of children can play together by counting up to 10. “How to one,” shows a lone boy on a city playground slide, arms and legs flying. In “How to two,” the boy and a girl see-saw...
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David Soman. Little, Brown, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-42774-6
Classically drafted, light-filled spreads follow a pair of child heroes through this mountainfaring adventure by Soman (the Ladybug Girl series). It opens in a European-style walled village with a huddle of red-tiled roofs, where Anna and little...
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David Soman. Little, Brown, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-42783-8
Parting from a parent is hard, even when it happens with notice. In this reassuring story, Soman (the Ladybug Girl series) presents an adult bear who handles his cub’s separation anxiety with practiced calm. “Papa? Are you still going away tomorrow?”
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David Soman, Author, Jacky Davis, Author . Dial $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3339-8
What's a superhero without a sidekick? Lulu, star of last year's Ladybug Girl
, meets her friend Sam at the playground, but before they can join forces, they must first agree on what to play—a sequence handled with understanding and...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis, Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3416-6
Even though Lulu—in full ladybug bathing suit regalia—has never been to the beach, she knows that she’s going to love it. But at the edge of the water, where she’s dwarfed by a curling wave that spills over an entire spread, she isn’t so sure about...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3582-8
Even on a family camping trip, Ladybug Girl wears her wings, antennae, tutu, and polka-dot boots. Riding a canoe and having a picnic offer new adventures, but exploring the woods with her dog Bingo means being especially careful to hold his leash so
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Jacky Davis, illus. by David Soman, Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3419-7
It's the "first official Bug Squad playdate," and Lulu wants everything to go as planned. At the appointed Bug Squad base, the squad members (with basset hound Bingo in tow) demonstrate their powers: Dragonfly Girl can breathe fire (twirling a boa),
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3583-5
A heavy snowfall offers a blank canvas for Ladybug Girl’s imagination, as well as some frustrations. Bundled up in a many-layered winter version of her trademark ladybug outfit, Lulu explores the yard, tries to build a snow castle, and invents...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3584-2
What does one dress up as for Halloween when one spends the other 364 days of the year in a ladybug outfit? That’s the question facing Lulu as she tries to come up with the perfect costume, even though it’s already Halloween day. A robot costume...
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David Soman, Author, Jacky Davis, Author, David Soman, Illustrator . Dial $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3195-0
Preschooler Lulu, told to amuse herself, mopes about for a bit, then finds that her ladybug costume—red tutu, wings, red polka-dot boots and a headband with antennae—helps her morph into a bigger, braver character. “Is that rock in
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Angela Johnson, Author, David Soman, Author, David Soman, Illustrator Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30139-5
Here comes the bride--and her younger sister, the flower girl, who offers a glimpse of what it's like to prepare for and participate in a family wedding. From trying on wedding gowns, to tasting the food that will be served at the reception and...
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David Soman. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-42783-4
Ladybug Girl co-creator Soman charts the highs and lows of a nascent friendship in this quirky, sensitive story. His hero, Boy, has a fine-looking tree house, and he soon gets a neighbor, Monster—a purple, gumdrop-shaped creature with a tree house...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4030-3
The value of imaginative, free-form play has always been a key element of the Ladybug Girl books, and Soman and Davis emphasize it even more in this outing, which centers around a play date between Lulu and her friend Finny, a brown-skinned girl...
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