Deanna Caswell, illus. by Amy June Bates. Chronicle, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4521-2408-7
After a long drive from their suburban neighborhood, a family of five arrives at an idyllic cottage that rests on a quiet section of beachfront. Once they have unpacked, they schlep their beach supplies to the sand: "Goggles, swimmies,/ masks, and...
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Deanna Caswell, illus. by Bob Shea. Abrams Appleseed, $14.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1889-2
Caswell (Beach House) and Shea (I Will Chomp You!) combine an outdoorsy guessing game with an introduction to haiku through a chain of guess-the-animal interactions. Each poem gets its own page (“new day on the farm/ muffled mooing announces/ a...
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Deanna Caswell, illus. by Bob Shea. Abrams Appleseed, $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2118-2
Caswell and Shea follow their recent Guess Who, Haiku with another poetry-based guessing game, using haiku to hint at the identities of 10 Halloween standbys. There are some especially lovely haikus in the mix, and they often strike a pleasing...
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Deanna Caswell, Author, Elizabeth Matthews, Illustrator , illus. by Elizabeth Matthews. Disney-Hyperion $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1353-9
The title refers not to stage debut, but rather to a little girl's maiden experience as an audience member at The Nutcracker
. Wearing a dressy red coat and Mary Janes, and accompanied by a regal matron in a Margaret Dumontesque fur, the girl...
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