Debra Frasier, S&S/Beach Lane, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9817-4
Frasier (A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake) has hold of a terrific idea: find photographic examples of all 26 letters of the alphabet amid the garish typography of state fairs. Many of the letters are studded with light bulbs; others suggest the...
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Debra Frasier, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-257995-1
Offering a curious amalgam of the mystical and the scientific, Frasier's first picture book is a paean to nature and to birth. The poetic text explains how the sun, moon, ocean tides, rain, trees, air, animals and people of the world work together...
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Debra Frasier, Author Harcourt Children's Books $9.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-15-202172-6
Inspired by her bestselling book of the same name, On the Day You Were Born: A Photo Journal by Debra Frasier supplies a sturdy cardboard frame on each of its eight spreads. The photographs then personalize and add meaning to the calming text, ""On...
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Debra Frasier, Author Harcourt Children's Books $22.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-216693-9
Yeah, Baby! ""On the day you were born the Earth turned, the Moon pulled, the Sun flared, and, then, with a push, you slipped out of the dark quiet where suddenly you could hear... ...a circle of people singing with voices familiar and clear.""...
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Debra Frasier, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-216287-0
Mrs. Page's class from Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster turns to science in The Incredible Water Show by Debra Frasier. The fifth-graders perform onstage in skits that discuss properties of water and the water cycle. Addressing readers directly,
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Debra Frasier, Author, Allyn M. Johnston, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-258849-6
""My mother says you can ask the ocean to bring you something. If you look, she says, you might find it,"" begins this picture book tribute to the sea. While the child covets such tangible ""treasures"" as sea glass, pelican feathers and a note-fille
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Debra Frasier, Author, Debra Frasier, Illustrator . Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205742-8
Readers who think they're in for a celebration of smeared frosting and blowing out the candles may be surprised to find instead Fraser's (On the Day You Were Born
) New Age musings on what a birthday cake means
. "So hold on, bakers!,"
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Debra Frasier, Author, Debra Frasier, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-202163-4
Frasier (On the Day You Were Born) goes back to school for this labored picture book about a girl's classroom gaffe. When Forest (""Forest is not a thicket of trees. Forest is a boy. A sick boy"") coughs and sneezes ""all over her desk and pencils,""
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Debra Frasier. S&S/Beach Lane, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-1452-5
Using secondhand denim both for a canvas and for collaged elements, Frasier (A Fabulous Fair Alphabet) tells the happy-sad story of a sensitive canine soul. As if it isn’t bad enough that Spike wins an “Ugliest Dog in the Universe” contest (“A dog...
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