Dennis Haseley, Author . Dial $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2856-1
Elliptical in its storytelling and circuitous in its structure, Haseley's (The Amazing Thinking Machine
) mannered novel will likely intrigue some readers with its notions about art as illusion, but may leave others confused or even bored....
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Dennis Haseley, Author HarperCollins Publishers $11.95 (38p) ISBN 978-0-06-022214-7
In this shrewd and diverting story of foolery and mystery, a boy's initiation into snoring takes place in the empty, dark spaces of the Cave of Snores, a place his father had once tried to explain to him. But, as soon as his father began the tale,...
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Dennis Haseley, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (321p) ISBN 978-0-374-31842-0
Part allegory, part comedy of manners and part tall tale, this engaging novel traces the mission of a clumsy scientist to rid his hometown of an invisible ``threat''--gravity. When the eponymous hero perceives that gravity is weighing down human...
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Dennis Haseley, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-32536-7
In a small town in late-'50s Ohio, affectingly depicted by Haseley (Shadows; Dr. Gravity) as a depressing place with no viable forms for teen expression and zero communication between blue-collar parents and their alienated offspring, sixth-grade...
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Dennis Haseley, Author, Juli Kangas, Illustrator , illus. by Juli Kangas. Dial $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2924-7
A picturesque, old-fashioned English-village setting evoked in loving detail instantly invites readers into Haseley's (A Story for Bear
) sweet-natured animal tale. Bespectacled, bowler-hat–wearing Mole is a busy portrait photographer. The
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Dennis Haseley, Author, Jonathan Green, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-200829-1
Withdrawn, fatherless and adrift, Crosby seems past caring about the world around him--until his chance discovery of a broken kite. As he repairs the kite, learns how to fly it and even brings himself to share it with another lonely boy, Crosby...
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Dennis Haseley, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator , illus. by Ed Young. Roaring Brook/Porter $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59643-238-3
Set in the indeterminate Far East of long ago so often favored by Caldecott Medalist Young, this story about a rich man and an artist lends itself to various levels of interpretation. Children may see the book as a lesson about how practice makes...
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Dennis Haseley, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator , illus. by Steven Kellogg. Dial $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2892-9
In Haseley's (Photographer Mole
) appealingly outlandish love story, a shy Canadian moose with antlers that "twisted upward like twin questions marks" loves the most beautiful moose in the forest, but feels invisible to her. After he...
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Dennis Haseley, Author, Lloyd Bloom, Illustrator First Glance Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-022244-4
Set in a sun-baked Southwestern village, this highly atmospheric parable tells of a man named Ghost Catcher, who has no shadow. A loner, he refuses help from his friends and neighbors, but is always ready to offer his own unique ability to retrieve...
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Dennis Haseley, Author, David Wiesner, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $4.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-689-71668-3
This deceptively simple story concerns a boy raised to have an abiding love of kites; in PW 's words, ``Wiesner's skillful and sensitive illustrations depict a timeless quality in the people and the landscape. And readers will be intrigued by the . .
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Dennis Haseley, Author, Dennis Nolan, Illustrator , illus. by Dennis Nolan. Roaring Brook/Porter $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-252-9
When does a child lose faith in make-believe? How does the power of imagination fade? Haseley (Twenty Heartbeats
) and Nolan (The Castle Builder
) explore these questions in their quiet tale of a boy's evolving relationship with his toy...
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Dennis Haseley, Author, Lynn Curlee, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-022885-9
First-time illustrator Curlee's powerful paintings aren't quite enough to lift this historical picture book off the ground. The subject matter is dramatic--Leon Gambetta, in a Paris besieged by the Prussian army, realizes that the only way to escape
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Dennis Haseley, Author, Stephen Gammell, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-689-71380-4
In answer to a boy's query, an old banjo in the attic of a ramshackle farmhouse remembers when all the instruments there made glorious music; PW praised this ``uncommonly moving and heartening tale of hope re-born . . . enhanced by Stephen Gammell's
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Dennis Haseley, Author, Leslie Bowman, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $12.95 (72p) ISBN 978-0-374-36761-9
While Jamie's mother is looking for a new job, she sends him to stay with his aunt in West Virginia. Aunt Elena is overly protective, and without the company of his mother and friends the boy feels stifled and lonely. But one day his grandpa appears
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Dennis Haseley, Author, Jim LaMarche, Illustrator , illus. by Jim LaMarche. Harcourt/Silver Whistle $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200239-8
In Haseley's (Kite Flier) wistful tale of a bear beguiled by a woman he befriends one summer, inconsistencies render the events more puzzling than haunting. The narrative begins from the bear's point of view, as he first discovers "someth
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