J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian, illus. by Jeremy Holmes. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-86690-6
Lewis and Florian bring new meaning to “hybrid automobile” in clever and concise poems packed with wordplay, puns, and double entendre. An impish array of people, monsters, and animals inhabit a loony, on-the-go world with such exotic vehicular...
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Douglas Florian, Author . Harcourt/Voyager $6 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-202437-6
"The brief poems and watery, untrammeled paintings in this companion book to Beast Feast
and On the Wing
share an offhand, irreverent wit," according to PW. Ages 5-10. (Apr.)
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Douglas Florian. Dial, $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4042-6
Ludicrous dilemmas, oddball situations, and quirky twists of fate feature heavily in Florian’s poems, which are accompanied by his thickly scrawled b&w drawings (not all seen by PW). Instead of chapters, Florian groups his verse into the “aisles” of
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Douglas Florian. Harcourt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-547-68838-1
Florian gives readers a tour of the baseball diamond, focusing mostly on the various positions on the field, in upbeat poems that exude a bravado and competitive spirit that’s perfect for the subject matter. The poems accompany naïf, chalklike mixed-
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Douglas Florian, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-037824-5
Sometimes clever, sometimes silly-and almost always off the wall,"" said PW about this collection of Shel Silverstein-esque verse, accented with lighthearted black-and-white drawings. Ages 7-11. (Jan.)
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Douglas Florian, Author Harcourt Children's Books $18 (95p) ISBN 978-0-15-205038-2
Readers will welcome back old favorites in several titles this fall. Omnibeasts collects Douglas Florian's witty rhymes, riddles and artwork from among several standby compendiums, including mammalabilia; bow wow meow meow and insectlopedia. PW said
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Douglas Florian, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-255320-3
``Welcome to the Monster Motel, / Where mostly monstrous monsters dwell. / They crawl the walls and gore the floors, / They shred the beds then saw the doors.'' Jaunty verses with a kid-pleasing combination of whimsy and grossness describe the zany...
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Douglas Florian, Author Greenwillow Books $16 (31p) ISBN 978-0-688-09543-7
In strikingly bold images and very few words, the creator of Nature Walk and A Beach Day presents evocative glimpses of urban life. The sights and sounds, the bustling activity and rare quiet moments are depicted with precision and elan. A boy does...
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Douglas Florian, Author Greenwillow Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07564-4
In a beguiling companion to last season's A Winter Day, Florian has again created a spare yet resonate mix of text and illustration. The book opens with a brilliant yellow sun rising over a city block. A family awakens early, breakfasts and sets off
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Douglas Florian, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (144p) ISBN 978-0-15-233770-4
Florian's (Beast Feast) collection of light verse is sometimes clever, sometimes silly-and almost always off the wall. He introduces a man who ``stayed in bed/ Till mushrooms sprouted from his head''; an aunt who ``grew auntlers overnight''; and the
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Douglas Florian, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201386-8
PW said that this collection of poems and paintings about monsters has ""a soup on of Dr. Seuss's wackiness and a dollop of Jack Prelutsky's humor."" Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Like Florian's Insectlopedia
and Mammalabilia, this volume contains witty poems filled with comic word play—this time about 21 scaly, slimy creatures. With the droll verbal dexterity of J. Patrick Lewis and the just slightly naughty humor
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Douglas Florian, Author . Harcourt/Voyager $7 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-216335-8
"The silly, imaginative verses about whirligig beetles and waterbugs (almost) match the exquisite pictures in playfulness and wit. The result is downright stunning," said PW. Ages 5-8. (Apr.)
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Douglas Florian, Author . HarperCollins/ Greenwillow $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-029267-6
From the playful initial poems—"What I Love About Summer" and "What I Hate About Summer"—to the final contemplation of a future snowy day, Florian's companion volume to Winter Eyes
overflows with inventive verses...
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Douglas Florian, Author . Harcourt $17 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-216395-2
Florian fans
will be delighted with another edition of his funny, punny poems about animals. This time, the focus is on dogs and cats. Like an American Kennel Club judge, Florian focuses on one breed at a time. "The Chihuahua" certainly "
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Douglas Florian, Author . Harcourt/Voyager $7 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-205248-5
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "This volume contains witty poems filled with comic word play about 21 scaly, slimy creatures. From the Midwife Toad to the Poison-Dart Frogs, Florian finds mischievous reptile lore that will make young readers...
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Douglas Florian, illus. by Christiane Engel. Little Bee, $6.99 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4998-0484-3
Florian uses repetition and rhyme to deliciously fun effect in this rip-roaring celebration of playtime. “Let’s go out and play! play! play!/ We’ll have fun all day! day! day!” he begins, adopting the collective voice of the children in verse that...
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Douglas Florian, illus. by Barbara Bakos. Bonnier/Little Bee, $6.99 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4998-0142-2
Short, slightly tongue-twisting exclamations celebrate movement across the animal kingdom in this exuberant rhyming board book. “Race, rabbit, race!/ Chase, cheetah, chase!” writes Florian as a pink bunny skips away from a green-eyed cheetah; they...
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Douglas Florian, illus. by Sonia Sánchez. Bonnier/Little Bee (S&S, dist.), $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4998-0104-0
What do rabbits do all day? Florian (Pig Is Big on Books) offers a playful list of pursuits, from racing across meadows to building snow rabbits, in a jaunty book-length poem. Readers follow a herd of rabbits from morning till night, season to...
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Douglas Florian, illus. by Sonia Sánchez. Little Bee, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4998-0462-1
In a buoyant follow-up to The Wonderful Habits of Rabbits, Florian uses rhymes that bound along merrily to chart the things that bears get up to, both realistic (splashing around in a creek) and whimsical (going mountain biking). As the verse moves...
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Douglas Florian, illus. by Robert Neubecker. S&S/Beach Lane, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-1321-4
In a series of surly pirate-themed poems, Florian (Poem Runs: Baseball Poems) describe the pleasures of life on the high seas—avoiding bathing, pillaging towns, and burying treasure—with swashbuckler slang sprinkled throughout: "Some pirates pirate...
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Douglas Florian, Author, Allyn M. Johnston, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $17 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-202167-2
Like Florian's Insectlopedia, this collection of 21 short light verse brims with whimsy and fun. He plays with the double A in aardvark (""Aardvarks look better/ By faar in the daark"") and the growling R in an ode to the tiger. In ""The Bactrian...
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Douglas Florian, Author, Douglas Florian, Illustrator . S&S/Atheneum $17.99 (43p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7978-4
Florian's free-flowing, witty collection of poems and collages about dinosaurs is a giganotosaurus delight—perhaps his best work ever. The poems marry facts with a poet's eye for detail: the Brachiosaurus was “longer than a...
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Douglas Florian, Author, Douglas Florian, Illustrator . Harcourt/Voyager $7 (47p) ISBN 978-0-15-205024-5
"This collection of 21 short light verse brims with whimsy and fun," wrote PW
in a starred review, calling this an "irresistible homage to mammal memorabilia." Ages 5-10. (Apr.)
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Douglas Florian, Author, Douglas Florian, Illustrator . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-009278-8
Similar to Florian's other seasonal collections, Winter Eyes
and Summersaults, the wordplay in this fall bouquet of poems seem slightly worn, while repeated and obvious puns often strain for effect. For example, "What to Do with Autumn...
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Douglas Florian, Author, Douglas Florian, Illustrator . S&S/Beach Lane $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8672-0
In this unusual collection, Florian focuses on several types of and parts of a tree, with poems about seeds, roots, bark, leaves, and tree rings (“Tree rings show/ how trees grow./ Wide rings: fast growth./ Narrow rings: slow”). Solid in
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Douglas Florian, Author, Douglas Florian, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-295178-8
Florian ( Monster Motel ; Vegetable Garden ) indeed presents a feast--for the eyes and the ears--in this cheerful collection of brief, bouncy poems describing an eclectic roundup of animals. Each focusing on a single ``beast,'' the entries range...
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Douglas Florian. S&S/Beach Lane, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2652-8
In this high-spirited and lyrical homage to bees, smudgy paintings that resemble a child’s chalkboard drawings pair with collage elements to tenderly anthropomorphize the insects. “I’m a lover of clover./ A seeker of scent./ A zigzag flyover—/ A...
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Douglas Florian, Author, Douglas Florian, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-17125-4
In the first of Florian's (Mammalabilia) delicately painted, thoughtfully conceived watercolors, just a tip of an ear and the top of a hat hint at the answer to the question, ""What's big?"" At the turn of the page, readers discover that ""a pig is...
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Douglas Florian. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99 (42p) ISBN 978-1-4424-7399-7
“Drawing dragons isn’t hard./ Drag
a dragon to your yard,” begins Florian, proceeding to offer tongue-in-cheek instructions in verse. Throughout, crayon scrawling and loose washes contribute to the feeling that children themselves have supplied the
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Douglas Florian, Author, Douglas Florian, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (160p) ISBN 978-0-15-202084-2
""The poems in this book/ Are meant to be humorous./ If they are not,/ Please laugh just to humor us."" Kids won't have to force their laughter while reading Florian's (Insectlopedia) pithy verses. They poke fun at the everyday (""Our school lunch...
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