Ros Asquith, Author, Ellen Weiss, Author, Sam Williams, Illustrator , illus. by Sam Williams. S&S $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-689-85501-6
Here surveying babydom, the pair previously teamed for Ball
and My Do It!
find adorable differences and similarities among their multicultural, dumpling-face population: "There are big babies/ and little babies,/ do-lots and/ do-little babies,/
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Marisa C. Weiss, Author, Ellen Weiss, Author . Three Rivers $20 (511p) ISBN 978-0-307-46022-6
This expanded second edition includes updated information reflecting advances in breast cancer treatment made in the past decade. Weiss, a physician specializing in breast cancer and founder of Breastcancer.org, and her mother, a writer and breast...
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Ellen Weiss, illus. by Alli Arnold. Little Simon, $7.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2850-8
A sandy-haired boy is nicknamed Little Monster by his mother, and he dresses the part, donning green monster slippers, polka-dotted bat wings, a fuzzy green tail, and a pair of antennae. He acts it, too, painting with oatmeal on the wall and...
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Ellen Weiss, Author, Betina Ogden, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.99 (79p) ISBN 978-0-689-84671-7
Based on Rachel Field's 1929 classic, Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, Hitty's Travels: Civil War Days by Ellen Weiss, illus. by Betina Ogden, features the doll heroine in a chapter book format. Here Hitty belongs to a plantation owner's daughter...
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Ellen Weiss, Author, Laurent de Brunhoff, Author ABRAMS $16.95 (38p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5700-8
In de Brunhoff's rather awkwardly paced picture book, the first in more than seven years, Babar's son Alexander embarks on a nighttime adventure with a magical bird and gets caught between benevolent and malevolent forces. Unable to sleep, Alexander
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Ellen Weiss, Author, Laurent de Brunhoff, Author ABRAMS $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4243-1
Two of Laurent de Brunhoff's tales of Babar, originally created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff, are available once more: Babar's Counting Book (1986), in which Babar counts from ""1 big bird"" to 10 storks flying overhead (the penultimate spread
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Ellen Weiss, Author, Judith Gray, Illustrator, Jean de Brunhoff, Created by ABRAMS $9.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4837-2
De Brunhoff's popular pachyderm is back in a pair of paper-over-board books written by Ellen Weiss. Celeste's children scramble to find the perfect presents for her in Babar: A Gift for Mother, with images adapted by Judith Gray. When Isabelle...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author, Ellen Weiss, Author ABRAMS $17.95 (38p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5707-7
A pair of Laurent de Brunhoff books starring everyone's favorite elephant make their reappearance. Babar's ABC (1983) uses full-page and panel vignettes to cover all 26 letters, starting with the airport, Alexander and Arthur, proceeding through...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author, Ellen Weiss, Author ABRAMS $16.95 (38p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5713-8
More Babar Abrams is reissuing a quartet of Babar titles by Laurent de Brunhoff, son of Babar creator Jean de Brunhoff. First published in 1970, Babar's Birthday Surprise chronicles the attempts of Babar's friends to keep his gift a secret. In...
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E. Weiss, Author, Ellen Weiss, Author, Mel Friedman, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $2.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-394-82418-5
All Marie and Eddie Bicker want are normal parents like other kids have. Instead, their parents, Marigold and Norton, are members of a group called OOPS (Organization of Practical Scientists), whose members are constantly inventing what they believe
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E. Weiss, Author, M. Friedman, Author, Ellen Weiss, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $14 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-83257-7
Norton and Marigold Bicker, the crackpot inventors introduced in The Tiny Parents , are at it again, and this time they've gone over the top. While building a time machine they miscalculated, and now they are growing younger mentally while their...
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Ellen Weiss, Author, Mel Friedman, Author, Marsha Winborn, Illustrator , illus. by Marsha Winborn. Random $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-375-85458-3
The authors assuredly tread on tried-and-true turf with this cheery, wryly titled early reader starring two best friends who, readers learn, “could not have been more different.” However, it's only early on that any time is spent on
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Ellen Weiss, Author, Abrams, Author, Jean-Claude Gibert, Illustrator ABRAMS $9.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5019-1
The young pachyderm protagonists Isabelle, Pom, Flora and Alexander feel certain that a ""huge, green, foot-dragging, chain-rattling monster"" is responsible for the ""thump-drag-rattle-clank"" coming from the attic in the paper-over-board Babar and
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Ellen Weiss, Author, Jerry Smath, Illustrator , illus. by Jerry Smath Abrams $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4066-6
While the title suggests a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew
, the story is one of mutual reconciliation rather than taming per se. Weiss’s story within a story (“Is it about when you were little, Granny?” asks a young shrew in...
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Stephanie Spinner, Author, Ellen Weiss, Author, Steve Bjorkman, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-442031-0
This snippet of a story stars a gerbil named Weebie, a third-grade classroom pet spending the summer with Garth. After the boy forgets to give his visitor sufficient food and water, the disgruntled critter bites his finger. Suddenly the two can...
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