Eve Bunting, Author . HarperCollins $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-029141-9
Bunting's straightforward story about a boy living in Oregon who learns to accept the loss of loved ones, including his dog, is heartwarming despite some heavy touches. William, 11, has had a rough time with his parents' divorce, his father&#
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Eve Bunting, Author Harcourt Children's Books $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-15-282058-9
When Bry is killed by a hit-and-run driver, his brother Jesse faces seemingly endless pain. He grieves for his brother and struggles with overwhelming guilt and unanswerable questions, because he had been walking alongside the road with Bry when the
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Eve Bunting, Author Harcourt Children's Books $13 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-200271-8
A dread sense of the inevitable drives this taut disaster story-and makes it nearly impossible to put down. Only moments after 15-year-old Barry O'Neill boards the Titanic in Queenstown, Ireland, the final port of call before the Atlantic crossing,...
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Eve Bunting, Author . Clarion $15 (195p) ISBN 978-0-618-26919-8
As Bunting's (Spying on Miss Müller) supernatural novel opens, the ghost of a 17-year-old who died 120 years earlier stands on the stairs of a California church, waiting for 17-year-old Catherine, who is spending Christmas with her...
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Eve Bunting, Author Joanna Cotler Books $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-027838-0
Bunting (I Have an Olive Tree; Smoky Night) crafts an ethics-centered novel that will long flicker in readers' memories. Brodie's plans to go camping with his best friend on the nearby banks of the furious Blackwater River are foiled when his...
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Eve Bunting, Author J.P. Lippincott $13 (170p) ISBN 978-0-397-32302-9
Latchkey kid Michael is 13 and independent. Even though junior high school is no picnic, and his widowed mother seems to be getting awfully chummy with their tenant, Nick, Michael is pretty happy. Then, just before Christmas, he has the creepy...
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Eve Bunting, Author Joanna Cotler Books $15.99 (230p) ISBN 978-0-06-081828-9
Bunting (The Lambkins) turns her attention to racial prejudice and suspicion in post 9/11 America in this gripping story. Twelve-year-old mystery enthusiast Kevin agrees to accompany his grandmother on a 10-day bus tour of national parks,...
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Eve Bunting, Author . HarperTrophy/Cotler $5.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-440927-8
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Bunting's straightforward story about an Oregon boy who learns to accept the loss of loved ones, including a dog, is heartwarming despite some heavy touches," said PW.
Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Julie Fortenberry. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2321-7
Danny's mother has answers for all of his anxious pirate-related questions. While the storybook they read together offers Danny tantalizing possibilities—"Mom? What if I want to be a pirate and sail away on a pirate ship?"—threats and doubts loom,...
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Eve Bunting. Clarion, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-544-39092-8
No stranger to ghost stories or historical tales, Bunting (The Pirate Captain’s Daughter) returns with an eerie novel set in 1807 along the northern coast of Scotland. It centers on orphaned 16-year-old Josie Ferguson, who leaves her Edinburgh home...
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Eve Bunting, Sleeping Bear, $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-58536-526-5
After her mother dies, 15-year-old Catherine is determined to join her father, a pirate captain, on the high seas. She romanticizes his secret life and yearns for adventure (having been cooped up for most of her life), but Catherine is in for a rude
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Eve Bunting, Author, K. Wendy Popp, Illustrator , illus. by K. Wendy Popp. HarperCollins/Cotler $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028115-1
On the first night of Hanukkah every year, Grandma recites her experience as a 12-year-old in Buchenwald, when she risked her life to steal a potato and margarine to improvise one Hanukkah light. The text feels somewhat forced until Grandma starts...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Jonathan Keegan, Illustrator , illus. by Jonathan Keegan. HarperCollins/Cotler $15.99 (180p) ISBN 978-0-06-059906-5
It was eight-thirty on a warm California night when the woman kidnapped me," opens Bunting's (Is Anybody There?
) quirky novel centering on four youngsters who have been abducted by Mrs. Shepherd. Kyle, the 14-year-old narrator, encounters...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Catherine Stock, Illustrator Clarion Books $15 (48p) ISBN 978-0-395-93094-6
When she was a child, Ellie pushed her doll Daisy in a toy carriage. Now a single mother at 15, she pushes her infant daughter, Angelica, in a stroller. This brief, copiously illustrated tale strikes an awkward pose between beginning reader and...
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Eve Bunting, Author, David Frampton, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-79731-0
Bunting's provocative allegory uses a tiger to personify the powerful allure of the gang. When the tiger calls Danny by name and invites him for a ride through their tough city neighborhood, the boy accepts, but soon learns that he has made a...
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Kevin Zimmer. Sleeping Bear, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58536-944-7
For readers who think Valentine’s Day is too sappy, Bunting and Zimmer have an ideal antidote. That’s because Mr. Goat’s idea of the perfect gifts for his “first love” include ragweed salad in a rusty can and two-year-old rotten eggs. “Guaranteed...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Jan Brett, Author, Jan Brett, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-395-52594-4
PW enjoyed the ``witty and whimsical verses'' that tell the tale of a desert-dwelling duck who receives on his birthday water paraphernalia--and an inflatable pool in which to try them out. Ages 2-5. (Apr.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Jan Brett, Author, Jan Brett, Illustrator Clarion Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-89919-387-8
This third in a series of holiday books is a sweet story about the true meaning of Mother's Day, highlighted by Brett's lush pictures. Early in the morning, three young miceBiggest, Middle and Littleset off to find Mother's Day presents. Biggest has
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Eve Bunting, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator , illus. by Melissa Sweet. Scholastic/Cartwheel $8.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-45086-7
Little Brown Puppy makes a spontaneous present of a "big, beautiful bone" to his mother, kicking off a chain reaction of offspring-to-mother gifts among all his friends. The story culminates with a boy, who says to his mother, "Here's
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Eve Bunting, Author, LeUyen Pham, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202395-9
The duo from Can You Do This, Old Badger? is back, this time for some heavy-duty fantasy play as the eponymous hero dresses up as a fearsome pirate in Little Badger, Terror of the Seven Seas by Eve Bunting, illus. by LeUyen Pham. Paintings in a...
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Eve Bunting, Author, LeUyen Pham, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202609-7
Old Badger awakens his little one with a special surprise in Little Badger's Just- About Birthday by Eve Bunting, illus. by LeUyen Pham, the third in the series starring the furry duo. (Apr.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Wendell Minor, Illustrator Clarion Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-58919-9
Bunting's rhymes freeze-frame moments of a red fox's winter day. The urgent tempo of the narrative echoes the animal's growing hunger: ``Red fox running, / Running through the snow, / White sky above / And white earth below. / . . . / Hunger runs...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Wendell Minor, Illustrator , illus. by Wendell Minor. Clarion $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-82265-4
The creature parade to Bethlehem continues (see The Animals' Christmas Carol, reviewed above) in Bunting's (Smoky Night) somewhat self-conscious poems about the lowliest beings to have witnessed Jesus' birth ("I am Rat./ Colorless/...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Leonid Gore, Illustrator , illus. by Leonid Gore. S&S/Aladdin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-85955-7
A narrator searches through pasture and stable seeking the creature "born on this special day." In a starred review, PW wrote, "Young readers will be eager to give their final answer to the query in this gentle Christmas poem cum...
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Eve Bunting, illus. Lauren Castillo. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6542-5
Bunting (Washday) imagines a girl in a polka-dotted pullover watching as strangers at her family’s yard sale haggle over furniture that was hers. Her family is about to move from a house into a small apartment: “It’s something to do with money,” she
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Eve Bunting, Author, Nancy Carpenter, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-291592-6
Both Bunting (Smoky Night) and Carpenter (Sitti's Secrets) are in top form in this wise and funny story of a girl who sheds sibling rivalry in favor of affection for her twin baby sisters. Life isn't easy for the unnamed heroine who seems to be four
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Eve Bunting, Author, Nancy Carpenter, Illustrator , illus. by Nancy Carpenter. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202401-7
"Both Bunting and Carpenter are in top form in this wise and funny story of a girl who sheds sibling rivalry in favor of affection for her twin baby sisters," wrote PW. Ages 6-9. (May)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Nancy Carpenter, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201656-2
A contemporary Italian-American family living in New York City makes its annual pilgrimage to Liberty Island to celebrate the birthday of the Statue of Liberty in this poignant picture book. Young Mike thinks a picnic in blustery October is just...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Nancy Carpenter, Illustrator , illus. by Nancy Carpenter. Clarion $12 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-97462-9
Life on Huckleberry Lake is idyllic for Little Bear as he sits in his small wooden boat. He rows, he fishes, and "on sunny days he lay back in it, closed his eyes, and dreamed. And he was happy." Until, that is, he grows too large for the...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Nancy Carpenter, Illustrator , illus. by Nancy Carpenter. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205065-8
A contemporary Italian-American family living in New York City makes its annual pilgrimage to Liberty Island to celebrate the birthday of the Statue of Liberty in what PW
called a "poignant picture book." Ages 6-9. (Sept.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Jan Brett, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-89919-541-4
The collaborators who brought us The Mother's Day Mice and Scary, Scary Halloween are in excellent form in this fun, frothy celebration. Duck is a cheery little fellow who lives in the desert. For his birthday, his animal friends give him a swimming
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Eve Bunting, Author, Jan Brett, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-89919-414-1
Two green eyes shine in the night sky and someone whispers, ""I peer outside, there's something there/ that makes me shiver, spikes my hair./ It must be Halloween.'' As the unnamed narrator looks on, a skeleton, a ghost, a vampire, a werewolf,...
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Michael Rex. Marshall Cavendish, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5809-8
When Carson takes his dog, Jack, to the vet, she informs them that Jack is too fat: "He needs less food and no snacks!" as well as a lot more exercise. Jack expresses his skepticism via thought bubble ("Fat chance"), though Carson dutifully starts...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Donald Carrick, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-51583-9
When Jake wakes up at midnight, strange shapes loom large and frightening sounds are everywhere, but the reassuring appearance of his parents sets everything right. PW praised Carrick's ``splendid paintings . . . with corners full of horrible...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Donald Carrick, Illustrator Clarion Books $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-54776-2
Bunting's touching story of an unexpected birthday treat contains a subtle message about adult literacy; PW said, ``Carrick's glowing watercolors are the perfect partner to this story of a warm and loving family.'' Ages 3-8. (Oct.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Donald Carrick, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-89919-484-4
Jake wakes up in the middle of the night, scaring himself when he touches his dog Biff's cold, wet nose. The light switch doesn't work. The door squeaks, the wind whistles outside and his parents aren't in their bedroom. The sudden boom of the clock
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-257425-3
A refreshing alternative to the tinsel and sugarplum commercialism of many Christmas offerings, Bunting's ( In the Haunted House ; The Wednesday Surprise ) arrestingly simple tale resonates with genuine warmth. A boy recounts his family's annual...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-395-86146-2
Resentful of her new stepmother, Laura clings to a family heirloom, a ""memory string"" of buttons taken from special garments. As her father and her stepmother, Jane, paint the porch, Laura sits apart and fingers each button, loudly telling her cat
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200121-6
PW called this Christmas story an ``arrestingly simple tale'' that ``resonates with genuine warmth.'' Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-395-64367-9
Narrated by a city boy living amid crowded concrete and clamorous machines, this visit to a ""secret place"" quietly confides the treasure of a tiny bit of wilderness. In Bunting's (Someday a Tree; Smoky Night) muscular prose and in Rand's (The Owl...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Beth Peck, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-89919-521-6
The latest in the series of Bunting's holiday books, this places the story of the Pilgrims in contemporary times. In an unnamed Caribbean country, a boy and his little sister watch from under the bed as the soldiers come to their house. When the...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Beth Peck, Illustrator Clarion Books $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-54777-9
A family flees its native country in a small boat and lands in America on a particularly appropriate holiday; PW called this ``a Thanksgiving story that knows no season or race, but is for everyone all year 'round.'' Ages 3-8. (Oct.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator, Diane Groat, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-89919-793-7
Although a paper turkey decorates Mrs. Moose's Thanksgiving table, she longs for the real thing--so her obliging husband sets out to find her one. He is joined by his soon-to-be dinner guests: Rabbit, in his quilted down vest; poky Porcupine, in his
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Eve Bunting, Author, David Wisniewski, Illustrator Clarion Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-75185-5
As the author's note explains, a true story inspired this plucky survival tale: in 1992, a crate of 29,000 bath toys washed overboard from a Hong Kong cargo ship, and hundreds of the toys have since turned up on beaches, primarily in Alaska. Here...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Diane D'Andrade, Editor, LeUyen Pham, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201654-8
Bunting (Smoky Night) features two badgers walking along a forest path at sunset in the opening shot of this somewhat plodding intergenerational tale. When Little Badger proudly shows off his ability to jump, roll down the hill and climb trees, he...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Diane D'Andrade, Editor, Scott Menchin, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201456-8
The rotting carcass of a humpback whale is the unlikely focal point of this moralistic story set in the early 1900s. The likable narrator explains that an entrepreneur has rolled into his small Illinois town on a train, selling admission to a ""once-
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Eve Bunting, Author, Diane D'Andrade, Editor, James Ransome, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200181-0
Bunting, in a markedly different approach from her The Day the Whale Came (reviewed above), collaborates with Ransome (The Creation) on a gripping picture book told through the first-person narrative of a boy who nearly joins a gang. One evening,...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Kathryn Hewitt, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $7 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-202372-0
A girl and her father create a window box as a birthday present for her mother. PW said, ""The plot scarcely portends the appeal of this lyrical, ebullient book."" Ages 3-7. (Apr.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Kathryn Hewitt, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-228776-4
A plot about creating a windowbox garden scarcely portends the appeal of this lyrical, ebullient book. On a spring day in an urban neighborhood, a girl and her father visit the supermarket: ``Garden in a shopping cart / Doesn't it look great? /...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ronald Himler, Illustrator Clarion Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-66415-5
In this timely and touching work, Bunting and Himler present a naturalistic look at the plight of the homeless--their tale of a boy and his father living in a busy airport is all the more disturbing for its lack of a pat resolution. Ages 5-8. (Mar.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ronald Himler, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-61309-2
Nostalgia and timeliness merge seamlessly in this uncommonly evocative picture book. A sprawling oak tree grows in the field next to Alice's house, and it holds many memories for her family. Her mother reminisces about the first picnic she and Alice'
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ronald Himler, Illustrator Clarion Books $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-618-11747-5
Other new Carry-Along titles include The Wall, Eve Bunting's story about a father-and-son visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, illus. by Ronald Himler, and a new version of the popular nursery story, The Three Bears, by Paul Galdone. (Apr.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ronald Himler, Illustrator Clarion Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-62977-2
A boy travels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial with his father to seek out his grandfather's name. The well-matched text and illustrations are soft but stirring. Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ronald Himler, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-67321-8
Francisco, trying to find work for his grandfather, or abuelo, who has just arrived from Mexico, acts as a liaison between Abuelo, who doesn't speak English, and Ben, who wants to hire a gardener for a day's work. Eager to earn the badly needed pay,
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ronald Himler, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-71325-9
Inspired by a little-known chapter of American history, this characteristically incisive collaboration from Bunting and Himler (Someday a Tree, see p. 90; Fly Away Home) imagines a journey on one of the many ""Orphan Trains"" that, between the mid-18
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ronald Himler, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-84518-9
A boy lies to secure work for his grandfather, newly arrived from Mexico; Himler's ""expressive, gestural watercolors... strongly invoke both the harsh and tender landscapes of [the story],"" said PW. Ages 5-8. (Apr.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ronald Himler, Illustrator Clarion Books $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-76478-7
""Nostalgia and timeliness merge seamlessly in this uncommonly evocative picture book,"" said PW in a starred review. ""The story's emotional impact-and environmental message-are movingly reinforced by Himler's delicate paintings."" Ages 5-8. (Mar.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Susan Meddaugh, Illustrator Clarion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-51589-1
Four sneakered feet, two large and two small, tiptoe through a house chock-full of otherworldly creatures--a vampire, ghosts and a mummy, among others--in Bunting's second Halloween excursion. Like her Scary, Scary Halloween (which was illustrated...
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Eve Bunting, Author, David Wiesner, Illustrator Clarion Books $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-96887-1
Moody, charcoal-powder drawings dramatize a tale of the secret life of gargoyles. In a starred review, PW called it ""an unusually sophisticated work, playful but dark-edged."" Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, David Wiesner, Illustrator Clarion Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-66553-4
In this haunting black-and-white picture book, Bunting (see A Day's Work, reviewed above) and Wiesner (Tuesday) imagine the secret life of gargoyles. At night, while the city sleeps, they creep from their perches, clambering to the windows of the...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Lambert Davis, Illustrator , illus. by Lambert Davis. Scholastic/Blue Sky $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-60358-4
As striking as orcas themselves, Davis's (The Jolly Man) paintings of gamboling whales help keep this uneven tale afloat. From a cliff, a father and son watch a pod of whales at play. The boy narrates, a key source of the story's inauthentic
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Eve Bunting, Author, James Ransome, Illustrator , illus. by James Ransome. Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-260297-0
In this somewhat sleepy story by the creators of Your Move, the young narrator and his brother, Jim, help their father with his business, bus rides for "Leaf Peepers" to view the fall foliage. The boys roll their eyes at the Peepers' awe
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Eve Bunting, Author, David Diaz, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-026296-9
Diaz's fiesta-bright artwork ignites this joyous tale of a Mexican American family's sentimental journey. For the parents, the Christmastime trip to their Mexican home means a longed-for reunion with family and friends; for their son Carlos and his...
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Eve Bunting, Author, David Diaz, Illustrator HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443509-3
""Fiesta-bright"" art ignites this ""joyous"" tale of a Mexican American family's Christmastime trip to the parents' home in Mexico, said PW in a starred review. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, David Diaz, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $7 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-201884-9
In a starred review of this 1995 Caldecott winner, PW praised the ""thought-provoking"" and ""thoroughly believable"" text, about urban violence, and the ""dazzling"" mixed-media collages. Ages 3-8. (Apr.)
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Eve Bunting, Author, David Diaz, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-269954-3
Bunting addresses urban violence in this thought-provoking and visually exciting picture book inspired by the Los Angeles riots. Although they're neighbors, Daniel's cat and Mrs. Kim's cat don't get along. Nor do Daniel and his mother shop at Mrs....
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Eve Bunting, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-25929-3
Bunting and Moser demonstrate their craftsmanship with this carefully calibrated tale. The narrator and his younger brother live at the foot of Call Back Mountain, ""on the very edge of the wilderness."" Their only neighbor is Bosco Burak, the...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Chris K. Soentpiet, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-72095-0
Bunting's (Smoky Night) eloquent yet spare narrative introduces nine-year-old Laura, who recounts her family's 1972 visit to the site of the former Manzanar War Relocation Camp in eastern California. Thirty years earlier, her father and his parents...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Chris K. Soentpiet, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-93872-0
The team behind So Far from the Sea adds a layer of interest to this tale of a boy's ambivalence toward the arrival of a new sibling a baby adopted from Korea. ""I can hardly wait,"" David's mother says, when the family receives news of Jin Woo's...
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Emily Arnold McCully. Clarion, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-547-55843-1
In a haunting outing that treads on perhaps even more chilling turf than Bunting and McCully’s previous collaboration, The Banshee (2009), the author whisks readers to the expansive countryside of her native Ireland. It’s there, in a peat bog, that...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator , illus. by Emily Arnold McCully. Clarion $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-01137-7
A girl and boy piglet prove they are swine for all seasons as they savor the best that each of the 12 months has to offer. "Sing of a song of skiing,/ skiing in the snow./ Wax your skis/ and bend your knees/ and down the hill we go," writes...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator , illus. by Emily Arnold McCully. Clarion $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-35410-8
Bunting (The Wall
) adds a bit o' blarney to a favorite Irish legend as she imagines three leprechauns on a mission to place a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. As storm clouds begin to roll in, Ari the leprechaun rouses his two colleagues,...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator , illus. by Emily Arnold McCully. Clarion $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-82162-4
When Terry, a young Irishman, is wakened by the sound of wailing outside, he's worried that a banshee (the Gaelic omen of death) is coming for his frail brother, Liam. Reasoning that even a ghost may be open to a bribe, Terry ventures into the...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Eileen Christelow, Illustrator Clarion Books $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-395-70060-0
""There's even gooey party stew/ (I'll try them all, except the stew./ It's icky-looking, gross, pew-yew!)""--Bunting's (Smoky Night) rhymes typically project an authentic voice, and this time the voice belongs to a gangly girl who visits her...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Karen Barbour, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-027573-0
In this visually arresting picture book, Sophia ""receives"" an olive tree from her grandfather on her seventh birthday, one that still grows on his native Greek isle. Months later, her dying grandfather requests that Sophia and her mother travel...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Greg Shed, Illustrator Scholastic $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-84884-8
In this somewhat treacly memoir, a girl saves a caterpillar, ""a small black creature/ like a tiny worm,/ ...from a greedy jay/ who wanted it/ for lunch."" Her grandpa explains that she has found a larva that will become a butterfly, and the two...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Greg Shed, Illustrator , illus. by Greg Shed. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202407-9
When a girl and her family move west to Nebraska in the 1800s, they face challenges as they build their sod house and settle into a new life. Ages 5-8. (May)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Timothy Bush, Illustrator , illus. by Timothy Bush. Clarion $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-06554-7
A cricket who feels "small and worthless in the bigness of night" finds his way into a cheery house and onto a Christmas tree, where his song is mistaken by a child for the voice of an angel. Bunting (see also The Bones of Fred McFee, under &
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Eve Bunting, Author, Timothy Bush, Illustrator Clarion Books $14 (96p) ISBN 978-0-395-69719-1
Bunting's (Blackwater) latest tale sets up readers for an intergalactic adventure, yet never gets off the ground. Narrator Ben is intrigued but wary of his 11th birthday present from his best friend, Jason: a box containing a letter (dated two days...
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Eve Bunting, Author, David Christiana, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200479-8
A mummy's moving soliloquy on youth, love and the fleeting nature of life is the centerpiece of this hauntingly beautiful picture book. Bunting's quiet, lyrical prose can send shivers down a reader's spine, whether revisiting Heb-Nefert's glory days
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Eve Bunting, Author, Peter Sylvada, Illustrator , illus. by Peter Sylvada. Harcourt/Voyager $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205380-2
Inspired by true events in the Balkans, this tale centers on two goldfish that survive in a wartorn village and become a symbol of hope. PW
said, "Eerie autumnal oil paintings provide the emotional backdrop for a tale of a family forced into...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Peter Sylvada, Illustrator , illus. by Peter Sylvada. Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202596-0
Sylvada's (A Symphony of Whales) eerie autumnal oil paintings provide the emotional backdrop for another Bunting tale of a family forced into exile (So Far from the Sea). After Papa leaves to join the underground in his war-torn country, life...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Holly Berry, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-025364-6
It's almost impossible to read this winsome tale without lapsing into an Irish brogue. Seven-year-old Tess meets her friend, Wee Boy, at the market held monthly in their Irish village. A lively affair, with a cornucopia of colorful goods for sale,...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-56397-433-5
Call this an accumulative tale: a bespectacled boy gets a backpack from Grandma and proceeds to fill it up with just about everything in the house. When his frantic family finally discovers what he's done, the chastened child is comforted by getting
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Eve Bunting, Author, Scott Medlock, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-277082-2
Huckleberry Finn has nothing on Billy when it comes to frog-jumping contests. Enticed by the grand prize of two tickets to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field, Billy plans to catch a whopper of a frog and enter it in the school contest. Best of all, Dad,...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Scott Medlock, Illustrator , illus. by Scott Medlock. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-216384-6
"Huckleberry Finn has nothing on Billy when it comes to frog-jumping contests," wrote PW. "Easy-flowing dialogue and realistic situations give this picture book/chapter book both depth and heart." Ages 6-9. (Apr.)
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Don Tate. Charlesbridge, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58089-387-9
Bunting’s (Have You Seen My New Blue Socks?) impressionistic, dramatic recreation of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral procession covers much of the same ground as Belle, The Last Mule at Gee’s Bend by Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Bettye Stroud (2011)
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Eve Bunting, Author, Taia Morley, Illustrator , illus. by Taia Morley. NorthWord $15.95 (28p) ISBN 978-1-55971-841-7
On a table against the wall in her room, narrator Anna displays "wonders/ of the earth/ and sky and sea"—each treasured as both a marvel of nature and a memento of time spent with people she loves. A spiral shell that "held a...
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Beth Spiegel, Boyds Mills, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-439-6
Young Edward doesn't even want to entertain the possibility that his soon-to-arrive sibling could be anything other than a boy named James. "What if James turns out to be Sara?" asks his father. "I'll give her to Aunt Elizabeth," says Edward, not...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Kurt Cyrus, Illustrator, Jeannette Larson, Editor , illus. by Kurt Cyrus. Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202004-0
This ominous book, thrillingly chillustrated in high-contrast scratchboard, describes an uncanny Halloween decoration. Fred McFee is just a toy skeleton dangling from a tree, but he makes two siblings nervous. "He isn't real, but it's...
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Sergio Ruzzier. Clarion, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-618-99851-7
In this tender story from Bunting (Will It Be a Baby Brother?), Mama Elephant advises Little Elephant to "tweak twice," by pulling on her tail, if she has any questions while they go for a walk. And at almost every turn of the page, Little Elephant...
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Sergio Ruzzier. Clarion, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-547-75267-9
There’s something particularly upsetting about losing a brand-new possession, so it’s no wonder that Duck is feeling a little lost himself: “I’m trying not to be depressed./ Without my socks I feel undressed.” His friends—whose names also rhyme with
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Eve Bunting, Author, James Cross Giblin, Author Clarion Books $13.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-395-54998-8
This cautionary tale, as tantalizing as a tabloid headline, illustrates the manner in which a single error in judgment can set off an avalanche of mistakes. When Pidge needs to borrow a car for a hot date, he turns to best friends Meek and Jason....
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Eve Bunting, Author, Thomas Allen, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-207000-7
This early chapter book gently reinforces the credo that ``with freedom comes responsibility''--even in the middle of summer vacation. Lawrence and Brady love to spend their days riding and doing bicycle stunts. Luckily the boys have befriended the...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ellen Thompson, Illustrator Clarion Books $15 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-69172-4
A nostalgic look at life in a Belfast boarding school during WWII sweetens the impact of this heartfelt examination of the meaning of loyalty. Miss Muller, the language teacher whom all the girls once worshiped, is now the object of their suspicions.
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Eve Bunting, Author, Jo Ellen McAllister Stammen, Illustrator, Joellen McAllist Stammen, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82080-9
Bunting (Smoky Night) seems to look toward Hans Christian Andersen with this oblique--if not to say weird--allegory about a swan enamored of a swan-shaped boat. Ridiculed by the other swans and the fish (""Doesn't he know she's different?""), Swan...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ned Bittinger, Illustrator Scholastic $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-60197-9
Luminous oil paintings carry the day for this thoughtfully conceived but unevenly executed story. Bunting's tale of two realities-houses under construction and the Civil War battlefield on which the new community lies-revolves around two boys,...
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Eve Bunting, Author, Ned Bittinger, Illustrator , illus. by Ned Bittinger. Scholastic $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-60200-6
Construction on a Civil War battlefield provides the setting for this tale of a friendship between two boys, one black and one white, and the action alternates between the present and the long-ago conflict. PW
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Eve Bunting, Author, Suzanne Bloom, Illustrator , illus. by Suzanne Bloom. Boyds Mills $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-075-6
Children preparing for an author visit at school will welcome this volume. Bunting and Bloom (previously teamed for Girls: A–Z
) proffer a title that actually has three meanings. "My special day" refers to the narrator, a boy whose...
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Will Hillenbrand. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8032-9
As an egg, the narrator of this charming story from Bunting (Thunder Horse) and Hillenbrand (Share, Big Bear, Share!) was rescued by its mother after rolling into a pond; now, the duckling is afraid of the water. From shore, it gloomily watches its...
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Diane Ewen. Clarion, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-328-84626-6
Roscoe’s Tours doesn’t just offer boat views of the alligators “down in the swamp,/ where the river’s warm/ and the air is damp.” The company’s operator introduces his young son Jim, both portrayed with brown skin, whose flute-playing casts a spell...
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Eve Bunting, illus. by Jui Ishida. Sleeping Bear, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5341-1146-2
An assortment of animal mothers share doting messages with their young in this affectionate story. Starting and ending with a tan-skinned human infant and mom, the book otherwise imagines the kinds of caring comments that might be made by 11 species—
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