Books by Geoffrey Hayes and Complete Book Reviews

Geoffrey Hayes, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $1.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-394-87289-6
Patrick and Ted are the teddy bear heroes who go to the beach and meet up with Patrick's grandpa, Captain Poopdeck. The boys have a series of adventures: they search for buried treasure and find an old, gold button; they meet up with a bully who...
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Geoffrey Hayes, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-87287-2
With gentle wit and disarming simplicity, Hayes makes his mark on the new Great Big Board Book series in a tribute to friendship between generations. Patrick and Grandpa have some time on their hands before Mama Bear can join them for a picnic....
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Geoffrey Hayes, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-80164-1
Patrick the irrepressible bear faces life's responsibilities in his own inimitable way, cheerfully ignoring the help and advice of his long-suffering mother. Ages 3-6. (Nov.)
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Geoffrey Hayes. Candlewick/Toon Books, $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-935179-09-2
This emerging reader graphic novel by the Geisel Award–winning Hayes follows a young anthropomorphic bear named Patrick Brown and his gentle, laugh-filled adventures with his loving mother and father. In the first story, Patrick and his mother go on
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Geoffrey Hayes. Random, $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-375-87180-1
This jolly Step into Reading title stars a less-than ferocious dragon who leaves home with a to-do list and a directive from his father: "Make us proud of you." Fred's instructions seem simple enough—run amok, eat people, roar, breathe fire, act...
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Geoffrey Hayes. Random, $11.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-86926-6
Hayes’s (the Benny and Penny books) sweet bedtime book has gentle, repetitive prose that tells the story of Bunny and her Papa, who go searching for a nightlight. Bunny objects to all the lights they find (the moon is “too bright,” the stars “too...
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Geoffrey Hayes, Author, Geoffrey Hayes, Illustrator . Hyperion $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0717-8
In this first entry of Hayes's (Bear By Himself) Adventures of Patrick Brown series, a bear cub gets in touch with his inner dragon and triumphs over a bully. The diminutive hero, Patrick, starts out on his maiden solo excursion to Ollie Arwood&#
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Geoffrey Hayes, Author, Geoffrey Hayes, Illustrator . RAW Junior/Toon $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-9799238-0-7
Hayes, creator of the Otto and Uncle Tooth mysteries, chooses mouse siblings as the subjects for this comic book cum easy reader, first in a planned series (see Silly Lilly , reviewed p. 69). Jazzy, multipanel layouts add a contemporary dimension to
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Geoffrey Hayes, Author, Geoffrey Hayes, Illustrator . RAW Junior/Toon Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-9799238-9-0
In the second comic book–style title to star brother and sister mice Benny and Penny, the fussy duo track down a mysterious “new kid” who may have climbed over the fence into their yard and stolen Benny’s pail (a “no-no&
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Geoffrey Hayes. Toon (Consortium, dist.), $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-935179-99-3
Hayes thoughtfully portrays an array of emotions surrounding death in this sixth book starring mouse siblings Benny and Penny. Penny is distraught after she discovers a dead salamander, but Benny is grossed out: “Eeew! Put that thing down,” he...
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