George McClements, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0662-1
At the start of this deadpan parody of nursery stories and gumshoes, Jake Gander (who's a guy, not a goose) puts down his Once Upon a Times
newspaper to field a call from Red R. Hood. "It was a code P.W.T. (Possible Wolf Trouble)," he...
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George McClements, Author . Hyperion $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0956-1
Fans of McClements's Jake Gander: Storyville Detective
, will welcome this hilarious story about a Grizzly Scout "determined to earn a place in his family's Album of Scouting Greatness" by earning the "ever elusive" Moon Frog
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George McClements, Author . Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205989-7
McClements (The Last Badge
) combines two favorite themes—cowboys and dinosaurs—and produces surprisingly bland results. Narrator Buck Bronco, who once brought home some “loco-looking eggs,” now operates a dinosaur ranch, and
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George McClements. Hippo Park, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-6626-4036-0
In this comics-style tribute to two Japanese concepts and an onomatopoeic phrase, a blue kaiju wakes up feeling “yucky and too hot” in his dormant volcano home, and lets out a massive, tree-flattening sneeze. The all-haiku text draws laughs as the...
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George McClements, Author, George McClements, Illustrator . S&S/Beach Lane $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8626-3
Developers from the Plas-Tic Trees Factory plan to level a forest, and the seven oddball animals who live there must figure out how to keep their home. The giant dinosaur costume they rig up intimidates the developers, but collapses spectacularly...
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