Giles Andreae, Author, Nick Sharratt, Illustrator , illus. by Nick Sharratt. Random/Fickling $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-75014-1
To the likely delight of small children everywhere, Andreae (Giraffes Can't Dance) moves beyond "I See London, I See France" for a bouncy rhyme about underpants. From "giant frilly pig pants" to "cheeky little monkey pants,
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Giles Andreae, Author, Guy Parker-Rees, Illustrator , illus. by Guy Parker-Rees. Scholastic/Orchard $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-28719-7
All the jungle's got the beat, but Gerald the giraffe has four left feet. Such is the dilemma in this British team's bouncy if didactic picture book about self-esteem. As a multitude of fleet-footed beasts eagerly "skip and prance"...
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Giles Andreae, Author, Guy Parker-Rees, Illustrator Orchard $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-53126-9
The fun of K Is for Kissing a Cool Kangaroo by Giles Andreae emanates from Guy Parker-Rees's renderings of an exuberantly silly animal world. All kinds of ABC-themed things pop up in his artwork. For ""B is for busy and big bumblebee"" he not...
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Giles Andreae, Author, David Wojtowycz, Illustrator , illus. by David Wojtowycz. Tiger Tales $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58925-387-2
The team behind Rumble in the Jungle
and Commotion in the Ocean
here focus on farm animals. Ages 3-7. (Sept.)
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Giles Andreae, Author, David Wojtowycz, Illustrator Tiger Tales $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58925-020-8
Giles Andraea and David Wojtowycz, the team behind Rumble in the Jungle and Commotion in the Ocean, now focus on farm animals in Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! Barnyard Hullabaloo. (Mar.)
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Giles Andreae, Author, David Wojtowycz, Illustrator Tiger Tales $14.95 (14p) ISBN 978-1-58925-658-3
A chimpanzee swings, a snake slithers and a crocodile clamps his jaws in The Pop-Up Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae, illus. by David Wojtowycz, based on the picture book by the same name. (Sept.)
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Giles Andreae, illus. by David Wojtowycz. Tiger Tales, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58925-109-0
Friendly backyard creatures are the focus of the short, accessible poems in this energetically illustrated book. “I like to feed on tasty plants/ And trees that have gone rotten./ But the weirdest thing about me/ Is these pinchers on my bottom!”...
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Giles Andreae, Author, Vanessa Cabban, Illustrator , illus. by Vanessa Cabban. Tiger Tales $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58925-016-1
In reassuring couplets and gentle ink-and-wash drawings, the team behind Love Is a Handful of Honey
explains just how deep grandparents' love for their grandchildren can be. "It's heaven to see you!" exclaims Grandma Bear as she...
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Giles Andreae, Author, Vanessa Cabban, Illustrator , illus. by Vanessa Cabban. Albert Whitman $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-7853-7
A preschooler reasons that his pregnant mother's growing body contains an actual domicile for his sibling-to-be: "My daddy says I lived there too/ When I was being made/ But I don't remember very much/ About it, I'm afraid."...
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Giles Andreae, Author, Vanessa Cabban, Illustrator , illus. by Vanessa Cabban. Tiger Tales $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58925-388-9
"In reassuring couplets and gentle ink-and-wash drawings, this team explains just how deep grandparents' love for their grandchildren can be," PW
said. Ages 3-7. (Sept.)
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Giles Andreae, illus. by Emma Dodd, Disney-Hyperion, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4231-4327-7
Mommy is, in a word, awesome. "She's great to cuddle, soft to touch," writes
Andreae (Giraffes Can't Dance), doesn't recoil from a "grubby nose" (a phrase that hints at this book's original publication in Great Britain), is a huge help when toilet...
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Giles Andreae, illus. by Emma Dodd. Disney-Hyperion, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4847-2230-5
Following I Love My Mommy and I Love My Daddy, Andreae and Dodd continue to share the love as a boy with a shock of blond hair sings the praises of the newborn baby in his life. In the process, readers get a crash course on some of the baby’s...
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Giles Andreae, Author, Sue Hellard, Illustrator , illus. by Sue Hellard. Bloomsbury $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-815-5
"My grandson is a genius!" explains Grandpa, the proud if heartwarmingly oblivious narrator and baby-sitter of the titular two-year-old. "It's plain for all to see,/ I'm sure it won't be long/ Before he gets a Ph.D."...
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Giles Andreae, illus. by Guy Parker-Rees. Orchard, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-338-73427-0
Originally published in the U.K., this picture book by the creators of Giraffes Can’t Dance follows young Num-Num the elephant, who doesn’t have a talent to impress Elephant Mighty, the pachyderms’ throned ruler. Without a skill, Num-Num can’t earn...
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Giles Andreae, illus. by Guy Parker-Rees. Orchard, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-338-15039-1
A young penguin faces his fear in this rhyming tale from the team behind Giraffes Can’t Dance. While a colony’s penguins frolic in the sea, Pip-Pip stays on shore, building an igloo by himself: “Names like ‘Scaredy-Pip-Pip’/ Echoed in his ears./ He...
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