Hans Wilhelm, Author . Lerner/Carolrhoda $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57505-348-6
Although Quentin the hedgehog is a night critter, he spots some sunbeams penetrating the forest canopy one morning and is instantly captivated. "I'm going to build a tree house at the top of the tallest tree," he vows to his scoffing...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author Scholastic $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-46635-6
Wilhelm's polished, classic watercolors and a stylized typeface intensify the invitingly nostalgic flavor of this tale set ``many years ago.'' On a rocky New England beach, lonely Sarah is visited by a ghost-like boy, who tells her that she will...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $14 (31p) ISBN 978-0-517-57821-6
The author-illustrator of such favorites as I'll Always Love You and Let's Be Friends Again! here addresses an issue near and dear to the egos of contemporary youngsters--the importance of being ``cool.'' The boy who tells this story is so cool that
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Hans Wilhelm, Author Scholastic $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-44079-0
The prolific Wilhelm introduced his benignly naughty dinosaur in Tyrone the Horrible , and kids who loved to hate him in that lively tale will do the same here. Boland and his dinosaur pals are not overjoyed when Tyrone tags along on a week-long...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $12.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-517-56909-2
Franklin's family lives in, well, a pigsty. As a meticulously neat piglet, Franklin finds his family's slovenly ways a great embarrassment, and he dares not encourage visitors. At school, his brothers' unruly antics further humiliate him. All this...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author Scholastic $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-41471-5
Wilhelm uses dinosaurs to explicate his very modern tale about a young dinosaur named Boland who finally outsmarts the bully that had terrorized the swamp. Boland seems to be the special target of Tyrone the Horrible; day after day, he is victimized.
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Hans Wilhelm, Author HarperFestival $5.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-06-053430-1
The Easter Bunny seeks out help in the first of two die-cut board books by Hans Wilhelm, Quacky Ducky's Easter Fun. Quacky Ducky is more than happy to assist-though in the end most of the paint ends up on the pair of Easter artisans. The...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author HarperFestival $5.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-06-053431-8
The Easter Bunny seeks out help in the first of two die-cut board books by Hans Wilhelm, Quacky Ducky's Easter Fun. Quacky Ducky is more than happy to assist-though in the end most of the paint ends up on the pair of Easter artisans. The...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-54337-8
Convinced that he's ""special,"" Crawford the raven is disgruntled with his ordinary appearance. After making several funny, futile attempts to change, the frustrated bird entreats a woman with magical powers to give him ""some color, some flash,...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author Little Simon $5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74494-6
In this holiday frolic with a touching surprise ending, a rambunctious puppy laments that ``no one has any time for me'' as Christmas approaches; Santa does, however, as he provides the perfect present. Ages 3-6. (Oct.)
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Hans Wilhelm, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $10.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-517-56252-9
Let's Be Friends Again takes sibling conflict seriously, presenting an undiluted portrait of a boy's rage at his younger sister. Wilhelm makes the sister's transgression substantial: she decides to give her brother's pet turtle some exercise by...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author . Scholastic/Cartwheel $8.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-545-11510-0
Lifting flaps shows cute-as-can-be animals receiving enthusiastic “hugaboos” from their grown-up counterparts. “If you were a little kangaroo... You would get a jumpy
hugaboo!” (Under the flap, a big kangaroo holds a little...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author . Barron's $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7641-5767-7
When her adored pet cockatoo vanishes, Nana Bear becomes "sadder and sadder." At first Toby, her grand-cub, plasters the forest with "Lost" posters, but when that doesn't yield results, he decides to cheer up Nana Bear. He...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author . Barron's $12.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-7641-5600-7
In this polar bear version of King Lear, Anook is the Cordelia figure, exiled from her royal father's home when her sisters' scheming leaves her nothing to offer as a tribute other than "I... I... I love you, Father." Unlike her...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author . Hampton Roads $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57174-344-2
Wilhelm's (the Little Panda books) workmanlike retelling of an Eastern folktale with Buddhist underpinnings makes a case for acceptance. When a bandit steals a carpet weaver's sheep, the victim's response is unlike that of his vengeful...
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Hans Wilhelm, Author, Hans Wilhelm, Illustrator . Scholastic/Little Shepherd $5.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-439-80003-7
Along withthe jaunty verse (actually the lyrics of a well-known hymn) as sunny as this paper-over-board book's bright yellow cover, Wilhelm (the Dinofours series) introduces a downy, daffodil-hued duckling happy in its role as one of Jesus'...
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Hans Wilhelm. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3535-7
In a story inspired by Mark Twain’s “A Fable,” which is reprinted at the end of the book, a dog peers into a hole in a wall and spies another dog. (Unlike the dog, readers will instantly recognize that the hole is actually a mirror.) The dog tells...
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