Helme Heine, Author Atheneum Books $3.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-689-71043-8
The sweetness and gentle humor in Heine's lovely color pictures and stories ensured the acceptance of Friends, starring Fat Percy (the handsome pig), Charlie Rooster and Johnny Mouse. The trio returns in this book and two companions, collectively...
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Helme Heine, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $5.99 (28p) ISBN 978-0-689-71478-8
When Porker and Curlytail decide to tie the knot, their nuptials are a sight to behold--and wallow in; PW said, ``Glorious colors embellish paintings of sublime nonsense.'' Ages 5-8. (Mar.)
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Helme Heine, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (27p) ISBN 978-0-689-71262-3
Heine's vivid book stars Beaver, who finds a prize that he wants to keep to himself, and realizes that some treasures are best left alone. Ages 5-9. (Nov.)
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Helme Heine, Author, Ralph Manheim, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (26p) ISBN 978-0-374-38478-4
``Every night you start on a marvelous journey. Without luggage, without passport, without money.'' The author/illustrator of The Pearl , Friends and Seven Wild Pigs delivers a rather odd discourse on the pleasures of Sleep, depicted here as an...
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Helme Heine, Author, Ralph Manheim, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-35001-7
Heine ( Friends ; The Pearl ) introduces three animal friends in these breezy snippets of verse, artfully translated by Manheim. Cleverly rhymed couplets reveal Percy the pig, Charlie the rooster and Johnny the mouse cavorting in the land of...
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Helme Heine, Author, Ralph Manheim, Translator Sunburst $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-44741-0
Surrealistic paintings show the way through the wondrous nocturnal passage called sleep. Ages 4-8. (Apr.)
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Helme Heine, Author, Helme Heine, Illustrator Atheneum Books $14.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-689-50394-8
In this original interpretation of the biblical creation story, Heine casts God as a human male artist. Singlehandedly, he takes on the task of creating the universe, dons a white beard and white suit, and uses modern equipment and techniques. On...
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Helme Heine, Author, Helme Heine, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-81850-9
""Heine endows this tale with a childlike exuberance as he embraces a busy day bursting with the most unlikely happenings,"" said PW of the madcap antics of Charlie Rooster, Fat Percy and Johnny Mouse, who first appeared in Friends. Ages 4-8. (May)
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Helen Heine, Author, Helme Heine, Author, The German, Translator Margaret K. McElderry Books $14.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-689-50484-6
This droll, expertly orchestrated book might be termed an anti-fairy tale, in which Heine ( One Day in Paradise ) gleefully confutes the logic of legend. His fable tells of bears, who could once turn into princesses by kissing them, and princesses,...
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