Jan Thomas, Author . Harcourt $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-206051-0
Fat Cat is ready to take a seat, and all the other animals firmly believe it's not a matter of “what” but rather “whom” he will choose for his resting place. Solidarity quickly breaks down—“Sit on the Pig!...
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Jan Thomas. S&S/Beach Lane, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2364-0
Like a Saturday morning cartoon, Thomas's (Let's Count Goats!) rowdy characters and simple plot unfold in a series of scenes that build up to the one-joke resolution. The excitement begins even before the title page as three cows hop onto a small,...
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Jan Thomas. Harper, $9.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-169284-0
Thomas sticks to her forte—bright, bold artwork and comically harebrained protagonists—in this slapstick Halloween outing. When Duck leans too far over the pumpkin he’s preparing to carve and gets stuck inside, the result is a walking, talking, web-f
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Jan Thomas, Author, Jan Thomas, Illustrator . S&S/Atheneum $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7976-0
“We rhyme all the time!” declares one of four googly-eyed dust bunnies, ebullient in their palette of bright solid colors and Smurf-like bodies. Three of the shaggy critters promptly strut their stuff, reeling off words that rhyme with &#
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Jan Thomas, Author, Jan Thomas, Illustrator . S&S/Beach Lane $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8581-5
As long as story time does not have to be synonymous with quiet time, Thomas's (Rhyming Dust Bunnies
) latest goof makes a great pick (the first page of this book enjoins readers, “Hey, you! Yes, I'm talking to you! STAND UP!”).
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Jan Thomas, Author, Jan Thomas, Illustrator . S&S/Beach Lane $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9150-2
In this follow-up to Rhyming Dust Bunnies
, the effervescent dust bunnies interact with the aptly named title character, who's gray, sharp-toothed, and very grumpy. When they invite him to rhyme a word with “fit,” he volunteers ̶
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Jan Thomas. Harper, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-169286-4
Using exuberant characters and polished comedic timing, Thomas (Is Everyone Ready for Fun?) gives the Easter bunny an unusual assistant—Skunk. Skunk is excited to help decorate Easter eggs, and when Skunk gets excited, he gets stinky. Thomas’s...
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Jan Thomas. S&S/Beach Lane, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-4276-4
Those who know and love Thomas will guess that the title of her latest is a clue that something is afoot. In this case, it’s the word “Brave,” because the titular cowboy is anything but. The little cows under his care (clearly the same breed as the...
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Jan Thomas. Beach Lane, $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-66591-165-8
Thomas’s (The Chicken Who Couldn’t) early reader graphic novel in three sections centers on mishaps and misunderstandings that test the friendship of two robots whose eager eyes, round schnozzes, and tendency toward slapstick brings to mind circus...
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Grant Jerkins and Jan Thomas. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-05486-9
Jerkins (The Ninth Step) and debut author Thomas, the wife of a retired police sniper, deliver a high-powered bone-rattler of a novel. As a sniper on the Cameron County, Calif., Sheriff’s Department SWAT team, Jacob Denton stands as an anonymous “man
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Jan Thomas. Beach Lane, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8582-2
Mouse is cooking up some soup, and Cow and Pig are eager to help. But while Cow grasps the concept of “soup ingredient,” Pig does not. “Here is one onion!” Mouse says. “Here are two cabbages!” Cow says. “And here are... three umbrellas!” Pig says....
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Jan Thomas. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $9.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-544-96655-0
“Yay! Look who’s coming! My friends!” cheers Sheep on the title page of this high-energy addition to Thomas’s Giggle Gang series. After Donkey, Bear, and Duck show up, Sheep drops a question on them: “Can you guess what makes me happy?” Readers will
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Jan Thomas. Beach Lane, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9699-6
Having received no ribbons at the fair, Chicken’s confidence has already taken a hit when his cage tumbles off the back of the truck carrying him back to the farm. Given heightened anxiety and a self-doubt hair trigger (now uncaged, he plummets to...
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Jan Thomas. Beach Lane, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-66593-999-7
Via her signature color-block art and high-energy humor, Thomas (Even Robots Aren’t Perfect!) kicks off with a familiar scenario in which a problem’s proposed fix causes more trouble than the issue itself. When Rabbit’s room grows so messy that...
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