Jane Ray, Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4411-6
A girl's rich imagination helps her cope with unexpected family stress in this uplifting picture book. Rosy treasures Saturday mornings spent with her father (" ‘Just me and my Rosy Posy,' Dad sang") as they decorate and play with the dollhouse he...
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Jane Ray. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5735-2
Ray brings a 1920s aesthetic to this classic carol with her elegant tableaus. A scarlet-haired young woman, who lives in a brownstone building on a busy riverside street, receives daily unexpected deliveries, care of her true love. As the snow falls
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Jane Ray. Boxer (Sterling, dist.), $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-907152-90-0
Ray crafts an elegant framework for bird-themed stories and poems. Among the 12 selections are adaptations of a creation myth from Kenya, the story of Noah’s Ark, and Oscar Wilde’s ironically sorrowful “The Happy Prince.” A pair of poems—Emily...
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Jane Ray, Author, Jane Ray, Retold by, Jane Ray, Illustrator . Candlewick $19.99 (10p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4473-4
These books aim to wow.
Snow White: A Three-Dimensional Fairy-Tale Theater
Jane Ray
. Candlewick
, $19.99 (10p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4473-4
Organic illustrations with an element of folk art complement the 3D format of this interpretation of the fairy...
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Jane Ray, Author, Jane Ray, Illustrator . Eerdmans $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5278-6
Inspired by creation myths from around the globe, as well as visits to British environmental education center, the Eden Project, Ray (Noah's Ark
; Fairy Tales
) infuses her picture-book vision with a tone of openness and universality befitting a
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Jane Ray, Author, Jane Ray, Illustrator . Candlewick $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3747-7
Lyrical language and enticing gold-embellished illustrations distinguish Ray's otherwise predictable original fairytale. Resonating with echoes of King Lear and the Bible, her story is grounded in the traditional elements of the fairytale:...
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Jane Ray, Author, Jane Ray, Illustrator Dutton Books $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-525-44768-9
The King James Version of the Bible provides the text for this graceful and majestic account of Christ's birth. Gospels according to Matthew and Luke tell the story of Joseph's journey to Bethlehem with his pregnant wife Mary, and how under arduous...
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Jane Ray, Author, Jane Ray, Illustrator Dutton Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44946-1
In Ray's ( The Story of Christmas ; Noah's Ark ) latest picture book, sumptuous folk-art-inspired illustrations, embellished with glittering splashes of gold paint, help relate the story of the earth's beginnings. The majestic phraseology of the...
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Jane Ray, Author, Jane Ray, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0358-8
With a sumptuous setting that often looks good enough to eat, Ray (The Twelve Dancing Princesses) makes this Brothers Grimm tale her own. Abandoned in the woods by order of their stepmother, Hansel and Gretel eventually find their way home--but not...
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Jane Ray, Author, Donna L. Brooks, Editor, Jane Ray, Illustrator Dutton Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44653-8
Luminously colored drawings accompany the words of Genesis to tell the story of Noah. In a style that synthesizes many traditions, Ray nods knowingly at the vivacity and naive perspective of folk art; she liberally echoes the ancient Egyptian use of
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Author, Jacob W. Grimm, Author, Jane Ray, Author Dutton Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-45595-0
Nobody knows how to party like these 12 princesses who first twinkled their toes in a Brothers Grimm tale. These young ladies manage to hide their wild nights out from everyone--especially their father, who would never allow such behavior. But each...
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