Jean Little, Author . Viking $15.99 (236p) ISBN 978-0-670-88856-6
More somber in mood and adult in tone than Little's (From Anna; Hey, World, Here I Am!) previous books, this novel may disappoint the author's fans. The book opens after Willow and Twig's mother has disappeared again, this time leaving...
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Jean Little, Author Viking Children's Books $13.95 (233p) ISBN 978-0-670-81649-1
This memoir by the prize-winning Canadian children's author invites comparison with Beverly Cleary's recent A Girl from Yamhill. But, even though both authors started writing at early ages and both loved to read, partly to shield themselves from...
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Jean Little. Red Deer, $16.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-88995-527-1
In 12 stories, Canadian author Little introduces an expansive roster of children and families, most of whom desperately need a Christmas miracle. Gabriel cares for her younger brother, who has cerebral palsy, as her angry father abandons them and...
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Jean Little. EDC/Kane Miller, $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-935279-15-0
As a small child, Min was abandoned in a restroom by her caretaker and has been passed between four foster families in eight years, with no idea who her parents are. Little's (Somebody Else's Summer) story opens as Min is being returned to the...
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Jean Little, Author, Janet Wilson, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-84471-5
With sibling rivalry as its central theme, Little's latest tells of Patsy, the youngest member of the Small family, who is often teased or left out by her siblings. When her father brings home ``a surprise for the small Small,'' Patsy uses the gift--
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Jean Little, Author, Janet Wilson, Author, Janet Wilson, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $13.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-83495-2
Courage comes in all shapes and sizes, and sometimes turns up when least expected. Claire is often in awe of her seemingly fearless younger sister Jess--who watches scary movies on TV without hiding her eyes, doesn't flinch when the doctor gives her
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Jean Little, Author, Claire MacKay, Author, Kim LaFave, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-85270-3
Ryder's grandmother is simply bats about baseball. Cap-wearing Nana's obsession sets the scene for this lighthearted if repetitious tale about Ryder's futile attempt to engage his grandmother in a conversation about his future career while the TV is
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Jean Little, Author, Jerry Lazare, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $4.95 (145p) ISBN 978-0-316-52802-3
After the death of her twin brother, a girl learns to look to the future in this gentle, absorbing story. Ages 8-11. (Sept.)
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Jean Little, Author, Susan G. Truesdell, Illustrator, Sue Truesdell, Illustrator HarperCollins $4.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-440384-9
Poetry-writing Kate Bloomfield, star of Kate and Look Through My Window , returns to share--in both poetry and prose--her views on love, life and other adolescent experiences. Ages 9-up. (Apr.)
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Jean Little, Author, Kady MacDonald Denton, Illustrator , illus. by Kady MacDonald Denton. Orca $7.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-55143-253-3
Little loosely ties together the prose-poems in this perceptive collection with the theme "the art of giving"—not only physical gifts, but gifts of insight as well. The gently humorous, simply constructed verses in the often clipped...
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Jean Little, Author, Werner Zimmermann, Illustrator , illus. by Werner Zimmermann. Scholastic $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-65062-5
A perky pink piglet starts the barnyard buzzing when she asks "What's Christmas?" in this clever and gentle-hearted picture book. Pippin's question gets the goat of Noddy the grumpy donkey, whose ancestors carried Mary to Bethlehem....
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Jean Little, Author, Johnny Wales, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-86340-2
When urban piglet Gruntle Piggle hears tell of her rural relative Grampa Streaky Bacon, she can't wait for a ""snout-to-snout"" meeting. She runs away from her parents' apartment and takes a bus to Grampa's pigpen, determined to ""sniff manure, roll
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Jean Little, Author, Lewis Parker, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-52800-9
After coming home from a school for the disabled, a girl with cerebral palsy struggles to make a place for herself in the mainstream. Ages 8-12. (April)
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