Jeannie Baker, Candlewick, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4848-0
Opening this expertly designed picture book reveals two parallel wordless tales: one to be read left to right, the other right to left. The stories follow a day in the family life of two boys, who live in urban Australia and the Valley of Roses in...
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Jeannie Baker, Author Greenwillow Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-623935-4
Jeannie Baker projects a hopeful portrait of urban renewal in Home. As in her previous Window, the picture book unfolds as a wordless series of collages, this time charting the rebirth of a neighborhood as a girl, Tracy, grows up. Readers watch...
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Jeannie Baker, Author Greenwillow Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-08917-7
The creator of Where the Forest Meets the Sea offers another warning about the environment--somewhat didactically--in this wordless picture book. Each spread features the window of Sam's room, from which the reader can see the landscape being...
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Jeannie Baker, Author Scholastic $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-44704-1
Unusual collage constructions form vibrant New York City panoramas in this modest tale of Light, a white pigeon who flees his rooftop aviary to explore his urban surroundings. Ages 4-7. (Mar.)
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Jeannie Baker, Author Greenwillow Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-11491-6
As in her previous picture books, Baker (Window; Where the Forest Meets the Sea) uses her exceptional ""collage constructions,"" crisply photographed here, to make an environmental statement. Unfortunately, this volume lacks the hard-hitting impact,
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Jeannie Baker, Author, Jeannie Baker, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-06363-4
A boy travels with his father to a tropical rain forest. Walking among the trees and vines, he imagines the forest as it might have been in the past, with now-extinct creatures and aboriginal children inhabiting it. How much longer, the boy wonders,
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Jeannie Baker. Candlewick, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7966-8
“In its lifetime,” writes Baker (Mirror) on the title page, “a godwit will usually fly farther than the distance from the earth to the moon.” In her examination of the life of this globe-circling bird, which belongs to the sandpiper family, the...
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Jeannie Baker. Candlewick, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2577-8
Textured collages encourage appreciation for the Sonoran Desert in Baker’s marvelous book about a child, portrayed with tan skin, who awakens to the wonders of a desert landscape. After the protagonist’s backpack, and the beloved tablet inside, go...
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