John Burningham, Author, Jez Alborough, Author, John Burningham, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2046-2
A variety of titles help expand the understanding of youngest readers. Now in board book format, John Burningham's Colors, Letters, Opposites and Numbers, first published in 1985, explore the basics with playful ink and pencil illustrations. In...
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John Burningham, Author, Jez Alborough, Author, John Burningham, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2045-5
A variety of titles help expand the understanding of youngest readers. Now in board book format, John Burningham's Colors, Letters, Opposites and Numbers, first published in 1985, explore the basics with playful ink and pencil illustrations. In...
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John Burningham, Author, Jez Alborough, Author, John Burningham, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2043-1
A variety of titles help expand the understanding of youngest readers. Now in board book format, John Burningham's Colors, Letters, Opposites and Numbers, first published in 1985, explore the basics with playful ink and pencil illustrations. In...
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Jez Alborough, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1868-1
Humorous rhymes and an unusual conclusion combine in a boy's search for his stuffed toy in the forest in Where's My Teddy? by Jez Alborough, now available as a board book.
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Jez Alborough, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $13.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-395-53348-2
Beaky is a confused little bird. He hatches on the forest floor, far away from his family, and can't figure out what he is. All he knows is that he can't compete with Snake for slithering (he's ``too short'') nor with Fish for swimming (``too fluffy'
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Jez Alborough, Author . HarperTrophy $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443833-9
"A deliciously percussive rhyming story of a feathered truck driver who becomes mired in muck and the three animal Good Samaritans who try and help him," wrote PW.
"A quacking good read-aloud." Ages 3-6. (Apr.)
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Jez Alborough, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-028685-9
""This is the Duck driving home in a truck./ This is the track which is taking him back."" So begins this deliciously percussive rhyming story of a feathered truck driver who becomes mired in muck and the three animal Good Samaritans (a frog, a...
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Jez Alborough, Author, Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-048-2
Given its mistaken identities and characters meandering through the woods, this irresistible bedtime story is faintly reminiscent of certain Shakespearean comedies and the cartoonlike characters in Calvin and Hobbes. When little Eddie braves the ``da
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1287-0
With a cheerful chimp nearly as sweet as Curious George and a text of only three words, Alborough (It's the Bear!; Where's My Teddy?) celebrates the pleasure of giving and receiving good hugs, as well as the joy inherent in finding just the right...
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (30p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2316-6
Jez Alborough's It's the Bear! returns in a board-book format; PW called this tale of shared human-ursine fright ""just scary enough for preschoolers, who will love the pie-in-the-sky ending in which both the bear and the boy's mother get their just
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator HarperCollins $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-052123-3
Having made a thorough mess at home in Fix-It Duck, Jez Alborough's feathered hero runs amok at sea in Captain Duck. Suitably slapstick rhyming text and artwork in large comic-style panels depict Duck's wacky misadventures when he hops aboard Goat's
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Kane/Miller Book Publishers $14.95 (18p) ISBN 978-1-929132-72-0
The web-footed fellow from Duck in the Truck drives his red pick-up through an interactive title in the paper-over-board Duck's Key: Where Can It Be? by Jez Alborough. As Duck searches the flowerpot, under the welcome mat and more, Frog hides behind
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (28p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2017-2
The sequel to Where's My Teddy?, Jez Alborough's My Friend Bear (1998) returns as a board book. Though the type may be small in this new incarnation, PW said this tale about a sad boy named Eddie and his chance encounter with a great big bear ""wi
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-000699-0
The trouble begins with a leaky roof in the sequel to Duck in a Truck, Fix-It Duck by Jez Alborough, and follows the, er, handy quacker on a series of missteps. (Apr.)
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0583-4
Like its predecessors Where's My Teddy? and It's the Bear!, this large-size book about Eddie and his teddy bear, Freddie, will endear itself to pint-size preschoolers. When Eddie wishes for a friend to talk to, he and Freddie encounter the forest...
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-486-2
``We don't get great big bears around here,'' says Eddie's mother as she unpacks a picnic lunch in the woods. But when she leaves Eddie and his teddy Freddie to retrieve the blueberry pie she's forgotten, an enormous bear gobbles up all the food and
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-095-6
Although Alborough's illustrations are animated and action-filled, his story of Cuddly Dudley--unlike his clever Where's My Teddy? --seems both hackneyed and predictable. Since this ``adorable'' penguin's family can't ``resist having a huddle and a...
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1576-5
Infused with heartfelt themes, board books and novelty titles galore emerge just in time for Valentine's Day. Hot on the trail of little Bobo's love-seeking jungle jaunt, author/ illustrator Jez Alborough's witty marker pen illustrations...
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1414-0
""Like its predecessors Where's My Teddy? and It's the Bear!, this oversize book about Eddie and his teddy bear, Freddy, will endear itself to pint-size preschoolers,"" wrote PW. Ages 3-up. (Mar.)
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0584-1
A crew of animals learns that size is relative in this gleeful, impressively simple romp. Ages 3-up. (Nov.)
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Jez Alborough, Author, Jez Alborough, Illustrator . Candlewick $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2201-5
This tale seems stale compared with Alborough's previous work in Hug
or Where's My Teddy?
When Sid the puppy "set[s] off for school one day, a happy feeling [comes] his way." Suddenly, he finds himself literally light as air and...
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Jez Alborough, Author, Various, Author, David Parkins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0947-4
A companion to the Reading Together series, Math Together offers young children and their parents an integrated approach to mathematical concepts. Each of the two boxed sets--the Yellow Set is for children ages three and up, the Green Set for...
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