Jill Murphy, Author Putnam Publishing Group $10.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-399-21433-2
Five Minutes' Peace delivered into the hands of readers a near-perfect reflection of a family's typically calamitous morning; now the adult elephants are dressing for an evening out, and their well-meaning but high-spirited children won't leave them
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Jill Murphy, Author Putnam Publishing Group $10.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-399-21590-2
Mrs. Large, that peerless pachyderm parent last seen in Five Minutes' Peace , makes a return engagement. This time, she decides that she's just a tad too elephantine (as her baby succinctly puts it, ``Mummy's got wobbly bits''). Accordingly, she...
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Jill Murphy, Author Putnam Publishing Group $13.95 (127p) ISBN 978-0-399-21566-7
Murphy's first novel is an exercise in adolescent wish-fulfillment. Packed with authorial asides and Americanized slang (which some readers might find jarring, given the London setting), the story tells of Susan, 12, who lives an equable life with...
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Jill Murphy, Author Putnam Publishing Group $10.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-399-21354-0
Mrs. Large just wants five minutes' peace from her three rambunctious elephant children, that's all. But what meets her eyes one morning when she enters the kitchen? ""The children were having breakfast. This was not a pleasant sight.'' Pure...
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Jill Murphy, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0785-2
Excluded by his friends, The Last Noo-Noo's lovable monster Marlon makes up a game of his own in All for One by Jill Murphy. A satisfying tale about a common childhood scenario. (Aug.)
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Jill Murphy, Author, Jill Murphy, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-56402-018-5
Chivalry is alive and well in the dreams of Jeffrey Strangeways--a young lad of medieval times who longs to be a knight. When Jeffrey's mother breaks both her arms in an accident--thus losing her means of meager livelihood from her knitting--she...
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Jill Murphy, Author, Jill Murphy, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-248-6
``Exhausted parents everywhere,'' to whom Murphy dedicates this work, will be as tickled as their young ones by her jovial story, the fourth book featuring the Large family--those precocious, precious pachyderms who made their debut in Five Minutes'
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Jill Murphy, Author, Jill Murphy, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-581-4
Marlon, a crocodile, doesn't need a noo-noo, a pacifier, all the time: ``Only at night or if he's a little tired.'' Unfortunately, his grandmother insists he's too old to have a noo-noo at all. This tale may not be as memorable as Murphy's Five...
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Jill Murphy, Author, Jill Murphy, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-673-6
The fourth book about the ""precocious, precious pachyderms"" in the Large family is as ""droll"" and ""spirited"" as ever, said PW. Ages 3-up. (Feb.)
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Jill Murphy, Author, Jill Murphy, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0391-5
A young monster's devotion to his pacifier is frowned upon by everyone he knows. ""An appropriately lighthearted look at a situation that will hit close to home for many toddlers,"" said PW. Ages 3-5. (Apr.)
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Jill Murphy, Author, Jill Murphy, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0111-9
Perhaps elephants are meant to be fat, but Mrs. Large puts her family on a diet anyway--until they are undone by a cake that arrives as a gift. Ages 5-up. (Aug.)
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Jill Murphy. Candlewick, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8926-1
Murphy's books have often comically explored the relationships between headstrong children and frazzled parents, and this story is no exception. Roxy, a rambunctious bunny toddler, is ready to help her mother shop for groceries, but she soon starts...
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