Joanne Oppenheim, Author, Miriam Latimer, Illustrator , illus. by Miriam Latimer. Barefoot $16.99 (28p) ISBN 978-1-84148-597-3
Oppenheim's (The Miracle of the First Poinsettia
) alliterative rolling, rhyming verse, centers on a young prince in a faraway kingdom who refuses to go to sleep at bedtime. The king loudly issues a royal request: "If anyone knows how
/ to...
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Joanne Oppenheim, illus. by Jon Davis. Albert Whitman, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-4182-1
In a story set on New York City’s Rivington Street in roughly the same period evoked in William Steig’s When Everyone Wore a Hat, two immigrant families open knisheries—bakeries selling savory dumplings—right across from each other. Free market...
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Joanne Oppenheim, illus. by Miriam Latimer. Barefoot, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-78285-074-8
The young royal who refused sleep in 2006’s The Prince’s Bedtime turns out to be a picky eater, too: “He sipped his hot chocolate; he ate his toast dry./ But to all other offerings, he said, ‘No, not I.’ ” The king and queen whisk their son on an...
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