Edited by Jon Scieszka. Soho Teen, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-61695-152-8
In Scieszka’s anthology, which benefits Dave Eggers’s literary nonprofit 826NYC, 83 authors provide their alibis for the murder of editor Herman Q. Mildew (“the most hated man in ALL publishing,” as Peter Brown puts it). Most of the backhanded...
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Jon Scieszka, Author , illus. by David Shannon, Loren Long and David Gordon. Simon & Schuster $16.99 (42p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4133-0
Little gearheads will rally to this demolition derby, carried out by a gregarious all-motorized cast. Jack Truck, a red flatbed with chrome exhaust stacks, and best friend Dump Truck Dan, a blue guy with a yellow cab and mud flaps, adore the smash...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Daniel Adel, Illustrator, Dan Adel, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-84330-5
Scieszka ( The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales ) and Adel lend a few demented twists to familiar nursery verse in this puzzlesome but polished yarn. As in the ``House That Jack Built,'' a cause-and-effect chain is steadily built (``Th
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Lane Smith, Joint Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator Viking Books $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-86194-1
Whew! This latest whimsical work from Scieszka and Smith (The True Story of the Three Little Pigs; The Stinky Cheese Man) is bound to stretch out the old thinking cap. The day after her teacher announces, ""You know, you can think of almost...
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Jon Scieszka and Francesco Sedita, illus. by Shane Prigmore, Simon & Schuster, $14.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7951-7
Michael K. (nudge nudge, young Kafka fans) is hoping for a smooth transition as he starts fifth grade at a new school in Brooklyn. But things go downhill when two weirdoes named Jennifer and Bob glom onto him, revealing that they're aliens from the...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, David Shannon, Illustrator , illus. by David Shannon. S&S $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4169-6394-3
Scieszka and Shannon take a detour from their Trucktown series to pay homage to another object of childhood fascination. Robot Zot, a malevolent red contraption, crash lands “into the heart of the dangerous Earth Army” (a backyard) and...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator , illus. by Lane Smith. Viking $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-91057-1
Here the science instructor takes over the role assumed by the math teacher in Math Curse
, as the madcap collaborators deliver another riotous lesson. They cover such topics as the human body, black holes, dinosaurs, atoms, planets and the...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.99 (74p) ISBN 978-0-14-036360-9
Another adventure featuring the three boy heroes of The Good, the Bad and the Goofy and Scieszka's other time-travel comedies, this action-packed tale takes the trio to ancient Egypt. Ages 7-11. (July)
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator Viking Books $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-84487-6
Grade-school irreverence abounds in this compendium of (extremely brief) fractured fairy tales, which might well be subtitled ``All Things Gross and Giddy.'' With a relentless application of the sarcasm that tickled readers of The True Story of the...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator , illus. by Lane Smith. Viking $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-91058-8
Scieszka and Smith (Math Curse
) unpack a bin of old toys and comics for this characteristically oddball entry. Their title page, which depicts a pair of scissors beside a sheet of “Western Heroes” paper dolls and an undersea comic book,
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator . Viking $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-670-05986-7
It all started when I told my friend Art I would meet him on the corner of Fifth and Fifty-Third," says the narrator of this homage to the redesigned Museum of Modern Art. The boy naively asks pedestrians if they have seen his friend Art, and...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator , illus. by Lane Smith. Viking $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-89248-8
This book's gleaming silver cover and little green namesake signal intergalactic adventure. Fortunately, Scieszka and Smith (Squids Will Be Squids) prefer innovation to UFO clichés, and this tale of an alien truant is also a language game....
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator, Adam McCauley, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-670-84380-0
The third field trip of the Time Warp Trio lands them in the heart of the Old West. Far from enjoying the pulsating adventure of TV westerns, however, Fred, Sam and Joe suffer the dust-choked, mosquito-infested monotony of a cattle drive--until the...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator, Molly Leach, Designed by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-670-88135-2
Scieszka and Smith, creators of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, turn their attention away from fairy tales to reinvent the fable, thinly disguising sage bits of advice as pithy morals.
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Steve Johnson, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-83421-1
Will Scieszka, who set the record straight in his bestselling The True Story of the Three Little Pigs , let the Frog Prince and the princess who kissed him live happily ever after? Well, maybe--but first the two must weather various marital...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, A. Wolf, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator Viking Books $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-82759-6
In this gaily newfangled version of a classic tale, Scieszka and Smith ( Flying Jake ) argue in favor of the villain, transforming the story of the three little pigs into a playfully suspicious, rather arch account of innocence beleaguered. Quoth...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, A. Wolf, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator Puffin Books $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-054451-0
""Designed with uncommon flair,"" said PW, this ""gaily newfangled version of the classic tale"" takes sides with the villain. ""Imaginative watercolors eschew realism, further updating the tale."" A Spanish-language reprint will be issued...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Adam McCauley, Illustrator, Puffin, Manufactured by Puffin Books $14.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-230058-9
While fans of 20th-century time travelers Fred, Sam and Joe may already own the hardcovers, new readers and die-hard fans will relish the arrival of The Time Warp Trio Gift Set. This tidy paperback collection contains books one through four in...
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Jon Scieszka, Author, Steve Johnson, Illustrator Puffin Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-054285-1
The fabled amphibian meets with marital discord; according to PW, ``stylized, sophisticated pictures add to the keen humor of this revisionist revelry.'' Ages 5-up. (Sept.)
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Jon Scieszka, Author, S. Lobo, Author, Maria Negroni, Translator Puffin Books $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-055758-9
""Designed with uncommon flair,"" said PW, this ""gaily newfangled version of the classic tale"" takes sides with the villain. ""Imaginative watercolors eschew realism, further updating the tale."" A Spanish-language reprint will be issued...
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Jon Scieszka, illus. by Brian Biggs. Abrams/Amulet, $13.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1218-0
Scieszka (the Spaceheadz series) pulls in an array of scientific, cultural, and historical allusions and references—Einstein and Frankenstein, sure, but also James Bond, Edison vs. Tesla, the CERN particle collider, and more—in this first book in...
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Edited by Nick Healy. Capstone/Switch Press, $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-63079-012-7
More than 40 brief true stories from Pete Hautman, Alison McGhee, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka and others address a vast range of experiences and emotions that will be painfully familiar to teens or anyone who ever was one. Several stories, like Rachael...
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Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett, illus. by Matthew Myers. Simon & Schuster, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-4673-1
Scieszka and Barnett wonder what would happen if the young recipient of a dorky picture book, Birthday Bunny, decided to... improve its treacly text and soppy pictures, and make himself the hero to boot. Scrawling in pencil over the original story...
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Jon Scieszka, illus. by Julia Rothman. Candlewick, $19.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9434-0
In this children’s literature hat trick, Scieszka (the AstroNuts series) and Rothman (Can I Eat That?) mash up a loving spoof of the Blanche Fisher Wright classic, an introduction to Dadaism, and a tribute to Raymond Queneau’s renowned literary...
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Jon Scieszka, illus. by Steven Weinberg. Chronicle, $14.99 (220p) ISBN 978-1-4521-7119-7
Scieszka (the Frank Einstein series) and Weinberg (Fred & The Lumberjack) begin a new middle grade series with this tale of ecological stewardship and teamwork centered on the search for a Goldilocks planet: neither too hot nor too cold, and able to
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