Kay Chorao, Author Dutton Books $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44293-6
What George tells his younger sister Kate is enough to give her elephant-size frets and worries. When Kate must clean her room, George tells her she will get spanked if she doesn't do a good job. When Kate attends her first day of school, George...
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Kay Chorao. Abrams, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0520-5
Chorao (All the Seasons of the Year) introduces an anthropomorphic puppy with a big heart and a nose for trouble in this uneven collection of four tales. Even when Sam is being “bad,” his intentions are anything but. He disrupts his grandparents’...
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Kay Chorao, Author ABRAMS $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4927-0
An abecedarian tribute to the historical city, D Is for Drums: A Colonial Williamsburg ABC by Kay Chorao brims with period-influenced artwork and historically appropriate vocabulary (starting with ""A is for Apothecary shop""). In the corner of each
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Kay Chorao, Author Dutton Books $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-525-47327-5
Two reissues of Kate Chorao's nursery compendiums, The Baby's Bedtime Book and The Baby's Lap Book, pair the artist's soft spring-like watercolors with familiar rhymes. The first title contains comforting poems by William Blake, Robert Louis ...
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Kay Chorao, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-055286-7
A baby brother turns out to be more pest than pal; PW enjoyed the ``detailed and engaging'' pictures accompanying this ``lilting and funny'' tale. Ages 4-8. (June)
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Kay Chorao, Author Dutton Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-45238-6
Four-legged cousins don't always hit it off in Chorao's second book about Annie ( The Cherry Pie Baby ). This story, about the ambivalent affections of two young relatives, lacks subtlety, with polar-opposite personae locking horns. Cousin Precious...
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Kay Chorao, Author Puffin Books $4.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44823-5
This warm, enchanting story concerns a homeless rodent who finds a dwelling in an unexpected place; ``Chorao's drawings,'' commented PW , ``are splendid--full of wonder and life. The. . .stained glass windows glow like the love Mouse finds in his...
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Kay Chorao, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-80198-6
Known for her appealing illustrations for the very young in such collections as The Baby's Bedtime Book and The Baby's Lap Book , Chorao here presents an anthology of well-known holiday prose, poetry and carols. Her sprightly, carefully done pastels
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Kay Chorao, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44649-1
``Children who have to contend with devilish older siblings will delight in this charming book,'' noted PW about this collection of three tales starring obstreperous George and his easily intimidated little sister. Ages 3-6. (Oct.)
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Kay Chorao, Author Dutton Books $12.95 (61p) ISBN 978-0-525-44328-5
Children who cuddled up with Chorao's The Baby's Story Book and The Baby's Lap Book can graduate to the fairy tales collected in this volume. In addition to ""Jack and the Beanstalk,'' ``Hansel and Gretel,'' ``The Pied Piper'' and ``The Ugly...
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Kay Chorao, Author HarperCollins Publishers $9.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-06-021274-2
Oink and Pearl return in three fresh I Can Read vignettes, wielding their own funny brand of sibling love. Oink can't quite remember why the day is special until he realizes that it's Pearl's birthday. He tries to concoct a super-fizz sodawith...
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Kay Chorao, Author . Dutton $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-46685-7
At the start of Chorao's (Here Comes Kate) somewhat slim story, the moon shines through the rustling curtains of James's bedroom window, creating shadows that look like monsters to the frightened child. When the boy's father pulls the...
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Kay Chorao, Author Dutton Children's Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-47199-8
Kay Chorao brings her warm, gentle illustrations to another volume for infants in The Baby's Book of Baby Animals. As in her previous books (The Baby's Lap Book; The Baby's Bedtime Book; etc.), she compiles nursery rhymes and poems, both...
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Kay Chorao, Author Dutton Books $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-525-45409-0
Gentle and sweet, sentimental without being cloying, this wholesome collection of poems is by far the most varied and sophisticated of Chorao's anthologies (The Baby's Bedtime Book; The Baby's Story Book). The selection of poems represents a wide...
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Kay Chorao, Author . Holt $6.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7261-7
"This quaint domestic drama centers on a lonely pig who bakes to lift his spirits and ultimately finds solace in nature," PW
wrote. Ages 4-7. (May)
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Kay Chorao, Author Dutton Books $18.99 (58p) ISBN 978-0-525-47330-5
Two reissues of Kate Chorao's nursery compendiums, The Baby's Bedtime Book and The Baby's Lap Book, pair the artist's soft spring-like watercolors with familiar rhymes. The first title contains comforting poems by William Blake, Robert Louis ...
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Kay Chorao, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-055384-0
``This lovely volume is going to spread joy in many a household for years,'' said PW about this charmingly illustrated collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, William Blake, Christina Rossetti and many others. Ages 1-4. (Sept.)
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Kay Chorao, Author Holiday House $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1142-9
Directed by the natty Ringmaster Rat, a menagerie of performing farm animals poses simple math problems in Chorao's (Cathedral Mouse) frolicsome book. The festively costumed creatures spill out of a circus wagon, then reappear in various...
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Kay Chorao, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-055738-1
PW called this collection of 15 illustrated nursery tales ``perfect for sharing with a little one cuddled up close.'' Ages 1-6. (Oct.)
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Kay Chorao, Author Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5053-0
Chorao (Baby's Lap Book) presents an onlooker's view of Long Island, N.Y.'s Smallholdings Farm and those who make it run. Opening in the relatively quiet winter months, the narrative follows Farmer Brown and his family through four seasons, as they...
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Kay Chorao, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-056237-8
Characters from eight nursery rhymes act out the verses, and end up tucked in bed together under the night sky. ""[Chorao's] art conjures up a twinkly atmosphere, appropriate for the very youngest readers,"" said PW. Ages 2-6. (Nov.)
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Kay Chorao, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-056363-4
Babyhood favorites like Jack and Jill and Little Miss Muffet inspire soft and sweet colored-pencil illustrations. All ages. (Apr.)
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Kay Chorao, Author, Kay Chorao, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5863-5
Chorao's (Little Farm by the Sea) quaint domestic drama centers on a lonely pig who bakes to lift his spirits and ultimately finds solace in nature. Whenever crafty Crow smells one of Pig's freshly made desserts, he swoops down and offers to trade...
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Kay Chorao, Author, Kay Chorao, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1251-8
Chorao (Number One Number Fun) tailors the Nativity accounts from the King James Bible to a young readership, using slightly simplified language and phrasing. Large, decorated initials on each text page typically feature an animal from the story;...
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Kay Chorao, Author, Kay Chorao, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1405-5
A family of frisky felines make the scene in this picture book containing a trio of sweet-natured stories. Like siblings everywhere, Martha, Jake and Sam bicker and tease one another, but in Chorao's (Little Farm by the Sea) hands, the kittens...
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Kay Chorao, Author, Kay Chorao, Illustrator Random House Children's Books $7.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-375-81257-6
Board books and novelty titles abound this season. Kay Chorao's Baby's Christmas Treasury is now available for youngest readers. From Clement C. Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas to traditional Christmas songs, Chorao's whimsical pen-and-ink...
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Kay Chorao, Author, Kay Chorao, Illustrator Dutton Books $15.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-525-45064-1
Chorao ( The Baby's Bedtime Book ) assembles familiar and lesser-known characters from eight nursery rhymes to playact the verses, providing pictorial transitions between each. In ``Donkey, Donkey, old and gray . . . '' a boy throws off his donkey...
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Kay Chorao, Author, Kay Chorao, Illustrator Dutton Books $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-525-44257-8
The Baby's Good Morning Book is a companion volume to Kay Chorao's splendid earlier work, The Baby's Bedtime Book. As the author explains in a liner note, ""I wanted this book to be bright and happily aliveand to grow more awake as the pages are...
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Kay Chorao, Author, Lucia Monfried, Editor Dutton Books $14.95 (6p) ISBN 978-0-525-44630-9
In addition to the familiar tales about Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel, this companion volume to The Child's Story Book includes ``The Ants That Pushed on the Sky,'' a Native American story about a brave betrayed by his friend, and the East...
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Jandelyn Southwell, Author, Jamie Southwell, Author, Kay Chorao, Author Henry Holt & Company $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5711-9
""In a quiet country town,/ by a dusty little road,/ there's a great green field/ where the wildflowers grow,"" begins debut writer Southwell and veteran artist Chorao's (Pig and Crow) seductive paean to a country childhood. The eponymous town...
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Kay Choro, Author, Kay Chorao, Author Dutton Books $12.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-525-44435-0
Annie gets more than she bargained for in this cheerfully illustrated picture book. She wants a baby brother, but what she gets (after swapping five cherry pies for Beau's brother Claude) is trouble. Annie is surprised when Claude doesn't behave...
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