Keith Graves, Author . Scholastic $16.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-439-24083-3
Graves employs the palette and outrageous humor of his Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance
for this nutty volume. "OK, so I'm Uncle Blubbafink. Hello already," growls the title character, a prunish purple guy with a black-and-white-s
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Keith Graves, Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8118-7237-9
Compared to panicky Chicken Little, Chicken Big is unflappable. Born "on a teeny little farm, in an itty-bitty coop," this newborn towers over four fellow chickens, who decide he must be an elephant (his stature recalls the "Hyde and Go Tweet"...
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Keith Graves. Chronicle, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8118-7814-2
“With no friends within a thousand miles and two long weeks to go before the sauerkraut holiday ended and school started, Josephine was certain she was doomed to face excruciating new levels of boredom.” Twelve-year-old Josephine Cravitz is curious,
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Keith Graves. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-855-2
Graves (Chicken Big) returns with an offering that’s part story, part activity book. It opens with a painting of Master Edgar Dreadbury, a boy in a red blazer who glowers from an oversize wing chair as he weighs and rejects the usual Halloween...
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Keith Graves. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-883-5
When is it all right to boss people around, and who gets to do it? Graves’s (The Monsterator) tale about scaling the hierarchy offers sharp writing, polished artwork, and some unexpected character development. The Amazing Bubbles is a shrewd monkey...
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Keith Graves. Roaring Brook/Porter, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62672-225-5
With exuberantly old-school cartooning and a wealth of sight and sound gags, Graves (Second Banana) takes readers back to a paleontologically inaccurate but very funny past to meet Trog, a cave boy who decides that a stray baby dinosaur is the puppy
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Keith Graves, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2672-3
It takes a trip to outer space and a case of role reversal to give a boy bored with his pets some perspective. One day, while searching for ever-more-novel animals, pet-collector Stanley is petnapped himself by an evil, turquoise-hued trader and...
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Keith Graves, Author, Keith Graves, Illustrator . Scholastic $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-36831-5
"All-around gung ho gal" Loretta measures her worth by the number of Pinky Scout merits she achieves. Her pink sash and lavender beret are studded with pins that attest to her accomplishments, and she "save[s] the world every Thursday.
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Keith Graves, Author, Keith Graves, Illustrator . Scholastic $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-24090-1
In this underdeveloped be-yourself story in verse, three junkyard monster songsters grow self-conscious about their looks after meeting a know-it-all butterfly. Ordinarily, the bulbous pink Grubby Gurgle, the stubbly-haired and acid-green Stanky...
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Keith Graves, Author, Keith Graves, Illustrator Chronicle Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2169-8
Ghoulish gross-outs abound in this one-joke ditty about a zombie's big break in showbiz. The opening spread pictures Frank at home, relaxing to an episode of Soul Train and accompanied by a patchwork monster-cat. Frank doesn't look like a hoofer. He'
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