Ken Robbins, Author Viking Children's Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-81600-2
This collection of hand-tinted photographs builds a sense of exhilaration about the game of baseball from the very first page. Through well-designed pages and perfect photographic composition, Robbins shows all kinds of pre-game activities: cleaning
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Ken Robbins, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-56640-4
Sharp black-and-white photographs bring the world of trucks into welcome focus for young wayfarers-to-be. Ages 7-9. (January)
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Ken Robbins, Author Dial Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0764-1
This intriguing look at the growth of a flower will leave readers of all ages in awe of two forms of art: that produced by nature, and that found in Robbins's extraordinary hand-tinted photographs. ``Sometimes beauty comes from the most unexpected...
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Ken Robbins, Author Dial Books $13.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0929-4
Robbins has become a master of well-crafted nonfiction books featuring hand-tinted photographs. His unusual process creates interest by lending a painterly element to what might otherwise be routine photographs. Here Robbins covers a broad spectrum...
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Ken Robbins, Author, Ken Robbins, Illustrator . Roaring Brook/Porter $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-184-3
Robbins (Tools
; Seeds
) provides a crisp photographic account of Halloween's iconic veggie. The horizontal alignment of the pages and color photos creates stability, while a monotone voice and close-up pictures detail the planting process from...
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Ken Robbins, Author, Ken Robbins, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82664-1
Handsome tinted photos portray a fleet of tractor-trailers and semis as they cross the country. The hand-colored photos add a sometimes retro, sometimes otherworldly look to the varied highway terrain and the big skies over the big rigs. Robbins (Aut
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Ken Robbins, Author, Ken Robbins, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83025-9
Robbins (Trucks) briefly traces the history of the American buffalo from 1875, when ""there were perhaps fifty million of them,"" to the present, in which laws protect the surviving 200,000. ""This is the story of a great shaggy creature, a very...
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Ken Robbins, Author, Ken Robbins, Illustrator Scholastic Press $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-29879-7
Robbins's (the Elements series) striking photo-essay will prove indispensable for fall nature walks. In effect, it is an album of autumn leaves, shown life-size and in their changing colors; Robbins has veered from his characteristic medium of...
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Ken Robbins, Author, Ken Robbins, Photographer Atheneum Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83024-2
This fall, a bumper crop of informational titles feeds hungry minds. Apples by Ken Robbins uses hand-tinted photographs and accessible text to explain how apples are grown, harvested, pressed into cider and otherwise used as food. An author's...
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Ken Robbins, Author, Ken Robbins, Photographer Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2257-5
In this stunning debut volume of the photo-essay series The Elements, Robbins (Power Machines; Bridges) combines handtinted photographs and spare, poetic text to celebrate the many forms and uses of water. Oversized pages and an understated design...
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Ken Robbins, Author, Ken Robbins, Photographer Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1410-5
Who but Robbins ( Bridges ) could make a backhoe look ethereal? His distinctive hand-tinted photographs employ a technique in vogue during the earlier part of this century, and the air of nostalgia resulting from the soft focus and subdued palette...
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