Michelle Dionetti, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-18602-5
Claudine, the daughter of Vincent van Gogh's charwoman, is the only person in Arles who finds the artist and his work exciting rather than threatening. She dreams of becoming an artist herself, and, as represented by Hawkes's (The Librarian Who...
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Richard Jackson, illus. by Kevin Hawkes. S&S/Atheneum/Dlouhy, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-2105-8
A giant book and a larger-than-life armchair invite a father and daughter to read with them: “Hello there, says Chair. Have a look, says Book.” (The line shows up just in time to do double duty on the title page.) Seated in the armchair, the pair...
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Robin Cruise, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Author , illus. by Kevin Hawkes. FSG/Kroupa $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-30514-7
Bartleby Huddle, a winsome three-year-old with jug-handle ears, is the joy of his opera-singing mother, his cello-playing father, his tap-dancing sister and their enthusiastic poodle. But he won't talk, no matter how much they clamor to show...
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Kevin Hawkes, Author . Knopf $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-82427-2
In this amiable tall tale, Hawkes (Library Lion
) introduces a Paul Bunyan-esque baby who wreaks havoc with lobster pots and playfully blows sailboats across a bay. On “the snowiest day of the year,”an overloaded stork struggles to...
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Kevin Hawkes, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09757-8
Miss Terry's fondness for jumping on the bed in the middle of the night sets the entire household on its ear. As she bounces rambunctiously, furniture rumbles on the floors beneath her and family members and servants alike are tossed from their beds-
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Kevin Hawkes, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-11062-8
Hawkes ( Lady Bugatti ) attempts--with only moderate success--to combine magic and whimsy in this fantasy of opposites. Lord Buckley is plucked from his snug island by a crew of well-meaning giants who ``crowned him their king / then carried him to...
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Kevin Hawkes, Knopf, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-86188-8
In this sequel to The Wicked Big Toddlah, about a humongous boy from rural Maine, Hawkes imagines a family vacation to Manhattan. Wide-eyed, cheerful Toddie, who stands several stories tall, travels to the city atop a train. As in the original,...
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Kevin Hawkes, with Hannah E. Harrison. Knopf, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-449-81085-9
Perhaps as a hat tip to their own collaboration—Harrison was once Hawkes’s intern—Hawkes (Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch) tells a story about two fictional artists who work together. Lovable, nearsighted Remy wears a baggy purple smock and bottle-botto
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-51526-9
Newbery Honor author Lasky (Sugaring Time) deserves high marks for her attempt to present formal mathematical concepts in a picture-book format. The result, however, is a somewhat uneven amalgam of fable, history and science that struggles to find...
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