Nancy Raines Day, illus. by Kurt Cyrus. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0060-2
In this calm counting book, Day (A Is for Alliguitar) numbers elements in nature: “What in the world comes one by one?/ A nose. A mouth. The moon. The sun.” Day’s rhyming text follows this formula from one to 10, detailing things that come “two by...
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Kurt Cyrus, Author . Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202205-1
Bold, inventive artwork lends high spirits to Cyrus's (Slow Train to Oxmox) down-and-dirty view of a garden. Full-bleed pictures share the eye-popping scale and dimensionality of David Kirk's Miss Spider books, but the palette is realistic...
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Kurt Cyrus, illus. by David Gordon. Disney-Hyperion, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-6822-5
A robot dog seems like the ideal pet until it gets one look at a neighborhood cat. Then its special features kick in of their own accord, and the dumbfounded owner, a redheaded boy named Flip, finds himself airborne. At the other end of the leash,...
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Kurt Cyrus, illus. by Crab Scrambly. Disney-Hyperion, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4231-3846-4
A boy with ruby locks tours a graveyard, glimpsing the sinister circumstances behind each resident’s death. Pictures and poems don’t beat around the gravestone: “Freddie picked his nose and now he’s dead, dead, dead./ He picked and picked and picked
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Kurt Cyrus, Author, Kurt Cyrus, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-37047-3
With this story of a hurried man who boards a sluggish train, Cyrus (Tangle Town) conjures the feeling of being unable to escape a bad dream. Corporate drone Edwin Blink is late for work; drizzle blurs his owlish glasses. Rather than board the sleek
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Kurt Cyrus, Author, Kurt Cyrus, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-37384-9
Here's a debut picture book with a few twists. While trying to push open a door that reads ""Pull,"" Tangle Town's mayor complains of ""blisters."" As in a game of Telephone, he is misunderstood: his listeners shout about ""blasters,"" call for ""pla
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Kurt Cyrus. Holt/Ottaviano, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62779-273-8
Cyrus elevates the humble brick in more ways than one in an effervescent picture book set at a busy construction site, where hard hat–wearing men, women, and children build a palatial structure. First, though, the bricks need to be made: “Dig the...
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Kurt Cyrus. Beach Lane, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5848-1
In a nest by a springtime pond, several baby Canada geese hatch from their eggs, but one straggler remains in its shell. In gentle urging verse that seems to channel the voice of the geese’s mother, Cyrus (Billions of Bricks) addresses the gosling...
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Kurt Cyrus. Holt/Ottaviano, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-22907-6
This picture book companion to Billions of Bricks begins with a comedic conceit: the brown-skinned narrator and their pale sister Lizzie attempt to place an order for “a trillium, please,” only for the salesperson to hear “a trillion trees.” After...
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