Laurie Keller and Mo Willems. Hyperion, $9.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-4847-2635-8
Keller (the Adventures of Arnie the Doughnut) teams up with Willems for one of two titles launching the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series; vignettes featuring Willems's two pals bookend this story. "It is as exciting as watching grass grow,"...
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Laurie Keller, Author . Holt $6.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7268-6
Dr. Flossman welcomes his 32 students,—eight incisors, four canines, eight premolars, and 12 molars—to class. "Many of the book's abundant puns and asides are delivered by the teeth themselves," said PW. Ages 5-10. (Apr.)
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Laurie Keller, Author . Holt $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6282-3
In her latest so-quirky-yet-so-clever concept book, Keller (The Scrambled States of America
) takes a fresh look at numbers and some of their more, um, creative uses. Focusing largely on the look and shape of numerals, Keller introduces kindly...
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Laurie Keller, Author . Holt $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7996-8
Keller’s (The Scrambled States of America
) latest offers lessons in the social graces, featuring Mr. Rabbit and his whiskery new neighbors, the otters. “I don’t know anything about otters
,” the pink-eyed, pink-nosed...
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Laurie Keller, Author . Holt $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7997-5
Keller is once again guilty of transporting laughter across state lines in this follow-up to her hit The Scrambled States of America
. Who knew that the 50 states were such a bunch of hams? She shows readers the backstage histrionics: California...
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Laurie Keller, Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8883-0
In this cheerful advice manual, a redheaded optimist explains her philosophy. "I think the first person you see each day should look happy to see you," says Birdy, waving at herself in her bedroom mirror. She muses on the expression "say, ‘cheese!' "
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Laurie Keller, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5802-4
It's hard to imagine a more engaging (or comical) way to learn the 50 states and their locations than in this auspicious debut from Keller. Dorothy may have thought there's no place like home when she clicked her red ruby slippers, but her native...
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Laurie Keller. Holt/Ottaviano, $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9076-5
Keller continues the saga of the fast-talking star of her 2003 picture book, Arnie the Doughnut, in this funny kickoff to a heavily illustrated chapter book series. Arnie sets the scene with a brief rehash of that story, in which Mr. Bing decides (wi
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Laurie Keller, Author, Laurie Keller, Illustrator . Holt/Owlet $6.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6831-3
"Keller endows each of the 50 states with a unique personality and, as all of them develop a case of wanderlust, she presents geography lessons as clever quips exchanged across state lines," said PW
in our Best Books citation. Ages 4-9. (Ap
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Laurie Keller, Author, Laurie Keller, Illustrator . Holt $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6283-0
Arnie, a chocolate-frosted with sprinkles, "knew that people all over town made special trips... to buy doughnuts of their very own." He reminisces fondly on the frying and cooling process that brought him into the world, and casually flirts
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Laurie Keller, Author, Laurie Keller, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6192-5
Dr. Flossman welcomes his 32 students--eight incisors, four canines, eight premolars and 12 molars--to class at the start of Keller's (The Scrambled States of America) disappointingly flat lesson on tooth care and trivia. While, in her first book,...
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Laurie Keller. Holt/Ottaviano, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-10723-7
In this offbeat picture book, the clothes make the... tuber? That’s how Potato sees things, barely containing his excitement, even doing the Robot (well, “PO-bot”) before rushing down to the one-day Potato Pants sale at Lance Vance’s Fancy Pants...
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Laurie Keller. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-31196-0
In her quirky, inventive style, Keller (Potato Pants!) delivers another illuminating tale via a carefully orchestrated jumble of colors, images, and talk bubbles. When the personage in apartment 2B, a pink, beet-shaped character, asks the neighbor...
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