Lisa Brown, Harper, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-114011-2
Bela, a vampire with a fanged overbite, and his witch friend, Morgan, set out to look for children on Halloween night, though they aren't sure they exist ("I've heard they like to swing and climb," Bela says). But when they attend a party, they...
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Lisa Brown, Author, Lisa Brown, Illustrator . HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-054635-9
Brown (Baby, Mix Me a Drink
), the author of faux
children's titles for an adult audience, now turns in a picture book intended for children despite an archness of tone. Six sections with a few pages each include suggestions disguised as aping...
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Adele Griffin, illus. by Lisa Brown, Sourcebooks Fire, $14.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4022-3712-6
In this smartly restrained ghost story, orphan Jennie has already lost her twin brother to the Civil War, but when her brooding cousin, Quinn, returns wounded to their Massachusetts home, she learns that Will—Quinn's brother and Jennie's fiancé—is...
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Cathleen Daly, illus. by Lisa Brown. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-59643-469-1
Daly (Prudence Wants a Pet) offers a picture book with a middle-grade sensibility, examining the way that creating art can help dispel distress—in this case, the sadness that accompanies parental separation. Emily is already interested in art when...
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Lisa Brown. Roaring Brook/Porter, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62672-091-6
Brown (Mummy Cat) traces an airplane journey through the eyes of a family: two parents, a son, and his toddler sister. The title page introduces the device on which the story hangs as the parents tell each other not to forget the toddler’s favorite...
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Lisa Brown. Algonquin, $14.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-61620-503-4
Brown (The Phantom Twin) condenses classic and contemporary literature into summary comic strips, usually (though not always) three panels long in this feather-light collection. Sometimes she achieves the laugh: Interview with the Vampire is...
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Lisa Brown. First Second, $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-62672-924-7
Raised in a sideshow since age three, 16-year-old conjoined twins Isabel and Jane, who share an arm and a leg, have made a life in a traveling carnival and a family of the other performers. When Jane, the dominant and more outgoing twin, agrees to...
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