Lloyd Alexander, Author Dutton Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-44564-7
It is 1876, and in Philadelphia the opening of the Centennial Exposition, already delayed several times, is threatened by the fiendish Doctor Helvitius. This megalomaniac has kidnapped two children in the care of the emperor of Brazil and vows to...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Dutton Books $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-525-47371-8
Vesper Holly returns in The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander, and sets out with her pals for the Troy of Homer's Iliad-only to discover they've been led into a trap set by Dr. Helvitius, who imprisons the group in a palace called Xanadu. .
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-130816-6
The ill-starred pioneer family of Mary Jane Auch's Journey to Nowhere and Frozen Summer returns in The Road to Home. This installment, set in 1817, finds 13-year-old Remembrance Nye leading her younger siblings back from upstate New York to their...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (107p) ISBN 978-0-14-130704-6
Lionel the Cat gets a taste of what it's like to walk on two legs when his magician-owner grants his wish to be a man. This action-packed fantasy follows Lionel as he encounters both the bright and dark sides of being human. Ages 10-14.(Mar.)
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Dutton Books $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-525-46121-0
""Skinny as a smoked herring; long-shanked, bright-eyed, with cheekbones sharp enough to whittle a stick,"" the half-Gypsy girl Rizka lives with her impudent cat, Petzel, in a dilapidated caravan just outside the town of Greater Dunitsa. On her own...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Dutton Books $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-45597-4
A master storyteller draws loosely on the great myths and literature of India in this semi-mystical epic adventure. It begins with a riveting scene: bound by the principles of dharma (the code of honor), the young king Tamar receives a disagreeable...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Dutton Books $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-45415-1
Lucian flees corrupt palace officials in pre-classical Greece, his flight becoming a quest to discover his role in life. Soon, he's trying to help a second-rate poet turned donkey regain human form. Roaming the land, he also gets caught up in the...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Dutton Books $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-44826-6
When Prince Jen hears of the happy, prosperous land of T'ien-kuo, he vows to seek out its ruler and learn from his example. And so he sets out, bearing six humble gifts for the emperor of T'ien-kuo. Readers versed in the logic of fairy tales will...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Dutton Books $13.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-525-44481-7
Often, when YA novelists allow their characters to venture into foreign climes, an exotic locale serves little purpose but as a quaint backdrop. But fortunately for readers, Alexander makes the most of any territory Vesper Holly sets out to conquer.
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-037825-2
Eight short stories explore the mythical land of Prydain, the setting of the acclaimed fantasy series that includes the 1969 Newbery Medal winner, The High King (1969). Ages 8-12. (Feb.)
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Yearling Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40605-1
This fifth starring vehicle for Vesper Holly finds the spirited heroine tangling with villainy at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Lloyd Alexander, Author . Dutton $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-46677-2
Alexander (Gypsy Rizka; the Prydain Chronicles) here intersperses adventure-filled fantasies with a semi-autobiographical account of growing up in Philadelphia in the late 1920s. When a serious bout with pneumonia leaves 11-year-old David too weak...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Dutton Books $13.95 (14p) ISBN 978-0-525-44250-9
With this new novel, Alexander adds another delightful adventure to his many popular and award-winning books. (His Prydain Cycle was adapted for the recent Disney movie, The Black Cauldron.) This time, the intrepid protagonist is 16-year-old Vesper...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author . Holt $16.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8333-0
This posthumously published novel from Alexander, who died this spring, is an exuberant and compassionate tale of adventure. Kicked out of his merchant uncle’s house, inveterate daydreamer Carlo leaves the island of Magenta (not far from...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author . Puffin $5.99 (152p) ISBN 978-0-14-131238-5
In this addition to his Vesper Holly adventures, she and her guardian, Brinnie, head to the remote desert city of Bel-Saaba in Jedera (in North Africa). "The author succeeds in combining impeccably paced adventure with a thoughtful,...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author . Dutton $16.99 (195p) ISBN 978-0-525-47020-5
The undercurrent of melancholy running beneath (and occasionally bursting to the surface of) this fanciful tale makes it as memorable as Alexander's previous Chronicles of Prydain and Westmark trilogy. After the death of her bitter and unkind...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author . Puffin $6.99 (195p) ISBN 978-0-14-240119-4
Magician Lidi recruits an orphan and an outcast as she seeks out the great Ferramondo to learn the one magic trick she is unable to do. PW
said, "Even as the outsize characterizations and rollicking adventure amuse, the compassionate vision of...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author . Puffin $6.99 (273p) ISBN 978-0-14-240225-2
When the titular prince hears of another happy, prosperous land, he vows to seek out its ruler and learn from his example. PW
wrote, "The prince's travels are pleasantly reminiscent of the coming-of-age journeys found in the author's...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Dutton Books $12.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-525-44389-6
In her latest bout with villainy, Vesper Holly of The Illyrian Adventure and The El Dorado Adventure is accompanied by her legal guardians Professor Brinton and his wife Mary to Drackenberg to attend the Diamond Jubilee of the Grand Duchess....
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (206p) ISBN 978-0-14-037827-6
A boy named Jason has nine historical adventures with the help of Gareth, his talking, time-traveling cat. Ages 8-12. (Feb.)
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Puffin Books $7.99 (283p) ISBN 978-0-14-130348-2
This semi-mystical epic adventure draws loosely on the great myths and literature of India. ""The imaginative scope of the story and its philosophical complexities will make this an exciting journey for the reader,"" said PW. Ages 10-14. (July)
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Lloyd Alexander, Author Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7270-9
Beloved novels return for a new generation of readers. Lloyd Alexander's first fantasy, Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth was published in 1963, before he went on to write the Newbery Honor book The Black Cauldron (1965) and...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author, Byron Schachner, Illustrator, Judith Byron Schachner, Illustrator Lloyd Alexander , illus. by Judith Byron Schachner. Picture Puffin $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-14-250003-3
Cat has more than he can handle when Mother Holly leaves him in charge of her cottage, as he causes rainstorms, winds and thunderbolts. "Older readers will enjoy the rhythmical sentences and witty dialogue," said PW. Ages 5-8. (Feb.)
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Lloyd Alexander, Author, Trina Schart Hyman, Illustrator Puffin Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-056233-0
""Alexander's chipper text has a jaunty and infectious `just so' tone,"" said PW in a starred review of this original folktale about a crooked fortune teller who predicts wealth and happiness for a carpenter. Ages 3-8. (Oct.)
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Lloyd Alexander, Author, Trina Schart Hyman, Illustrator Dutton Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44849-5
The hands of fate deftly propel this original folktale. A seedy fortune-teller profits from gullible and sometimes desperate villagers who seek predictions for a rosier future. One unhappy carpenter takes to heart the seer's hardly helpful advice--``
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Lloyd Alexander, Author, Diane Goode, Illustrator Dutton Books $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-45289-8
Newbery Medalist Alexander, storyteller par excellence, effortlessly whips up a confection featuring a feckless fellow named Tooley, his clever cat Gladsake, and Hooks, a no-good member of the Friendly Folk. Hoping for his luck to change, Tooley...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author, Diane Goode, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-056504-1
PW gave a starred review to this ""utterly delicious"" tale about a feckless fellow, his clever cat and a member of the so-called Friendly Folk, saying that the art's ""elfin charm matches the text's sprightly originality."" Ages 3-8. (Feb.)
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Lloyd Alexander, Author, S. November, Editor Puffin Books $5.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-130980-4
This story of a sharp-witted street urchin, ""rich with comic exaggeration and the folksy cadences of a tall tale, brings to mind the author's lighthearted Vesper Holly books rather than his more serious-minded Westmark trilogy,"" wrote PW. Ages 10-1
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Lloyd Alexander, Author, Laszlo Kubinyi, Illustrator, Laszlo Kubrnyi, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-130122-8
Alexander works his usual magic with these eight tales of remarkable felines: in one, Pescato and a mayor trade places to outwit a royal villain; in another, Quickset tricks a greedy grocer with the promise of a golden egg. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
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Lloyd Alexander, Author, Judith Byron Schachner, Illustrator Dutton Children's Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-46449-5
Like the sorcerer's apprentice, Cat has more than he can handle when Mother Holly leaves him in charge of her cottage. To clean up a spill, Cat uses the watering can, but it unexpectedly causes a full-fledged rainstorm; the bellows he uses to fan a...
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Lloyd Alexander, Author, D. Brent Burkett, Illustrator , illus. by D. Brent Burkett. Cricket $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8126-2736-7
Each of Alexander's (the Prydain Chronicles) five stories explores how the relationship between a talking cat, Dream-of-Jade, and Kwan-Yu, Celestial Emperor of China's Middle Kingdom, gradually frees the Emperor from his advisers'...
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