Lois Ehlert, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-224435-4
``Apple to Zucchini, / come take a look. / Start eating your way / through this alphabet book.'' So begins this delectable feast of fruits and vegetables, in a diverse and plentiful array. Each turn of the page reveals a mouth-watering arrangement...
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Lois Ehlert, Author Voyager Paperbacks $7 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-202095-8
With her signature masterfully designed cut-paper (and found-object) collages, Ehlert takes a time-worn topic--building a snowman--and makes it ""as fresh as new-fallen snow,"" said PW. Ages 3-8. (Oct.)
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Lois Ehlert, Author Red Wagon Books $6.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-15-205055-9
Favorite titles are now available as board books for smallest hands. Upon the original publication, in 1987, of Lois Ehlert's electric-hued Growing Vegetable Soup, PW called it a ""zesty introduction to vivid abstract art."" With just one phrase...
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Lois Ehlert, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-201739-2
""Top cat"" is just that--the pet who rules the roost. That is, until a striped kitten arrives on the scene. Angry and jealous at first, the older cat hisses and bites, letting the new arrival know who's boss. But once the cat realizes the kitten is
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Lois Ehlert, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-200986-1
""Ehlert brings her fresh, distinctive eye for color and design to the world of birds,"" said PW about this collection of ""stunning"" cutout compositions, ""at once an inspiring introduction to bird-watching and a pure visual treat."" Ages 3-8. (Mar
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Lois Ehlert, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-200074-5
Only an artist as gifted as Ehlert (Nuts to You!) could take so well-worn a topic as building a snowman and make it as fresh as-well, new-fallen snow. Her faultless sense of design immediately engages the reader: tidy white circles dot the gray...
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Lois Ehlert, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-257647-9
A squirrel's increasingly intrepid explorations--around the birdfeeder, up to the window box and into the apartment through a tear in the screen--are the springboard for cut-paper collages as striking as any in Ehlert's considerable portfolio. But...
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Lois Ehlert, Author Red Wagon Books $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-204633-0
In a companion to Growing Vegetable Soup, Lois Ehlert's signature stylized shapes and flat, bright colors bring forth a bountiful garden in Planting a Rainbow. Die-cut pages featuring one color per spread play up this celebration of seeds...
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Lois Ehlert, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-266197-7
Ehlert ( Color Zoo ) uses a variety of materials--including paper, ribbons and paints--to depict the beginning of a sugar maple's life. Some time after seeds fall from a tree in the woods, nursery workers collect the slender sprouts; years later the
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Lois Ehlert, Author Harcourt Children's Books $13 (20p) ISBN 978-0-15-201506-0
Ehlert (Color Zoo) works visual magic in showing how an artist's creativity flows through the hands. Straightforward text in the voice of an observant child relates the many ways in which family members work with their hands to create small...
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Lois Ehlert, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-230550-5
Ehlert ( Fish Eyes ; Color Zoo ) brings her fresh, distinctive eye for color and design to the world of birds. Twelve of the most familiar appear--pursued but never truly threatened by a bell-wearing cat--in this collection of stunning cutout...
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Lois Ehlert, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-228050-5
``If you could truly have a wish, would you wish to be a fish?'' This question, posed at the end of Ehlert's ( Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ) latest, typically tropical-hued offering, will be answered with resounding affirmatives from captivated readers.
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Lois Ehlert, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-232580-0
Using her characteristically vibrant palette, Ehlert details the raising of a vegetable garden to make ``the best soup ever.'' A recipe is included in this book which PW termed a ``zesty introduction to vivid abstract art.'' Ages 2-7. (Mar.)
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Lois Ehlert, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-228051-2
``Flashy fish'' in Ehlert's typically electric hues swim through this imaginative counting book. Ages 2-6. (Aug.)
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Lois Ehlert, Author Harcourt Children's Books $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-205107-5
Lois Ehlert's Hands: Growing Up to Be an Artist (1997) returns with slightly reworked trimmings, but keeps the same die-cut pages-in the shapes of scissors, seed packets and more-as well as a ""paint box"" that opens. PW said of the original, ""Ehler
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Lois Ehlert, S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0289-8
Ehlert returns to the territory of her
Oodles of Animals (2008) with another illustrated collection of animal-inspired rhymes. The title is a bit of a misnomer, as not all the creatures within have spots; rather, the book focuses on how spots,...
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Ehlert (Hands; Market Day) again spreads her creative wings to deliver this inventively designed picture book about caterpillars' metamorphosis into butterflies. Nestled against a verdant spring-garden backdrop formed by the front end paper and...
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Lois Ehlert, Author . Harcourt $17 (52p) ISBN 978-0-15-206274-3
Ehlert (Wag a Tail
) finds freshreason to marvel at creatures great and small in this vibrant, oversize book, longer than her previous titles. Portraits of various animals, from caterpillar to elephant, each pair with a short rhyme about what makes...
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Lois Ehlert, Author . Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205843-2
I
n Ehlert’s (Leaf Man
) snazzy cut-paper world, dogs are definitely allowed—at the farmer’s market and, of course at the dog park—especially if they are graduates of the Bow Wow obedience school. As told from the pooches̵
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Lois Ehlert, Author . Harcourt/Voyager $7 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-205429-8
According to PW
, "Ehlert's work enters the realm of the abstract, suggesting the interconnectedness of nature through a complex blend of shapes, colors and images." All ages. (Jan.)
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Lois Ehlert, Author Harcourt $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-205304-8
Ehlert (Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
) returns to one of her favorite themes—the rainbow beauty of autumn leaves—for this refreshing riff on leaf peeping and collecting. A narrator recalls the Leaf Man that used to live nearby but recently blew
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Lois Ehlert, Author . Harcourt/ Voyager $7 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-205064-1
According to PW
, "A squirrel's increasingly intrepid explorations are the springboard for cut-paper collages as striking as any in Ehlert's considerable portfolio." Ages 3-7. (Aug.)
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Lois Ehlert, Author . Harcourt $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-216584-0
Keenly aware of the cycles of the natural world, Ehlert (Waiting for Wings
) focuses her eye for vibrant hues and her ear for fascinating rhythms on a cherry tree and its many fruitful characteristics. An unseen child narrator is dubious when Dad...
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Lois Ehlert, Author . Harcourt/Voyager $6 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-216820-9
"Ehlert parades her personal collection of folk art, hailing from countries as diverse as Guatemala, Indonesia and Africa, across crisply designed pages in this exuberant picture book," wrote PW. Ages 3-7. (Aug.)
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Lois Ehlert, Author . Harcourt $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-216269-6
Unlike her past efforts such as Color Zoo
and Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On, which demonstrated the concrete concepts of shape and number respectively, Ehlert's latest work enters the realm of the abstract, suggesting the...
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Lois Ehlert. Beach Lane, $9.99 (72p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8087-1
Pun lovers, foodies, and puzzlers of all ages will be charmed by Ehlert's love poem, which is packaged in a gift-ready, small-format trim size and constructed around playful rebus-style images of food items and other objects. "I'm [cherry] when I c...
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Lois Ehlert. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99 (72p) ISBN 978-1-4424-3571-1
Ehlert employs her signature collage technique and images from her past work to explore her lifelong relationship with creating art in this open and encouraging picture-book memoir. The journey begins with Ehlert’s early creative inklings (“I...
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Lois Ehlert. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-9301-8
Ehlert (Scraps) gives readers a mole's-eye-view of the subterranean life in this multilayered exploration of the natural world. The cheeky narrator—a gray cut-paper mole with giant purple claws and a furry outline created with pinking shears—makes...
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Lois Ehlert, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-255116-2
Inspired by a Seneca tale, this is a whimsical story of overcoming the might of an adversary through ingenuity. Fox, irritated at having to walk around Mole's hill, sends Skunk and Raccoon to direct her to move by autumn. Clever Mole enlarges the...
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Lois Ehlert, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-201890-0
""Ehlert achieves dazzling effects with simple geometric shapes and strong, pure hues,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Lois Ehlert, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-020252-1
Performers of all descriptions cavort across Ehlert's ( Color Zoo ; Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf ) pages, rendered as iridescent geometric shapes against dramatic black backdrops. Along with classic circus acts--a bareback rider, a fierce lion, ``the world'
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Lois Ehlert, Illustrator HarperCollins $18.89 (40p) ISBN 978-0-397-32441-5
Through imaginative use of cutouts, Ehlert ( Color Zoo ) has created two books in one. Each recto page shows a barnyard animal--cow, chicken, rooster, duck--composed almost entirely of geometric shapes. Turn the page, and the verso shows one of...
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Lois Ehlert, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $7 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-262610-5
With her characteristically vibrant artwork, Ehlert depicts the planting of a family garden. Ages 3-7. (Feb.)
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Lois Ehlert, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-262609-9
Every fall ""Mom and I plant a rainbow,'' by carefully placing bulbs in the gardenstiger lilies, yellow daffodils, blue hyacinth and purple iris, among others. And every winter they order seeds from catalogues for zinnias, daisies, marigolds and...
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Lois Ehlert, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-232575-6
The title says everything the book contains. First, there is the idea, then the actual work: tools are employed for planting seeds that grow first into sprouts, then into plants and then vegetables. The process involves water, weeding, digging up...
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Lois Ehlert, Illustrator . S&S/Beach Lane $17.99 (42p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8625-6
With photographs of autumn vegetation joining handmade paper and twine, Ehlert's trademark collages take on an expressively organic flavor. Blue mice composed of torn fabric, fibrous limbs and seed pod tails are distressed about the return of a
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Amy Prince, Translator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-255343-2
In this imaginative take on an ancient Peruvian tale, Fox persuades Mole to climb with him on a grass rope he has braided and--with the birds' help--hitched to the moon. Fox trains his sight upward and is not seen again except by the birds, who...
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Gloria De Aragon Andujar, Translator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-200274-9
A Mexican folktale about the evolution of a beautiful but vain bird inspires the bold and brilliant cut-paper designs in Ehlert's latest picture book. Gloriously plumed Cuckoo spends her time flitting about and showing off her gorgeous feathers...
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Lois Ehlert, Author, Allyn M. Johnston, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $17 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-202158-0
Ehlert (Hands) parades her personal collection of folk art, hailing from countries as diverse as Guatemala, Indonesia and Africa, across crisply designed pages in this exuberant picture book about the vendors and shoppers at a bustling open-air...
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Lois Ehlert. Beach Lane, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-0172-3
With the bold visual force of traffic signals, die-cut spreads from the late Ehlert are splashed with super-saturated reds, magentas, and greens in this memorable update of “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” A decorated wreath with zigzag edges first...
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