Lucy Cousins, Author Dutton Books $6.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-525-44457-2
Splotchy two-color pictures accompany this idiosyncratic tale of a penguin and his red-striped hat. Portly wears that hat while watching the news, while bathingin fact, all the time, until Stuart, `` the stinky seagull, '' steals it. Because Portly...
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Lucy Cousins, Author Lectorum Publications $9.99 (14p) ISBN 978-84-95040-87-9
PreS-These two board books feature the cute white mouse and her many animal friends. The illustrations are done in bright, primary colors utilizing heavy black outlines. In the first title, the mouse entertains herself by drawing, playing the ...
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Lucy Cousins, Author Distribooks $9.99 (14p) ISBN 978-84-95040-89-3
PreS-These two board books feature the cute white mouse and her many animal friends. The illustrations are done in bright, primary colors utilizing heavy black outlines. In the first title, the mouse entertains herself by drawing, playing the ...
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Lucy Cousins, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1917-6
Preschoolers will enjoy the jingly-jangly fun in two Maisy books with built-in rattles, both by Lucy Cousins. In Maisy Likes Dancing, Maisy stomps, hops and twists with her friends. The rattle, bound into the back cover, is clearly visible on...
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Lucy Cousins, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1916-9
Preschoolers will enjoy the jingly-jangly fun in two Maisy books with built-in rattles, both by Lucy Cousins. In Maisy Likes Dancing, Maisy stomps, hops and twists with her friends. The rattle, bound into the back cover, is clearly visible on...
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Lucy Cousins, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2195-7
The oversize picture book (roughly 11"" 14"") Maisy's Rainbow Dream by Lucy Cousins takes children into a fantastical dream with all the colors of the rainbow. As Maisy dreams of a red ladybug, an orange fish and more, she invites her friends-and
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Lucy Cousins, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $10.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2469-9
With brandished cutlasses and bandannas aplenty, the gang seeks doubloons in the oversize board book Maisy's Pirate Treasure Hunt by Lucy Cousins. Myriad flaps on each page invite readers to look for three keys to open a treasure chest. The backs of
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Lucy Cousins. Candlewick, $8.99 paper (80p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6490-9
The toddlerlike mouse star of Cousins’s long-running series invites readers to complete and expand on crayon-style drawings. “Drip, drop, drip, drop. Fill the sky with rain,” says Maisy, as she steps across the page with an umbrella; an elephant...
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Lucy Cousins, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2369-2
New titles extend popular children's series. The inimitable mouse and her friends head to the country and pop a tent in Maisy Goes Camping by Lucy Cousins. After singing songs 'round the campfire, the gang heads for bed. But will they all fit ...
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Lucy Cousins. Candlewick, $34.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6491-6
Maisy and her friends—including Charley the crocodile, Eddie the elephant, and Tallulah the chick—enjoy a day at the fair, going on rides and playing games together. Via tabs, readers can help the animals gently collide in bumper cars (“Whee! Thump!
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Lucy Cousins. Candlewick, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9265-0
Maisy creator Cousins uses her signature brand of punchy, thickly outlined gouache paintings to introduce an active menagerie of birds. “Can you imagine.../ just for one day.../ you’re a busy bird?/ Yes, a bird! Hooray!” Cousins begins, deploying...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Warner, Author Tambourine Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-10454-2
Since Rabbit has big ears and wears glasses, it stands to reason that he can hear and see very well. Two new, witty lift-the-flap books chronicle exactly what the beguiling bunny encounters with his senses. Thick black letters spell out a question...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Enderle, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-582-1
Cousins's (Maisy Goes to School) childlike gouache figures and hand-lettered text set against bold fields of color give this oversized book a decidedly cheerful look. Za-Za, a young zebra, candidly narrates the story: ""My mom is going to have a...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Ensminger, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $8.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0159-1
Maisy makes preschool concepts fresh as a daisy in these oversize board books. In the first, the adorable, chunkily outlined mouse sports a royal red coat, replete with fur-trimmed crown, and jauntily bounces on a purple rocking horse as she...
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Lucy Cousins. Candlewick, $12.99 (22p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5766-6
It’s Christmastime, Maisy style, which means bright gouache images, friends, and oversize flaps that reveal surprises. As Maisy wraps presents, readers can peek inside the packages to find a truck, guitar, and tennis racket. Sparkly decorations...
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Lucy Cousins. Candlewick, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6122-9
Maisy the mouse hosts this oversize book, which offers directions for 17 simple craft projects. Primary-colored spreads on glossy pages combine photographs of the materials needed and finished products with Cousins’s trademark thickly outlined,...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $10.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2273-2
For those not yet ready for school but eager to learn, a smattering of interactive titles show off their bells and whistles. Lucy Cousins's omnipresent mouse counts from one to five in the paper-over-board, die-cut Maisy's Twinkly Crinkly Fun Book....
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2579-5
Halloween NOTES Volumes of Treats Get out those trick-or-treat (book) bags! This Halloween, youngest booklovers are rewarded with a pair of board books featuring favorite characters. In Maisy's Halloween by Lucy Cousins, the bewitching mouse in...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.99 (8p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1788-2
Youngsters learn to tell time with a favorite mouse in Maisy's First Clock by Lucy Cousins. ""8 0'clock Good morning, Maisy!"" This oversize board book chronicles the major moments in Maisy's day; a clock with movable hands and colorful gears...
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Lucy Cousins. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6621-7
Cousins’s black outlines and cozy colors (which will be instantly recognizable to Maisy fans) tell the story of a young woodpecker learning to peck. “Now hold on tight. That’s very good,” says the woodpecker father to his offspring. “Then peck, peck,
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2042-4
A bevy of favorite picture books are now available in a board book edition. Maisy creator Lucy Cousins's childlike figures in thick black outline set against bold fields of color distinguish Za-Za's Baby Brother. A new baby in the family means...
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Lucy Cousins. Candlewick, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7237-9
In this addition to the Maisy First Experiences line of books, Cousins’s mouse heroine and friends walk readers through the basics of catching a flick on the big screen. After settling on a film and stopping at the concession stand, Maisy and...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1903-9
Clever die-cut pages and liftable flaps invite reader's participation in a handful of wild titles. A baby lemur plays hide-and-seek with Mama Jojo in Jazzy in the Jungle by Maisy creator Lucy Cousins. Readers join the search, lifting layered, ...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator . Candlewick $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2741-6
Anyone who thought Cousins's Maisy was the ne plus ultra of cute had better make room for Little Fish, her latest star. Yes, he's diminutive (made to seem more so in this oversize volume), but the hero, whose orange, yellow and teal coloring
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (8p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1294-8
In Lucy Cousins's latest incarnation, Maisy's Farm: A Pop-Up and Play Set, each spread presents a different scene in which to place the countrified character. A ""mini-book"" is tucked inside the hayloft, Maisy and tractor reside in the shed and...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $18.99 (8p) ISBN 978-1-56402-635-4
Q. What's more fun than a book bearing the distinctive Cousins touch? A. An entire domicile decorated in this author/ illustrator's well-known whimsical style. In this book cum dollhouse, would-be homemakers use the attached ribbons to tie together...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56402-515-9
In PW's words, ``The familiar gathering... before the great flood takes on a gentle and joyous tone as expressed by Cousins's brief and simple sentences and by her naive painted figures.'' Ages 2-up. (June)
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56402-213-4
With childlike verve, the talented colorist Cousins adapts the Bible story into a picture book for the very young. The familiar gathering of animals two by two onto the ark before the great flood takes on a gentle and joyous tone as expressed by...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-055469-4
Cousins's vivid colors ``hit the reader like a bit of spring on a cold winter day,'' observed PW of this ``glorious addendum to the Mother Goose tradition.'' Ages 2-5. (Jan.)
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (8p) ISBN 978-1-56402-032-1
Cousins ( What Can Rabbit Hear? ; Maisy Goes Swimming ) brings her vivid, distinctive style to a new format in these cuddly cloth books. Designed for youngest readers, eight padded pages feature familiar objects rendered in bold hues and outlined in
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $3.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2071-4
Preschoolers will relish Maisy's Easter Egg Hunt Sticker Book by Lucy Cousins, featuring the charismatic mouse heroine as she plans an egg hunt for her friends. Fans use stickers to help Maisy hide each treasure and, later, to help her friends...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $8.99 (10p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1189-7
Everyone's favorite mouse is back in Maisy's Big Flap Book by Lucy Cousins. Multiple flaps on the opening spread allow youngsters to ""call on"" Maisy and her friends, each in his or her own house; they then proceed to count the creatures in the...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator . Candlewick $18.99 (121p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4474-1
Anyone expecting the gentleness of the Maisy books in Cousins's retellings of eight fairy tales is in for a whopper of a surprise—although the cheeky title does provide a tip-off. Who knew Cousins could depict a wolf decapitation (“L
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator, Cousins, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $4.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2241-1
Maisy also appears in the diminutive (4U"" square) lift-the-flap paper-over-board book Merry Christmas, Maisy. Shiny foil and mini-flaps stud every spread, topped off by a closing gatefold.
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator, Cousins, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2196-4
Some favorite children's book characters put in new holiday appearances, including Lucy Cousins's mouse, Maisy. Glittery ""snowflakes"" on the jacket of Maisy's Snowy Christmas Eve embellish an already colorful story about a celebration ...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Schubert, Author Dutton Books $14.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-525-44573-9
The nursery rhymes in this collection are standards (``Jack and Jill,'' ``Old King Cole,'' ``Little Miss Muffet'') and the text, set on a white background, is clear and easy to read. It's the illustrations that star here: they positively go bananas...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Roberto Ed. Schmid, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $13.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-316-15832-9
By moving tabs and lifting flaps that manipulate such items as clothes that pull on and off, a toothbrush and a tiny bedtime book with real pages, little ones can help Maisy Mouse prepare for a swim or get ready for bed. Though the action requires a
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Farlow, Author, Lisa Wiseman, Editor Candlewick Press (MA) $13.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-56402-419-0
Once again Cousins deftly demonstrates her understanding of kids, as-with the help of amusingly designed flaps and tabs-her winsome mouse character (Maisy Goes to School, etc.) puts a beguiling twist on the alphabet-book genre. The fun begins on the
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Lucy Cousins. Candlewick, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5327-9
Maisy and her alligator friend, Charley, visit Dotty the donkey in the city, where they discover busy streets with noisy cars, giant buildings, and lots of shops, including an enormous toy store where Maisy momentarily gets lost. Cousins's...
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Lucy Cousins, Author, Lucy Cousins, Illustrator . Candlewick $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4684-4
Dog and his friends live in a world of exuberant color, full of splashes and splatters, but Dog himself can be a little tiresome. Ladybug, Mole, Goose, and Donkey suffer patiently through his everlasting boasting: he can run faster than Mole, dig...
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