Marc Tyler Nobleman. Scholastic Press, $15.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-545-88035-0
Ten-year-old Charlie Fuller exchanges letters with his older brother, Joe, who has been drafted, in this epistolary novel set during WWII. Most of the letters included are from Joe to Charlie, in which he describes training in Great Britain, opines...
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Marc Tyler Nobleman, illus. by Eliza Wheeler. Clarion, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-69948-9
Nobleman (Boys of Steel) resurrects the story of an early 20th-century hoax that pulled the wool over the eyes of many Britons, including Arthur Conan Doyle. Cousins Frances Griffiths and Elise Wright copied elaborate drawings of female dancers in...
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Marc Tyler Nobleman, illus. by Ana Aranda. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-17443-8
Nobleman (Boys of Steel) introduces a comic trio—three goats named Pep, Bumsie and Jayna—who debate the best way to handle the goat-eating chupacabra that lurks atop a nearby hill. Jayna, the bravest, proposes a pre-emptive attack: “There’s lots of...
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Marc Tyler Nobleman, illus. by Melissa Iwai. Clarion, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-43076-1
Nobleman (Fairy Spell) tells the little-known story of the only airplane bombing of the U.S. mainland during WWII—from a plane launched from a submarine via catapult. The book focuses on Nobuo Fujita, the Japanese pilot who flew the missions....
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Marc Tyler Nobleman, Author, Ross MacDonald, Illustrator , illus. by Ross MacDonald. Knopf $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-83802-6
Catering to comics junkies, this vibrant and well-researched picture book biography introduces the youthful inventors of Superman, who this year celebrates his 70th anniversary. Writer Jerry Siegel and illustrator Joe Shuster are mild-mannered...
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Leslie Moseley, Author, Marc Tyler Nobleman, Author, George Ulrich, Illustrator Abbeville Press $12.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-7892-0174-4
globe-hopping Felix, the well-traveled rabbit featured in Letters from Felix and Felix Travels Back in Time, reappears to teach geography and history in the Felix Activity Book by Marc Tyler Nobleman and Leslie Moseley, illus. by George Ulrich....
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