Margie Palatini, Simon & Schuster, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0322-2
In this story of "the most famous, fabulous, successful Big Pigs to ever leave the farm and make it in the BIG CITY," Palatini's brash digital artwork exudes physical comedy and urban glitz. But to understand her story—which nods to the fickle...
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Margie Palatini, illus. by Chuck Groenink. Abrams, $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1488-7
The conceit of this comic pearl is that the author’s paean to figs has been ruined by a single pervasive typo. Palatini (No Nap! Yes Nap!) pours it on, scrawling blistering notes to her publisher, the hammily named Hamilton A. Cochon, throughout. “Lo
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Margie Palatini, illus. by LeUyen Pham. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-544-14846-8
In this funny novel featuring a boisterous Italian-American family in New Jersey, a burst of social media attention causes a jumble of problems for 11-year-old Isabella Antonelli, who’s already juggling the adjustment to her new private school....
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Margie Palatini, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. HarperCollins/Tegen $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-000102-5
Two raffish wolves named Willy and Wally ("Oh yeah, we're bad. We're bad. We're really, really bad" is their mantra) have just been run out of town by the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. Spotting a herd of ewesȁ
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Margie Palatini, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0306-4
No matter how Moose braids, coils and nets his wiry ""moosetache,"" he winds up with a hair don't. His Rapunzel-length locks snag his ankles, dangle from his antlers and sometimes obscure his face altogether. ""Then, call it fate, call it destiny (it
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Margie Palatini, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-86258-8
With understated humor and a somewhat labored plot, the team behind Moosetache and Bad Boys introduces Joseph and Thomas, a pair of happy, contented pigs whose slobby behavior disturbs the rest of the barnyard. "" 'That place is a pig sty,' clucks...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Ethan Long, Illustrator , illus. by Ethan Long. Dutton $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-47201-8
Despite a pair of persistently malodorous webbed feet, true love predictably prevails in Palatini's (The Web Files
) snippet of a tale featuring duck sweethearts Dolores and Douglas. Whenever the latter takes off his shoes, the smell overpowers...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Howard Fine, Illustrator , illus. by Howard Fine. Hyperion $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0418-4
Gritch the Witch from Piggie Pie
and Zoom Broom
returns, this time with too much mischief and not enough magic. When Gritch's sister, Mag the Hag, arrives early (from "Maliboo") on the eve of Gritch's "howliday party," the...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Howard Fine, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0420-7
In this exercise in absurdity, Palatini and Fine (Piggie Pie; Zoom Broom) imagine the unlikely combination of a movie monster and a frustrated freelance salesman. The cryptic title, which rhymes with ""King Kong"" and mimes an insistently ringing...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Howard Fine, Illustrator , illus. by Howard Fine. Clarion $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-48603-8
A boy daydreams of a diner that exists just for him. "Combining gross-out appeal with a fantasy premise, this lively book gives those with eyes that are bigger than their stomachs plenty of food for thought," PW
said. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Margie Palatini, Author, Howard Fine, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-81674-5
In a boy's goofy daydream of a diner existing just for him, sky-high piles of fries, fleets of pizzas and ""a tub of spaghetti with meatballs the size of baseballs"" offer an alluring alternative to the boring ham and cheese sandwich made by his...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Howard Fine, Illustrator Clarion Books $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-86618-4
Pigs in disguise fool a witch who wants to eat them for lunch. Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Margie Palatini, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator , illus. by Barry Moser. S&S $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-80246-1
While this variant of Aesop's “The Fox and the Grapes” is decidedly more entertaining than the original, the moral of the fable is less clear. Palatini's distinctive characters are all amiable, except for the condescending Fox,
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Margie Palatini, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator , illus. by Barry Moser. S&S $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-84280-1
Earthshaking rumblings make for a skittish duckling (and other nervous farm animals) in this somewhat long-winded variation on the Henny Penny theme. After completing his morning laps, a jittery Chucky Ducky fervently attempts to warn the other...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Steve Johnson, Illustrator, Lou Fancher, Illustrator , illus. by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. HarperCollins/Tegen $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-052630-6
With a hi-ho the dairy-o, Palatini (the Bad Boys series) tells the story of just how tempting it is to abandon the "Rules and Regulations" that state "the cheese stands alone" in the dell. Like the familiar song on which the story is
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Margie Palatini, illus. by Dan Yaccarino. Little, Brown, $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-24821-1
In the four words of the title and page after page of gleeful mischief, Palatini (Stuff) and Yaccarino (Count on the Subway) sum up the eternal nap-time dialectic. This Mama and Baby may share the same exuberantly curly auburn ’do, but when Mama...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Keith Graves, Illustrator , illus. by Keith Graves. HarperCollins/Tegen $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-000105-6
When the cow Hilda Mae Heifer gets hit on the head by a flying cow pie, she wakes up clueless about the sound she's supposed to make. To the rest of the barnyard animals, that's no real tragedy. In fact, the general directive prior to her...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Jack E. Davis, Illustrator , illus. by Jack E. Davis. S&S $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-85159-9
In an interesting twist to the familiar story about how annoying it is to deal with an obstinate, demanding child, Palatini (who teamed up with Davis for Bedhead
) puts the shoe on the other foot by fashioning a pint-size hero with a nagging sweet...
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Margie Palatini, illus. by Jack E. Davis, HarperCollins/Tegen, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-125314-0
What happened to Goldilocks after she fled the three bears' house? According to this very funny fractured fairy tale, she fell down a rabbit hole and into The Man Who Came to Dinner, where she turned into a mop-top Sheridan Whiteside. Having injured
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Margie Palatini, Author, Glin Dibley, Illustrator , illus. by Glin Dibley. S&S $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-82394-7
A kid plugs a spigot with his toe and starts a bathtub hubbub in this blathery, lathery book. "I just wanted to stop one drippy drop. Slow the flow with my little big toe. And now—I'm stuck!" Henry says, wiggling around in a froth
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Margie Palatini, Author, Matthew Reinhart, Illustrator , illus. by Matthew Reinhart. HarperCollins/Tegen $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-052627-6
Louise is a pigtailed, pint-size alligator with “new gleaming-white baby choppers”—which, unfortunately, give her a “tendency to... how to put it? Gnaw. On everything. Everyone. Everywhere.” (A bite-size “hole̶
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Margie Palatini, Author, Guy Francis, Illustrator , illus. by Guy Francis. Dutton $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-47565-1
The team behind Mary Had a Little Ham
introduces a trio of high-powered duck sisters and their late-blooming brother. While the three assert their personalities (Adelaide is athletic, Miranda is an artist and Tallulah is a ballerina), "Shelly...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Guy Francis, Illustrator , illus. by Guy Francis. Hyperion $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0566-2
Playbill
-hoarding grown-ups may laugh loudest at this story of a piglet meant for bigger things than life on the farm. Young Mary's pig, Stanley Snoutowski, is plump with stage talent: "He could make 'em laugh. He could make 'em cry.
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Margie Palatini, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator , illus. by Richard Egielski. Hyperion $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0419-1
This punny parody freely alludes to the TV drama Dragnet, as two "ducktectives" attempt to "quack the case" of several robberies on a farm. Each scene opens with a time of day and location, noted in hard-boiled bold print. A blotchy...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator , illus. by Richard Egielski. Hyperion $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-5167-6
Take The 12 Days of Christmas
, add a soupçon of French sophistication and a whiff of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
, and you've got this clever holiday farce. When three French hens sent from Paris as a gift to Philippe Renard instead...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Howard Fine, Author, Howard Fine, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0322-4
Gritch the Witch, the flamboyantly grotesque antiheroine of Piggie Pie, spells trouble in this broom-buying caper. As the story begins, Gritch snacks on a ""batscotti"" bat-wing cookie, but her stomach growls for ""Rabbit Rye,"" and she fixates on...
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Margie Palatini, Author, Margie Palatini, Illustrator Hyperion Books for Children $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0565-5
The big sister from Good as Goldie pitches a fit when she sees her brother clutching her favorite doll in Goldie Is Mad by Margie Palatini. At first Goldie wants him to disappear, but repetitive, gradually softening phrases show how she mellows,
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Margie Palatini, illus. by Noah Z. Jones. HarperCollins/Tegen, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-171921-9
Edward, a bunny who is more interested in his "stuff" than his friends, isn't far from a Hoarders-style intervention—his house is packed with outdated calendars, toys, hideous lamps, and other miscellany. Edward's friends try to get him to pare down
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