Marianne Dubuc, trans. from the French by Yvette Ghione, Kids Can, $18.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-55453-641-2
"On a little hill, behind a brown fence, under a big oak tree, is... my house." Dubuc's English-language debut is an extended stream-of-consciousness journey, which winds through varied locales and past numerous animals, objects, and other creatures
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Marianne Dubuc, trans. from the French by Yvette Ghione. Kids Can, $16.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-55453-782-2
Dubuc’s collection of colored-pencil drawings of animals dressed up as other animals, a companion in tone and format to 2010’s In Front of My House, has two great virtues. The first is that it’s blissfully free of moral lessons—it’s simply animals...
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Marianne Dubuc. Kids Can, $16.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-77138-623-4
Though Dubuc’s (The Lion and the Bird) softly colored pencil drawings don’t seem momentous, this is a noteworthy project. It’s the Noah and the Ark envisioned as a strictly meteorological event, leaving out all divine intervention. The weather turns
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Marianne Dubuc. Kids Can, $16.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-77138-662-3
In the first of three sweet-natured stories from Dubuc (The Animals’ Ark), Lucy eats her snack on a tree branch, attracting a gang of animal friends: Marcel the mouse, Henry the rabbit, Dot the turtle, and Adrian the snail, who is mistaken for a...
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Marianne Dubuc. Kids Can, $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-77138-209-0
Dubuc’s (The Lion and the Bird) account of a girl’s bus trip to her grandmother’s house unfolds at a leisurely pace. The girl holds her mother’s hand at the bus stop, then boards the bus: “Bye, Mom! Yes, I know! I’ll be good!” The squat, horizontal...
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Marianne Dubuc, trans. from the French by Yvette Ghione. Kids Can, $17.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-77138-572-5
In a story that, like Richard Scarry’s work, offers an abundance of curiosity-piquing domestic details to consider, readers follow a small mouse postal carrier making his rounds. A gentle silliness pervades Dubuc’s (The Bus Ride) tidily drafted...
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Marianne Dubuc. Princeton Architectural Press, $16.95 (92p) ISBN 978-1-61689-505-1
This tale by Canadian artist Dubuc (The Lion and the Bird) is in essence one long, wordless chase scene, but in her hands it acquires texture, drama, and imaginative power. In an empty room, a goldfish swims in a bowl, its red scales the only color...
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Marianne Dubuc. Princeton Architectural Press, $17.95 (72p) ISBN 978-1-61689-723-9
Canadian writer Dubuc (The Fish and the Cat ), whose gentle work champions friendship and explores life stages, suggests that kindness can become a tradition. In pencil, colored pencil, and watercolor-washed spreads, she introduces Mrs. Badger, who...
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Marianne Dubuc. Princeton Architectural Press, $17.95 (68p) ISBN 978-1-61689-760-4
In this quiet story by Dubuc (Up the Mountain Path), the unidentified creature who appears in front of squirrel Otto’s tree trunk dwelling isn’t just uninvited, he’s inconvenient. Otto feels compelled to look after the furry, pink-snouted Pio (he’s...
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Marianne Dubuc, trans. from the French by VeroK Agency. Princeton Architectural Press, $17.95 (30p) ISBN 978-1-61689-840-3
This gentle lesson in conflict resolution by Dubuc (Up the Mountain Path) opens as Little Cheetah casts about with a flashlight, looking for Little Shadow. Little Cheetah finds the shadow—who is just like him, only soft and gray rather than yellow...
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Marianne Dubuc. Princeton Architectural Press, $9.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-61689-912-7
Dubuc (Little Cheetah’s Shadow) keeps this warmhearted story simple and focused: Koko is a young koala who does everything on Baba’s back, as baby koalas do, while Baba comically withstands myriad caretaking indignities. Dubuc draws the child...
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Marianne Dubuc. Princeton Architectural, $18.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-64896-119-9
With thoughtful text and delicately colored spreads made using colored pencil, pencil, and watercolor, Dubuc (1, 2, 3, Off to School!) explores the impulse to change circumstances. Bear lives in a lovely thatched cottage, enjoying a life that seems...
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Marianne Dubuc. Princeton Architectural Press, $18.99 (60p) ISBN 978-1-79722-729-0
This lively, thoughtful work in several parts by Dubuc (Bear and the Whisper of the Wind) follows four friends who, finding an egg in the forest, initially squabble over who gets to take it home. Much to everyone’s surprise, the egg pipes up: “EVERYO
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Marianne Dubuc. Kids Can, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5253-0207-7
Line drawings and quiet colors by Dubuc (Otto and Pio) show this story’s garden setting in cross-section—part aboveground, part below. Mr. Gnome and a small insect-like being named Jack live on the surface, while a mole named Yvonne and her field...
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Marianne Dubuc. Kids Can, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5253-0490-3
This day-in-the-life tale takes place in a modest apartment building seen in Richard Scarry–style cutaways. Sweetly tinted spreads by Dubuc (Up the Mountain Path) show three floors of flats, plus an attic garret and storage, all of whose line-drawn...
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Marianne Dubuc, trans. from the French by Yvette Ghione. Kids Can, $17.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-5253-0656-3
Pom, a light-skinned human child in a pointed cap, is so eager to attend the first day of kindergarten that they “packed a schoolbag, prepared a snack and put on new shoes.” Momo protests, “you don’t start school until next year!” but Pom has a plan
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