Mark Teague, Author Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-67712-7
Every parent needs a babysitter like the unflappable Amanda Smeedy. The epitome of grace under pressure, young Amanda (who sports one of Teague's signature near-vertical hairdos) quickly rises to the occasion when faced with a trio of rambunctious...
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Mark Teague. Orchard, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-91431-4
Teague (The Pirate Jamboree) uses the classic beanstalk story to lobby for vegetables—except beans, which he admits can be awful. Jack’s mother tosses his seeds out the window (“Foolish boy! You have ruined us!”) but rejoices in the endless crop of...
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Mark Teague. Scholastic/Orchard, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-63221-8
With a buccaneer-worthy sense of bravado, Teague (The Sky Is Falling!) transforms an ordinary suburban neighborhood into a Caribbean-green sea teeming with pirate ships. In singsong rhymes with the spirit of a sea shanty, Teague introduces the young
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Mark Teague. Scholastic/Orchard, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-63217-1
A lurking fox gets his comeuppance during a barnyard dance party in Teague's absurdity-driven take on "Chicken Little." With visions of chicken dinner on his mind, Fox uses a slingshot to knock an acorn from a tree, causing it to fall on Chicken...
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Mark Teague. Scholastic/Orchard, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-91501-4
Teague (the How Do Dinosaurs books) throws his hat into the fractured fairy tale ring with a funny twist on this tale that’s fit for the era of Michael Pollan. When the pigs’ farmer plans to move to Florida, he pays them for “their hard work and...
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Mark Teague, Scholastic/Blue Sky, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-91502-1
When avid letter-writer Ike LaRue's neighbor, Mrs. Hibbins, is hospitalized, LaRue's owner, Gertrude, cancels their cruise to take the neighbor's cats on a road trip. A distraught canine writes harried postcards to Mrs. Hibbins, imploring her to let
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Mark Teague, Author Scholastic $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-45174-1
Languishing in a distant outfield position, champion daydreamer Ludlow Grebe is whisked off to a parallel ballgame, where he pinch - hits for a team of large green beetles. ``Teague's robust illustrations,'' said PW , ``are filled with sly detail . .
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Mark Teague, Author Scholastic $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-45173-4
The parents of champion daydreamer Ludlow Grebe decide that the cure for the monsters he sees lurking in his closet is simple: fresh air and exercise. Signed up for a baseball league, the hapless Ludlow languishes in an outfield position so distant `
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Mark Teague, Author Scholastic $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-590-44177-3
Elmo Freem, star of The Trouble with the Johnsons and Moog-Moog, Space Barber , is back, and in yet another fix. The problem now is a pesky book report that has him in a dither--and sprouting frog feet to boot. With his cat Leon in tow, Elmo is...
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Mark Teague, Author Scholastic $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-43332-7
When Elmo Freem goes to get a haircut for school, it signals the beginning of another adventure for Elmo and his cat Leon, who first starred in The Trouble with the Johnsons. The well-meaning but untalented barber, Mr. Kleeg, gives Elmo a haircut...
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Mark Teague, Author Scholastic $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-42394-6
Elmo Freem and his cat Leon are completely unaccustomed to city life and long to return to their country home. Leon the cat even refuses to walk around their apartment, confining himself to the darkness under Elmo's bed. Elmo has at least tried to...
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Mark Teague, Author Scholastic $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-84625-7
Teague (Sweet Dream Pie) blends playground politics with supernatural wishful thinking. The superstitious hero knows things are off to a bad start when his mad-scientist costume turns pink in the wash. Then, with great trepidation, he and his misfit
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Mark Teague, Author . Scholastic $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-27869-0
This sequel to The Secret Shortcut
finds Wendell and Floyd in trouble once again. PW
said, "Teague's sly take on the wild flights of childhood fancy is as entertaining as always." Ages 4-7. (May)
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Mark Teague, Author Scholastic $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-590-67714-1
Teague's skewed sense of humor is unleashed once again in this droll tale of two fellows having trouble getting to school on time. Wendell and Floyd's excuses sound perfectly plausible to them--alien invasions, pirates in the neighborhood, a plague...
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Mark Teague, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-517-59998-3
Her spectacles perched on her nose and her hair coiffed in a Father Knows Best pompadour, Wallace Bleff's teacher looks on as the boy delivers an oral report on that classic topic, How I Spent My Summer Vacation. The classroom setting gives way to...
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Mark Teague, Scholastic/Orchard, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-91500-7
Edward, the dapper yet hapless dog last seen mucking around the barnyard in Teague’s Funny Farm, is back for another adventure, this time to the firehouse. His sensible cousin Judy returns as well, accompanying Edward on a tour during which the all-D
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Mark Teague, Author Scholastic/Blue Sky $17.99 (376p) ISBN 978-0-545-15142-9
Picture book author/illustrator Teague (Dear Mrs. LaRue
) has produced a madcap, heavily illustrated tale chockfull of malevolent aliens and superscience as well as a fair share of silliness. The year is 1956 and young Jack Creedle is a good-natured
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Mark Teague, Author . Orchard $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-91499-4
When Edward, a city-slicker dog, arrives at his canine relatives’ farm for a visit, Teague provides the perfect setup for this goofily sweet fish-out-of-water tale. As fans familiar with the antics of Teague’s other pooch—Ike from...
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Mark Teague, Author . Scholastic $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-75538-2
The hero knows things are off to a bad start when his mad-scientist costume turns pink in the wash. According to PW
, "This witty tale gets a boost from hyperbolic, rough-and-tumble acrylics that echo William Joyce's nostalgic work."...
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Mark Teague, Author . Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-45868-9
Last seen heroically saving his owner, Mrs. LaRue, obedience school dropout and creative letter writer Ike returns for another canine caper in this snappy follow-up. This time out, the pooch fond of putting pen to paper is suspected of complicity in
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Mark Teague, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator Scholastic Press $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-84619-6
The hapless Wendell and Floyd from The Secret Shortcut are in trouble once again (oddly, their teacher finds them suspect when they miss their math test due to an alleged giant squid in the bathroom). As they wait outside the principal's office,...
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Mark Teague, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator Scholastic Press $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-45915-0
Teague ( The Trouble with the Johnsons ; The Field Beyond the Outfield ) is once again right on target, this time skewering a subject dear to families everywhere with his idiosyncratic brand of sly humor. When his mother pronounces his room a ``pigst
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Mark Teague, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-88556-7
A boy's school report tracks his imaginary adventures in the wild West, using playful rhyming verse; the result, according to PW, is ""one rootin' tootin' tall tale."" Ages 3-7. (Aug.)
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Mark Teague, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator . Scholastic/Blue Sky $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-78315-6
It may be a presidential election year, but for Ike, Teague's (Dear Mrs. LaRue
) letter-writing, louche canine hero, all politics is local. The police chief of Snort City is running for mayor on a law-and-order, antidog platform, and with Mrs....
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Mark Teague, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator . Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-20663-1
A dog's life is hardly to be envied if one believes the words of Ike, a rambunctious pooch sentenced to obedience school by his exasperated owner, Mrs. LaRue. Having repeatedly terrorized the neighbors' cats and snatched one snack too many...
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Mark Teague. Orchard, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-91432-1
Teague (Jack and the Beanstalk and the French Fries), who often wields scale and texture to great comic effect, is fully in his element with this tale of portly, imperious cat Felipe and Claudette, a hot mess of a mutt. They’re the dregs of the...
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Mark Teague. Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-5128-5
Many picture books feature young birds who refuse to fly, but Teague (Felipe and Claudette) takes the genre to new heights with this story. Wordless it may be, but there’s plenty of dialogue between the story’s petulant robin fledging and its ...
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Mark Teague. Beach Lane, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-66591-230-3
While building-size King Kong plays big cheese in the Big Apple, his far more diminutive cousin Junior lives an ordinary New York City apartment life with his mother and beloved cat, Bernice. Kong stars in movies and wrestles dinosaurs (heroic...
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Mark Teague. S&S/Beach Lane, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-6659-1186-3
Even a classic symbiotic relationship can get off to a rocky start, Teague (King Kong’s Cousin) shows in this verbally and visually rich comedy. The impassive Rhino—the book’s acrylic spreads home in on its sculptural bulk—seems perfectly content...
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Mark Teague. Beach Lane, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-6659-4074-0
A first acrylic image by Teague (King Kong’s Cousin ) sets the comic stakes of
this naptime picture book: an anthropomorphized, brown-spotted pink piglet in a mesh-sided crib reaches plaintively toward the departing human hand, portrayed with brown
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