Mary Hoffman, Author , illus. by Caroline Binch. Puffin $4.99 (, $4.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-14-230022-0
The star of Amazing Grace
and Boundless Grace
uses her house as headquarters for her and her friends to launch a series of adventures (including a circus act and a safari) during their summer break from school in this simple chapter book. Ages 7-1
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Mary Hoffman. Bloomsbury, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1- 59990-700-0
This lush historical novel commences in 1501 in Florence and imagines the life of the model for Michelangelo’s statue of David, breathing life into the art and politics of this iconic work. The exquisitely handsome narrator, Gabriele, a stone-
mason,
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Mary Hoffman, Author . Bloomsbury $16.95 (344p) ISBN 978-1-58234-791-2
From the British author of the Amazing Grace books comes a novel, the first in a trilogy, about a teen stricken with brain cancer who travels between two worlds. In modern-day London, Lucien Mulholland undergoes chemotherapy treatments, but when he...
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Mary Hoffman, Author . Bloomsbury $7.95 (344p) ISBN 978-1-58234-917-6
Dying of brain cancer in modern London, a teenager is transported to an Italianate world in his dreams—and to a city that mirrors Renaissance Venice. PW
said, "The novel will likely intrigue more sophisticated readers." Ages 10-up. (O
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A miniature model of a winged horse (another talisman of the Stravaganti, a brotherhood of scientists who use talismans to travel between time periods) sends 15-year-old equestrian Georgia to a 16th-century version of Tuscany. Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Mary Hoffman, Author . Bloomsbury $16.95 (297p) ISBN 978-1-59990-056-8
Hoffman (the Stravaganza series) once again whisks readers off to Italy, this time in the 14th century, for this highly entertaining mystery-farce hybrid. Readers can pick up clues from the third-person narrative that alternates among the four main...
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Mary Hoffman, Author Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $17.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-58234-839-1
Characters travel through space and time, encounter mysterious creatures and more in an assortment of new installments. Of the first book, Stravaganza: City of Masks, PW said, ""The Renaissance backdrop [and Venetian-style city] set an elegant ...
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Mary Hoffman, Author, June Allan, Illustrator Dial Books $14.99 (110p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2951-3
The African-American heroine first introduced in the picture book Amazing Grace returns for her fourth adventure, a chapter book: Encore, Grace! by Mary Hoffman, illus. by June Allan. Grace and her group of friends face a number of changes, ...
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Jackie Morris, Author, Jackie Morris, Illustrator , illus. by Jackie Morris. Penguin Putnam/Fogelman $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2842-4
The accomplished author-illustrator team behind Parables
and Miracles
helps young readers enter the Old Testament via thematically linked, age-appropriate stories, this time focusing on a topic popular among children—animals. Fittingly, the...
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Mary Hoffman, illus. by Ros Asquith. Frances Lincoln/Otter-Barry (PGW, dist.), $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84780-592-8
Hoffman and Asquith, the duo behind The Great Big Book of Families and The Great Big Book of Emotions, explore the many permutations families can take and the feelings they can engender. With forthright prose dashed with humor, Hoffman covers living
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Laura L. Seeley, Illustrator Dial Books $13.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1466-3
Hoffman ( Amazing Grace ) proves she has a few new tricks up her sleeve with this rollicking fantasy about furry phantoms. Because Carrie has asthma, the only pet she and her brother Alex are allowed to keep is Cedric, a white mouse. Alex and Carrie
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Caroline Binch, Illustrator Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1715-2
Irrepressible, plucky Grace charmed a multitude of readers when she debuted in Amazing Grace, defying the narrow-mindedness of her classmates to land the plum role of Peter Plan in the school play. In this more message-oriented sequel, Grace is...
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Caroline Binch, Illustrator Dial Books $16.99 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1040-5
``Grace was a girl who loved stories.'' Empowered by the strength of her imagination and the love of her mother and Nana, this dramatic, creative girl constantly adopts roles and identities: Joan of Arc, Anansi the Spider, Hiawatha, Mowgli, Aladdin.
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Mary Hoffman, illus. by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. Dial, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3577-4
Starring in her fourth picture book, Grace learns that her Nana has invited distant family friends to spend Christmas with them. Grace isn’t sure about having strangers there, but she and shy Savannah discover that they have something in common:...
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Phyllis Fogelman, Editor, Jackie Morris, Illustrator Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2560-7
Hoffman (Amazing Grace) adapts eight parables for children in this intimate, thought-provoking picture book. By their nature, the story-lessons, or parables, attributed to Jesus have traditionally been among the most accessible parts of the Bible....
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Phyllis Fogelman, Editor, Lynne Russell, Illustrator Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2466-2
A touch of girl power imbues Hoffman's (Amazing Grace) magical tale of three women from vastly different lands and cultures who find themselves united by the glorious event of Jesus' birth. Each compelled to follow the intense light of a special...
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Jackie Morris, Illustrator , illus. by Jackie Morris. Penguin Putnam/Fogelman $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2610-9
The talented team that created Parables: Stories Jesus Told
produces this companion volume, a thoughtful, accessible overview of some of the best-known stories of the New Testament. In an introductory note, Hoffman describes a miracle as something...
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Jan Ormerod, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $18.95 (72p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5946-5
Two noted talents join forces to create an attractive, if not unique, collection of 10 folktales starring tricksters of land, sea and sky. The bulk of the stories, taken from Asia, Australia, North and South America and Africa, focus on bullies and...
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Jane Ray, Illustrator Dutton Books $19.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-525-45420-5
Hoffman (Amazing Grace) collects snippets of factual information, myths, stories, poems and musings in this fascinating volume about the four classic elements. At first glance the philosophy behind her selections may seem a bit heady, but Hoffman's...
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Jane Ray, Illustrator Dutton Books $22.5 (96p) ISBN 978-0-525-46004-6
Hoffman and Ray look to the heavens in this sparkling collection of myths and legends from around the world, a follow-up to their companion book Earth, Fire, Water, Air. Hoffman's colloquial tone whisks readers through a volume chockablock with...
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Mary Hoffman, Author, Jennifer Northway, Illustrator, Jennifer Northway, With Oxford University Press, USA $9.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-19-520596-1
In a well-rounded plot, the collaboration of Hoffman and Northway has resulted in a truly unified marriage of text and pictures. Nancy isn't old enough to read her older sister's books or young enough for her baby sister's toys. She's also not big...
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Mary Hooper, Author, Mary Hoffman, Author . Bloomsbury $16.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-58234-849-0
Hooper's (Amy) peppy historical novel starts out with a jaunty tone, and remains relatively chipper to the end—no mean achievement, considering that it's set in London in 1665, the year that the Great Plague wiped out more than a third
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Mary Hooper, Author, Mary Hoffman, Author . Bloomsbury $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-58234-793-6
In Hooper's (Megan) briskly paced Internet "sex-crime" novel, Amy narrates her cautionary tale as a rather unwieldy case report to a policewoman. Amy is part of a foursome of teenaged English girlfriends until one friend moves away and...
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Edited by Maxim Jakubowski. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-789091-32-8
Though billed as a crime compendium, this wildly uneven anthology includes tales of love in a Paris bookshop (R.J. Ellory’s “Borrowed Time”) and revenge for breaching dating etiquette (Jason Starr’s “The Ghost of Williamsburg”). On the major crime...
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