Mary Morgan, Author . Knopf $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-82309-1
Morgan (Sleep Tight, Little Mouse
) turns a wacky premise—two dragons open a pizzeria in “Fairy Tale Land”—into a guessing game in this sprightly oversize book. As customers place orders over the phone, clues suggest their...
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B. G. Hennessy, Author, Mary Morgan, Author, Mary Morgan, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-82237-9
The town is getting ready for a wedding, and readers will immediately be caught up in the excitement. At the center of the joyous preparations is Jake, the rotund, cheerful baker who is making the wedding cake. ``The flower girls got some curls''; ``
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Mary Morgan, Author Atheneum Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-767450-7
An outing to the forest with his mama opens the door to a world of adventure for an intrepid young porcupine. While his mother reads a book, Benjamin climbs a tree, tastes a dandelion, finds a worm and talks to some ants. His curiosity leads him to...
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Mary Morgan, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-19898-5
In 1942, Japan invaded Malaya and forced many of the British expatriates living there to serve in prison camps. Though some escaped to England, others disappeared, never to be heard of again. Victor and Isabel Cartwright were among the lucky--they...
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Mary Morgan, Author Thomas Dunne Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-15694-7
There's a lot of loss in Morgan's debut, a mediocre mystery whose easy swipes at racism deteriorate into boilerplate moralizing. First, there's the loss of Jordan Ambrose, a five-year-old African American boy who dies of a bacterial infection at St.
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Mary Morgan, Author, Van Royan, Author Hyperion Books $5.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0474-0
Charming little mouse Rosie displays the two sides of her toddler personality in this twin set of paper-over-board books just right for small hands. In her gentle mode, Rosie ""tickles a fuzzy caterpillar"" and ""kisses her baby brother very softly""
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Mary Morgan, Author, Van Royan, Author Hyperion Books $5.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0475-7
Charming little mouse Rosie displays the two sides of her toddler personality in this twin set of paper-over-board books just right for small hands. In her gentle mode, Rosie ""tickles a fuzzy caterpillar"" and ""kisses her baby brother very softly""
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Mary Morgan, Author, Mary Morgan, Illustrator . Knopf $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-82308-4
Morgan (the Rosie mouse books) makes a virtue of familiarity in this cozy, handily undersize bedtime book. Little Mouse usually enjoys being tucked up in his bed, but now he wants a change. Perhaps he could sleep in a nest, like a bird? His mother...
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Mary Morgan, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-312-34135-0
Rhys Edwards, an acerbic Welsh country doctor; Gwyneth, his beautiful, melancholy wife; and Tim, a handsome young American deciding between medical school and the Vietnam draft, test boundaries of love and family in Morgan's nostalgic novel (after...
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Mary Morgan, Author Dutton Books $12.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-525-46987-2
Mary Morgan's soft, sweet artwork suffuses My Good Night Book, as it follows a toddler getting ready for bed in a rhyming text that begins ""The big orange sun goes down,/ past the little quiet town."" Children can pull tabs to make the sun set,...
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