Meghan McCarthy, Author . Viking $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-03608-0
Loopy and bright, first-time author/artist McCarthy's George "likes to do many things./ But he loves
to be upside down." It sometimes gets him into trouble, however, as do the fantasy scenarios he offers by way of excuses. "George,...
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Meghan McCarthy, Author . Viking $15.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-03688-2
McCarthy (George Upside Down
) plays this fast-moving tale strictly for giggles, as she compares the career of Princess, a show dog, with that of next-door-neighbor Ed, a happy-go-lucky mutt. Full-bleed spreads show Princess with mock-serious...
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Meghan McCarthy, Author . Harcourt $16 (38p) ISBN 978-0-15-205368-0
Part James Bond, part Inspector Gadget, the boy hero of McCarthy's (Aliens Are Coming!
) energetic picture book dreams he foils a plot to steal back the Mona Lisa
from two "crooked crooks." With animation-ready artwork and a plot that...
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Meghan McCarthy, Author . Knopf $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-82940-6
McCarthy (Aliens Are Coming!
) mines history in this profile of bodybuilder Charles Atlas. As a boy, Italian-born Angelo Siciliano arrives in a Brooklyn neighborhood of “Irish, Jewish, Polish, and Italian immigrants. Life on the streets was...
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Meghan McCarthy, Author . Knopf $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-84459-1
McCarthy’s signature bug-eyed characters return for another nonfiction excursion, this time for astronaut training. Addressed as “you,” readers join three men and one woman as they undergo numerous tests of intellectual and...
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Meghan McCarthy, S&S/Wiseman, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7970-8
Walter Diemer, an accountant with the Fleer chewing gum company, slowly begins experimenting with ingredients, trying to create bubblegum. One batch is a near miss—his co-workers happily blow bubbles, but “the next day the mixture was as hard as a...
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Meghan McCarthy. Knopf, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-84460-7
Having previously highlighted high-profile animals in City Hawk: The Story of Pale Male and Seabiscuit the Wonder Horse, McCarthy turns to Balto, the famous sled dog, to explore his life after the spotlight stopped shining. After making an arduous...
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Meghan McCarthy, Author, Meghan McCarthy, Illustrator . Knopf $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-83518-6
In an era of fake news, reality shows and terror alerts on simultaneous channels, this volume reminds readers of the panic that greeted Orson Welles's unique radio hoax of Oct. 30, 1938. McCarthy (Show Dog
) alternates black-and-white...
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Meghan McCarthy, Author, Meghan McCarthy, Illustrator . S&S/Wiseman $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3359-5
Featuring similarly spare paintings as Jeanette Winters's The Tale of Pale Male: A True Story
, McCarthy's (Aliens Are Coming!
) book covers much of the same turf—and air space—as that spring release. McCarthy concisely...
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Meghan McCarthy. S&S/Wiseman, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2262-9
McCarthy has made a career out of picture-book biographies of unexpected subjects, and this thoroughly inspiring portrait of Betty June Skelton (1926–2011) reveals a woman who embodies a “need for speed.” Direct quotations from Skelton fill her...
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Meghan McCarthy. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0637-6
From Benjamin Franklin to Steve Jobs, inventors have long had a hold on the American imagination. But exactly what makes something an invention? McCarthy (Daredevil: The Daring Life of Betty Skelton) again proves her nonfiction storytelling chops by
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Meghan McCarthy. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0639-0
With her signature narrative zeal and goggle-eyed characters, McCarthy takes readers to the first Olympic marathon in America, held during the St. Louis World’s Fair. The vehicles trailing the pack kicked up dust that choked and blinded the runners.
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Meghan McCarthy. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-7752-9
Stowed, towed, shunned, shunted, guarded, studied, and eventually incinerated: McCarthy (The Wildest Race Ever) looks at what happened to an unwanted barge carrying more than 3,000 tons of New York trash in 1987 in this thoroughly researched picture
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Meghan McCarthy. S&S/Wiseman, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5344-5230-5
McCarthy breezes through more than a century of cinematic history in this whirlwind tour of select technologies, genres, and films. Starting with Eadweard Muybridge’s “The Horse in Motion,” the book also touches on the creation of the Kinetograph,...
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