Melanie Watt, Author . Kids Can $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-55337-959-1
It's an indication of how well Watt (Leon the Chameleon
) knows her helicopter-parented audience that she's able to turn the phrase "antibacterial soap" into a bona fide punchline. Fearing attack by Martians, sharks, poison ivy,...
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Melanie Watt, Author . Kids Can $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55453-566-8
In troublemaking Chester's third outing, he again hijacks the narrative, blithely wielding a red marker as he creates his own story (at the expense of Watt and a much-abused mouse). The usurped author converses with Chester via sticky notes,...
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Mélanie Watt, Kids Can, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55453-468-5
It shouldn't surprise readers that Scaredy Squirrel doesn't like, well, surprises. And, as his fifth picture book demonstrates, that includes birthday party surprises, even when it's his birthday. Scaredy is all too aware of the pitfalls that can...
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M%C3%A9lanie Watt. Tundra, $21.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-77049-645-3
In this half-comic, half-tragic tale, Watt (the Scaredy Squirrel series) portrays a bug that gets sucked into a canister vacuum and travels through Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief. Watt's muted spreads feature midcentury modern interiors and...
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M%C3%A9lanie Watt. Kids Can, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-894786-86-7
Why go camping when you can watch it—The Joy of Camping, that is—on television? That's the plan for Scaredy Squirrel, who recognizes that such dangers as penguins, quicksand, mosquitoes, and zippers make camping excursions way too scary. But finding
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Melanie Watt, Author, Melanie Watt, Illustrator . Kids Can $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55453-140-0
This sidesplitting metafiction offers further proof of Watt’s (the Scaredy Squirrel books) extravagantly fresh, cheeky voice. Here, the exasperated author-illustrator engages in a literary tug-of-war with the eponymous marmalade puss, who has...
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Melanie Watt, Author, Melanie Watt, Illustrator . Kids Can $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55453-287-2
In this mischievous follow-up to her comical metafiction, Chester
, Watt—who is both character and author—thinks she's hit on a way to keep her cat's huge ego in check: make him the star of his very own fairy tale. But as...
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Melanie Watt, Author, Melanie Watt, Illustrator . Kids Can $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55453-288-9
Confronting his phobias one step at a time, Scaredy Squirrel, in his fourth adventure, “never sleeps” because he is so worried that he might have bad dreams about any number of creatures, which include dragons, fairies, ghosts, unicorns,
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Melanie Watt, Author, Melanie Watt, Illustrator Kids Can Press $16.95 (136p) ISBN 978-1-55337-341-4
An array of new titles allow for interactive fun while learning new concepts. Learning with Animals by M lanie Watt contains five small books tucked into sturdy book covers that creates the appearance of a single tall book (approx. 7"" x 14"")...
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Mélanie Watt, Disney-Hyperion, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-3486-2
The title is the accusation/declaration hurled by a mercurial bunny who's peeved that he's been made to wait for readers to show up. "Do you know how RUDE it is to make me wait?" demands the bunny of his audience, as Watt splits her page into four...
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Mélanie Watt. Kids Can, $17.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-894786-87-4
Who better than Scaredy Squirrel to educate readers about the safest ways to survive Halloween? In eight brief chapters, Scaredy explains how best to carve pumpkins (don’t use an ax or chainsaw, and “always go with a friendly look”), decorate one’s...
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