Melissa Sweet, Adapted by, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator, Melissa Sweet, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $6.99 (11p) ISBN 978-0-316-75861-1
PW called Melissa Sweet's Fiddle-I-Fee an ""ebullient take on a familiar nursery song,"" now built to endure for youngest music-lovers. (Apr.)
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Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson, illus. by Melissa Sweet. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-5472-9
Sampson and the late Martin (Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3) offer a nominal introduction to animals and their homes, as well as a simple call to action: listen. “In the morning, Mommy gives us wake-up kisses and says, ‘Good morning, little one. Can you hear
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Ray Moynihan, Author, Melissa Sweet, Author Pegasus $15.95 (234p) ISBN 978-1-60598-047-8
Two words sum up the authors’ advice to patients: be skeptical. Aussie journalists Moynihan (Too Much Medicine?
) and Sweet (coauthor, The Big Fat
) try to channel Jerome Groopman’s bestselling How Doctors Think
but wind up wanting. The
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James Howe, Author, Melissa Sweet, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator Avon Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71191-8
These first chapter books star inseparable, irrepressible friends--one named for his favorite color, the other for her fascination with dinosaurs--who visit the museum in the first title and hold a mock wedding in the second. Ages 5-8. (Oct.)
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Melissa Sweet, Author Houghton $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-38794-6
For her authorial debut, Sweet (The Boy Who Drew Birds
) offers a colorful, abecedarian take on Little Red Riding Hood. Creative details, both visual and verbal, abound as Sweet introduces Carmine as a thoughtful, creative painter whom Granny...
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Melissa Sweet, Author Little Brown and Company $11.15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-82516-0
This ebullient take on a familiar nursery song features a cozy pastoral setting and a winsome cast. Readers follow a boy around the barnyard as he feeds his pets (cat, pig, goat, duck, etc.), and all join in for an impromptu parade that culminates...
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Melissa Sweet. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-544-31959-2
In an illustrated biography that invites slow perusing, two-time Caldecott Honor–recipient Sweet (The Right Word) unspools the life of author E.B. White (1899–1985) in meticulously crafted, scrapbook-style pages. Her carefully assembled, whimsical...
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Melissa Sweet, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator . Houghton Mifflin $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-618-71714-9
An idiosyncratic mash-up of canine lore, astronomy and the romance of the railroad, Sweet's (Carmine
) tale wanders—much like its titular character. Callously abandoned by the side of the road, a forlorn dog named Tupelo searches for a...
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Michelle Markel, illus. by Melissa Sweet. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-180442-7
When immigrant Clara Lemlich arrived in New York City, she was “dirt poor, just five feet tall, and hardly [spoke] a word of English,” but she wasn’t short on tenacity and determination. After becoming employed as a garment worker and witnessing...
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Alice B. McGinty, Author, Lee Wardlaw, Author, Melissa Sweet, Author , illus. by Melissa Sweet. Dial $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2596-6
"Good night, little lambs. Go to sleep," a mother says to the 10 children sleeping over at her house. That endearment prompts one child to dream about a wild and wooly slumber party—of sheep. McGinty's (the Dogs Helping People...
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Joyce Scott with Brie Spangler, illus. by Melissa Sweet. Knopf, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-64811-6
Scott (Entwined, for adults) and Spangler (Beast) begin this powerful picture biography of Scott’s twin sister Judith (1943–2005) with a description of their early childhood. Joyce and Judy did everything together: “I don’t know if everything comes...
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