Michael Bedard, Author . Tundra $17.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-88776-552-0
Bedard's (Redwork) carefully constructed novel is rooted in mysticism, but its heartfelt scenes are grounded in reality. Charles is hiding in St. Bartholomew's church instead of going to his piano lesson when the caretaker accidentally...
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Michael Bedard, Author Tundra Books (NY) $16.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-88776-652-7
Michael Bedard collects 23 stories from the Liao-Chai in The Painted Wall and Other Strange Tales, ancient stories from Chinese oral and written traditions. A Taoist priest teaches a stingy pear-seller a lesson in ""Planting a Pear Tree."" In ""Th
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Michael Bedard, Author Atheneum Books $14.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-689-31342-4
This impressive first novel is pure, scary excitement. For classmates Emily and Craig and their teacher, genteel Miss Potts, summer begins routinely enough: Emily tends her rambunctious brother, Craig decides to look up a friend, and Miss Potts...
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Michael Bedard, Author Atheneum Books $21.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-689-31827-6
When Alice accepts a summer job helping to produce a Punch and Judy puppet show at the library, all she expects is a temporary respite from the tension generated by her mother's troubled pregnancy. But mysterious, frightening events occur as the...
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Michael Bedard, Author Grosset & Dunlap $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-22847-6
Bedard pits the iconic, yellow-billed white ducks featured in his posters against a carnivorous world in this alligator-y allegory. At first, the waterfowl don't seem to have a prayer. They hatch on a conveyor belt in a vast alligator-run factory,...
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Michael Bedard. Tundra, $19.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-77049-285-1
Bedard’s lyrical ghost story with a literary leitmotif features an adult character first introduced as a child in A Darker Magic (1987). A mildly famous poet, oddball Emily owns a languishing bookstore, the Green Man. When Emily’s niece, 15-year-old
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Michael Bedard, Author, Regolo Ricci, Illustrator Clarion Books $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-395-60735-0
With its intense imagery and enduring message about the nature of beauty, Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale has long been a favorite for retellers and illustrators. Here, in a crisp, elegant rendition, Bedard artfully condenses the...
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Michael Bedard, Author, Barbara Cooney, Illustrator , illus. by Barbara Cooney. Dell/Dragonfly $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-41740-8
In a boxed review, PW
compared this fictionalized encounter between Emily Dickinson and a young neighbor to "a Dickinson sonnet, a quiet gem: unassuming upon first glance, it is in fact deeply lustrous, with new facets becoming apparent the...
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Michael Bedard, Author, Barbara Cooney, Author, Barbara Cooney, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-385-30697-3
This fictionalized encounter between Emily Dickinson and a young neighbor is, like a Dickinson sonnet, a quiet gem: unassuming upon first glance, it is in fact deeply lustrous, with new facets becoming apparent the longer one looks. The narrator and
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Michael Bedard, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-32124-2
As in his Emily, Bedard celebrates another legendary female writer, Willa Cather, and focuses on the event she judged most influential upon her writing (according to Bedard)--her move west at age nine to the harsh plains of Nebraska. Children who...
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Michael Bedard, Author, Rick Jacobson, Illustrator, Laura Fernandez, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-81185-2
It's a daunting task to write as Charlotte Bronte, but Bedard (Emily) carries off ""the voice of a woman of passion and fire and fierce independence of spirit"" quite confidently. He recounts the compelling childhood of Jane Eyre's author and her...
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Michael Bedard, Author, Les Tait, Illustrator Tundra Books (NY) $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-88776-385-4
Loosely based on the lives of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, who lived and worked together for some 40 years beginning in 1920, Bedard's (The Divide) story touches on art's healing capacity. A boy's visit to his grandmother and her cozy
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