Molly Bang, Author . Scholastic Bookshelf $5.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-59845-3
"Raw zigzags of color convey a girl's rage when her sister takes her toy in this compassionate volume, which proposes a cure for anger," PW
said. "Bang treats childhood emotions with respect." Ages 3-up. (June)
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Molly Bang, with Ann Stern. Blue Sky, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-338-15298-2
Sophie, the blonde child first seen in Bang’s Caldecott Honor–winning When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry..., struggles with self-confidence and problem-solving in her third picture book. After her sister ridicules her for
not being smart (S
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Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm, illus. by Molly Bang. Blue Sky, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-545-80541-4
Bang and Chisholm continue their Sunlight series with a poetic, in-depth exploration of the sun’s role in the water cycle. Once again, the sun speaks directly to readers, explaining that our planet’s water is in a constant state of movement and...
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Molly Bang. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-78831-1
The heroine of Bang’s When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry returns more than 15 years after that Caldecott Honor–winning picture book. At school, Sophie’s class is asked to create pictures of their favorite trees from memory. When Sophie...
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Molly Bang, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-216345-7
In this dense picture book/nonfiction hybrid, Bang (Yellow Ball) tackles the onerous task of explaining to young readers the environmental impact of toxic waste and its attendant disposal. The result is a tedious dissection of one man's experiments...
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Molly Bang, Author Mulberry Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-10989-9
A shipbuilder tells his daughter how his long-ago rescue of a Canadian Goose--and his subsequent greed--brought tragedy to the family. In a boxed review, PW praised Bang's ``graceful text'' and her ``arresting drawings and paintings in incomparably...
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Molly Bang, Author Morrow Junior Books $16.5 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-06314-6
Forgotten at the water's edge, a ball is pulled into the ocean by the tide and eventually washed up on another shore. Told in a mere 28 words, this tale could be slight, but in Bang's ( The Paper Crane ; Ten, Nine, Eight ) experienced hands, it...
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Molly Bang, Author Morrow Junior Books $12.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-688-05636-0
Delphine lives in a small cabin high on top of a mountain with her three companions, a wolf, a guinea pig and a lion. One day she finds out that a present is waiting for her at the post office. Delphine thinks she knows what it is; she is happy...
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Molly Bang, Author Greenwillow Books $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-07015-1
Striking dioramas illuminate a busy autumn day, underscoring the intensity and determination that children bring to play. Each page looks like a stage set, complete with props. A doll awakens and her world springs to life as her friends-a cat, polar
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Molly Bang, Author Greenwillow Books $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-04108-3
Collaborating with her distinguished mother Betsy Bang and working on her own, Molly Bang has received awards including two Caldecott Honors for Ten, Nine, Eight and The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher. She has another front contender in this...
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Molly Bang, Author . Little, Brown $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-79617-0
Bang (When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry
) creates a love letter from mother to child with a startling visual conceit. When the narrator, a delightfully funky mom, says, "I feel something in my heart," she looks inside and,...
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Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-545-27322-0
As she did in Living Sunlight and My Light, Bang creates a character out of the sun, this time focusing on its role in the ocean’s ecosystems: “My light-energy,/ first caught by phytoplankton,/ flows through/ the ocean’s chains of life.” Bang...
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Molly Bang, Author, Molly Bang, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-18979-8
Raw zigzags of color convey a girl's rage in this compassionate volume, which proposes a cure for anger. Sophie's temper flares when her sister demands a turn playing with a favorite stuffed gorilla. Matters worsen when Sophie's mother passes...
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Molly Bang, Author, Molly Bang, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $10.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-89005-2
The importance of accepting oneself and of appreciating differences in others is among the affirming messages in Bang's (The Paper Crane) deceptively simple tale, a kinder, gentler cousin of ""The Ugly Duckling."" Through spare but dynamic...
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Molly Bang, Author, Molly Bang, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $18 (45p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5396-8
Bang (Common Ground) continues in an environmental vein with this cramped account of commercial shrimper Diane Wilson's fight to protect her native Texas waters from pollution. Taking a chronological approach, she tracks Wilson's growth from...
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Molly Bang, Author, Molly Bang, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $6.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-689-80381-9
A grandmotherly woman, depicted mostly in negative space, outwits a persistent blue imp. PW described the Caldecott Honor book as ""extraordinary.... [The] illustrations are unparalleled in effects."" Ages 4-8. (May)
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Molly Bang, Author, Molly Bang, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-10056-4
Painted in bright, carefree colors of brilliant ocean blue, lemon yellow and emerald green, this little volume sounds a sober warning about increasing demands on earth's dwindling resources. Bang (Goose) frames the complex contemporary issues of...
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Molly Bang, Author, Molly Bang, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-10480-1
According to PW , ``This beguiling picture book, with a palette of eye-filling colors, appears to arise naturally from the love binding a father and his little ``big'' girl who turn bedtime into playtime with a rhyming game.'' Ages 3-6. (May)
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Molly Bang, Author, Molly Bang, Illustrator . Scholastic/Blue Sky $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-04424-0
A child celebrates his body, senses, emotions and surroundings in this lyrical story, illustrated with crayon, paint and collage art on brown paper bags. Simple images of a boy with yellow felt overalls contrast with finely detailed renderings of...
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Molly Bang, Author, Molly Bang, Illustrator . Scholastic/Blue Sky $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-48961-4
With the carefully honed prose and wholly original visual imagination that have long been her hallmarks, Bang (When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry...
) explores the many ways in which the sun's light is transformed into the energy...
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Molly Bang, Author, Molly Bang, Illustrator, Molly Bang, Adapted by HarperCollins $6.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-688-11504-3
In this absorbing first chapter book, a resourceful Chinese girl helps the poor of her country and brings an evil emperor to grief. Ages 6-up. (May)
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Molly Bang, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Molly Bang, Illustrator Chronicle Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58717-187-1
A father tells his daughter about her departed mother in Dawn by Molly Bang, an adaptation of the Japanese legend of the Crane Wife set in 19th-century New England. PW s boxed review, when the book was originally published in 1983, described the...
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