Mordicai Gerstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-06-021996-3
Thirteen stories of the silly, delightful mythological god Pan and his family are compiled in this picture book. When Pan is born, his distinguishing curly horns, beard and goat legs frighten away the nurse; others immediately love and admire him....
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Mordicai Gerstein. Holiday House, $18.99 (72p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3942-3
The versatile Gerstein (I Am Pan!) uses comic-style panel artwork to tell the life of the Greek messenger god Hermes. Golden Hermes is born with a head of curly hair and the cupidity of a newly minted movie star: “The world!... I love it! I want it...
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Mordicai Gerstein. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-62672-035-0
In roughly a dozen stories told through comics-style sequences, Gerstein (The Night World) delivers a wonderfully mischievous and joyful account of the life of the Greek god Pan, as narrated by the cloven-hooved deity himself. Gerstein draws from...
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Mordicai Gerstein. Little, Brown, $18 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-18822-7
Caldecott Medalist Gerstein (The Man Who Walked Between the Towers) lifts two everyday miracles up for celebration—the way that night transforms objects into unfamiliar forms and shadows, and the way that morning restores them to their original...
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Mordicai Gerstein. Little, Brown, $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-20478-1
In this playful account, Caldecott Medalist Gerstein (The Man Who Walked Between the Towers) suggests how and why drawing was invented, imaginatively drawing from an archeological find of cave drawings and a nearby child’s footprint. Second-person...
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Mordicai Gerstein. Roaring Brook, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-512-4
Caldecott Medalist Gerstein (The Man Who Walked Between the Towers) kicks his imagination into high gear in this fantastical how-to book. A boy with spiky red hair and glasses shares his 24-step plan for planting sunflowers on the moon to cheer it...
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Mordicai Gerstein. Abrams, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-9732-5
Two-time Caldecott Medalist Gerstein praises life's simple joys and unsung objects in poems and loosely rendered acrylics, as the trio of speakers in his poems lovingly personify their subjects. In one, a girl looks sadly at her toes, lamenting:...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-38142-4
In southern France in 1800, hunters capture a naked, filthy and speechless pre-adolescent boy, whom they bring into town slung from a pole. Eventually he is taken to Paris and placed in a school for deaf boys. There his alleged obliviousness to...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-022288-8
April is usually full of jokes, but in a serious moment she teaches her daughter May ``certain things a young spring month is expected to do.'' After a little practice at greeting returning birds and so on, May strikes out on her own--and promptly...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-022164-5
In Gerstein's latest, a grandson's comment that ``dogs and cats are nice but it seems all we do is wait on them!'' launches Grandfather on a rollicking yarn about the way of the world back when it was ruled by cats and dogs. They were very lazy, he...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-022144-7
In this fantasy of reincarnation, a humble Tibetan woodcutter dies without ever realizing his dream to ""see'' the world. But in death he is offered a second chance. All he has to do is choose the place and form of life most appealing to him. He...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201494-0
With each letter more hideous and mean than the last, this alphabet will supply kids with an abundance of insults. Gerstein (Stop Those Pants!) fashions each letter as an imaginary creature, from the scaly ""awfully arrogant Amphibian"" A to the...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443211-5
A tenderly told story about an old woodcutter and his choices when he faces the chance to live life over again. Ages 7-up. (Sept.)
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author . Millbrook/Roaring Brook $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1791-3
This effectively spare, lyrical account chronicles Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between Manhattan's World Trade Center towers in 1974. Gerstein (What Charlie Heard) begins the book like a fairy tale, "Once there were two towers side...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author . Roaring Brook $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-59643-047-1
Gerstein (The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
)
skillfully shapes a story by turns disturbing and comforting. His hybrid of fantasy and fable explores such themes as human nature, war, magic and music. The tale within a tale opens as Gisella...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author . Roaring Brook $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-59643-251-2
Living in a book is a bummer if you’re the only character in the family who doesn’t have a story. That’s the problem facing Caldecott Medalist Gerstein’s (The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
) pigtailed protagonist—eve
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author . FSG/Foster $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-34369-9
Four stories about a baby bluejay, kitten, girl and baby squirrel converge in this picture-book drama. Readers follow the connected story threads via cartoon-like thought balloons to make sense out of the resulting mayhem. Initially, the characters...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author . Holiday $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1897-8
In this powerful and lyrical picture book inspired by Jewish legends called Midrashim, Gerstein (The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
) imagines the viewpoint of the white ram that plays a key role in the Bible story of Abraham and Isaac. On the...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author . Roaring Brook $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-063-1
Caldecott Medalist Gerstein (The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
) introduces Hugene, a bearded giant who falls in love with the moon. In a series of swirly, blue-hued illustrations, the smitten fellow dances and sings desperate "tra-las"...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Diane D'Andrade, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201495-7
In this surreal escapade, talking trousers make life difficult for a kid who must dress for school. ""I'm sick of SITTING!"" Murray's jeans howl as he chases them around the bedroom. Even the boy's Skivvies try to wriggle out of being worn to class (
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Mordicai Gerstein, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443391-4
Little May is cared for by her mother, April, and assorted kin--personified months--in this imaginative journey through the seasons; according to PW, ``Its lightness is deceptive and its message worthy.'' Ages 4-8. (Apr.)
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Mordicai Gerstein, Illustrator . FSG/Foster $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-38292-6
Profiling American composer Charles Ives, Gerstein (The Wild Boy) plies an artistic style as densely and consciously layered as one of Ives's compositions. The illustrations provide an instant visual connection to the music, which attempts to...
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Mordicai Gerstein. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62672-505-8
A number of online videos show humans freeing whales tangled in ropes and nets; Gerstein acknowledges these as the inspiration for this story. Abelardo, the brown-skinned, shaggy-haired boy who narrates, is the son of a fisherman and lives by the...
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Mordicai Gerstein. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2142-8
Henri Rousseau's painting "The Sleeping Gypsy" has a mysterious charm all its own. Gerstein (I Am Pan!) builds his story around it—and in it. The original painting shows a woman fast asleep in the desert with a lion standing over her. Gerstein...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Mordicai Gerstein, Illustrator . FSG/Foster $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-37139-5
With the same gusto he brought to What Charlie Heard, Gerstein celebrates the accomplishments of another out-of-the-box thinker, John Bardsley. In 1868, the Englishman, newly transported to Philadelphia, imported 1,000 sparrows to the United States,
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Mordicai Gerstein. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2393-4
Nonsense and naivete rule Caldecott-winner Gerstein's (The Man Who Walked Between the Towers) retelling of Charles Marelle's 1888 fairy tale, "Drakestail." In this version of the repetition-driven story, the king—a heavyset boy wearing Chuck Taylors,
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Mordicai Gerstein, Illustrator . HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-075889-9
In this odd tale, a couple raises their pet kitten, Minifred, like a spoiled child, then unleashes her on an unsuspecting school. “I don't obey anything,” announces Minifred, “especially
not rules!” Pretty soon, her...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Mordicai Gerstein, Illustrator . Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-216343-3
"With each letter more hideous and mean than the last, this alphabet will supply kids with an abundance of insults. Gerstein panders to the baser impulses with gleeful good cheer. The bright oil portraits of the vile characters may well fire...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Mordicai Gerstein, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-38431-9
Nature and civilization collide in this thought-provoking picture book based on the story of a boy discovered living alone in the mountain forests of southern France in 1800. Hunters are first to see the boy scampering in the woods, where he had...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Nigel Gray, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-022074-7
Whether or not readers live with younger siblings who seem to cry incessantly, they will appreciate the good-humored absurdity of Gerstein's ( Arnold of the Ducks ; The Mountains of Tibet ) larger-than-life tale about a baby who grows to similar...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Gerstein, Author HarperCollins $13 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-022404-2
Splendid watercolor panoramas and a rounded landscape representing the Earth's curve illustrate Gerstein's warmhearted, childlike view of the sun's journey across the sky. ``At 5 o'clock in the morning / the sun comes up and begins the day,'' shows...
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Mordecai Gerstein, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0743-6
When a seal takes human form and marries a fisherman, their son enables his mother to return to her ocean home. PW praised Gerstein's ``extraordinary pictures.'' Ages 4-8. (Mar.)
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Mordicai Gerstein, Author, Mordecai Gerstein, Author Dial Books $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0302-5
Gerstein reworks the selkie myth into a deeply moving story of a son's loveand sacrificefor his mother. On Midsummer's Eve a beautiful seal slips out of her skin and takes ""human form to dance and sing.'' A fisherman hides the sealskin and promises
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Mordicai Gerstein, illus. by Mordicai Gerstein and Jeff Mack. Holiday House, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4760-2
This bubbly early reader by the late Caldecott Medalist, with colorwork completed by Mack (Just a Story), imagines three animal housemates looking for a new place to live. Green Moose has wavy antlers and wobbly legs, blue Goose has an undulating...
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