Nancy Tafuri, Author Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-63782-4
In a departure from her previous books, which are aimed at very young children, Tafuri targets beginning readers with a lean yet evocative text. Bunny and Bird both make their homes in an apple tree, and Bunny loves to hear Bird sing, but they aren't
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Nancy Tafuri, Author Scholastic $7.99 (15p) ISBN 978-0-439-68613-6
You Are Special, Little One by Nancy Tafuri makes a smooth transition to board book. Cozy scenes set on savannah, ice floe and pond depict Mama and Papa lions, penguins, beavers and more telling their little ones the ways in which they're special....
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Nancy Tafuri, Author Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-92159-6
In this tender bedtime book, seven young creatures ask in turn a single, important question: ""Do you love me, Mama?"" The answer in each case is the same: ""forever and ever and always,"" but it is preceded by different, lyrical similes. Mama...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author Greenwillow Books $13.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-688-07871-3
Like the bicycle wheel in Wheel Away! (see review above), a ball bounces and sets off chain reactions: the cat jumps, the water splashes, the dog runs and so on, until the ball stops . . . and a toddler laughs. The action-packed text by Tafuri (...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author Greenwillow Books $3.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-688-07462-3
Taking off clothes and putting them on are the subjects of these two concise board books; item by item a child goes from rainy day wet gear to a warm bath or bundles up against a chilly day. Not one word is wasted nor is the concept expendable:...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author Greenwillow Books $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-06541-6
""It was the first day of summer . . . '' and a familysets up camp near a small lake. Knapsacks, a fishing pole, a red inner tube, a kite and a soccer ball are some of the things they bring with them. They alsounintentionallybring noise and disturb...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author Puffin Books $3.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-050585-6
In this Caldecott Honor winner, a mother duck loses her eighth duckling, and asks the other pond animals for help (though the missing one is never lost, only cleverly concealed in each picture). ""Children will giggle as they glimpse the hider, a...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author Greenwillow Books $3.95 (10p) ISBN 978-0-688-07189-9
Two of these three board books by the Caldecott Honor-winner are among the best of the genre. My Friends shows that ""bunnies, a fawn, a puppy . . . are babies just like me!'' Where We Sleep tells the very young that ``bunnies have burrows, fawns...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author Scholastic Press $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-39879-4
From Nancy Tafuri comes You Are Special, Little One, a follow-up to her earlier I Love You, Little One. Cozy scenes set on savannah, ice floe and pond depict Mama and Papa lions, penguins, beavers and more telling their little ones the ways in ...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-18973-6
The text of this sumptuous, oversize book, based on an old poem by Gregory Gander (aka George Ellis), assigns a single adjective to each month (""Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,/ Showery, Flowery, Bowery,"" and so on). It's an ideal vehicle for Tafuri (I Love...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author Greenwillow Books $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-14493-7
Tafuri's (The Brass Ring) ""reversible"" book inventively covers the same ground twice: first by daylight, then at night, after the reader flips the book over halfway through (the ""back cover"" acts as the ""front cover"" of What the Moon Sees)....
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Nancy Tafuri, Author . S&S $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-87341-6
Tafuri (Have You Seen My Duckling?
) is in classic form in her latest large-scale offering. As Squirrel hops and jumps through a pumpkin patch and around the nearby woods, his long, rangy body expertly scaling branches and the occasional bird feeder,
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Nancy Tafuri, Author . Scholastic $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-27311-4
Tafuri's (I Love You, Little One) skilled watercolor-and-pastel drawings feature a trio of toddler bears who run off from their mother to explore the wide world. At each turn of the page, the brief text directs readers' attention to the...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author, Nancy Tafuri, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-16959-2
Bunny and Bird, who teamed up in Will You Be My Friend? are joined by Squirrel and Chipmunk for a game of winter hide-and-seek in Where Did Bunny Go? by Nancy Tafuri. Bunny, however, is too clever in his choice of a hiding place and, when Bird...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author, Nancy Tafuri, Illustrator Scholastic Press $7.99 (15p) ISBN 978-0-439-44265-7
A goose wanders about the barnyard looking for a place to make her nest in Silly Little Goose! by Nancy Tafuri, now available in a board-book edition (PW praised the ""lovely nostalgic sensibility"" of the picture book, published last year). When
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Nancy Tafuri, Author, Nancy Tafuri, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-06130-2
Tafuri, a Caldecott Honor winner, combines several elements in her new counting book and makes it all look simplea sign of true artistry. First of all, there are barnyard and field creatures to count from one to 10, clearly delineated in glowing yet
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Nancy Tafuri, Author, Nancy Tafuri, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-09468-3
Set in generously sized type, a succinct text shapes a sequence of events into a slice of farm life. Tafuri's ( Have You Seen My Duckling? ) large-scale, elegant illustrations dominate the double-page spreads, with figures often overflowing the...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author, Nancy Tafuri, Illustrator . Simon & Schuster $15.99 (28p) ISBN 978-1-4169-2834-8
Farmer Gray’s homestead is as colorless as his name—even the sky and grass are gray. So, while he’s away for the day, Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick and White Duck get some paint and undertake a barnyard makeover. First they...
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Nancy Tafuri, Author, Nancy Tafuri, Illustrator . S&S $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-87342-3
Mama Hen knows best. When her five newborn chicks are hungry, they eye delicacies too big for their diminutive stomachs. The first fluffy yellow chick "with a little squirm,/ spied a fat wiggly worm." The fifth chick, "with a little pout,
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Nancy Tafuri, Author, Nancy Tafuri, Illustrator . Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-27313-8
Stable animals that witness Jesus' birth welcome him with joyful noise in this fittingly melodic picture book. All the creatures wish to offer their unique songs to the baby, but the shy donkey refrains from taking part, worried that his bray is
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