Pat Hutchins, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-06522-5
""1'' hunter blunders through the jungle, not seeing the ``2'' elephants, ``3'' giraffes or ``4'' ostriches. But they watch him, in a counting book that according to PW, ``turns learning into an adventure with spirited scenes in spectacular color...
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Pat Hutchins, Author Mulberry Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-08743-2
A jubilant story about a boy and his attempts to remember the items on his mother's shopping list. Ages 3-up. (Apr.)
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Pat Hutchins, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-09234-4
Ma's cookies prove irresistible not only to her offspring but to their many friends; the treats dwindle at an alarming rate with each new arrival. PW praised ``Hutchins's quirky illustrations,'' which ``nicely depict her suspenseful tale.'' Ages 4-8.
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Pat Hutchins, Author Greenwillow Books $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-12014-6
Bright, engaging illustrations and a simple, repetitive text are once again combined in Hutchins's ( Which Witch Is Which? ; The Doorbell Rang ) latest offering, a barnyard comedy of errors. Its hero, a little pink pig, has a snout for trouble. As...
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Pat Hutchins, Author Greenwillow Books $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-13078-7
Reverse psychology tames a young monster's temper in this amusingly told but clumsily illustrated tale. Billy, a pea-green, pointy-fanged fellow, resists nursery school, expressing his displeasure by throwing paints, howling during chorus and...
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Pat Hutchins, Author Greenwillow Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-13961-2
Hutchins (Rosie's Walk; The Doorbell Rang) explores spatial perspective in this minimal tale. At the beginning, four concerned animals watch Owl recede into the distance as he flies toward a clump of trees. Fox scurries after his winged friend to...
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Pat Hutchins, Author Greenwillow Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-05933-0
In this very funny sequel to The Very Worst Monster, Hazel, her mother and her grandmother find it easy to tell where the baby's beenhis trail of muddy footsteps, chocolately handprints and red paint is plain enough to follow. But where is he now?...
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Pat Hutchins, Author Greenwillow Books $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-10817-5
In this slight picture book, Hazel discovers that being a big sister can really try a girl's patience. Baby Billy wants to do everything Hazel does, even though he's much too young to attempt such activities. Nevertheless, Grandpa, Grandma, Ma and...
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Pat Hutchins, Author HarperTrophy $4.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-17063-9
In what PW called a ""monstrously clever"" sequel to The Very Worst Monster, readers follow baby's tracks, from muddy footsteps to chocolaty handprints, until baby is found--in the most unlikely place. Ages 3-up. (Sept.)
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Pat Hutchins, Author, Pat Hutchins, Illustrator . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-16799-8
Hutchins's (Changes, Changes) high-spirited caper follows Hen, Duck and Goose on a quest to find just the right spot for a picnic. After filling a basket with berries ("because Hen liked berries best"), apples ("because Goose liked...
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Pat Hutchins, Author, Pat Hutchins, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-05251-5
Victoria and Sam are just sitting down to a plateful of Ma's cookies when the doorbell rings, and two of their friends arrive to share the feast. The doorbell rings again and again and each time the number of cookies per person dwindles until at...
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Pat Hutchins, Author, Pat Hutchins, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-71371-2
When poor Owl's attempts at sleep are constantly thwarted by other animals' sounds, he pays his colleagues back in kind and enjoys having the last screech. Ages 2-5. (Mar.)
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Pat Hutchins, Author, Pat Hutchins, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.07 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-71688-1
In seldom more than 10 words per page, this deceptively simple tale--accompanied by straightforward figures against white backgrounds--tells of a boy's quiet triumph over his two older siblings. Ages 3-6. (Mar.)
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Pat Hutchins, Author, Pat Hutchins, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-11485-5
The latest picture book from the creator of Silly Billy! and Tidy Titch offers a look at how the strengths and weaknesses of best friends tend to play off each other. Two ebullient African American girls demonstrate that someone who can run fast,...
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Pat Hutchins, Author, Pat Hutchins, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-16797-4
Bold colors dominate Hutchins's (Titch) gouache paintings, framed in fire-engine red and featuring characters depicted as hinged wooden people and animals. The rhyming, sing-song text counts down from 10 as a succession of farm animals consume...
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Pat Hutchins. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6071-2
In 1968’s Rosie’s Walk, celebrated for its combination of deadpan sentences and suspenseful imagery, Hutchins pictured a clueless chicken tailed by a luckless fox. This sequel revisits Rosie, still just as dotty, who is making her way across a...
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