Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, Jonathan Green, Author, Jonathan Green, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-698-11756-3
""Joyful in both word and palette,"" said PW, ""this African story tells why lightning and thunder reside in the sky and not on earth, as they once did."" Ages 4-8. (Jan.)
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Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, Satomi Ichikawa, Illustrator Philomel Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-23314-2
Tanya gets the toe shoes she's been dreaming of in Tanya and the Red Shoes by Patricia Lee Gauch, illus. by Satomi Ichikawa. With time, practice and some help from her big sister, the heroine finally flies; the artwork portrays her joyous...
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Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, Satomi Ichikawa, Illustrator Philomel Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-22688-5
The wiggly, petite dancer last seen in Bravo, Tanya continues to express her joie de ballet in this rousing encore. When Emily joins Tanya's dance class, everyone (including Barbara, Tanya's ballerina bear) recognizes that Emily is a prima ballerina:
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Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, Satomi Ichikawa, Illustrator, Miguel Angel Mendo, Translator Lectorum Publications $18.99 (28p) ISBN 978-84-8488-032-5
PreS-Gr 2-The very first line of this wonderful book sets the stage: ""Little Tanya adored the ballet..."" The softly rendered watercolors show a youngster imitating her big sister, Elisa, as she practices her ballet positions. Although Tanya...
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Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, Barbara Lavallee, Illustrator , illus. by Barbara Lavallee. Holt $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6535-0
Gauch (the Tanya books), in an unusual but touching story, introduces a girl whose mother knits her out of wool “just the way she wanted her,” giving her “a sky-blue petticoat that she never had to take off.” As Elizabeth...
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Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, David Christiana, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5291-6
Christiana's (The Tale I Told Sasha) fey, diaphanous watercolors flow through Gauch's (Dance, Tanya) allegorical story like light through water. Poppy the toymaker has a knack for making marvelous toys out of the odd bit of wood, and his gift for ""l
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Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, Elise Primavera, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22405-8
The indomitable heroine of Christina Katerina and the Box gets her way, sort of, when she and her mother divide up the house. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, Elise Primavera, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21408-0
Christina Katerina, the spunky heroine of Christina Katerina and the Box, is back. This time, however, she has had quite enough of her family. When she is unfairly blamed for the commotion her brother and his friends are making, Christina decides to
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Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, Stephen Gammell, Illustrator Yearling Books $3.25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-15951-6
This gripping novel is based on a 14-year-old girl's autobiographical account of the famous Civil War battle. According to PW , ``Gauch's dramatic, verse-like text and Gammell's somber . . . drawings evoke the horror of war with startling but not...
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Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, Stephen Gammell, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $18.99 (46p) ISBN 978-0-399-22201-6
Based on an autobiographical account of the Battle of Gettysburg by Tillie Pierce Alleman, Gauch's historically accurate treatment of the 14-year-old girl's experience is a welcome reissue of a book first published in 1975. Sent to a farmhouse for...
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Patricia Lee Gaugh, Author, Patricia Lee Gauch, Author, Jonathan Green, Illustrator Philomel Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22548-2
Gauch's lilting prose-poem provides a graceful, animated underpinning for forceful, elegant oil paintings that locate the story of the Flood in an African setting. Green ( Father and Son ) deploys a palette of sparkling, jewel-like colors: ruby...
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