Lola M. Schaefer, illus. by Paul Meisel. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3555-5
The creators of Swamp Chomp (2014) focus on animals indigenous to another ecosystem while offering a similar mix of staccato text and fluid art. After a hushed opening spread (“On the savanna, animals sleep”), the creatures leap to life. Schaefer...
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Paul Meisel, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator Hyperion Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0155-8
Engine, Engine, Number Nine is rolling, rolling down the line, but where is it headed? In this version of the familiar rhyme, the destination is ultimately revealed to be the county fair-a gently comic premise that enables Calmenson (Dinner at the...
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Anne Mazer, Author, Paul Meisel, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator Hyperion Books $12.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0213-5
As confident as they are klutzy, Ed and Tom Fixit arrive on the scene to help out two children who broke their mother's favorite plate. Dropping the plate and gluing the broom to the floor are just the beginning: soon the Fixits have reduced the...
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Laura C. Schlessinger, Author, Paul Meisel, Author, Martha L. Lambert, Joint Author Cliff Street Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-027866-3
Radio therapist ""Dr. Laura"" Schlessinger tackles the concept of unconditional love in her debut book for children, the first in a projected series of ""subjects worthy of discussion with your children."" At bedtime, a boy asks his mother whether...
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Karen Magnuson Beil, Author, Paul Meisel, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1368-3
The title--and the cover illustration of an exultant pig flourishing a cake--suggests some of the high spirits and simple pleasures of this rhyming book, as fluffy and sweet as seven-minute frosting. The steps of making the cake follow a counting...
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Paul Meisel, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator . Dutton $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-45465-6
In this tale of a turn-of-the-century New York milliner, Meisel (Lunch Money) creates both a sentimental ode to his roots and a spunky heroine. Zara helps her father, Selig, make fine feathered hats that are "good enough for the president's...
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Paul Meisel, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator . Puffin $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-240274-0
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "In this tale of a turn-of-the-century New York milliner, Meisel creates both a spunky heroine and a sentimental ode to his roots."Ages 4-up. (Jan.)
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Paul Meisel. Holiday House, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3837-2
An eastern bluebird narrates the second installment of Meisel’s A Nature Diary series. Born in a nesting box, E. Bluebird’s anthropomorphic musings relate the milestones of her first year, from hatching and fledging to migrating and mating. As in My
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Paul Meisel. Holiday House, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4053-5
Meisel’s third Nature Diary showcases the stink bug in a story that spans five months, from early June, when the brown marmorated stink bug narrator arrives (as “one of the twenty-eight eggs laid on the underside of this leaf”) to early October,...
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