Petr Horacek. Candlewick, $7.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6780-1
Horacek’s lovely introduction to animal noises features personable portraits of seven barnyard animals. There’s the hint of a smile penciled on the face of a handsome salmon-colored pig (“Oink, oink says the pig”), while a farm dog bounds across its
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Petr Horacek, Author, Petr Horacek, Illustrator . Candlewick $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3040-9
Birds of a feather may flock together, but Suzy Goose is sick and tired of it: "I wish I could be different, she thought." Her species envy leads her to a series of improbable, comical encounters with animals big and small: she hangs upside-d
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Petr Horacek, Author, Petr Horacek, Illustrator . Candlewick $12.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3343-1
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n engaging read that stimulates the senses, this title will titillate young imaginations with lively and entertaining pictures and words. From the get-go, the story brims with vibrant energy, as a girl chases after a butterfly in her backyard...
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Petr Horacek, Author, Petr Horacek, Illustrator . Candlewick $14.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4566-3
With distinctive childlike artwork and language that telegraph a range of strong childhood emotions, from glee to hurt to contentedness, Horácek (Silly Suzy Goose
) envisions a boy’s adventures with an imaginary elephant. Both the story
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Petr Horacek. Candlewick, $15.99 (20p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6157-1
From "One spotted giraffe" to "Ten swimming fish," Horacek offers a subdued counting book with pop-up
elements tucked into the side of each spread. Horacek keeps the backgrounds simple, focusing on the brightly colored animals (including three...
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Petr Horacek. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6572-2
The tale of a puffin separated from his friend provides a stage for Horacek’s (Jonathan and Martha) intense colors and rich textures. The storm that separates Peter from Paul unfolds across four panels as the puffins are tossed by churning waves,...
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Petr Horacek. Candlewick, $15.99 (20p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6776-4
Horacek contrasts 20 animals, using flaps, pop-ups, and stylish mixed-media paintings to highlight the differences between them. A “short dog” appears opposite a large giraffe-spotted flap, hinting at the “tall” animal behind it. Elsewhere, a “quiet
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Petr Horacek, Author, Pete Horacek, Author, Peter Horacek, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2209-1
A crescent window in the cover is just the first of many die-cuts that yield deeper glimpses into the night sky in When the Moon Smiled: A Bedtime Counting Book by Petr Hor cek. One night the moon observes some problems on a farm below: ""The ...
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Petr Horacek, Author, Pete Horacek, Author, Petr Horacek, Illustrator . Candlewick $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2517-7
A mouse's eyes are bigger than her stomach—and her meal is bigger than her house, too—in this chipper paper-over-board picture book featuring die-cut holes that grow larger with each spread. When a big red apple appears outside her...
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Petr Horacek, Author, Pete Horacek, Author, Petr Horacek, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $4.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1460-7
Two new board books by Petr Hor cek burst with color, shrinking pages and clever designs. In What Is Black and White?, young readers learn that ""the night is black"" and ""the goose is white"" as the die-cut pages grow smaller. The last spread...
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Petr Horacek, Author, Pete Horacek, Author, Petr Horacek, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (20p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1798-1
Flip's Day by Petr Hor cek follows an active penguin from sunup to sundown. The paper-over-board book features colorful laminated pages that grow progressively smaller with every turn. The final spread shows the penguin asleep under a bright ...
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Petr Horacek. Candlewick, $7.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6779-5
With his characteristically bright palette, Horacek combines pencil, paint, and collage to walk readers through the steps leading up to a boy’s bedtime. Wooden blocks sit on the floor in the opening spread (“Time to play”); on the following pages,...
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Petr Horacek. Candlewick, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7480-9
Readers get to be a fly on the wall—and the ceiling and the breakfast table—alongside a six-legged narrator who spends much of Horacek’s story trying to avoid a bright blue flyswatter that lands with a loud “FLAP.” The housefly can’t understand what
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Petr Horacek. Candlewick, $8.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7967-5
Die-cut pages and an interactive turn-wheel enliven the quietly evocative story of a gray mouse. Summer becomes autumn becomes winter as the pages flip, and Tiny Mouse makes the most of each season: “Tiny Mouse loves nibbling wheat in the sunshine....
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Petr Horác˘ek. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1285-3
Hare surveys his animal friends one by one to ask if they think the meadow where they all live is the best place in the world. When they say yes—“It’s the place where we run and play together,” the rabbits explain—Hare reflects that the meadow isn’t
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