Rebecca Bond, Author . Houghton $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-618-77705-1
Like the story of The Golden Goose, this fanciful picture book begins with a person who attracts an increasingly large crowd until he has spontaneously assembled a parade almost certain to make viewers laugh. Against a creamy blank backdrop, Billy...
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Rebecca Bond. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-544-33217-1
A heartwarming atmosphere enriches Bond’s chapter book, in which a down-on-his-luck farmer plans to burn down his barn to collect insurance money. Burdock, a scrappy, one-eyed cat, learns of the plot after sneaking into the farmhouse to get warm....
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Rebecca Bond. FSG/Ferguson, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-38077-9
In this haunting story about a 1914 incident from the childhood of Bond’s grandfather, four-year-old Antonio Willie Giroux lives in the lakeside hotel his mother runs in Gowganda, Ontario. Antonio spends his days helping staffers and walking in the...
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Rebecca Bond, Author, Rebecca Bond, Illustrator . Houghton $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-547-07675-1
Some notable if less familiar subjects take starring roles in a broad selection of picture book biographies being released this fall.
In the Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton
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Rebecca Bond, Author, Rebecca Bond, Author . Dutton $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-47308-4
An overnight snowfall means plenty of outdoor fun for a creative, rambunctious clan of kids in this picture-book tribute to winter and the pleasures of simpler times. Though the flakes have "hatted the houses and capsuled the cars in thick and...
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Rebecca Bond, Author . Little, Brown/Tingley $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-10458-6
"At 44 MacDougal Street when Marcus Moore moved in, 'I'm here!' said Marcus Moore, but there was no one there." And so it goes for the lonely new boy in the neighborhood, until "like a sunny sidewalk dancer, a girl went...
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Rebecca Bond, Author . Little, Brown/Tingley $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-53731-5
It's truly Christmastime in the city when the Christmas tree man sets up shop on Maggie Laroche's street corner. Maggie and her three siblings visit the tree at the end of their block, each dreaming about what they think is best about it (
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Rebecca Bond, illus. by Salley Mavor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-94906-5
On each spread, Bond describes a child’s bedstead in rhyming first-person perspective, paired with an informative contextualizing paragraph. “My bed unrolls on grasslands vast—it travels where I go,” reads one, which depicts the “wide-open steppes...
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Rebecca Bond. Charlesbridge, $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-58089-594-1
Limited vocabulary doesn’t mean early readers can’t be lyrical. Bond (Out of the Woods) demonstrates as much in a passage about spring: “They watched the wind play in the new leaves. Everything whispered and waved and danced.” Three linked stories...
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Rebecca Bond, Author, Rebecca Bond, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-10416-6
A first-time picture book author/artist presents a warm and loving family anticipating the arrival of a new baby. Father realizes the baby has nowhere to sleep, so he builds a cradle. Grandfather paints it, Grandmother makes a quilt for it, Brother...
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Rebecca Bond, Author, Rebecca Bond, Illustrator Megan Tingley Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-10545-3
Bond (Just Like a Baby) returns to themes of home and hearth in this tale of intergenerational family love, individuality and the gifts that make each one of us unique. From the time Maurice is a newborn, all the Marcelas imagine he'll grow up to be
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