Books by Rebecca Emberley and Complete Book Reviews
Rebecca Emberley, Author LB Kids $6.99 (10p) ISBN 978-0-316-17343-8
English and Spanish translations of familiar words appear side-by-side in four bilingual board books by Rebecca Emberley-My Animals/Mis Animales; My Clothes/Mi Ropa; My Food/Mi Comida; and My Toys/Mis Juguetes-all illustrated with colorful ...
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Rebecca Emberley, Author LB Kids $6.99 (10p) ISBN 978-0-316-17454-1
English and Spanish translations of familiar words appear side-by-side in four bilingual board books by Rebecca Emberley-My Animals/Mis Animales; My Clothes/Mi Ropa; My Food/Mi Comida; and My Toys/Mis Juguetes-all illustrated with colorful ...
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Rebecca Emberley, Author LB Kids $6.99 (10p) ISBN 978-0-316-17494-7
English and Spanish translations of familiar words appear side-by-side in four bilingual board books by Rebecca Emberley-My Animals/Mis Animales; My Clothes/Mi Ropa; My Food/Mi Comida; and My Toys/Mis Juguetes-all illustrated with colorful ...
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Rebecca Emberley, Author LB Kids $6.99 (10p) ISBN 978-0-316-17718-4
English and Spanish translations of familiar words appear side-by-side in four bilingual board books by Rebecca Emberley-My Animals/Mis Animales; My Clothes/Mi Ropa; My Food/Mi Comida; and My Toys/Mis Juguetes-all illustrated with colorful ...
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Rebecca Emberley, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-17412-1
A vibrant Spanish-English paper-over-board book, Pinata! by Rebecca Emberley gives a brief history of the pinata's role as a party game, followed by all the goodies with which to stuff one: ""We're putting in candies in beautiful wrappers/...
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Rebecca Emberley, Author Little Brown and Company $13.95 (25p) ISBN 978-0-316-23635-5
Like Peter Spier's Gobble, Growl, and Grunt , these concept books contain a compendium of sounds. In Jungle Sounds , a green-mottled alligator snaps his mouth at orange butterflies while two plump hippos say, ``glub glup.'' And ``pik a tik'' is the...
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Rebecca Emberley, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-23666-9
This visually appealing volume revisits--and revises--The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The ``kids'' of the title are young, city-dwelling goats named Big, Middle and Little Cool; they have decided to abandon their empty lot for greener urban pastures....
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Rebecca Emberley, Author Little Brown and Company $15.45 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-23496-2
Emberley (Three Cool Kids) recounts a girl's glittery fantasy of the big top, where the trapeze artist hides a secret identity. The story opens as the narrator, her cat and her dog have just made a royal mess at home. ""Holding her head, my mother...
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Rebecca Emberley, Author, Emberly, Author Little Brown and Company $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-23519-8
The Three Billy Goats Gruff are transformed into Big, Middle and Little Cool, city-dwelling creatures who confront a nasty sewer rat. Collage art makes this re-telling ""crisp, craftsy, and sure, cool,"" said PW. Ages 4-8. (Apr.)
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Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley, Scholastic/Orchard, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-21829-0
This father-daughter team builds on the winning formula of 2009's There Was an Old Monster with a silly spin on another familiar song. In digital illustrations, flamboyant angular monsters—composed of patterned geometric shapes with tentacles, teeth,
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Ed Emberley and Rebecca Emberley, Roaring Brook/Porter, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-492-9
As they did in Chicken Little (2009), the Emberleys present a stylish take on a well-known fable. Shapes and colors collide playfully in hyperbolic collages—the animals' crazed, mismatched eyes alone should elicit giggles. Finding a recipe for "simpl
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Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley. Roaring Brook/Porter, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-627-5
It's survival of the fittest in this wild counting book. This father-and-daughter team offers a cast of spiky, angular, black-and-white monsters that cavort to a riff on the "Ten Little Indians" nursery rhyme. "One little/ two little/ three little...
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Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley. Roaring Brook/Porter, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-493-6
While maintaining the archetypes of the hardworking ant and laid-back grasshopper, the Emberleys transform Aesop’s fable about preparedness into a joyful celebration of community and music with a Cajun flair. “Somewhere on the boulevard of backyards
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Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-494-3
The Emberleys (The Ant and the Grasshopper) reinterpret a grim, lesser-known fable about two baddies whose natures come back to bite (and sting) them. From the get-go, the father-daughter team infuses the narrative with humor, introducing the...
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Rebecca and Ed Emberley. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-723-4
Somewhere in a ramshackle, all-robot world that looks a lot like a post-human junkyard Earth, Rhoobart is having an existential crisis: “Tarnished and tattered,/ He felt nothing mattered.” Thinking he needs to replace his secondhand heart, Rhoobart...
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Rebecca Emberley, Author, Edward R. Emberley, Author, Edward R. Emberley, Illustrator . Roaring Brook/Porter $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59643-464-6
There's a dash of snarkiness in the father-and-daughter Emberleys' version of the familiar fable, but it's to good purpose. By wryly emphasizing that Chicken Little and his clueless compatriots have “no plan” beyond...
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Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley. Holiday House, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2576-1
The father-daughter duo whose wordplay and bold geometric splashes of color have given a fresh and funny spin to such favorite folktales as Chicken Little and The Red Hen, brings stylistic verve to a second mouse-centric entry in the I Like to Read...
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Rebecca Emberley, Author, Adrian Emberley, Author, Edward R. Emberley, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-10145-5
Another Emberley gets into the book-creating act with this takeoff on the cumulative song, “There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly,” which features jaunty rhymes yet an intermittently bumpy rhythm. Songwriter Adrian, Rebecca's...
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