Robert Byrd. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3749-5
Byrd pushes the bounds of the picture-book format in this exhaustive exploration of the life of Benjamin Franklin—dense blocks of text vie for space with Byrd's meticulously inked and detailed illustrations, as well as the many aphorisms for which...
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Robert Byrd, Author, Anonymous, Author, Robert Byrd, Retold by Dutton Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-45971-2
When Finn MacCoul, the larger-than-life hero of Celtic lore, needs help defeating a foe, there's only one place to turn: his wife. This evocative picture book amalgam of MacCoul tales whisks young readers to big adventure in days of old. Though...
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Robert Byrd, Author, Robert Byrd, Illustrator Dutton Books $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-47033-5
Byrd (Finn McCoul and His Fearless Wife) notes that the French king Francis I once said he did not believe ""that any other mind had ever been born into the world who knew so much as Leonardo."" Few could disagree after reading this staggeringly...
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Robert Byrd, Author, Robert Byrd, Illustrator Dutton Books $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-47391-6
Byrd (Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer) here retells an action-packed tale of the Greek hero Theseus: Theseus' childhood meeting with the strongman Heracles, his reunion with his father, King Aegeus, and his voyage to the castle of King Minos to defeat...
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Robert Byrd. Dial, $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4118-8
Byrd (Brave Chicken Little) capably guides readers through the episodic adventures of Jason and the Argonauts as they seek the Golden Fleece, a journey that puts them in the path of harpies, the Symplegades (“Clashing Rocks”), Circe, and the bronze...
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Robert Byrd. Viking, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-78616-9
Byrd’s rewrite of the Chicken Little story is a distinct improvement on traditional versions that see Foxy Loxy triumph; Byrd (Electric Ben!) lets Chicken Little defeat him. The story is set in a countryside lined with stone walls and shaded by...
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Robert Byrd. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7352-3082-8
Byrd tells an informative and visually detailed story about the inception, construction, and transportation of the Statue of Liberty. The text introduces French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, whom a French judge commissioned to create a U.S....
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