Sam McBratney, Author , illus. by Kady MacDonald Denton. Kingfisher $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7534-5224-0
McBratney's (Guess How Much I Love You) eight bedtime tales mix familiar and unfamiliar stories with a generous helping of Denton's (A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes) lighthearted vignette and full-spread illustrations. "Brother...
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Sam McBratney, illus. by Andy Wagner and Debbie Tarbett. Candlewick, $16.99 (72p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5896-0
McBratney returns with four stories starring Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare from the bestselling Guess How Much I Love You and its spinoffs. The tales are illustrated by Wagner and Tarbett in the style Anita Jeram used in earlier books,
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Sam McBratney, illus. by Ivan Bates. Candlewick/Templar, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6702-3
What is it about the repetition of “There, there” that makes a person feel instantly understood and comforted? While McBratney and Bates don’t venture into lexical semantics (thank goodness), they are eloquent on the phrase’s power as a...
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Sam McBratney, Author, Ivan Bates, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1078-4
Through their joint efforts, Little Goosey and Big Gander Goose find protection from an approaching storm. In a starred review, PW wrote, ""McBratney has a gift for zeroing in on childhood's universal longings."" Ages 2-up. (Apr.)
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Sam McBratney, Author, Ivan Bates, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0436-3
McBratney and Bates (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) sets another snuggly mood in this tale of a gosling and gander searching for shelter from a storm. When rain threatens, Gander Goose and Little Goosey hurry to find a place to hide. But each...
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Sam McBratney, Author, Ivan Bates, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-640-8
As in his Guess How Much I Love You, McBratney spins an ample, emotionally ripe tale out of a familiar, even slight premise. A wise old mouse lives with his three young mice in the corner of a cellar, and at bedtime he asks them what they'd like to...
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Sam McBratney, Author, Ivan Bates, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0417-2
Three young mice brave the monster (that is, the cat) who lives in the dark at the top of the stairs. ""Perfectly captur[es] the edgy glee and derring-do of a trip to dangerous territory,"" said PW. Ages 4-up. (Jan.)
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Sam McBratney, illus. by Anita Jeram. Candlewick, $9.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7064-1
McBratney and Jeram’s Nutbrown Hares provide a characteristically understated exploration of seven concepts: colors, nature, weather, actions, shapes, numbers, and sounds. Small flaps reveal foliage and flowers in eight colors in the opening spread...
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Sam McBratney, illus. by Anita Jeram. Candlewick, $4.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6476-3
Little Nutbrown Hare explores five colors that can be found in his idyllic woodland home, which is as cozy as ever in Jeram’s delicate ink-and-watercolor artwork. McBratney smartly incorporates dashes of alliteration, consonance, and rhyme into the...
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Sam McBratney, Author, Anita Jeram, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $12 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2240-4
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney, illus. by Anita Jeram, now appears in a gifty square-sized ""Sweetheart Edition"" for parent-child sharing, complete with a red cloth cover and gold type on the spine.
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Sam McBratney, Author, Anita Jeram, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-473-2
Fresh as a fiddlehead fern in spring, this beguiling bedtime tale features a pip of a young rabbit and his indulgent parent. Searching for words to tell his dad how much he loves him (and to put off bedtime just an eentsy bit longer), Little...
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Sam McBratney, Author, Anita Jeram, Illustrator , illus. by Anita Jeram. Candlewick $7.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3546-6
Nutbrown Hare and Little Nutbrown Hare, the cotton-tailed father-son stars of McBratney and Jeram’s Guess How Much I Love You
, hop back onto the scene for two board books that introduce preschool concepts via sweet-natured stories. The Hares&#
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Sam McBratney, Author, Anita Jeram, Illustrator , illus. by Anita Jeram. Candlewick $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2442-2
Jeram brings her gifts in ursine portraiture (evidenced in Kiss Goodnight
) to bear on a sweet, if rather neatly resolved text by McBratney, her collaborator in Guess How Much I Love You
. A mother and father bear face an age-old dilemma: how can...
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Sam McBratney, Author, Jennifer Eachus, Illustrator HarperCollins $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-028686-6
McBratney (Guess How Much I Love You) explores the ups and downs of friendship in this ambiguously resolved picture book. He begins with forthright prose (""I have a friend I love the best. She plays at my house every day, or else I play at hers""),
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Sam McBratney, Author, Ellen Kindt McKenzie, Author, Lisa Thiesing, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2614-6
``It happened so fast. One day everything was the way it should be. The next day it was different. All wrong.'' At once quiet and urgent, McKenzie's (A Perfectly Orderly House) opening sentences set the tone she so ably sustains throughout this...
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Sam McBratney, Author, Charles Fuge, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-084245-1
McBratney (Guess How Much I Love You) introduces a joey named Little Roo who is ""feeling grumpy and he didn't know why""-and, as all mothers know, nonspecific malaise is the hardest to dispatch. Everything Little Roo's mom does to cajole a smile...
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Sam McBrantney, Author, Sam McBratney, Author, Lisa Thiesing, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (118p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0985-9
Three ghosts reside contentedly in Mercia Porterhouse's home on Hungryhouse Lane, in a tranquil state called ``Unwakeful Serenity.'' When Mercia dies, the house is rented out to the Sweet family and their three naughty, bickering children, and all...
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Sam McBratney, illus. by Linda Ólafsdóttir. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1281-5
Mindi can’t sleep: there’s a big, scary goose in her room that enters “as quietly as a thought comes into your head,” but her parents don’t see it. Ólafsdóttir (Play?) represents it as a sinuous, goose-shaped shadow of various objects in the child’s
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Sam McBratney, illus. by Anita Jeram. Candlewick, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1747-6
Twenty-five years after publishing evergreen bestseller Guess How Much I Love You, the collaborators offer a similarly resonant sequel in which Little Nutbrown Hare goes exploring alone when Big Nutbrown Hare is preoccupied. “You’re only another me!”
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