Sarah Hayes, Author HarperCollins Publishers $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443103-3
""This is the bear who fell in the bin. This is the dog who pushed him in. . . . This is the boy who took the bus and went to the dump to make a fuss. . . . '' Borrowing liberally from the style of ``This Is the House That Jack Built,'' Hayes has...
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Sarah Hayes, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09534-5
On a walk through the sunny countryside, nine endearing ducks realize they are being spied on by a hungry fox. One by one they peel off from the flock, luring their not-so-wily pursuer ever closer to a rickety bridge until, in a triumphant ending,...
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Sarah Hayes, Author, Sarah Hayes, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-094-9
Cats , the musical, has nothing on Hayes's ( The Grumpalump ) motley feline cast, which will warm the cockles of the hardest heart. Her endearing tale is imbued with a lilting, melodious language that is both singular and comfortable. Gentle rhythms,
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Sarah Hayes, Author, Sarah Hayes, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-830-3
Mr. Fox inevitably gets his comeuppance after spying (hungrily) on a flock of clever ducks in what PW called a ""lighthearted"" and ""merry"" counting book in rhyme. Ages 3-up. (Mar.)
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Sarah Hayes, Author, Sarah Hayes, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1200-9
Despite sprightly illustrations, Hayes's (This Is the Bear) slight story about ""Finders"" is not itself a keeper. The book looks bright, with action-filled compositions in arresting colors. But the dynamic world of the art dims when joined with the
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Sarah Hayes, Author, Hannah Broadway, Illustrator , illus. by Hannah Broadway. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31810-9
Somewhere between Alexandra Day's Carl books and all-out wish-fulfillment, this cheerful comedy from the U.K. begins in a straightforward manner: “Here is Ben.... Here is Ben's classroom.” Equally upbeat cartoons show a boy...
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Sarah Hayes, Author, Helen Craig, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $13.95 (25p) ISBN 978-0-689-50514-0
Mary Mary (who, not surprisingly, is quite contrary) isn't afraid of anything --not even the giant who lives on a hill overlooking town. To prove her bravery, she marches up the hill one day, and discovers that the giant is not nasty and mean, but...
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Sarah Hayes, Author, Jan Ormerod, Illustrator HarperCollins $16 (28p) ISBN 978-0-688-06508-9
An older brother narrates the story of his family's preparations for Christmas with a dryness that is at once both childlike and extremely humorous. Everything he does, his baby sister undoes with innocent dedication: ""We made the Christmas pudding.
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Sarah Hayes, Author, Jan Ormerod, Illustrator Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $16 (28p) ISBN 978-0-688-08149-2
Toddler Gemma is urged to ``Eat up!'' But despite continual encouragement from her mother, father, grandmother and brother, Gemma refuses to comply. Instead she takes matters into her own hands: she throws her breakfast on the floor, squashes grapes
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Sarah Hayes, Author, Toni Goffe, Illustrator, Toni Goffe, Photographer Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $13 (29p) ISBN 978-0-688-07692-4
Jiggling, wiggling, dancing, running, scrambling and beamingsmall characters on each page exhibit the finger movements to traditional and modern verses with abandon and plenty of good cheer. ""Here Is the Church,'' ``Mouse in the Hole'' and ``Pat-a-C
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Sarah Hayes, Author, Barbara Firth, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-89919-871-2
Just what is this grumpalump? A handful of curious animals would like to know. One by one, they come across this multi-colored pile of mysterious material and react in different, rhyming ways--the bear stared, the cat sat, the mole rolled, the yak...
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Sarah Hayes, Author, Jamie Charteris, Illustrator Atlantic Monthly Press $12.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-87113-093-8
Santa and the elves have problemshe's lost his mittens and they've misplaced an entire sack of toys. Santa searches every roomthe workshop, paintshop, candy factory, packing room, storeroom, boiler-room, stable and shedwith no luck. Then the elves...
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