Sean Taylor, Author, Bruce Ingman, Illustrator , illus. by Bruce Ingman. Candlewick $16.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2475-0
In this bouncy tall tale, "the Great Elastic Marvel, five times World Trampolining Champion (sometimes known as the Man with Rubber Legs, the Jumping Master)" accidentally dives out a window while leaping for his trampoline. "Oh my giddy
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Sean Taylor, illus. by Jimmy Liao. Candlewick, $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4957-9
This isn't the first book to subvert conventions by giving a child the responsibility of ushering others to bed, but it's easily one of the more lovingly executed and designed. Stella, a preschooler in a tank top and yellow slippers, is tasked with...
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Sean Taylor, illus. by Jill Barton, Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3311-4
Right from the title, Taylor (Crocodiles Are the Best Animals of All!) promises a happy ending for this irrepressible frogwins-chicken-but-loses-ring story. But getting there isn't easy. "[D]on't worry," the author reassures readers who've just...
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Sean Taylor, illus. by Edel Rodriguez. Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3411-1
Taylor (Huck Runs Amuck!) tells a
poignant story, but featherlight humor keeps it free of sentimentality. Robomop, an automatic cleaning robot with the looks of William Joyce’s Rolie Polie Olie and a long-suffering personality not unlike that of C-3
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Sean Taylor, Author, Hannah Shaw, Illustrator , illus. by Hannah Shaw. Frances Lincoln $16.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-84507-904-8
The titular assertion of this lighthearted story gets put to the test when a donkey, seen lounging by the sea, reflects that “nothing is better than being a donkey!” This offends the honor of a nearby crocodile: “ 'I am...
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Sean Taylor, illus. by Hannah Shaw. Frances Lincoln/Otter-Barry (PGW, dist.), $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84780-322-1
“Animals in space” is a premise with potential, but a moralistic environmental message drains some of the fun in this outing from the team behind Crocodiles Are the Best Animals of All. Narration comes from “the first chicken in outer space,” who...
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Sean Taylor, illus. by Claire Alexander. Words & Pictures, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-91027-743-0
After an overnight snowfall, siblings Iggy and Martina head out into the snow and build a towering snowbear. “He looks happy to be made,” Martina remarks. “And it was true.” When the children ignore their mother’s advice and sled down the hill, they
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Sean Taylor, illus. by Peter H. Reynolds, Dial, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3261-2
With buckteeth and goggle eyes, Huck the goat is a flower-devouring hero with his share of ups and downs: up a precarious mountain and (falling) down to the village below, up a church spire to eat a flowered hat and (after a change of heart) down to
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Sean Taylor, illus. by Jean Jullien. Candlewick, $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7578-3
Taylor (The World Champion of Staying Awake) sends up old-fashioned suspense fiction by contrasting his hero’s puffed-up ego with his inept plans to capture things to eat. Newcomer Jullien paints Hoot Owl as a dumpy egg-cup of a bird—not the sort...
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Sean Taylor, illus. by Jean Jullien. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8953-7
In a sweet twist on the books-about-books theme from the duo behind Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise, a small purple monster asks an artist to craft a scary story for him. The artist is offstage; readers see only the monster, whose snaggly teeth, small...
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Sean Taylor, illus. by Emily Hughes. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8224-8
“I think a pair of hot bears is probably the hottest thing in the world,” Little Bear’s father says. Little Bear, the story’s narrator, has an idea: he and Dad can cool off in the river. Heady with his father’s approbation, Little Bear decides to...
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Sean Taylor, illus. by Anuska Allepuz. Candlewick, $19.99 (88p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2834-2
“Just close your eyes,/ snuggle your feet,/ think of your dreams,/ and breathe deep.” Across descriptions of nighttime routines, warm blankets, and starry skies, Taylor employs various verse types to usher readers to sleep. As lines embrace...
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Sean Taylor and the Khayaal Theatre, illus. by Shirin Adl. Candlewick, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0507-7
Is he a wise man or a fool? Though Nasruddin has many different names, the trickster about whom these stories are told is known throughout the Muslim world. Taylor (The Snowbear) and the U.K.-based Khayaal Theatre recount each story in a page or two.
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Sean Taylor and Alex Morss, illus. by Cinyee Chiu. Words & Pictures, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7112-4284-5
Scientific exploration unspools inside a story that begins with a boy’s summer visit to his Granny Sylvie, who “knows lots of things.” Depicted as active, aged, and round-bodied, with a lighter skin tone than her grandchild, she takes him to a...
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