Caroline Mockford, Illustrator, Stella Blackstone, Author Barefoot Books $14.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-84148-898-1
Cleo on the Move by Stella Blackstone, illus. by Caroline Mockford, chronicles the titular feline's relocation; the author's comforting words and the artist's signature artwork in warm tones will assuage anxieties of youngsters facing the same ...
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Caroline Mockford, Illustrator, Stella Blackstone, Text by (Art/Photo Books), Stella Blackstone, Author Barefoot Books $14.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-84148-329-0
The striped kitten from Cleo the Cat frolics once more in Come Here, Cleo! by Stella Blackstone, illus. by Caroline Mockford. Minimal rhyming text and broad brushstrokes in striking colors show the kitten climbing a tree, chasing a butterfly and,
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Denise Fraifeld, Illustrator, Fernando Azevedo, Illustrator Holiday House $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1311-9
In this bright, bouncy British import for very young audiences, a multicultural trio of roly-poly babies (one is white, one is black and one is Asian) show their attempts at a wide range of activities throughout the seasons. Blackstone's simple,...
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Caroline Mockford, Illustrator Barefoot Books $14.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-84148-259-0
Mockford's (What's This?) brief rhyming text describes a lonely cat that finds a friend and a home. A seemingly continuous black line provides a bold outline for Cleo the cat's warm orange and red tones. The feline wakes in a field painted in thick,
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It's not just the cow that's gone astray in Blackstone's (Bear on a Bike; Bear in a Square) mixed-up barnyard. Not one of the animals is where it should be: "There's a pig in the henhouse, with piglets pink and new./ They should
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Clare Beaton, Illustrator Barefoot Books $14.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-84148-217-0
A puppy poses the question Who Are You, Baby Kangaroo? by Stella Blackstone, illus. by Clare Beaton, to a host of animal infants, and learns the names (as do readers) of cygnets, piglets, moose calves and beaver kittens. Beaton's signature stitched...
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Clare Beaton, Illustrator Barefoot Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84148-704-5
Aquatic adventure abounds in the gently rhyming Secret Seahorses by Stella Blackstone, illus. by Clare Beaton. Readers can look for evidence of the seahorse that hides on each exquisitely stitched, then photographed, spread. An undersea landscape
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Clare Beaton, Illustrator Barefoot Books $14.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-84148-077-0
For Beaton (Mother Goose Remembers, reviewed above), it really is a material world: she whips up bold, bright tableaux out of meticulously sewn felt (which she uses both as appliqu s and background) and embellishes the fuzzy fabric with judicious...
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Illustrator, Clare Beaton, Illustrator , illus. by Nicoletta Ceccoli. Barefoot $15.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-84148-193-7
Stylized in an otherworldly manner, Italian illustrator Ceccoli's English-language debut begins as a boy sets sail for a tiny island. "I spy with my little eye a bird flying by" reads the accompanying text, , the type curving across the...
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Bernard Lodge, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-74045-3
Debut author Blackstone's lighthearted text and Lodge's (The Half-Mile Hat) cheerful art make a pleasant pairing in this British counting book as both follow Grandma on a whistle-stop, world-wide shopping excursion. The ever-smiling woman's mode of...
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Nan Brooks, Illustrator Barefoot Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84148-211-8
A boy ponders, ""What do you do when you're feeling lonely?/ You ask all your friends around to make a minestrone!"" One ingredient at a time, he and a handful of ethnically diverse friends harvest tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini and more, until the...
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Stella Blackstone, illus. by Debbie Harter. Barefoot, $5.99 paper (24p) ISBN 978-1-78285-085-4
In this addition to Blackstone and Harter’s long-running Bear series, young bears with simple, bulky forms and heart-shaped faces model a typical day at school, which Blackstone describes in pleasing, declarative rhymes: “It’s time for fresh air!...
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Stella Blackstone, illus. by Debbie Harter. Barefoot, $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-84686-516-9
In Bear's eighth tale, the butterscotch colored ursine welcomes his friends to his birthday party. The pudgy bears play hide-and-seek in Bear's jewel-toned house and hunt for treasure outside before Bear opens his gifts, which include "delicious jam
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Debbie Harter, Illustrator Barefoot Books $14.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-84148-321-4
The big friendly fellow from Bear in a Square and Bear on a Bike enjoys all kinds of weather in Bear in Sunshine, also by Blackstone, illus. by Debbie Harter. Bear sings in the rain, makes snow-bears in winter and stands on his head in the ...
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Debbie Harter, Illustrator Barefoot Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-901223-49-1
A youngster hurries to keep up with a bear as he tries out various methods of transportation in Blackstone and Harter's eye-catching paper-over-board book, a companion to their Bear in a Square. Rhythmic quatrains in question-and-answer format...
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Debbie Harter, Illustrator Scholastic $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30077-0
This lively and versatile concept book helps kids learn to identify colors and shapes. Blackstone and Harter, previously paired for Who Are You?, challenge readers to find a single item in each mixed-media cartoon scene of cheerful bedlam (""Can you
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Debbie Harter, Illustrator, Debbie Harter, Author Barefoot Books $14.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-84148-094-7
Harter (Walking Through the Jungle) once again plunges into a flamboyantly hued jungle, and--as the title hints--the joint is jumpin'. With a cast of multi-ethnic children (including a wheelchair-bound girl) serving as guides, readers discover that...
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Stella Blackstone, Author, Stephanie Bauer, Illustrator , illus. by Stephanie Bauer. Barefoot $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-84148-494-5
Blackstone's (the Cleo the Cat series) minimal, workmanlike text ("Cc is for camel. Chase us if you dare!") takes a backseat to newcomer Bauer's vibrant and exuberantly brush-stroked acrylics. The paintings have a naïf quality,...
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Giovanni Manna, Illustrator, Stella Blackstone, Text by (Art/Photo Books), Stella Blackstone, Author Barefoot Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84148-263-7
Manna (Someone I Like) makes the most of Blackstone's (Bear in a Square; Bear About Town) deceptively simple text in a playful exploration of opposites. He creates a stage of sorts, for a boy and girl who perform each couplet. For ""I'm a circle,/...
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