Books by Steve Light and Complete Book Reviews
Steve Light, Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4692-9
Packed with delightful and humorous touches, Light's holiday story introduces Humphrey, a giant, and Leetree, a tiny elf, who are responsible for making Santa's wrapping paper (Leetree rides a tricycle across one roll to give it purple stripes)....
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Steve Light, Author ABRAMS $7.95 (8p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3498-6
Patriotism is the name of the game in Uncle Sam: A Press Out and Play Book by Steve Light. The work opens with a brief history of how the name came to be; sturdy red, white and blue pieces pop out from the thick board book's pages. Assembly...
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Steve Light. Chronicle, $8.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-8118-7942-2
Light returns to the format of his 2008 Trucks Go in a stylish board book with a squat, wide trim size that mimics its subject matter: trains of all varieties. Two things vie for attention in each spread: Light’s blithe, loose watercolor portraits...
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Steve Light. Chronicle, $9.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-4521-1864-2
Light follows Trucks Go and Trains Go with a salute to construction vehicles and the gloriously raucous noises they make. Case in point: “The jackhammer goes, grrrakka kkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakk...” The book’s extra-wide trim size gives the...
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Steve Light. Chronicle, $9.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-4521-2899-3
Light’s fourth vehicular board book (after Trucks Go, Trains Go, and Diggers Go) is every bit the sensory experience as its predecessors, combining expressive paintings of planes, helicopters, and other airships with sound effects that beg to be...
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Steve Light. Powerhouse/Pow!, $19.95 (16p) ISBN 978-1-57687-752-4
With babies on the way, Gregory and Petunia Bunny must find a new burrow. Readers can peek through circular die-cuts into each new potential home, with full-page flaps unfolding to show their interiors. The prospective neighbors—various fairy tale...
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Steve Light. Candlewick, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6648-4
Expressive line drawings fill the pages of this counting book, a love letter to the streets and sights of Manhattan. The boy who narrates is small figure with a round head, but his dragon is a magnificent creature that loops its elaborately scaled...
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Steve Light, Author, Steve Light, Illustrator . Abrams $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4236-3
Light's (Puss in Boots) quirky, full-bleed cloth-and-paper collages dominate this meandering and labored tale about a traveling shoemaker named Hans Crispin, who creates extraordinarily specialized footwear. Among his customers, for example, is...
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Steve Light. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7990-3
A small sailor boy with a knitted cap, friendly smile, and wooden leg spies a dejected sea captain whose dilapidated boat needs an overhaul. Lit with inspiration, the boy swaps a button off the captain’s coat for two teacups, then the teacups for...
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Steve Light. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8825-7
A boy named Lazlo plans to deliver a rose to the girl he loves, who is starring in a production of Alice in Wonderland. When an orange cat makes off with the flower and races into the theater, it results in a show-stopping chase (in more ways than...
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Steve Light. Candlewick, $6.99 (18p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9068-7
Light’s scribbly, detailed drawing style and careful use of color are ideally suited to a seek-and-find story, and this one is equal parts stylish and fun. While preparing for school, a boy asks readers to help him locate his socks, pencil case, and
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Steve Light. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9872-0
A construction worker father with an upturned nose accidentally leaves his lunch box at home. His two children race after him to the build site, where workers in orange vests and hard hats use heavy tools and maneuver big rigs. Light describes their
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Steven Light, Author, Steve Light, Author . Abrams $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4368-1
In his first book, Light retells this Charles Perrault classic with a wry touch and embellishes his narrative with stylized collages. His concluding note explains that the art was inspired by the work of French Rococo artists, especially that of...
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Steve Light. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0947-1
Light (Black Bird Yellow Sun) does some whimsical world-building in welcoming readers to Whiskers Hollow, where the animals are avid motorists and the roadways are huge tree branches. Scale is comically skewed: Bear, the protagonist, front-ends his...
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Steve Light. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2529-7
Decked out in spats, a jaunty bowler hat, and a bright green umbrella, Itsy Bitsy is an indubitably dapper but moodily solitary arachnid. When a falling branch takes out the spider’s web, Itsy sets its sights on a more protected location under the...
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Steve Light. Candlewick, $7.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3004-8
Light (A Spider Named Itsy) comically considers weather-related activities and responses in this conceptual board book. Each marker-, pen-, and watercolor-like spread finds the geometrically drawn protagonists, Sully the mouse and Gus the rhino,...
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