Steven Kellogg, Text by (Art/Photo Books), Steven Kellogg, Illustrator, Steven Kellogg, Author Dial Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2788-5
Several reissued titles will be welcomed by fans of their celebrated authors and artists. Louis gets the gift that keeps on giving or growing, rather in The Mysterious Tadpole by Steven Kellogg. The story about a boy and his burgeoning birthday ...
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Trinka Hakes Noble, Author, Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0228-8
A rib-tickling sequel to Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash. Ages 48. (March)
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Steven Kellogg, Author Dial Books for Young Readers $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2536-2
Steven Kellogg's irrepressible pooch returns in A Penguin Pup for Pinkerton. This time around, Pinkerton mistakes a football for a penguin egg when his owner, Emily, reports all she's learned about the animals and their young. But chaos follows ...
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Steven Kellogg, Author . Picture Puffin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-250170-2
The irrepressible pooch returns. This time he mistakes a football for a penguin egg when his owner reports all she's learned about the animal and their young. But chaos follows when Pinkerton loses track of his baby. Ages 4-8. (Dec.)
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Steven Kellogg, Author . Chronicle $6.95 (33p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4609-7
Kellogg takes playful liberty with the traditional counting song of the title. According to PW
, "Verse and visuals will send readers rolling back to page one to replay this romp repeatedly." Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Steven Kellogg, Author Seastar Books $15.95 (33p) ISBN 978-1-58717-001-0
Kellogg's (Yankee Doodle) busy and buoyant art--rendered in colored ink, colored pencil, acrylic and watercolor--typifies his appealing style and kid-targeted humor. As his rhyming verse takes playful liberty with the traditional counting song of...
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Steven Kellogg, Author . Picture Puffin $6.99 (, $6.99 each ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-14-230010-7
In this series, a Great Dane consistently finds himself in humorous adventures such as flunking out of obedience school, getting disguised as a stegosaurus, behaving like a cat, and getting trapped in a hot air balloon. PW
called the "action-f
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Steven Kellogg, Author Dial Books $12.89 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0323-0
Pinkerton's young mistress was planning to attend Dinosaur Day at the museum with Billy Barrett, in costume, but Billy gets sick. Worse, Pinkerton is behaving even stranger than usual. He's chewing on everything in sightbrooms, trees, bedposts, 13...
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Steven Kellogg, Author Puffin Books $4.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1053-5
Intrigued by dinosaurs, the playful pooch dons a stegosaurus costume and wreaks havoc at the museum; according to PW , ``Dinosaur lovers and fans of this funny galumphing and mischievous Great Dane will not be disappointed.'' Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Steven Kellogg, Author Dial Books $13.89 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0101-4
Kathy and Louise, best friends, do everything together in school and at home. They even invent a pet horse, Golden Silverwind, who lives in a pretend stable between their houses. They imagine that the neighborhood becomes a fantasyland and spend...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Edward Bangs, Author Simon & Schuster $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-80158-7
In honor of its 20-year anniversary, Steven Kellogg's Yankee Doodle has been redesigned and refurbished, for a new generation of young patriots. Intricate, spirited illustrations depict the day George Washington took control of the rebel troops...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-08731-9
Buoyant pictures and a pun-riddled text add gusto to Kellogg's lighthearted humor as he gives this classic caper more twists than are found in the average pig's tail. Pushing her waffle-making machine from ""hamlet to hamlet,"" industrious Serafina...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator HarperCollins $5.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-16156-9
In this romp through time, a teller of tall tales situates himself in the middle of a host of history-making events. ""Adding comical original verse and ebullient full-page art, Kellogg wreaks playful havoc,"" said PW. Ages 4-up. (Aug.)
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator William Morrow & Company $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-05690-2
Kellogg applies his antic imagination to an unusual version of dippy Chicken Little's story. Foxy Loxy, disguising himself as a cop, herds Chicken Little and the other birds into a van when they report the falling sky. It's an emergency, wily...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator HarperCollins $4.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-11571-5
Zaniness reigns as Aster careens through the alphabet in a series of misadventures. Ages 6-up. (Apr.)
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-13411-2
Adding comical original verse and ebullient full-page art, Kellogg creatively embellishes the titular traditional tall-tale tune to wreak playful havoc with a number of historical happenings. The author first introduces a gleeful, coon-cap-wearing...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0811-8
Kellogg (Paul Bunyan; Johnny Appleseed) here serves up a rollicking farce inspired by a selection from Joseph Jacobs's 19th-century English Fairy Tales, with roots in the Brothers Grimm's ""Clever Else."" The narrative tells of a gentleman who is...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator Dial Books $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2979-7
Pinkerton & Friends: A Steven Kellogg Treasury collects 11 familiar stories from more than three decades. Favorites include The Island of the Skog; Pinkerton, Behave! and Best Friends. An introduction by Kellogg relative, Helen Hunt, and a biography
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-07003-8
Kellogg splashes his customary exuberance across this latest tall tale in the series that includes Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill. Beginning with the infant Mike running off to join a troupe of acrobatic frogs, the story plays up the childhood exploits...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator HarperCollins $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-07256-8
Kellogg has gone all out on this alliterative, tongue-twisting adventure. Aster Aardvark is the main character in a alphabetically inspired romp through the world of language and imagination from A to Z. Featuring a number of captivating animal...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-14042-7
Not as polished as the best of his tall tales, Kellogg's (Pecos Bill; Paul Bunyan) latest introduces a heroine generously endowed with strength, speed and spunk. At birth, Sally Ann greets her parents and nine brothers with a loud ""Howdy!"" and...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator Mulberry Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09924-4
A rootin'-tootin' hero of ``the rugged pioneer days'' comes to glorious life in Kellogg's characteristically antic prose and pictures. Ages 5-up. (Sept.)
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-10250-0
Though his text remains true to the popular version of this English fairy tale, Kellogg's ( Paul Bunyan ; Pecos Bill ) typically antic art gives this rendition a visual dimension that is uniquely his. Created with colored inks, watercolors and...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-06417-4
Johnny Appleseed (his real last name was Chapman) is reintroduced in this succinct rendition of the life of a beloved American folk hero, from his birth in Massachusetts in 1774 to his death in Indiana in 1845. Kellogg chronicles Johnny's travels...
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator HarperCollins $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-07045-8
Kellogg soups up a standard when Foxy Loxy offers to take the confused Chicken Little to headquarters to report the emergency. All ages. (April)
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator . Dial $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2818-9
Kellogg's lighthearted take on this classic tale centers on Peterkin, a kind elf who receives a magic pipe from a miserable witch named Elbavol. He discovers that the pipe plays letters rather than notes and conjures up animals, such as a deer,
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator . Candlewick $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1056-2
Inspired by a 19th-century fairy tale, this story features a gentleman who sets out to find three sillies even sillier than the family whose daughter he is courting. PW
called it "a rollicking farce." Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443779-0
A mother pig makes enough money to send her three little piglets to Hog Hollow Academy, and when she retires, the educated trio takes over the family wafflery business—until the wolf tries to stand in the way. PW
said that this "classic
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator Steven Kellogg . Picture Puffin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-230192-0
Kellogg revisits the story told in his 1974 The Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten, about a girl who imagines the most exciting locations for her lost mitten, this time with full-color illustrations. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Phyllis J. Fogelman, Editor Puffin Books $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0829-7
Warmth and humor permeate this `` truly childlike'' account of two girls' friendship, ``to the final satisfying frame,'' said PW. Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Steven Kellogg, Author, Stephen Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator HarperCollins $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-14944-4
Kellogg's characteristically buoyant art is the most satisfying aspect of this high-spirited bedtime romp. When their parents tell them that it's almost time for bed, a cherubic brother and sister and two polar bear sidekicks launch into a rendition
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Jane Bayer, Author, Steven Kellogg, Author, Steven Kellogg, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0130-4
Silly husband-and-wife teams and their parade of possessions star in a rollicking alphabet book. Ages 3-7. (March)
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