Susan Cooper, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $17.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-81330-6
The invisible sprite featured in The Boggart has all but forgotten his Canadian friends, Emily Volnik and her younger brother Jessup, until the two children revisit their Scottish ancestral estate, Castle Keep, and its present occupant, ""Mr. Mac.""
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Susan Cooper. S&S/McElderry, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5344-0629-2
Arriving more than 20 years after Cooper’s The Boggart and The Boggart and the Monster, this magical misadventure finds a new generation of children meeting the “formless and ancient” sea creature Boggart and his cousin Nessie. Allie and Jay have...
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Susan Cooper, Author Simon Pulse $4.99 (180p) ISBN 978-0-02-042190-0
A poignant, powerful fantasy by the author of The Dark Is Rising sequence. Ages 12-up. (April)
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Susan Cooper, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-82286-5
This follow-up to The Boggart teams the invisible sprite with the Loch Ness Monster. In a starred review, PW said, ""Cooper adroitly incorporates ancient lore into a contemporary setting while producing an imaginative and compelling tale."" Ages 8-12
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Susan Cooper, Author . S&S/Aladdin $4.99 (186p) ISBN 978-0-689-84445-4
"Cooper brilliantly weaves past and present together, using London's Globe Theatre as a backdrop, to demonstrate the timelessness of Shakespeare's works and the theater at large," said PW
in a boxed review. Ages 10-14. (June)
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Susan Cooper, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $4.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-689-80173-0
Newbery Medalist Cooper (The Grey King) spins a tale both haunting and comic, in which a Scottish spirit inadvertently moved to Canada pines for his ancestral manse. Ages 8-12. (Aug.)
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Susan Cooper, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-689-50576-8
The Boggart, a Scottish spirit delighting in practical jokes, is ``one of the Old Things of the world'' and belongs ``to the cold separate heart of the Wild Magic.'' When the Volniks, a Canadian family, inherit the castle where the Boggart has lived
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Susan Cooper, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $17.99 (186p) ISBN 978-0-689-82817-1
Cooper (The Dark Is Rising) brilliantly weaves past and present together, using London's Globe Theatre as backdrop, to demonstrate the timelessness of Shakespeare's works and the theater at large. The first segment of the novel, set in the present,...
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Susan Cooper, Author . S&S/McElderry $16.95 (196p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1477-8
In alternating chapters, Newbery Medalist Cooper (The Dark Is Rising
) tells the stories of 11-year-old Molly, a contemporary homesick Londoner transplanted to the U.S. because of her mother's remarriage, and Sam, also 11, a 19th-century ship'
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Susan Cooper, Author . S&S/Aladdin $4.99 (
, $4.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-689-84760-8
, $4.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-689-84760-8
"Set on a fictitious island, this fantasy begins with restful images but soon quickens its pace as two worlds (their real unspoiled island and the 'otherworld') collide for a 12-year-old and his 'strange and special brother.'...
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Susan Cooper, Author , illus. by Jane Browne. S&S/McElderry $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-84302-0
Cooper (The Dark Is Rising) introduces the protagonist's predicament in this amiable tale in the first three spreads, with one brief line of text each: "Little Joe couldn't swim. His sister and brother swam like fishes. His mom swam like
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Susan Cooper, Author . S&S/McElderry $16 (208p) ISBN 978-0-689-84751-6
Set in the fictitious Bahamanian island of Lucaya, Cooper's (The Dark Is Rising) latest fantasy begins with restful images of whistling ducks, bonefish and casuarina trees, but soon quickens its pace as two worlds collide for 12-year-old Trey...
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Susan Cooper, Author, Warwick Hutton, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $10.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-689-71512-9
In PW 's words, ``A greedy man favored by fate loses all when he shows disrespect for that which caused his good fortune in the first place. Hutton's lovely, delicate watercolors are dominated by soft blues and greens, evoking the lush countryside...
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Susan Cooper, Author, Joseph A. Smith, Illustrator, Jos A. Smith, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-50512-6
In another display of impressive storytelling, Newbery Medalist Cooper (the Dark Is Rising sequence; The Selkie Girl ) recounts Matthew's post-bedtime escapade. As he settles into his pillow, the boy watches the pages of his book open to reveal a...
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Susan Cooper, read by Jim Dale. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-6480-6
In early colonial Massachusetts, Native America Little Hawk and colonist John Wakeley come from different worlds. But a brief encounter turns into a long kinship that eventually moves beyond the confines of the living world. When colonists kill...
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Susan Cooper, Author, Serena Riglietti, Illustrator , illus. by Serena Riglietti. S&S/McElderry $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-689-87622-6
Newbery Medalist Cooper (The Dark Is Rising
) offers a lighthearted fantasy centering on a Magician's helper. While operating the puppets in his master's rendition of "St. George and the Dragon," the apprentice discovers that the St.
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Susan Cooper, Author, Robertson Cooper, Author, Warwick Hutton, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-50390-0
The illustrious author and artist have created a haunting version of the Scottish folktale about the selkie. Newbery Medalist Cooper tells the story of a man who falls in love with a woman; she becomes a seal as she swims away. A year later, he...
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Susan Cooper, Author, Robertson Cooper, Author, Warwick Hutton, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $4.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-689-71467-2
About this retelling of the haunting Scottish folktale, PW said, ``The lyrical text weaves a tale of sweeping dimension; this is storytelling at its finest. Particularly lovely are Hutton's sensitive and muted watercolors.'' All ages. (Mar.)
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The National Children's Book and Literary Alliance. Candlewick, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5149-7
As gleefully entertaining as it is preposterously ludicrous, this serial adventure features an all-star cast of authors and illustrators, including Susan Cooper, Kate DiCamillo, Gregory McGuire, Katherine Paterson, Jon Scieszka, and Lemony Snicket....
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Tam Cooper, Author, Susan Cooper, Author, Warwick Hutton, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-50505-8
With this Scottish ballad, these collaborators present the third episode of their Celtic trilogy, following The Selkie Girl and The Silver Cow . In Cooper's able hands, the story of how Margaret, a fiery-spirited Scottish princess, saves Tam Lin, a...
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Susan Cooper. S&S/McElderry, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4424-8141-1
In this well-researched and elegant historical fantasy, a Wampanoag boy named Little Hawk survives the loss of his village to a plague contracted from the Pilgrims, who have recently founded Plymouth. Later he befriends a white boy, John Wakeley,...
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Susan Cooper, illus. by Carson Ellis. Candlewick, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8698-7
Newbery Medalist Cooper and Caldecott Honoree Ellis observe winter solstice, which Northern Europeans once celebrated, by “singing, dancing,/ To drive the dark away” as one year ended and another began. In Ellis’s subtle, mythical paintings, the sun—
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Susan Cooper, illus. by Steven Kellogg. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4359-8
Captain Rottingbones and his fellow swashbucklers don’t go after the usual kinds of plunder: with the help of feathered henchman called Bumblebirds, they steal words from unsuspecting storytellers around the world and gobble them up “for breakfast,...
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