Susan Gal, Author . Knopf $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-85862-8
Gal's cozy, spare debut plainly identifies sources of nighttime illumination as enjoyed by a curly-haired girl and her mother who live in the outskirts of a city. Together, they ride their bikes home by “streetlight,” their excited...
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Susan Gal, Author Knopf $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-85863-5
Gazing adoringly up at readers with bright, soulful eyes, a sweet dog with white woolly fur repeatedly uses the titular refrain to request a trip outside, describing all the things he loves to do and see. The puppy will “keep the squirrels...
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Susan Gal. Knopf, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-86958-7
Like her previous two picture books, Night Lights and Take Me for a Walk!, Gal’s third offering takes particular delight in the pleasures to be had outside, as a family of four packs up its woodie station wagon and literally heads for the hills on a
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Susan Gal. Knopf, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-86959-4
“Mile by mile, pigs motor west/ Brick by brick, pigs build a house,/ and piece by piece, it becomes a home.” In a porcine version of a 1930s-era migration, a family of pigs in period clothing arrives in a rural community and settles in. Writing in...
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Lynn Plourde, illus. by Susan Gal. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4847-2697-6
A girl named Bella, “not as little as she used to be,” revels in an autumn day—and in the patchwork coat her grandmother made for her, a coat that’s on its last legs. Grams repeatedly suggests that the coat is ready for retirement, but Bella isn’t...
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