Tony Mitton, Author, Paddy Mounter, Illustrator David Fickling Books $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-385-75024-0
The clever collection Riddledy Piggledy: A Book of Rhymes and Riddles by Tony Mitton, illus. by Paddy Mounter, poses poetic riddles that have Mother Goose rhymes as answers. ""Chop, Chop, Chop"" describes ""Three tiny pairs of dark glasses/ (dropped)
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Tony Mitton, Author, Ant Parker, Joint Author Kingfisher $10.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7534-5642-2
For young readers on the go, new transportation titles are ready to roll. Amazing Machines by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker collects four volumes that were previously published separately as Dazzling Diggers, Roaring Rockets, Flashing Fire Engines...
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Tony Mitton, illus. by Alison Brown. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-61963-905-8
A tiny white bear searches for a home in a snowy woodland. An owl and a fox turn him away, but a girl in a farmhouse illuminated by firelight happily welcomes him: “The girl takes the bear in her cuddly lap,/ and they both snuggle down for a...
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Tony Mitton, Author, Mary GrandPre, Illustrator , illus. by Mary GrandPré. Scholastic/Levine $17.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-439-36409-6
Mitton (Down by the Cool of the Pool) makes his foray into poetry with this uneven collection of 20 verses. Beginning with the tangible (the first poem, "Plum," opens, "Don't be so glum, plum./ Don't feel beaten./ You were made...
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Tony Mitton, Author, Guy Parker-Rees, Illustrator , illus. by Guy Parker-Rees. Scholastic/Orchard $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-30915-8
The sun may be setting, but the wackiness is escalating on the shores of the farm pond. "Wheeeee!" proclaims a wide-eyed frog as it jetés into the air, "Can you dance like me?" A duck, a pig and a sheep are the first animals to...
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Tony Mitton, Author, Guy Parker-Rees, Illustrator , illus. by Guy Parker-Rees. Scholastic/Orchard $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-39514-4
According to Mitton's (Down by the Cool of the Pool)
jazzy rhyming picture book, dinosaurs can cut a rug with the best of them. Triceratops, Pteranodon, Stegosaurus and more get a groove on to create the "Shake, shake, shudder" heard and
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Tony Mitton, Author, Guy Parker-Rees, Illustrator , illus. by Guy Parker-Rees. Scholastic/Orchard $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-87397-0
N
ot surprisingly, the team behind such raucous picture books as Dinosaurumpus!
delivers a Noah's Ark adaptation featuring effervescent rhyming text and playful, cartoon illustrations. Kids won't want to miss a beat of the action once...
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Tony Mitton, Author, Ant Parker, Author, Ant Parker, Illustrator Kingfisher $9.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7534-5403-9
Transportation is the name of the game in a quartet of titles. For preschool passengers, the paper-over-board Amazing Airplanes by Tony Mitton, illus. by Ant Parker, uses rhyming couplets to wax poetic about air travel (""The flight deck's where...
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Tony Mitton, Author, Ant Parker, Author, Ant Parker, Illustrator Kingfisher $8.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7534-5741-2
In the paper-over-board Amazing Machines Jigsaw Book by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker, five sturdy cardboard puzzles act as full-page illustrations (one per spread), opposite rhymed text (""Tremendous, chuggy tractors, / so sturdy and so strong, /...
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Tony Mitton, Author, Lynne Chapman, Illustrator , illus. by Lynne Chapman. Kingfisher $12.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7534-1932-8
With its expressive cartoon dinosaurs, this lift-the-flap poetry book (following Gnash, Gnaw, Dinosaur!
) emphasizes fun over science. The rhymes have plenty of bounce, though they can feel forced. A Stegosaurus
with hot-pink spines boasts, “I
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Tony Mitton, Author, Peter Bailey, Illustrator , illus. by Peter Bailey. Random/Fickling $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-385-75016-5
With bold black-and-white silhouettes and sprightly verse settings of old tales, Mitton and Bailey (previously paired for Pip
) produce a book that looks and reads much like a treasure from grandmother's attic. When Monkey overhears that the...
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Tony Mitton, Author, Selina Young, Illustrator David Fickling Books $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-75100-1
In this rhyming escapist fantasy, an unnamed boy and his older friend Bess build a boat, sail ""to the place/ where sea meets sky"" and find buried treasure. They then return to their home shore to grow older as contented beach bums, ""singing songs/
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