Barbara Brenner, Author, William H. Hooks, Author, Betty Boegehold, Author , illus. by Lynn Munsinger. Milk &Cookies $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-03925-6
Sibling dynamics hop to the fore in this playful two-part tale. Co-authors Brenner (Wagon Wheels
), Hooks (The Legend of the Christmas Rose
) and Boegehold (the Pippa Mouse series) present six brown bunnies who live with Mama Rabbit in Carrotville....
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William H. Hooks, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $13.95 (169p) ISBN 978-0-02-744430-8
In the dog days of August 1908, Annie Earle Roland is 15. Her father is dead, her mother bedridden, her brother epileptic and lost in a dreamworld. She has just finished high school and it occurs to her that it is time to do something with her...
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William H. Hooks, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator, Stacey Schett, Illustrator Bantam Books for Young Readers $9.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-553-05834-5
Another installment of the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series features two brothers. Eli sticks so close to his older brother that he earns the nickname ``Mr. Bubble Gum.'' Three adventures compose this slim chapter story, all of them light and...
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William H. Hooks, Author, Angela T. Thomas, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-744432-2
Triumphantly meshing the realistic and the magical, Hooks ( The Three Little Pigs and the Fox ; The Legend of the White Doe ) tells of a boy who is very unhappy when he can't bring his train set to his great-grandmother's house on Christmas Eve. The
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William H. Hooks, Author, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $13.95 (38p) ISBN 978-0-394-84645-3
Set in the Carolinas in the early 1800s, this intriguing story offers a rich bit of folklore. The narrative is based on a tale told to Hooks in his childhood and concerns a free-issue girl, Belle Dorcas, daughter of a slave and her white master, who
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William H. Hooks, Author, Donald Carrick, Illustrator Clarion Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89919-460-8
This delightful retelling of a North Carolina folktale weaves together motifs found in Cinderella and King Lear. A foolish gentleman disowns his youngest daughter when she says plainly, ""Father, I love you more than meat loves salt.'' Cast out,...
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William H. Hooks, Author, James Ransome, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-82438-1
In an author's note, Hooks explains that this dramatic story, like his The Battle of Belle Dorcas (see p. 63), is based on a ""conjure tale"" he heard as a child in the Low Country of North Carolina. Expertly entwining rich descriptive passages and...
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William H. Hooks, Author, Dennis Nolan, Illustrator, Denis Nolan, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $14.95 (44p) ISBN 978-0-02-744350-9
This little-known legend about the first English child born in America, Virginia Dare, is smoothly told and elegantly produced. It treats Virginia as a symbol of her Roanoke Island colony, whose inhabitants disappeared sometime between 1587 and 1590.
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William H. Hooks, Author, De La Puente, Illustrator, June Otani, Illustrator Bank Street Press $4.5 (48p) ISBN 978-0-553-35429-4
Long ago in Japan, a poor, elderly couple discover a large peach and, in it, the child they have always desired. They name him Momotaro--Peach Boy. As he grows up, the lad vows to protect his village from the oni monsters who ``steal our things and...
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William H. Hooks, Author, Richard Williams, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-027102-2
Hooks (The Ballad of Belle Dorcas) invites readers into the home of a humble family of shepherds in this unusual holiday/horticultural legend. When Dorothy clandestinely follows her much-older brothers to Bethlehem to greet the Christ Child, she...
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Joanne F. Oppenheim, Author, William H. Hooks, Author, Bank Street College, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $1.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-394-85833-3
The authors, from the Bank Street College of Education in Manhattan, include a note to parents on how to use this book with a child. But with Munsinger's jubilant animals, clever word-pictures and inquisitive children, the book almost reads itself....
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