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Frogs Wore Red Suspenders |
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Jack Prelutsky |
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Playful poet Jack Prelutsky and the beloved Petra Mathers (Lottie's New Beach Towel) take youngsters from the heart of South Dakota to Monterey Bay in this extraordinary collection of poems and paintings that belongs on the shelf next to Ride a Purple Pelican and Beneath a Blue Umbrella. As ever, Prelutsky's meter is flawless, and you absolutely read his poems aloud, even if you're sitting in a room by yourself. This is not the gross-out fare that Prelutsky so delightfully dishes out in Awful Ogre's Awful Day and some of his other books. Here are 28 nonsensical, often somewhat geographical poems for preschoolers and early readers about a tiny baker who bakes a tiny cookie, a granny who lost her footing and fell into pudding, elephants who sit in trees and sneeze, and a small hen who is stuck at the bottom of the... |
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Tell Me a Season |
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Petra Mathers (Illustrator) |
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PreS. This small and simple concept book describes the colors in a spring morning, a summer day, a fall evening, and a winter night. Four specific scenes lead up to each panoramic double-page spread that features a farmhouse with a girl and a boy, a cat and a dog. Siddals's appropriately straightforward and economical text is brought to life by Mathers's folksy watercolors. On facing single pages, she balances the colors and images well, sometimes even continuing the same background from one frame to the next. In her double-page spreads, she includes details that readers can trace from one season to the next (a toy sailboat in the window comes outside for summer play, but returns to its window in the fall; a clothesline is put up in summer and taken down for winter), introducing earliest readers to story... |
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Mommy Go Away! |
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Lynne Jonell |
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0399230017 |
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PreS. Christopher must always do as his mother requests, as she is much bigger than he. But when she insists he take a bath, he tells her to "go away" on his small toy boat. When she points out that she is too big to get in the boat, he sees this as an opportunity to take control and wills her to "be small." The bathtub becomes a choppy sea, and the woman expresses her fears about being so small and helpless in the boat, but her son is there tubside to help and urge her on. When she demands to be made big again, the youngster assents, satisfied that she can now empathize and understand that it isn't easy being small. Childlike stick figures, the inconsistent sizing of parent and child, and the simplistic text are all effective in helping readers see the world through young eyes. The illustrations are an... |
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Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico |
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Verna Aardema |
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From Publishers Weekly
This trickster tale pits a gullible coyote against a deceptively cute lamb. "Mathers... injects [the] fluid, humorous text with her own deliciously skewed point of view," said PW. Ages 4-8.- fluid, humorous text with her own deliciously skewed point of view," said PW. Ages 4-8. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 3. A clever lamb outfoxes a hungry, dim-witted coyote in a triumph of brains over brawn. Vibrantly hued, expansive illustrations of the Mexican countryside illuminate a story that honors imaginative action. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Cake for Herbie |
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Petra Mathers |
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0689860048 |
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In Lottie's New Beach Towel and Lottie's New Friend, Petra Mathers evokes the spirit of James Marshall's hippos George and Martha, celebrating the quiet joys of the friendship between Lottie the chicken and Herbie the duck with a feather-light touch. In A Cake for Herbie, Herbie (the star of the third Herbie and Lottie book) decides to enter a poetry contest in which the winner literally takes the cake. Despite the fact that he stays up all night concocting poems about food from A to Z ("Artie chews, / Artie swallows, / Artichokes"), he is booed off the stage on the big night. This is especially "K ... for kruel" because Lottie is quite greenly sick and not there to comfort him. But all is not lost. Herbie, forlorn in the back alley, is soon ushered into a bustling restaurant kitchen where he and his delicious... |
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Mom Pie |
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Lynne Jonell |
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From Publishers Weekly
Here's the fourth installment of life in the sharply funny, stick-figure world of Jonell and Mathers (Mommy Go Away!; It's My Birthday, Too!). While Mommy is frantically preparing a Thanksgiving-esque dinner for company, Christopher and his younger brother Robbie are stewing. Mommy won't even stop to kiss a boo-boo on Robbie's knee. "Put a Band-Aid on it and go somewhere else to play. I have work to do," she tells the incredulous boys. Then Christopher hits on the idea of making a "Mom Pie" filled with inedible things (like her pink bunny slippers) that remind them of how soft, smooth, snuggly and good-smelling Mommy is. When Mommy discovers the pie, Jonell proves (as she has in her other books with Mathers) that she understands the reality of domestic life too well to opt for narrative treacle. Instead of having... |
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Dodo Gets Married |
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Petra Mathers |
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When an eccentric pink bird named Dodo wheedles her way into the life of a cranky retired helicopter captain who lost a leg in a rescue mission, readers might think feathers will fly. Instead, Dodo's obtuse friendliness and Captain Vince's unacknowledged loneliness make a magical connection, and soon the two are sharing sandwiches and stories. By summertime, Vince surprises Dodo with a very unusual proposal, and, true to form, she responds equally uniquely. Now, if only the wedding can go off without a hitch... Readers familiar with Petra Mathers's charming trio of friends, introduced in Lottie's New Beach Towel, Lottie's New Friend, and A Cake for Herbie, will be elated to see a whole book devoted to the exotic Dodo. Mathers's beautiful watercolors, with their perfect palette and changing, telling details, are reason... |
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Borreguita and the Coyote |
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Verna Aardema |
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0613046250 |
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From Publishers Weekly
This trickster tale pits a gullible coyote against a deceptively cute lamb. "Mathers... injects [the] fluid, humorous text with her own deliciously skewed point of view," said PW. Ages 4-8.- fluid, humorous text with her own deliciously skewed point of view," said PW. Ages 4-8. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 3. A clever lamb outfoxes a hungry, dim-witted coyote in a triumph of brains over brawn. Vibrantly hued, expansive illustrations of the Mexican countryside illuminate a story that honors imaginative action. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
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Frogs Wore Red Suspenders |
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Jack Prelutsky |
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0688167195 |
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Playful poet Jack Prelutsky and the beloved Petra Mathers (Lottie's New Beach Towel) take youngsters from the heart of South Dakota to Monterey Bay in this extraordinary collection of poems and paintings that belongs on the shelf next to Ride a Purple Pelican and Beneath a Blue Umbrella. As ever, Prelutsky's meter is flawless, and you absolutely read his poems aloud, even if you're sitting in a room by yourself. This is not the gross-out fare that Prelutsky so delightfully dishes out in Awful Ogre's Awful Day and some of his other books. Here are 28 nonsensical, often somewhat geographical poems for preschoolers and early readers about a tiny baker who bakes a tiny cookie, a granny who lost her footing and fell into pudding, elephants who sit in trees and sneeze, and a small hen who is stuck at the bottom of the... |
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Mommy Go Away! |
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Lynne Jonell |
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0613262514 |
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From School Library Journal
PreS. Christopher must always do as his mother requests, as she is much bigger than he. But when she insists he take a bath, he tells her to "go away" on his small toy boat. When she points out that she is too big to get in the boat, he sees this as an opportunity to take control and wills her to "be small." The bathtub becomes a choppy sea, and the woman expresses her fears about being so small and helpless in the boat, but her son is there tubside to help and urge her on. When she demands to be made big again, the youngster assents, satisfied that she can now empathize and understand that it isn't easy being small. Childlike stick figures, the inconsistent sizing of parent and child, and the simplistic text are all effective in helping readers see the world through young eyes. The illustrations are an... |
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I Need a Snake |
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Lynne Jonell |
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061329985X |
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From Publishers Weekly
From the team that produced Mommy Go Away! comes a story for slightly older readers. Robbie yearns for a snake, but his mother won't grant his wish. She's unsuccessful at mollifying him with the usual parenting tacticsAgiving him a book about snakes, taking him to the reptile section of a museum, stopping at a pet storeAbut her refusal turns out to have a silver lining. Robbie, drawing on his imagination, conjures up a zoo of snakes from his mother's shoelace, his sister's jump rope and his father's leather belt. "I still think they are scary," says Mommy at the conclusion. "That's why you need me," Robbie sagely replies. Jonell understands the passions of boyhood ("Why does the snake eat the mouse headfirst?" asks Robbie with a sweet smile as Mommy "looks slightly sick"), and her observations harbor a dry wit... |
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Frogs Wore Red Suspenders |
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Jack Prelutsky |
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0688167209 |
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Playful poet Jack Prelutsky and the beloved Petra Mathers (Lottie's New Beach Towel) take youngsters from the heart of South Dakota to Monterey Bay in this extraordinary collection of poems and paintings that belongs on the shelf next to Ride a Purple Pelican and Beneath a Blue Umbrella. As ever, Prelutsky's meter is flawless, and you absolutely read his poems aloud, even if you're sitting in a room by yourself. This is not the gross-out fare that Prelutsky so delightfully dishes out in Awful Ogre's Awful Day and some of his other books. Here are 28 nonsensical, often somewhat geographical poems for preschoolers and early readers about a tiny baker who bakes a tiny cookie, a granny who lost her footing and fell into pudding, elephants who sit in trees and sneeze, and a small hen who is stuck at the bottom of the... |
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The Miraculous Tale of the Two Maries |
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Rosemary Wells |
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Grade 1-4–Two 16-year-old best friends, both named Marie, enjoy carefree lives in their southern French town, until the day they venture out too far into the clam flats where the fast-moving tide quickly overtakes them. The waves toss them and their boat deep into the ocean and then up to heaven. There, God gives them a second chance by allowing them to return to the town they love and help its inhabitants. They row their boat through the clouds and spend the next 60 years saving children from fever, adults from dog attacks, horses in danger, and anyone else who is in dire straits. This fact-based tale is prefaced with an authors note describing the real two Maries, which adds depth to the story. The main characters are not portrayed as mystical beings but as normal girls who make a foolish mistake but... |
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Tell Me a Season |
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Mary McKenna Siddals |
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0613355806 |
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From School Library Journal
PreS. This small and simple concept book describes the colors in a spring morning, a summer day, a fall evening, and a winter night. Four specific scenes lead up to each panoramic double-page spread that features a farmhouse with a girl and a boy, a cat and a dog. Siddals's appropriately straightforward and economical text is brought to life by Mathers's folksy watercolors. On facing single pages, she balances the colors and images well, sometimes even continuing the same background from one frame to the next. In her double-page spreads, she includes details that readers can trace from one season to the next (a toy sailboat in the window comes outside for summer play, but returns to its window in the fall; a clothesline is put up in summer and taken down for winter), introducing earliest readers to story... |
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Lottie's New Beach Towel |
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Petra Mathers |
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One beautiful summer day Lottie, a chicken, is squeezing lemons when a package arrives. It's a red-and-white polka-dotted beach towel from her Aunt Mattie with a note that says, "This might come in handy this summer." Boy, does it! Young readers will revel in the simple story of a day at the beach with absurd little twists. Lottie's friend Herbie is a duck, has a boat, and wears a hat labeled "Capitano." When he picks her up from the shore for a boat ride and the motor "gets tired and goes to sleep," they sail back with the help of the beach towel, of course. Petra Mathers, creator of Borreguita and the Coyote and Grandmother Bryant's Pocket, not only exposes the indispensable nature of one humble beach towel, she also creates a quirky story of friendship and a funny take on how one thing leads... |
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Lottie's New Beach Towel |
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Petra Mathers |
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0613371577 |
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Book Review
One beautiful summer day Lottie, a chicken, is squeezing lemons when a package arrives. It's a red-and-white polka-dotted beach towel from her Aunt Mattie with a note that says, "This might come in handy this summer." Boy, does it! Young readers will revel in the simple story of a day at the beach with absurd little twists. Lottie's friend Herbie is a duck, has a boat, and wears a hat labeled "Capitano." When he picks her up from the shore for a boat ride and the motor "gets tired and goes to sleep," they sail back with the help of the beach towel, of course. Petra Mathers, creator of Borreguita and the Coyote and Grandmother Bryant's Pocket, not only exposes the indispensable nature of one humble beach towel, she also creates a quirky story of friendship and a funny take on how one thing leads... |
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Sophie and Lou |
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Petra Mathers |
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From Publishers Weekly
A mouse takes to the dance floor and overcomes her shyness in a "gently paced story that is sweetly inspirational," said PW. All ages. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 3-- A naive, almost childlike style of art illustrates this tale of a mouse discovering not only her hidden self but love as well. Sophie is so shy that she does her grocery shopping during the lull hours just so she won't have to talk to anyone. But when Dolores and Rudi's Dance Studio opens across the street, Sophie is reluctantly drawn into their glamorous, exciting world. Hearing snatches of music and seeing the students' swaying bodies, she is curious to know what their feet are... |
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This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort |
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From Publishers Weekly
Created especially for New York City schoolchildren, This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort edited by Georgia Heard includes 18 works, beginning with Eloise Greenfield's "This Place," and including poems by Karla Kuskin, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman and Heard herself. Each is paired with illustrations by artists such as Kevin Hawkes, Chris Raschka, Petra Mathers and William Steig. A portion of the profits from the sale of the book benefit Save the Children. Ages 6-up.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 1 Up-In memory of the September 11th tragedy, this book was compiled initially to offer hope and comfort to children who witnessed the event firsthand,... |
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