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Melissa Eskridge Slaymaker Bottle Houses: The Creative World of Grandma Prisbrey; illus, by Julie Paschkis 32 pp. Holt 4/04 ISBN 0-8050-7131-8 16.95 (Primary) Alexandra Wallner Grandma Moses; illus, by the [...]

Sarah Weeks Paper Parade; illus, by Ed Briant 48 pp. Atheneum 5/04 ISBN 0-689-85607-5 15.95 (Preschool) A little girl looks longingly out her apartment window. 'What's that? Tickity-tat / Is [...]

Francois Place The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai; illus. by the author; trans. by William Rodarmor 108 pp. Godine 2/04 ISBN 1-56792-260-0 19.95 (Intermediate) Everyone is [...]

Lisa Wheeler Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta; illus. by Mark Siegel 40 pp. Jackson/Atheneum 2/04 ISBN 0-689-85689-X 16.95 g (Primary, Intermediate) A blend of comic book and Gilbert and Sullivan [...]

illus. by the author 32 pp. Groundwood 8/03 ISBN 0-88899-532-6 15.95 (Intermediate, Middle School) The life of artist Emily Carr receives an innovative treatment in this involving portrait. Born into [...]

illus, by the author 32 pp. Porter/Roaring Brook 9/03 ISBN 0-7613-1941-7 17.95 (Primary) The cover provides the first hint that this is a concept book with a capital C: rows [...]

*Mordicai Gerstein The Man Who Walked between the Towers; illus, by the author 40 pp. Roaring Brook 9/03 ISBN 0-7613-1791-0 17.95 Library edition ISBN 0-7613-2868-8 24.90 (Primary, Intermediate) 'Once there [...]

illus, by Petra Mathers 48 pp. Viking 9/03 ISBN 0-670-03637-4 16.99 g (Intermediate) Anderson (Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, rev. 11/01) has written a second picture book biography of [...]

80 pp. Abrams 4/03 ISBN 0-8109-4237-2 19.95 (Middle School, High School) Sculptor Louise Bourgeois is right to insist that art must speak for itself without information about the creator's personal [...]

illus. by the author 48 pp. McElderry 7/03 ISBN 0-689-85264-9 19.95 g (Intermediate) Demi tells the story of the prophet Muhammad from birth to death, explaining the creation of Islam [...]

illus. by the author 128 pp. Millbrook 5/03 Library edition ISBN 0-7613-2748-7 29.90 Paper edition ISBN 0-7613-1893-3 17.95 (Primary, Intermediate) Readers of these pages have already heard about 'Tell Me [...]

230 pp. Hyperion 6/03 ISBN 0-7868-1916-2 15.99 g (Middle School) Sixteen-year-old Libby Dodge begins her story in 1914 from within the walls of Massachusetts's Sherborn Prison for Women. At first, [...]

illus. by the author 64 pp. Foster/Farrar 3/03 ISBN 0-374-30655-9 15.00 (Primary) This small, square book manages to subtly evoke Potter by mimicking the format and design of her books [...]

illus. by the author 32 pp. Putnam 4/03 ISBN 0-399-23869-7 16.99 (Primary) Whenever seven-year-old Jamie and his family visit his eccentric uncle Andy in New York City, they go to [...]

illus. by the author 32 pp. Godine 12/02 ISBN 1-56792-230-9 19.95 (Intermediate) Each of the twenty-nine full-page paintings in this oversized book contains an anomaly or an illusion. A single [...]

illus. with photos by the author 32 pp. Kids Can 9/02 ISBN 1-55337-003-1 15.95 (Preschool) Can it really be nearly twenty years since Tana Hoban's I Read Signs? It's hard [...]

illus. by the author 32 pp. Viking 10/02 ISBN 0-670-88940-7 16.99 (Primary, Intermediate) A modern city at night. Fourteen paintings--or are they photographs? Fourteen mysteries--or is it one big mystery? [...]

The Animals' Santa by Jan Brett; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Putnam 32 pp. 10/14 978-0-399-25784-1 $17.99 g The animals find presents from their own Santa every Christmas, but [...]

The Twelve Days of Christmas illus. by Lellyen Pham Preschool, Primary Doubleday 40 pp. 9/14 978-0-385-37413-2 $17.99 What starts as a classic Victorian setting for this cumulative song ends by […]

Dog and Bear: Tricks and Treats by Laura Vaccaro Seeger; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Roaring Brook 32 pp. 8/14 978-1-59643-632-9 $14.99 In the latest Dog and Bear offering, [...]

Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd; illus. by the author Middle School, High School Workman 160 pp. 10/13 978-0-7611-7219-2 $17.95 Here's a book that starts on [...]

Train by Elisha Cooper; illus. by the author Primary Orchard/Scholastic 40 pp. 10/13 978-0-545-38495-7 $17.99 As five different kinds of trains overtake each other, we travel with them one by […]

illus. by Robert Andrew Parker 32 pp. Roaring Brook 9/02 ISBN 0-7613-1682-5 16.95 Library edition ISBN 0-7613-2770-3 23.90 (Primary, Intermediate) Picture books about artists are full of pitfalls. Will an [...]

86 pp. Houghton 3/02 ISBN 0-618-05252-6 16.00 (Intermediate, Middle School) In 1848, Phineas Gage, a twenty-six-year-old explosives expert, had an accident that should have killed him. His three-foot-long, spearlike tamping [...]

Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist 133 pp. Delacorte 8/01 ISBN 0-385-32806-0 14.95 Library edition ISBN 0-385-90005-8 18.99 (Middle School, High School) Vincent van [...]

Elisha Cooper Dance!; illus. by the author 32 pp. Greenwillow 8/01 ISBN 0-06-029418-3 15.95 Library edition ISBN 0-06-029419-1 15.89 (Primary) In a companion to Country Fair (rev. 9/97), Ballpark (rev. [...]

* Byron Barton My Car; illus. by the author 40 pp. Greenwillow 8/01 ISBN 0-064329624-0 14.95 Library edition ISBN 0-06-029625-9 14.89 (Preschool) 'I am Sam. This is my car. I [...]

(*) Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan Chuck Close Up Close 48 pp. DK Ink 3/98 ISBN 0-7894-2486-X 19.95 (Intermediate) Artist Chuck Close is gifted not only with a 'good hand' [...]

I Am Blop! by Herve Tullet; illus. by the author Preschool Phaidon 110 pp. 4/13 978-0-7148-6533-1 $19.95 Right away, the shape of this book--an uneven quadrangle without right angles--signals that [...]

I Wish I Had ... by Giovanna Zoboli; trans, from the Italian by Leslie Mathews; illus, by Simona Mulazzani Preschool, Primary Eerdmans 32 pp. 3/13 978-0-8028-5415-5 $16.00 In a poetic […]

* One Gorilla: A Counting Book by Anthony Browne; illus. by the author Preschool Candlewick 32 pp. 2/13 978-0-7636-6352-0 $16.99 For Anthony Browne, a gorilla is never just a gorilla. [...]

Leave Your Sleep: A Collection of Classic Children's Poetry selected by Natalie Merchant; illus. by Barbara McClintock Preschool, Primary Foster/Farrar 48 pp. 11/12 978-0-374-34368-2 $24.99 In a classy bit of [...]

Ed Young illus. by the author 26 pp. (two-sided accordion panels) Silver Whistle/Harcourt 10/97 ISBN 0-15-201453-5 20.00 (Preschool) A Chinese folktale (here unsourced) tells of a mouse family and their [...]

A celebration of crafts, art, gardening, and general busyness receives a unique treatment in Ehlert's Hands. A photo-collage on glossy card stock, the book is cut to the shape of [...]

Arthur Geisert illus. by the author 32 pp. Lorraine/Houghton 4/97 ISBN 0-395-79754-3 15.95 Geisert is becoming the John McPhee of children's book illustrators, once again enlightening all ages on a [...]

An original fable tells the story of the first autumn and the first snow. Taking place long ago when Mother Nature was a little girl, the story introduces personifications of [...]

A large, square alphabet book for older readers and adults is aptly titled. The illustrator, who is a graphic designer, places the emphasis on letterforms, color, and design, presenting each [...]

A fable told in a simple, emphatic style explains how the tortoise received her hard shell. When Nyame, the Sky-God, asks the boastful leopard Osebo to give him the huge [...]

In a wordless book illustrated with photographs, a boy picks up a yellow plastic ring in a city park and is transformed along with the world, as the ring turns [...]

Illustrated by David Goldin. 'Lost cat. / Where's he at? / Plump and soft. / Loves to that. / Black stripes, / Whiskers white. / Nose is pink. / Has [...]

Illustrated by Ilja Walraven. 'My elephant can do almost anything. He can stand on a wobbly stool, and he can balance on a balloon. Watch out! It will pop! Don't [...]

In a book that is impossible to categorize, Max Grover has combined elements of counting books, fantasy, tall tales, and tabloid journalism. At the top of each page, an often [...]

Illustrated by Richard Merkin. Beginning with a brief history of the Negro Leagues, the text provides short biographies of twenty-two baseball players of color, interspersed with information about segregation and [...]

32 pp. Viking/Penguin 9/94 ISBN 0-670-85547-2 13.99 'Night becomes day / and day becomes bright / Bright becomes sun And sun becomes shine.' A simply worded text takes the reader [...]

'In the morning, when you wake, your friends wake with you. Gray cat stretches, polar bear blinks, dinosaur sniffs, paper crane flutters, yellow ball rolls, and car waits on the [...]

Pete the Cat Saves Christmas by Eric Litwin; illus. by James Dean Primary Harper/HarperCollins 40 pp. 10/12 978-0-06-211062-6 $17.99 When Santa comes down with the flu on Christmas Eve, groovy [...]

Christmastime by Alison Jay; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Dial 32 pp. 11/12 978-0-8037-3804-1 $16.99 At first glance it's a simple Christmas vocabulary concept book ('candle / holiday card [...]

* Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger; illus. by the author Preschool Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp. 3/12 978-1-59643-397-7 $16.99 Lemons Are Not Red (rev. 1/05) was a concept book about color, [...]

The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle; illus. by the author Preschool Philomel 32 pp. 10/11 978-0-399-25713-1 $17.99 In its simplest interpretation, Carle's book is about an [...]

Nancy Coffelt, Author-Illustrator 32 pp. Gulliver/Harcourt 4/94 ISBN 0-15-200587-0 13.95 Young Tom's favorite birthday present is the goldfish he names Jesse. But when Tom realizes that Jesse always swims upside [...]