Alexandra Penfold and Siobhan Wallace. Running, $18 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7624-4682-7
Co-bloggers Penfold and Wallace have developed a loyal following due to their passionate reporting on New York's food scene, and they've summed up some of the city's best mobile dining vendors in this dense valentine to street food. Organized by...
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Alexandra Penfold, illus. by Mike Dutton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-30318-1
“Some trucks have ovens, others have grills./ They’re kitchens on wheels, without the frills,” writes Penfold (The Littlest Viking) as food trucks gather on an island for a festival. After caravanning to their destination, the trucks set up shop,...
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Alexandra Penfold, illus. by Isabel Roxas. Knopf, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-55429-2
A young Viking with a knack for storytelling steps into new roles when he gains a baby sister. “What’s this? A fair maiden?” asks Penfold (We Are Brothers, We Are Friends). “No, a warrior princess!” Roxas (Let Me Finish!) shows the scruffy infant...
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Alexandra Penfold, illus. by Eda Kaban. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-30201-6
Sibling rivalry? What sibling rivalry? Penfold’s cheerful big brother narrator is totally cool with having a baby brother. He looks forward to “adventures, just the two of us,” that include pretend play with “trains, and planes, and how to be a...
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Alexandra Penfold, illus. by Suzanne Kaufman. Knopf, $17.99 (44p) ISBN 978-0-525-57964-9
Penfold (Eat, Sleep, Poop) and Kaufman (I Love Monkey) celebrate a school community as a great common ground where families of all kinds connect and share in their children’s educational journey: “No matter how you start your day./ What you wear...
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Alexandra Penfold, illus. by Suzanne Kaufman. Knopf, $18.99 (42p) ISBN 978-0-525-57974-8
In All Are Welcome, collaborators Penfold and Kaufman celebrated the spirit of inclusivity. Now comes the hard part: getting stuff done. A diverse group of children share the goal of converting a trash-filled lot into a playground. But cooperation...
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Alexandra Penfold, illus. by Jane Massey. Knopf, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-385-75503-0
“I haven’t been here very long,” says a peach-skinned, towheaded infant. “But I already have a rigorous schedule”—one neatly summed up in this book’s title (which it shares with a 2010 parenting book by Scott W. Cohen). Penfold, a literary agent...
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