Aliki, Author HarperCollins $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-024937-3
Told this vividly, tales of carefree childhood summers can warm the heart in any season. Children as well as parents will willingly accompany Aliki's (Mummies Made in Egypt; Christmas Tree Memories) animated narrator back in time as she shares her...
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Aliki, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-026276-1
With all-new art, substantially changed text, new charts and a new trim size, the revised edition of Aliki's Wild and Woolly Mammoths, first published in 1977, could almost be a brand-new book from the popular picture book author. Its subject, of...
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Aliki, Author Greenwillow Books $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-10529-7
The author/illustrator of the ebullient companion works, Feelings and Manners , has produced an equally beguiling picture-book survey of one of the human race's most important imperatives--communication. Dedicated to ``all the tellers and the...
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Aliki, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15 (30p) ISBN 978-0-06-020007-7
A family of four sits by the tree on Christmas Eve and strings memories like cranberries and popcorn. Over the years this brood has made corn husk wreaths, starfish Santas, pine cone angels and walnut cradles with the help of extended family and...
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Aliki, Author Crowell $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-690-04588-8
Life at the court of Versailles boggles the mind: Louis XIV had, among other things, a garden containing four million tulips, and an everyday supper consisted of some 40 dishes! Tidbits like this abound in Aliki's new book, in which she chronicles a
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Aliki, Author Crowell $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-690-04549-9
The latest Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science book is written in the lively and informative style of Aliki's Digging Up Dinosaurs and Dinosaurs Are Different, with the added personal perspective of My Visit to the Dinosaurs. Here Aliki helps children...
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Aliki, Author Greenwillow Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-06764-9
It's been too long since our last sojourn At Mary Bloom's, but she's back, and her latest episode is just as irresistible and sprightly as the first one. A little girl receives an invitation for an overnight visit and accepts immediately. Mary Bloom,
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Aliki, Author Greenwillow Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-06099-2
From the moment twins Jack and Jake are born, their older sister can tell them apart, but no one else can. ""They said, `Jack is hungry,' when it's Jake who cried./They said, `Jake is wet,' but it's Jack they dried.'' When Jack and Jake go off to...
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Aliki, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $5.99 (1p) ISBN 978-0-689-80765-7
PW called this adaptation of the folk song an ""unusually lovely book."" Ages 4-8. (June)
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Aliki, Author HarperCollins $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024915-1
A girl and her father visit an animal shelter at the start of this cheerful if thin wordless book by the author of the more successful My Visit to the Dinosaurs and How a Book Is Made. The pair takes home a wide-eyed kitten-Tabby-who is subsequently
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Aliki, Author HarperCollins Publishers $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443268-9
This engrossing and carefully researched account of court life, customs and activities is illustrated with meticulously detailed watercolors in vibrant hues. Ages 7-11. (Sept.)
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Aliki, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (33p) ISBN 978-0-06-446217-4
PW called this companion to My Visit to the Aquarium ""a lively learning expedition."" Ages 4-up. (May)
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Aliki, Author Greenwillow Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-04579-1
The artist's characteristically cheery cartoon strips brim with etiquette tips in a series of lighthearted lessons. Ages 4-up. (May)
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator HarperCollins $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-027820-5
William Shakespeare may get top billing in the title of this picture book, but the emphasis within is less certain. Aliki (Mummies Made in Egypt) doesn't investigate Shakespeare as a personality; dividing her work into five ""acts,"" she focuses...
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator . HarperCollins $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-074355-0
Aliki's buoyant and insightful school tale stars Miss Brilliant—a creative teacher who "celebrates everything"—and her multicultural class. When the teacher suggests they celebrate finishing a test by putting on a play, all...
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $5.99 (47p) ISBN 978-0-06-446236-5
"Energetic art gives this ode to music, which covers everything from very basic terms to a 'mini history' of jazz a lively visual pace," wrote PW
. All ages. (Sept.)
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator Mulberry Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-07337-4
In this moving story of the love between generations, a grandfather and a little girl look after one another from the day she is born until the day he dies. Ages 4-8. (September)
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-06810-3
This beautiful little book is the perfect gift for a new baby and his or her family. Accomplished author/artist Aliki tenderly depicts a newborn and its family's first experiences. ""Welcome to our world, little baby,'' the text begins. ``We've been
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator HarperTrophy $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-445078-2
Aliki's latest stellar addition to the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out series explores the locating of bones and their subsequent reconstruction in museums. Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-023530-7
Despite her vibrant art and her valiant attempt to simplify her material, Aliki's (A Medieval Feast; My Visit to the Aquarium) whirlwind tour of Olympus doesn't manage to untangle the labyrinthine legends of the mythical past. Her book falls into...
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $4.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-17116-2
This companion to Aliki's Feelings and Manners is a ""reassuring overview of how people seek connection,"" PW said. Ages 5-up. (Aug.)
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-09198-9
This popular and prolific author-artist here examines an important topic for children--good manners: how to achieve them and how to maintain them. Every page brims with etiquette tips, expressed by small-sized figures drawn in Aliki's customarily...
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-024939-7
This fact-packed book's opening lines (""I didn't really want to visit the zoo. I had been to one that made me feel sad"") set Aliki's (My Visit to the Aquarium) direct and responsible tone as she leads readers on yet another lively learning...
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-14333-6
Aliki's drawings have a sweet, childlike quality, and here her text mirrors the inventive simplicity of her art. The entire book consists of permutations of ""hello"" and ""good-bye"": she demonstrates how the two words are used in other cultures...
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-688-15661-9
In perhaps her most personal work to date, Aliki presents two equally moving sides to Marianthe's story, the first as a new arrival to a foreign America, and the second the explanation of why she came. A third-person narrative describes the girl's...
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator . HarperCollins $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-028719-1
Energetic art gives this ode to music a lively visual pace, but doesn't help Aliki (Feelings) reconcile her overtures to two disparate audiences. Covering everything from very basic terms (e.g., volume "is the loudness or softness of the...
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-021458-6
A-fish-ionados of big-city aquariums will recognize familiar watery environments within these splendidly illustrated pages. Based on several specific aquariums, Aliki's mega-museum features a three-story kelp jungle, a muggy tropical rain forest and
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Aliki, Author, Aliki, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028929-4
A perky preschooler (or kindergartner) flies solo through his daily routine in this upbeat offering, which begins with a wake-up visit from the boy's pet cat. As the child washes up, gets dressed, eats breakfast, plays at school, goes to the library,
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