Adam Rubin, Author . Lyons $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59228-875-5
Hardcore New York Mets fans will be thrilled by this in-depth look at the team's 2005 season by the Mets beat writer for the New York Daily News
. Rubin captures all the highlights of what became a memorable winning season, but he focuses on...
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri. Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3680-1
Rubin and Salmieri (Those Darn Squirrels!) are two of the weirdest, funniest guys working in kids’ lit today. The team lets its geek flag fly in an obsessive how-to guide for would-be dragon taco party hosts. Why a taco party? As Rubin explains, “The
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri. Clarion, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-547-42922-9
Having already proved they're ideally matched in their debut, Those Darn Squirrels! (2008), Rubin and Salmieri go for two—and succeed. This time, Mr. Fookwire, his beloved backyard birds, and his relentlessly clever squirrel frenemies are united...
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri. Clarion, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-547-67823-8
It’s a sad time for Old Man Fookwire: his beloved birds are flying south for winter. And this year, the pesky squirrels that he loves to hate have decided to follow them, using flying machines that might have been designed by da Vinci (if he’d had...
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri. Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3947-5
“Poor Raccoon. All he wants in life is some pizza.” And who can blame him? Pizza is its own breed of perfect: “So beautiful, you could hang it on the wall of a museum,” (Salmieri mounts a slice between a Picasso and a Matisse). “So convenient, you...
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri. HMH/Clarion, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-04549-1
In this outing from the team behind Dragons Love Tacos and the Those Darn Squirrels books, lumpy, hairy monsters learn to handle their terror of bubbles, delivering a rollicking (but rational) examination of fear vs. reality. Wait—terror of bubbles?
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri. Dial, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-42887-9
Is there an award for best gatefold ever? Then tell Rubin and Salmieri to get out their tuxes, because this book has the one to beat. Their premise is simple: a boy loves dressing up in a homemade robot costume and terrorizing his family (“robo-poke!
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Crash McCreery.. Dial, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-399-53929-9
Rubin (Dragons Love Tacos) and McCreery team up to tell the bilingual, comical "true" story of the dreaded el chupacabras. Finding one of their fat and happy goats flat as a pancake and an apparent victim of "the goat sucker," Hector and his...
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Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri. Dial, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-42888-6
When the world runs out of tacos, there’s only one thing to do: go back in time, “save a handful of tacos, plant them in the ground, and grow taco trees so we never run out of tacos again.” Fans of Dragons Love Tacos won’t be surprised that this...
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri et al. Putnam, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-32579-7
In this madcap middle grade debut billed as six “wildly different stories with the exact same name”—each illustrated by a different contemporary artist—Rubin (Gladys the Magic Chicken) varies genre, setting, and subtitle in tales that all
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri. Dial, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-525-42889-3
In this interactive picture book by the Dragons Love Tacos team, a high-five champion called Sensei, who resembles Bigfoot and wears a multicolored belt, offers to apprentice readers. It’s all to prepare for the annual high-five contest, where,...
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri. Dial, $8.99 (18p) ISBN 978-0-5935-3317-8
Having irrefutably established that Dragons Love Tacos, Rubin and Salmieri offer a taco-shaped board book to welcome youngest dragons to the gustatory club. On page one, an adorable blue dragon with black horns and googly eyes encounters a drawing...
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Adam Rex. Putnam, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-593-32560-5
Gladys isn’t really magic—she’s just an ordinary chicken with orange feathers, a bright pink comb, startled eyes, and a tendency to “ploop” out an egg at opportune moments. But back in “Ancient Times”—a phrase seemingly portrayed in a Grecian font—th
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Adam Rubin, illus. by Liniers. Putnam, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-5936-1913-1
In a work that tackles the secret lives of couches, a nattily dressed red fox appears on a classic proscenium stage, promising readers plenty of juicy material about sofas, only to be interrupted by an equally well-dressed opossum, who insists that...
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