Shana Muldoon Zappa and Ahmet Zappa with Catherine R. Daly. Disney Press, $6.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-4231-6643-6
The husband-and-wife Zappas launch their 12-book Star Darlings series, part of a multimedia property that will include animated shorts, dolls, apps, and music. The novels spotlight the dozen Starling Academy students who are tapped to grant the...
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Ahmet Zappa, Author . Random $12.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-375-83287-1
First-time author Zappa (son of rock legend Frank) mines his childhood fear of things that go bump in the night for this mock-memoir of a "monsterminator"-in-training, with recipes. Eleven-year-old Minerva McFearless, or Mini, as she's...
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Ahmet Zappa, illus. by Dan Santat. Little, Brown, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-33821-9
This picture book from the creators of Because I’m Your Dad follows up that volume’s mischievous escapades with this portrait of a monster-styled mother who’s equally game for good times. “Because I’m your mom, you can have nachos for breakfast,...
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Ahmet Zappa, illus. by Dan Santat. Disney-Hyperion, $15.99 (32p) ISBN SBN 978-1-4231-4774-9
A rowdy catalogue of Dad moments gets enacted by a creature who resembles a green ’60s-era Nauga monster and his purple (gender-neutral) offspring, in this picture book from the son of the late Frank Zappa (and a father himself). It quickly becomes...
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