Alan Katz, Author, Edward Koren, Illustrator , illus. by Edward Koren. S&S/McElderry $17.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0204-1
Like Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein, Katz (Take Me Out of the Bathtub
) revels in the kind of schoolyard humor and wordplay relished by his target audience. These 100 light verses contain references to stale gum, troublesome siblings, outwitted
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Alan Katz, illus. by Edward Koren. S&S/McElderry, $17.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3518-6
Accompanied by Koren's impish, characteristically furry caricatures, Katz's comedic poems take aim at familiar experiences like family squabbling and avoiding homework, while offering child-centric observations about the world. In one, the speaker...
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Alan Katz, illus. by Stephen Gilpin. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7880-0
The classroom is supposed to be a place where appropriate, upbeat language is a baseline expectation. But what if, just once, you could say something truly disruptive—with the teacher standing right there? With a keen sense for juvenile humor, Katz (
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Alan Katz, illus. by Kris Easler. Bloomsbury, $13.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-61963-558-6
Twins Nathan and David Wohlfardt take pride in the number of nannies they have driven to quit, and they expect their latest one to quickly take the same route. But when they meet their first manny, Martin Healey—who sports a “mushy, bushy mustache”...
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Alan Katz, illus. by Pascal Lemaitre. Little Simon, $7.99 (10p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8993-6
Rocky Dachshund, who first appeared in Let's Get a Checkup! (2010), isn't a bad pup, but he won't share. He takes all of the crayons and markers from his classmates, won't pass the basketball, and has taken over the room he shares with his brother....
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Alan Katz, illus. by Elwood H. Smith, S&S/McElderry, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5567-2
Unlike Katz's many books of silly songs and poems, this picture book is an extended poem about a boy who avoids going to bed for so long that his parents fall asleep first. When his mother suggests a bedtime story, Dan says, "First I got stuff to do!
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Songwriter and television comedy writer Katz provides ludicrous lyrics to 14 traditional tunes, offering playful parodies on some familiar routines. To the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," a boy wearing roller skates claims he has been
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Alan Katz, Author, David Catrow, Illustrator , illus. by David Catrow. S&S/McElderry $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-86971-6
As with Katz and Catrow’s other collaborations (Take Me Out of the Bathtub
), this silly picture book revels in its own outrageous humor. When Michael’s mother asks him what happened at school, he launches into a series of rhymed stanzas
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Alan Katz, Author, David Catrow, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-84551-2
In another key entirely, I'm Still in the Bathtub: Brand New Silly Dilly Songs by Alan Katz, illus. by David Catrow, follows the author and illustrator's Take Me Out of the Bathtub with 14 more song parodies. ""I'm a Menace"" puts these opening...
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Alan Katz, illus. by David Catrow. S&S/McElderry, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5568-9
With grim and gruesome verses set to tunes like "On Top of Old Smokey" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," Katz and Catrow address summer camp hazards in their latest "silly dilly" collection. In a riff on "Skip to My Lou," the "mystery goo" served...
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Alan Katz, illus. by Adam Auerbach. HarperCollins, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-331118-3
Fully aware that “my grandchildren are all so smart,” Grandpa Murray knows he has to work extra hard to stash the afikomen. Digitally colored pen and ink pictures by Auerbach show Grandpa wandering from room to room as he considers and discards a...
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Alan Katz, illus. by Stephanie Laberis. HarperCollins, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-327386-3
At the direction of zookeeper Sue, shown with brown skin and spectacles, the City Zoo crew come out of their cages and habitats for a rowdy Halloween costume parade in this rhyming revel. From a snake dressed as a carrot to a hopping cotton-tailed...
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Alan Katz, illus. by Sernur Is¸ik. Aladdin Quix, $17.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-5344-6788-0
At Elf Academy, second grader Andy Snowden, a light-skinned young elf, is tired of making the same toys every day and “itching to build something different” using his imagination. When the principal announces the first-ever toy-building contest,...
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