Amy E. Sklansky, illus. by Talitha Shipman. Little, Brown/LB Kids, $6.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-316-20714-0
This follow-up to You Are My Little Cupcake gives parents another foodie analogy to express their love for their kids. “Your scent is just delightful—/ Like cinnamon and spice./ Each time I kiss your yummy cheek,/ I have to kiss it twice,” writes...
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Amy E. Sklansky, illus. by Anna Dunn. Cartwheel, $8.99 (14p) ISBN 978-1-338-11099-9
Readers turn graduated pages, die-cut in the shape of ever-larger hearts, as they make their way through this sunny celebration of love. Sklansky’s well-constructed rhymes talk about love in vague but approachable language: “Love is a gift tied up...
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Amy E. Sklansky, illus. by Anna Dunn. Cartwheel, $8.99 (14p) ISBN 978-1-338-11098-2
The duo behind Sweet Hearts returns with another die-cut board book, a primer on colors shaped like half of a rainbow. Graduated pages expand to semicircles as Sklansky introduces familiar objects and animals to accompany each color (“It is red like
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Amy E. Sklansky, illus. by Stacey Schuett. Knopf, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-86459-9
Sklansky contrasts light verse about the universe with facts about outer space (which appear in sidebars) in this gentle collection, while Schuett combines homey gouache cartoons with digitally rendered intergalactic details. After a pair of...
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Amy E. Sklansky, Author, Tiphanie Beeke, Illustrator , illus. by Tiphanie Beeke. Clarion $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-42854-0
Feeling bereft after a hurricane hits his beloved lake, the kazoo-playing hero flies south to a river where he's quickly befriended by the local ducks. They have such a good time together that when the arrival of spring prompts his return, his...
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Amy E. Sklansky, Author, Karla Firehammer, Illustrator, Karen Dismukes, Illustrator , illus. by Karla Firehammer, Karen Dismukes, Sandy Koeser and Cathy McQuitty. Holt $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6673-9
Nifty beaded and appliquéd illustrations distinguish Sklansky's (the ZOOMfun series) collection of 26 canine poems. Playful pups and precocious mutts (and frisky felines who make frequent cameos), rendered entirely in colorful, shiny...
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Amy E. Sklansky, Author, Karen Dismukes, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7046-0
""Beady"" refers to more than just evil eyes in Skeleton Bones and Goblin Groans: Poems for Halloween by Amy Sklansky, illus. by Karen Dismukes. As in their From the Doghouse, the fabric and bead artwork brings to life a collection of poems on...
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