Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Teagan White. Random House, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-101-93238-4
Rosenthal (Awake Beautiful Child) uses a gentle rhyme to remind readers that a parent's love is always present, even when said parent is not: "That shimmering star?/ That's me winking at you./ That drifting cloud?/ That's me thinking of you." In...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Tom Lichtenheld, Author , illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8118-6865-5
The team behind The OK Book
again plays with perspective and visual trickery, this time using a classic image that looks like either a rabbit (with long ears) or a duck (with a long bill). In a series of spreads that show the boldly outlined duck/ra
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Jeffrey Middleton, Illustrator . Crown $23 (220p) ISBN 978-1-4000-8045-8
Rosenthal likes lists: of low points in her life, codes that people memorize, sounds that seem loud though they're actually quiet. She loves inadvertently mysterious signs, like this public restroom gem: " PLEASE DO NOT FLUSH EXCESSIVE...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Paul Schmid, Illustrator , illus. by Paul Schmid. Harper $17.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-06-142974-3
This waggish collection combines poems, wordplay, and black ink illustrations to Silversteinian effect. Familiar nursery rhymes are comically recast (“This little piggy played the stock market”), puns run rampant, a poem about a “ba
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Brigette Barrager. Random House, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-101-93659-7
The question of what a double rainbow means has dogged humans since time immemorial (or at least since a 2010 viral YouTube video). Readers get an answer in this companion to 2014’s Uni the Unicorn. Persistent rain in the land of unicorns has led to
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Rebecca Doughty, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24365-3
Krouse (Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons, reviewed June 5) begins with a hard-to-disagree-with proposition: ""Some days are just not as great as others. Some days are one of those days."" She then enumerates some examples, from the comically irksome (
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Brigette Barrager. Random, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-385-37555-9
While the spirit of Mary Blair, vintage Golden Books, and 1960s animation influences many contemporary picture books, Barrager (Twelve Dancing Princesses) embraces it fully in this collaboration with Rosenthal (Exclamation Mark). Like her fellow...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Gracia Lam. McSweeney’s, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-938073-92-2
Rosenthal (I Wish You More) again demonstrates her ability to use wordplay to create stories with real emotional depth as she follows children through a day, described only in three-word, A-B-C phrases. It “All Begins Cheerily” with a boy waking up,
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by David Roberts. Random House, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-385-39187-0
Bedtime-delayers are offered a simple deal in this clever interactive book by the late Rosenthal: “If you can avoid getting to the end of this book, you can avoid bedtime.” The catch is that with every blink, a page must be turned. Seeing that the...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Paris Rosenthal, illus. by Holly Hatam. Harper, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-242250-7
Rosenthal, who died last March, and her daughter, Paris, offer encouragement to girls through a series of short letters. Some of the advice and imagery is overly familiar (“Dear Girl, Don’t ever lose your sense of wonder,” finds the book’s heroine...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, LeUyen Pham, Illustrator , illus. by LeUyen Pham. Bloomsbury $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59990-341-5
It takes a loving but firm child to get a recalcitrant Mommy to bed—at least, that's how the little heroine of this tables-turned tale sees it. Mommy pulls out every trick in the book—including asking to be read two bedtime books...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Scott Magoon. Disney-Hyperion, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-0796-5
The chopsticks from Rosenthal and Magoon’s Spoon (2009) take center stage in this clever companion book, which is as charming and whimsical as its predecessor. Best friends, the chopsticks are all but inseparable. “They go everywhere together. They...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Scott Magoon. Disney-Hyperion, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-48474955-5
In this peppy companion to Spoon and Chopsticks, bendable paper Straw, who “has a great thirst for being first,” delights in boasting to his friends when he empties his glass well before they can complete their innate tasks. “Done!” he brags, as a...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Scott Magoon, Illustrator , illus. by Scott Magoon. Disney-Hyperion $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-0685-2
Young Spoon lives a fairly happy life with a large extended family (including a ladle and a very fancy Aunt Silver), but he can't help being a bit jealous of some of his friends. Knife, for example, “is so lucky! He gets to cut, he gets...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Delphine Durand, Putnam, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24601-2
Rosenthal's (Duck! Rabbit!) Al Pha is a character from ancient history, a man who "lived back when all sorts of things were being invented. Like fire. The wheel. Shadows." He's a funny-looking guy, too, with a thumblike body and jellified arms. In a
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Serge Bloch. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-0004-3
Rosenthal (Wumbers) expands her library of alphabetical and numerical wordplay books with a clever collection of “wordles,” homophonic words and phrases. When accompanied by Bloch’s (My Snake Blake) ebullient ink-scrawl drawings, the wordles make...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Peter H. Reynolds. Harper, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-198675-8
In what may be a first, Rosenthal and Reynolds demonstrate the benefits of sharing kisses far and wide—without showing a single person-to-person kiss. Rosenthal’s (Duck! Rabbit!) verse is stripped down to the bone, yet retains a singsong nursery...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-1022-6
Acceler8 your thinking! Rosenthal and Lichtenheld, the team behind Duck! Rabbit! and others, continue their successful collaboration with a collection of word puns that substitute numbers for letters, text-message style (the book is dedicated to...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-545-43679-3
Rosenthal and Lichtenheld (the team behind Duck! Rabbit! and other titles) give punctuation personalities in this witty calligraphic jaunt. Against a background of lined penmanship paper, an exclamation mark realizes he differs from his neighbors, a
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-2699-9
In what is essentially a string of secular blessings, an unseen parent/caretaker expresses its hopes for a child's future. Building her stanzas around the idea of "more," Rosenthal (who has teamed with Lichtenheld on Duck! Rabbit! and other...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-43682-3
Rosenthal’s cheerful observations about friendship provide punny setups for longtime teammate Lichtenheld’s (Duck! Rabbit!) visual jokes, all composed with four happily smiling shapes: a blue circle, a yellow square, a red rectangle, and a green...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Tom Lichtenheld, Illustrator , illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. HarperCollins $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-115259-7
A boy celebrates his favorite day of the year—the titular one when his parents indulge his every desire—in this exuberant picture book from the creators of The OK Book
. On Yes Day, the boy receives affirmative responses to his requests...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Tom Lichtenheld, Illustrator , illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. HarperCollins $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-115255-9
Go ahead and enjoy doing things even if you’re just OK at them, this friendly concept book advises. Lichtenheld (What Are You So Grumpy About?) sets aside the color spreads of his previous titles for simple line drawings based on a visual pun.
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. by Jen Corace. Harper, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-172655-2
Rosenthal continues her run of inspired ideas with another collaboration with Corace (Little Pea). Here, in an exercise calculated to delight, she ditches the boring numbers in math equations for words. Two pigtailed girls squabble, then reason with
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Jen Corace, Illustrator , illus. by Jen Corace. Chronicle $12.99 (28p) ISBN 978-0-8118-6023-9
The team that pertly turned the eat-your-vegetables dilemma upside-down with Little Pea
again puts reverse psychology to work, this time for the sake of bedtime. Like his legume counterpart, Little Owl has a great life—except for one thing: &#
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Jen Corace, Illustrator ., illus. by Jen Corace Chronicle $12.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4658-5
Peas, the oft-reviled legumes that can make dinnertime a battle, take center plate in Rosenthal's (Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
, for adults) silly picture book about food choices—and picky eaters—turned topsy-turvy. Little Pea...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator , illus. by Jane Dyer. HarperCollins $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-058081-0
Cookies provide the vehicle for Rosenthal's (Little Pea
) deliciously charming collection of defined and illustrated vocabulary words that serve as gentle guides to etiquette. Dyer's (Time for Bed
) scenes of old-fashioned kitchens and balmy
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator, Brooke Dyer, Illustrator , illus. by Jane and Brooke Dyer. Harper $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-174072-5
With an endearing mix-and-match assemblage of humans and animals, this follow-up to Cookies
and Christmas Cookies
celebrates the vocabulary of love. In one spread, a mother goat in an apron looks lovingly at her offspring: “Adore means, I...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Abrams, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4706-9
Moo proves an extremely malleable term of affection in text co-authored by the late Krouse Rosenthal, also written and illustrated by previous collaborator Lichtenheld (Duck! Rabbit!). “Moo-moo, I love you,” declares an exuberantly cartooned cow to...
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