Anastasia Suen, illus. by Jannie Ho. Viking, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-01288-6
A batch of Grandma's homemade oatmeal cookies beckons, but for this backseat narrator, the sights and sounds along the road to her house are equally compelling: "Road work ahead./ Move over. Go slow./ Jackhammers crack./ Look at them go." Indeed,...
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Anastasia Suen, Author, Wade Zahares, Illustrator , illus. by Wade Zahares. Picture Puffin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-230003-9
For this look at the many kinds of things that get delivered—newspapers, packages, logs—and how they get from one place to another, "the artist creates a hint of a through line for the narrative with strongly modeled,...
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Anastasia Suen, Author, Wade Zahares, Illustrator Viking Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-87287-9
""Window music"" is 1880s railroad slang for passing scenery, and an impressive range of views is what this visual tour delivers. As a girl travels from her grandparents' house back to her home, Suen's (Man on the Moon) simple rhyming couplets--""tra
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Anastasia Suen, Author, Karen Katz, Illustrator , illus. by Karen Katz. Viking $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-03622-6
"We go down/ to go uptown/ down, down, down/ in the subway"—opens the text as a mother and young daughter embark on an exuberant underground excursion. In 14 simple quatrains, Suen (Window Music
) turns city life into one big happy...
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Anastasia Suen, Author, Benrei Huang, Author, Benrei Huang, Illustrator Viking Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-87393-7
Opening on an inviting, fanciful note (with the words, ""Moon, do you remember your first visitors?"" superimposed on a spacescape spotlighting earth and a distant moon), Suen's inaugural children's book then abandons this sense of whimsy for a...
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Anastasia Suen, Author, Elwood H. Smith, Illustrator , illus. by Elwood H. Smith. Viking $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-89282-2
In this cheery but tepid how-to book, step-by-step images and pared-down rhymes depict the construction of a house. First, a man and woman inspect blueprints while their yellow mutt diligently studies doghouse plans. Next, the dog (in a yellow...
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Anastasia Suen, Author, M. Cecka, Editor, Wade Zahares, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-88455-1
This picture book, about the many kinds of things that get delivered and how they are transported, takes readers on a disorienting ride. The driver of a truck marked ""Daily News"" stops for gas before dawn in the opening and closing images of the...
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Anastasia Suen, Author, Cecco Mariniello, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4952-7
""Cougars howl.../ Panthers prowl.../ Camels loop.../ Mosquitos swoop..."" not in nature, but in Air Show by Anastasia Suen, illus. by Cecco Mariniello. The ""cougar"" is a Grumman F9F Cougar (1951) and the ""camel"" is a Sopwith Camel (1916)....
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