Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author Greenwillow Books $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-14276-6
Hines (Rumble Thumble Boom!) draws on her own experiences for this insightful and finely articulated story, narrated by a girl who represents Hines's own daughter at the age of five. ""It used to be just Mama, Beth, and me,"" she says. But ""then we
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Anna Grossnickle Hines. Random/Tricycle, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-58246-413-8
This companion to I Am a Backhoe (2010) is part guessing game, part exercise in imagination. A blond boy basically gives readers a tutorial in how to pretend to be half a dozen dinosaurs, including a triceratops, velociraptor, and brachiosaurus. "I...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author Greenwillow Books $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-10911-0
Set against inky black pages, Hines's beguiling tale resonates with the charged atmosphere of a thunderstorm. Even though a frightened lad recalls that ``Grandpa says it's all the people in heaven playing ninepins,'' the youngster and his dog come...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-52595-1
In PW 's words, ``the artist handsomely conveys the flavor and excitement of the gathering of an extended family'' in this humorous tale of a night spent at Grandma's by a girl and her four cousins. Ages 2-5. (Mar.)
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author Clarion Books $13.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-89919-529-2
Hines brings the same flair for recreating the everyday details of children's lives to this book that she showed in Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti, It's Just Me, Emily and other favorites. A girl named Lassen always likes spending the night at...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author Dutton Books $8.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-525-44299-8
Once again, Hines perfectly captures a slice of the life of an average preschooler. Sarah, Mandy and Ben are playing dress-up. Bossy Mandy thinks that because she is the oldest, she should be the mother and wear the hat. Sarah declares her...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author Dutton Books $10.95 (2p) ISBN 978-0-525-44228-8
Sarah, her mother and (at Sarah's insistence) her doll Abigail go shopping at the big, confusing mall. ""Well, if you lose her, don't complain to me about it,'' Mama warns, adding that Sarah should stay put if she gets lost. All hands are held tight,
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author Clarion Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-89919-487-5
""What is that under Mother's covers down by her feet wiggling and twitching and tickling her toes?'' Mother wonders whether it might be a cat, or a weasel or a mole, but, as it turns out, ``It's just me . . . Emily.'' Emily is a little girl who...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author Clarion Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-89919-388-5
Daddy picks Corey up from the daycare center, takes him grocery shopping and then home to cook a delicious spaghetti dinner. After dinner, Corey helps Mommy wash the dishes while Daddy turns into . . . Bathman! . . . and carries Corey off for a fun-f
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author Greenwillow Books $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-16963-3
In a series of quilted designs worthy of exhibition, Hines (My Own Big Bed) illustrates the theme of this deceptively simple, unique collection of poems: ""Pieces of the seasons/ appear and disappear/ in a patchwork pattern/ making up a year."" Her...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Holt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8996-7
Hines pairs poems with images of her handmade quilts to reflect on the theme of peace. Several works focus on individual relationships: when two sisters fight, their mother makes them face each other at close range, which diffuses their anger into...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author . HarperTrophy/Greenwillow $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-055960-1
"In a series of quilted designs worthy of exhibition, Hines illustrates the theme of this deceptively simple, unique collection of poems," wrote PW
in a starred review. Ages 5-up. (Aug.)
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator , illus. by Melissa Sweet. Candlewick $13.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1237-5
In Hines's (My Own Big Bed) sympathetic and developmentally astute story, young Albert, the narrator, discovers that a grandma in person trumps a long-distance grandma any day. Albert hasn't seen his "Pat-a-Cake Grandma" since his...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author, Karen Ritz, Illustrator Dutton Books $13.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-525-44734-4
Third grader Sophie is painfully shy, making her an easy target for her bossy and mean-spirited classmate, Charlotte. When Charlotte forms the Best-Worst Club at school, prospective members must tell the others both the best and worst things that...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author, Mary Watson, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-15599-5
Hines (When We Married Gary) faultlessly portrays the ambivalence of a toddler when she moves from her crib to a big bed. A new big bed of her own is both exciting and scary for this girl narrator, but in confronting her fears, she also discovers...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author, Deborah Halverson, Editor, LeUyen Pham, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-216477-5
The mouse heroine of Whose Shoes? now raids the hat rack in Which Hat Is That? by Anna Grossnickle Hines, illus. by LeUyen Pham. ""When I wear a flippy-floppy hat,/ I dig, plant a seed,/ and weed, weed, weed./ Which hat is that?"" Readers turn...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author, Anna Grossnickle Hines, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-08354-0
Hines has a gift for depicting children in their natural habitats. This book, however, lacks the verve that some of her other books possess ( Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti and Taste the Raindrops , among them). Big Like Me presents the positive...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author, Anna Grossnickle Hines, Illustrator . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-000817-8
If ever there were a perfect book to curl up with on a cold night, this is it. With both humor and poignancy, Hines (Pieces: A Year in Poems & Quilts
) again puts on display an astounding amount of effort and craftsmanship in a collection of...
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Anna Grossnickle Hines, Author, James Cross Giblin, Author Clarion Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-89919-801-9
On a clear summer night a girl and her father climb to the top of a nearby hill. The sun goes down and the show begins, as the sky turns rosy and violet and the stars come out. A crescent moon provides the right light for sky-gazing. First the two...
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