Arnold Adoff, Author, John Steptoe, Illustrator Beech Tree Paperback Book $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-11496-1
Dynamic brown-toned portraits highlight this collection of verses that speak eloquently of many races and colors. Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Arnold Adoff, illus. by R. Gregory Christie, Clarion, $17.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-547-23554-7
In this visceral collaboration, Adoff and Christie honor the enduring legacy of blues music. Vibrant, haunting acrylic paintings portray crowded slave ships, chain gang labor, and the crackling energy of juke joints. Several poems titled "Listening"
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Joe Cepeda, Illustrator , illus. by Joe Cepeda. S&S $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82599-6
Free verse, frozen into solid blocks of text, enriches this story of double lives. By day, a docile blue dog is called Irving, and a calm brown cat answers to Ermine. "Our Children Give Us Those Names," the animals announce in tandem. "Bu
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Lisa Desimini, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-48478-7
Not just the run-of-the-mill Valentine's Day sentiments find expression in 20 poems, styled as anonymous notes. Each epistle begins with a ""Dear ---"" salutation; Adoff (Slow Dance Heart Break Blues) fills in the blank with terms denoting school...
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Lisa Desimini, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-47970-7
Adoff and Desimini (Love Letters) salute the senses, especially touch, in this well-balanced collaboration. Written in Adoff's familiar ""shaped speech"" style, the initial title poem depicts a girl caressing her face: ""As I Look At The O p e n...
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator Amistad Press $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-028776-4
Arnold Adoff's 1973 poem black is brown is tan, featuring the ""first interracial family in children's books,"" according to the publisher, appears here with Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully's new watercolors. (Apr.)
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator Amistad Press $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-443644-1
""Fragmented verse lovingly explores the colors of various multicultural families,"" wrote PW. Ages 4-8. (Jan.)
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator, Emily Arnold McCully, Photographer HarperCollins $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443269-6
Fragmented verse lovingly explores the colors of various multicultural families. Ages 4-8. (Jan.)
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Karen Barbour, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-228404-6
Flamboyan was born with hair the color of the flame-red blossoms of the Flamboyan tree. As she grows up, the tree is her special place to sit gazing at the sky and dreaming of being as free as the birds above. Flamboyan tends the animals in her yard
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Bonnie V. Ingber, Editor, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-238637-5
This warm, rich picture book about the changing seasons celebrates the comforts of home and family. ``This House,'' says narrator Rebecca, ``Is The Center.'' In the course of the year, the African-American girl enjoys the first snowfall, helps her...
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Michael Weaver, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers $17 (47p) ISBN 978-0-689-80108-2
There is a studied pomp to both art and text in this collection of poems about basketball. Weaver's debut artwork is sometimes visually interesting, as when high-rise buildings menacingly dwarf the city playground chain-link fence, or when a...
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Susan Schneider, Editor, Catherine Deeter, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-266367-4
Next-door neighbors Pepper and Belle have been best friends ""all of their long-legged lives""; their dogs Rex and Ethel have also been friends ""all of their short-legged lives."" But when both Rex and Ethel succumb to old age on the same summer...
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Arnold Adoff, Author, Martha Stoberock, Illustrator, Betsy Lewin, Illustrator Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $12.95 (35p) ISBN 978-0-688-04276-9
Adoff's newest collection is playfully dedicated to Kermit the Frog for ``Being Green,'' a source of inspiration for all the poems in this book. It's not easy to tell where one of these exuberant poems ends and another begins, since they flow...
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