Arthur Yorinks, Author, Richard Egielski, With Sunburst $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-46634-3
``Once there was a giant,'' begins the first book by these noted collaborators; black-and-white illustrations and a whimsical text continue the tale of his downfall at the hands of sly Sid. Ages 4-8. (Apr.)
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Arthur Yorinks, illus. by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline. First Second, $15.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59643-452-3
Yorinks’s eccentric graphic novel opens as a couple that keeps bloodhounds finds a baby under a tree. They treat Mickey like one of their dogs, insisting that he learn to track like the hounds do. From Mickey’s perspective (he narrates), the...
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Arthur Yorinks, illus. by Doug Cushman, Harper, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-156148-1
Unlike the H.G. Wells original, Yorinks's (Homework) whimsical riff on the harassed Wells character is largely played for laughs. Kindly Sy Kravitz, a fruit seller, wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably invisible. "He was shunned....
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Maurice Sendak, Illustrator Hyperion Books for Children $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-205068-7
Following his profoundly political We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, Sendak applies his prodigious talents to this self-indulgent tale by Yorinks (Hey, Al), Sendak's partner in The Night Kitchen, a foundation for children's theater. An...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, David Small, Illustrator , illus. by David Small. Hyperion $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0415-3
This droll follow-up to Company's Coming
opens as Shirley and Moe and their company from outer space bid farewell to other dinner guests: a cache of cousins as well as "all the soldiers, pilots, Marines, FBI men" whom a panicked Moe (conv
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, David Small, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-56751-7
When a flying saucer lands in the yard, and two aliens emerge, Shirley promptly invites them in for dinner. Her husband, less sanguine, phones the FBI, and they call in the military. By the time the visitors return, the house is surrounded by...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, David Small, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-58858-1
``Beware of spacemen bearing blenders'' might well be the moral of this droll offering, in which aliens examine Suburbia, USA--and vice versa. Ages 3-7. (Aug.)
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, William Steig, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82597-2
If the Three Stooges had played the sons of Yiddish-speaking immigrants,they might have stepped into this slick shtick. The plot features feuding relatives who start a food fight on Hanukkah and pitch a latke out the window; the latke (don't ask) is
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Jos A. Smith, Illustrator , illus. by Jos. A. Smith. Abrams $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8109-9349-5
For readers seeking a weird and haunting autumn read, this fairy tale by Yorinks (Mommy?
) and Smith (Circus Train
) fits the bill. The opening illustration alone is the stuff of nightmares. A wraithlike woman, clad in a billowing inky-black dress,...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Maurice Sendak, Author, Maurice Sendak, Illustrator , illus. by Maurice Sendak, paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart. Scholastic/Michael di Capua $24.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-439-88050-3
Children who get the better of monsters are a Sendak specialty, from Where the Wild Things Are
to Brundibar
. In this light bite of spine-tingling fare created by Sendak, Yorinks (Hey, Al
) and Reinhart (Encyclopedia Prehistorica
)—sort of a...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Adrienne Yorinks, Illustrator , illus. by Adrienne Yorinks. Abrams $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3548-8
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-42985-0
This Caldecott Medal winner tells of a journey to paradise and the discovery that home is best. Ages 3-up. (Apr.)
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-020256-9
When Santa sends his pants to the cleaners, he unwittingly sets in motion a sequence of events that delays that year's yuletide. For the cleaners misdirect the familiar red trousers (``Size 67--with cuffs!''), giving them to wealthy, arrogant New...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator , illus. by Richard Egielski. Scholastic/di Capua $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-545-03611-5
Taking a tip from MAD
magazine’s fold-ins, longtime collaborators Yorinks and Egielski (Hey, Al
; Sid and Sol
) create a book with two trick spreads. Their title refers to a boy’s mysterious drop “into another dimension”...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator, Richard Egielski, With Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-30951-0
Traces of the inspired silliness found in Louis the Fish , It Happened in Pinsk and other works by the Caldecott-winning collaborators are also found in this story that describes the extraordinary career of an inventor named Minski. But that...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator, Richard Egielski, With Farrar Straus Giroux $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-35599-9
Washed ashore after a shipwreck, two brothers are left to fend for themselves in New York. The boys comfort one another in a way familiar to all brothers: ``You stink,'' says Milton; ``So do you,'' replies Morris. Their fortunes rise and fall in...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator, Richard Egielski, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-44598-0
Louis, a man who has been pushed into the butcher business by his well-meaning parents, hates meat and loves fish. One day Louis wakes up and he's a salmona very happy salmon. In PW's words, ""Imaginative, full-color paintings are tuned into the...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator, Richard Egielski, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-38028-1
Ugh , the title character of Yorinks' and Egielski's latest picture book, is a cave boy whose older siblings make him do all the cave work. In his spare time Ugh invents the bicycle and, in a sequence of comic events, becomes king of the world. Ugh...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Martin Matje, Author, Martin Matje, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0335-4
Yorinks (Hey, Al) mines the much-visited ""Calvin and Hobbes"" vein in this tale of a toy that comes to life, but with an intercontinental twist. Lulu is a grouchy blonde girl who begs her parents for a real dog. When they present her with a plush...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Mort Drucker, Illustrator HarperCollins $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-205070-0
Readers familiar with Mad magazine will recognize Drucker's (Whitefish Will Rides Again! with Yorinks) caricature-studded cartoons, at once silly and sophisticated. The former rather than the latter adjective best describes Yorinks's story in...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Mort Drucker, Illustrator Di Capua $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-205037-3
Yorinks, author of the Caldecott-winning Hey, Al , and veteran Mad magazine illustrator Drucker (who here makes his children's book debut) are just the right fellas to relate this rollicking tale set in the Wild West. The book opens with three...
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Carey Armstrong-Ellis, Illustrator , illus. by Carey Armstrong-Ellis. Abrams $15.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5866-1
Visual slapstick humor abounds in this romping rhyming tribute to bees. Full-bleed, cartoon-like illustrations tell the story of a swarm of bees, waved off from the hive by the queen. While gathering pollen and playing pranks on each other, they...
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Arthur Yorinks, illus. by Sergio Ruzzier. Candlewick, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8394-8
“Once, there was an ant. A really mean ant,” Yorinks (Hey, Al) writes. “He was so mean, leaves would fall off trees when he walked by.” Ruzzier (Good Boy) draws the insect in minute, fascinating detail. The ant narrows his eyes, clenches his teeth...
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Arthur Yorinks and Maurice Sendak, illus. by Maurice Sendak. HarperCollins/di Capua, $18.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-062-64465-7
In 1990, Maurice Sendak created 10 images for the performance of an orchestral suite of Czech nursery rhymes. Several years later, his friend and collaborator Yorinks (Company’s Coming) proposed that they write a story to go with them. They knew...
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