Barbara Brenner, Author Pantheon Books $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-72551-0
This excellent primer, the second volume in the Bank Street College of Education's Complete Parent Guide series, brims with information and advice designed to calm parental misgivings, as well as with specifics about what children need in the...
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Barbara Brenner, Author, Leo Dillon, Editor, Leo Dillon, Illustrator Bantam Books for Young Readers $9.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-553-05825-3
This book is one of the premiere volumes of the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series for four- to eight-year-olds. The books are color-coded not according to age level, but to reading skills: blue for read-alouds, red for beginning readers, yellow for...
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Barbara Brenner, Author, William H. Hooks, Author, Betty Boegehold, Author , illus. by Lynn Munsinger. Milk &Cookies $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-03925-6
Sibling dynamics hop to the fore in this playful two-part tale. Co-authors Brenner (Wagon Wheels
), Hooks (The Legend of the Christmas Rose
) and Boegehold (the Pippa Mouse series) present six brown bunnies who live with Mama Rabbit in Carrotville....
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Barbara Brenner, Author, Olivier Dunrea, Illustrator , illus. by Olivier Dunrea. Houghton/Sandpiper $5.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-618-31089-0
In a starred review, PW
called this an "innovative picture/chapter book hybrid that vividly brings to life the childhood of the noted American painter. The author makes West easy to like, giving equal emphasis to his singular passion for art...
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Barbara Brenner, Author, Olivier Dunrea, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (48p) ISBN 978-0-395-85080-0
This innovative picture book/chapter book hybrid vividly brings to life the childhood of noted American painter Benjamin West (1738-1820). The youngest of 10 children in a Quaker family, Benjamin becomes inspired at the age of seven and draws...
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Barbara Brenner, Author, Fred Brenner, Illustrator, May Garelick, Joint Author Boyds Mills Press $9.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56397-718-3
Cut-paper collage and a pair of cheerful woodland animals decorate this informative look at trees. ""The book is a beauty and it can increase the reader's awareness of how important trees are to all life,"" said PW. Ages 2-8. (Feb.)
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Barbara Brenner, Author, Tom Leonard, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-17180-3
Two new titles by Barbara Brenner, illus. by Tom Leonard, examine tiny animal habitations. One Small Place in a Tree demonstrates how different animals slowly create a hole in a tree (a bear uses the bark as a scratching post; timber beetles ""se
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Barbara Brenner, Author, Tom Leonard, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-17182-7
Two new titles by Barbara Brenner, illus. by Tom Leonard, examine tiny animal habitations. One Small Place in a Tree demonstrates how different animals slowly create a hole in a tree (a bear uses the bark as a scratching post; timber beetles ""se
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Barbara Brenner, Author, Denise Ortakales, Illustrator , illus. by Denise Ortakales. NorthWord $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55971-888-2
Pleasantly off-kilter rhymes pair with intricately constructed sculpted paper scenes in this carefully crafted depiction of a girl's wide-eyed daybreak explorations. Ortakales (Carrot in My Pocket
) imbues her full-bleed collages with convincing
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Barbara Brenner, Author, Julia Takaya, Author, June Otani, Illustrator Clarion Books $7.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-395-72088-2
This fact-based, Japanese descendant of Robert McCloskey's classic Make Way for Ducklings ""offers a welcome glimpse of bustling contemporary Tokyo,"" said PW. Ages 5-9. (Mar.)
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Barbara Brenner, Author, Julia Takaya, Author, June Otani, Illustrator Clarion Books $14.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-395-69623-1
Brenner and Takaya make a bold move, opening this volume with a well-known scenario: a mother duck flies through the air, surveying the ground below for a spot to build a nest. Here and in several subsequent spots, including scenes in which the...
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Barbara Brenner, Author, Akemi Gutierrez, Illustrator , illus. by Akemi Gutierrez. Holt $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6442-1
"Once a young boy met a young elephant," writes Brenner (The Boy Who Loved to Draw: Benjamin West). "They told each other many things. And everything they said was true." As debut illustrator Gutierrez envisions it, this meeting of...
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Barbara Brenner, Author, May Garelick, Editor, Erika Kors, Illustrator Walker & Company $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-6868-1
A straightforward narrative tells how a mother black bear raises her two cubs in the depths of a den one winter: ``With soft, huffing noises the mother called the cubs to her. She licked them. Then she woofed as if to say, Stay. '' But while...
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