Barbara Helen Berger, Author Philomel Books $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22175-0
A girl is visited by a special friend in a carriage drawn by a golden lion; PW called this fantasy ``a picture book dreamscape'' and ``an inspired work of art.'' Ages 4-8. (July)
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Barbara Helen Berger, Author Philomel Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22910-7
In rhythmic text paired with translucent art, the story of a pajama-clad boy unfolds, as he pushes off to sea in a cardboard boat and reads a book about Mother Moon, who is looking for her lost ""moonlet."" But his book falls into the grasp of...
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Barbara Helen Berger, Author Philomel Books $24.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-399-21738-8
In Gwinna, Berger (Grandfather Twilight; The Donkey's Dream; When the Sun Rose) has written and illustrated a magnificent fairy tale of wonder, beauty and power. Gwinna, an en chanted child with wings growing from her back, is given as a fosterling...
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Barbara Helen Berger, Author Philomel Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21360-1
As in her earlier Grandfather Twilight, Berger has created a picture book dreamscape, full of radiant colors and intriguing possibilities. Alone with her doll in a playhouse, the young narrator receives an unusual visitor who comes calling ""in a...
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Barbara Helen Berger, Author Philomel Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-22014-2
A donkey wakes from a dream of unusual burdens to find that he has carried Mary to the stable where Jesus was born. PW praised the ``glorious, reverent'' paintings, ``in which colors intensify the impact of visions and reality.'' Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
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Barbara Helen Berger, Author, Barbara Helen Berger, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22035-7
Berger's (All the Way to Lhasa: A Tale from Tibet
) winsome tale introduces a bunny born blue, who's part archetype, part preschooler. Thunder Bunny is different, all right. Old Granny says that Thunder Bunny "came out of the blue,"...
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Barbara Helen Berger, Author, Patricia Lee Gauch, Editor, Barbara Helen Berger, Illustrator Philomel Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23247-3
Berger (Grandfather Twilight) offers a pretty but vacuous riff on the originally satirical question ""How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"" by positing dreamy worlds within worlds of tiny, pin-dwelling angels. Her story opens with the...
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Barbara Helen Berger, Author, Joy Peskin, Editor, Barbara Helen Berger, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-698-11605-4
A donkey wakes from a dream of unusual burdens to find that he has carried Mary to the stable where Jesus was born. ""The paintings are glorious, reverent versions of the Nativity in which colors intensify the impact of visions and reality,"" said...
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Barbara Helen Berger, Author, Barbara Helen Berger, Retold by, Barbara Helen Berger, Illustrator . Philomel $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23387-6
In this retelling of a Tibetan parable, Berger (Grandfather Twilight) features two people on their way to the holy city of Lhasa. An old woman sitting alongside the road to Lhasa (dressed in burgundy and yellow, the holy colors) tells an impatient...
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Barbara Helen Berger, Author, Berger, Author Philomel Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22681-6
Borrowing classical stage traditions for its themes and characterizations, this original tale speaks of unrequited love and romantic transformations. The voiceless Gemino, a Pagliacci-style clown, has only a jewel for a heart. He plays his violin...
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Barbara Helen Berger, Author, Helen Barbara Berger, Author Tricycle Press $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58246-012-3
PW called this collection of 13 short tales drawn from folklore and religion ""an inducement to contemplate the wonders of nature."" Ages 6-up. (Oct.)
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