Barbara Juster Esbensen, Author, Helen K. Davie, Author, Of Barbara Juster Esbensen Estate, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-24955-3
According to PW , this poetic adaptation of an Ojibway story features ``finely detailed panel drawings bordered with Native American designs and wildlife imagery that enrich this haunting tale.'' Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Barbara Juster Esbensen, Author, Eric Beddows, Illustrator, Eric Beddows, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $15 (47p) ISBN 978-0-06-021827-0
Esbensen ( Words With Wrinkled Knees ) intends her ``Poems of Discovery'' to help children understand that ``the most ordinary things can suddenly seem new and unexpected.'' Topics include the rainbows to be found in prisms, the ``long story living /
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Barbara Juster Esbensen, Author, Cheng-Khee Chee, Illustrator, Stephen Gammell, Illustrator , illus. by Cheng-Khee Chee, Stephen Gammell, Mary GrandPré and Janice Lee Lerner/Carolrhoda $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-87614-143-4
This collection of Esbensen's poems, organized by season, is as linguistically exquisite and fresh as it was when it first appeared in 1965, but the artistic pairings are unfortunately not of the same consistently high quality. Each artist takes
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Barbara Juster Esbensen, Author, John Stadler, Illustrator Crowell $14 (47p) ISBN 978-0-690-04504-8
Word-lovers will applaud Esbensen's unique poems, not only because they deftly describe various animals, but also because they make us notice the names by which we call them. ELEPHANT is ""a word with/ wrinkled knees and toes/ like boxing gloves,''...
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Barbara Juster Esbensen, Author, Helen Davie, Illustrator, Helen Davie, Joint Author Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30244-6
Despite its shimmering paintings and elegant metaphors about the northern lights, this unusual book from the team behind The Star Maiden proves confusing. The late Esbensen's long poem combines exquisite descriptions of the aurora borealis with...
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Barbara Juster Esbensen, Author, Helen K. Davie, Illustrator, Helen Davie, Photographer Little Brown and Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-24951-5
The author has adapted an old Ojibway tale about a time when fish swam in clear streams, and wigwams and birchbark canoes lined lake shores and ``the earth was rich with everything the people needed.'' One night, a bright star falls from the sky and
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Barbara Juster Esbensen, Author, Helen K. Davie, Illustrator, George Copway, Photographer Little Brown and Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-24952-2
Unlike the biblical version of man's fall from grace, this legend of the Ojibway tribe's downfall ends on a more positive note. Long ago their land was connected to heaven by a magical vine, from which spirits would visit them in human form. ``Nobody
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