Barbara M. Joosse, Author HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-06-022486-8
Reminiscent of a character Woody Allen might play, Simon Schultz is a scrawny, bespectacled teenager who repeatedly slips into reveries about rescuing the girl he has a wild crush on. Chronicling his woes in a journal hidden in his box spring, Simon'
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author Lippincott Williams & Wilkins $12.95 (135p) ISBN 978-0-397-32342-5
Emily is a girl, isolated from everyone, whose father has recently died. The family has been forced to move from Chicago to a country town ``at the end of nowhere,'' and Emily's mother is totally involved with her new responsibilities running an inn.
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author Lippincott Williams & Wilkins $12 (131p) ISBN 978-0-397-32322-7
Anna, who was born on a Wednesday, is convinced she is a (according to the old saying) child of woe. So when she starts third grade in a new town, she decides to be a Sunday child``bonnie and blithe and good and gay''like her sister Kimberly. She...
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Barbara M. Joosse, illus. by Tomaso Milian, Greenwillow, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-088221-1
Friendship does not have to be a 24/7 lovefest: that's the important lesson behind this sometimes preachy and visually unremarkable book. With the exception of some singsong odes to each other, most of the text takes the form of alternating...
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Barbara Joosse, illus. by Hyewon Yum. Viking, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-01334-0
Joosse (Lovabye Dragon) celebrates imagination and a grandmother’s creativity in this carefree story loosely based on her children’s song, “Hip Hooray Parade.” Framed as a guessing game, the book has a sense of playfulness that derives from...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, R. Gregory Christie, Illustrator , illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Chronicle $14.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2168-1
"Sometimes, Mama and me look down at the street and pretend it's not the city," explains the wistful young African-American narrator of this affecting story
by the author of Mama, Do You Love Me?
But imagining that the sirens are "wi
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, R. Gregory Christie, Illustrator, Gregory Christie, Illustrator , illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Philomel $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23640-2
Summer heat radiates from this evocative work by the creators of Stars in the Darkness
. Against a cityscape backdrop of blazing pink, orange and yellow hues, the young narrator sets the scene: "Me and Joe on the front porch steps,/ cement steps,
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Barbara Lavallee, Illustrator Chronicle Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3259-5
Joosse's book joins another bestselling title, the text and illustrations of which inspire hours of fun as books-cum-nesting blocks. Mama, Do You Love Me? Nesting Blocks based on the book by Barbara M. Joosse, illus. by Barbara Lavallee, and...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Barbara Lavallee, Illustrator Chronicle Books $17.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3212-0
A decade ago, PW called Barbara Joosse's Mama, Do You Love Me?, illus. by Barbara Lavallee, ""a striking volume which uses a timeless culture to convey a timeless message."" Chronicle celebrates the book's success with a 10th anniversary ...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Jon Van Zyle, Illustrator Chronicle Books $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8118-1959-6
Joosse (Mama, Do You Love Me?) embarks on a rambling road as she follows a 19th-century father and son traveling from their home by the Wisconsin River to Santa Fe, where they plan to sell their wagonful of goods from the East. Despite the obvious...
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Potter's sublimely quirky illustrations adorn this moving tale of death and remembrance set in Mexico and linked to the rhythms of the monarch butterfly. "Grandmother was my best friend," confides the narrator, who treasures their visits
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Susan G. Truesdell, Illustrator, Sue Truesdell, Illustrator Clarion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-64571-0
Nugget, a yellow mutt with expressive eyes, enjoys the companionship of a girl named Nell. But after Nugget finds a homeless kitten and Nell adopts it, their exclusive friendship changes forever. Nell lets the kitten, Darling, sleep on Nugget's...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Sue Truesdell, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-11141-1
PW said that ""the execution is uncommonly endearing"" in this story about what happens when a girl and her dog adopt a kitten into their home. Ages 5-8. (Mar.)
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Elizabeth Sayles, Illustrator , illus. by Elizabeth Sayles. Holt $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6671-5
Three girls perform their best animal imitations by the light of the moon in this fittingly dreamlike bedtime book. Trees, plants and picket fence in the yard provide the shadowy, silver-lit backdrop for one girl, who forages and roars like a bear;...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Mary Whyte, Illustrator, Barbara Lavallee, Illustrator Chronicle Books $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0718-0
Further probing the theme of her Mama, Do You Love Me?, Joosse's resonant tale spotlights two young sons on a fishing expedition with their mother; each boy is angling to be tops with Mom. Clearly an experienced peacemaker, Mama offers just the...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator, Emily Arnold McCully, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $12.89 (28p) ISBN 978-0-06-023097-5
As Ben and Mama travel to his grandparents' house, he is acutely aware that they are ""just two''an island of quiet surrounded by the bustling, happy noise of other families. All that changes as soon as he steps off the train and gets a reassuring...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Betsy Lewin, Author, S. D. Schindler, Author , illus. by Betsy Lewin. Holt $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6391-2
It's the more the merrier when a boisterous clan makes its annual descent on Granny's house in Joosse's (Mama, Do You Love Me?) animated and knowing story. Decorations, gifts, carols and, of course, dinner with candied-yam casserole are...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Marcia Sewall, Illustrator, Marcia Sewall, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-020834-9
A feral cat with kittens to see through the coming winter brings them, one by one, to a family who puts out cream for her and finds them homes. Finally she presents herself to the seemingly learning-disabled boy of the house, sensing him to be...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Lavallee Joosse, Author, Barbara Lavallee, Illustrator , illus. by Barbara Lavallee. Chronicle $15.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4265-5
Featuring a dramatically different setting from the collaborators'Mama, Do You Love Me?
, which centers on an Alaskan Inuit mother and daughter, this warmhearted companion introduces a Maasai boy and his father on the Serengeti. Like the young...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Renata Liwska, Illustrator , illus. by Renata Liwska. Philomel $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23884-0
Life is lonely for Nikolai, the only bear in a Russian orphanage. No one can understand him ("His first word was 'Hello.'/ He said it like this: 'Rrroaar
' "), and his natural cub rambunctiousness is frowned upon (albeit...
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Barbara Joosse, illus. by Jan Jutte. Philomel, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-25430-7
Old Robert, the wool-capped captain of a diminutive sloop, lives a quiet, predictable life—“Clean socks/ a clock/ my ship in the slip at the dock./ One dish/ one spoon/ a slice of the silver moon”—until cats show up and ask to stay. First to arrive...
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Gretchen Will Mayo, Illustrator, Gretchen Will Mayo, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-440345-0
Joosse ``has taken the theme of sibling rivalry and added heartwarming touches that will cheer readers,'' said PW of this tale of Anna, who may finally get to outshine her older sister when she gets a part in the school play. Ages 7-11. (Apr.)
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Barbara M. Joosse, Author, Gretchen Will Mayo, Illustrator, Gretchen Will Mayo, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $14 (170p) ISBN 978-0-06-020242-2
Believable dialogue and thoroughly engaging characters distinguish this second book to star Joosse's outspoken nine-year-old. Here, the heroine of Anna, the One and Only strikes up a friendship with Mrs. Sarafiny, a neighbor who walks her six cats...
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