Betsy Bowen, Author Joy Street Books $15.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-316-10376-3
From its memorable, unusually fine woodcuts, to the telling glimpse it offers of a life that is close to the rhythms of nature, this debut is no garden variety ABC book. Bowen, a Minnesota native whose artwork is both vigorous and fresh, combines...
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Betsy Bowen, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-10377-0
Bowen's follow-up to her environmentally inspired Antler, Bear, Canoe again focuses on the author's beloved home in the Minnesota northwoods. This time out she provides facts, observations and insights about the creatures that live and consequently...
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Betsy Bowen, Author Little Brown and Company $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-10315-2
PW singled out the ``memorable, unusually fine woodcuts'' in this ABC book, saying also that the author/artist affords a ``telling glimpse... of a life that is close to the rhythms of nature. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Betsy Bowen, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-10371-8
In this nature-themed counting book, Bowen (Tracks in the Wild) shows how inhabitants of the Minnesota northwoods work through the spring, summer and fall to prepare for the typically harsh winter. Thoughts of freezing temperatures and snow begin as
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Betsy Bowen, Author, Betsy Bowen, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-618-20864-7
From Antler to Zero (degrees, that is), the seasons of the Minnesota woods come to life in Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year by Betsy Bowen. When it was first published in 1991, PW praised the memorable, unusually fine woodcuts and
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