Bijou Le Tord, Author Eerdmans Books for Young Readers $18 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5184-0
Le Tord here does for Matisse what she did for Claude Monet in A Blue Butterfly: she bends her watercolor style to incorporate suggestions of Matisse's famous works, and her scant, poetic text tells readers just enough to kindle an appreciation for...
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Bijou Le Tord, Author Marcel Dekker $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-756490-7
Delicate pastel watercolors illustrate the quiet, affirming story of a child's relationship with her grandmother. With understated eloquence, Le Tord celebrates the special bond that both springs from and is expressed in the sharing of simple,...
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Bijou Le Tord, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $18 (79p) ISBN 978-0-385-30692-8
Simplicity and dignity characterize this perceptively edited anthology of prayers. Gathering hymns and songs of praise from the Inuit, the Baha'i, Breton fishermen, Pakistani children and diverse other groups, Le Tord gracefully suggests the...
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Bijou Le Tord, Author Yearling Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40974-8
Eloquent line drawings in softly colored frames show Bear as he designs and builds a birdhouse for a nest of tiny eggs in this appealingly understated volume. Ages 5-8. (May)
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Bijou Le Tord, Author Yearling Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40767-6
``When the ice and snow are gone,'' a diligent bunny plants and tends his garden; according to PW , ``Le Tord's fine-line, tidy drawings star Rabbit, fetchingly reminiscent of James Thurber's great comic characters.'' Ages 5-8. (Mar.)
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Bijou Le Tord, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-40997-7
Le Tord delivers a simple and sincere retelling of the Nativity story, soothingly illustrated with pastel watercolors. Ages 5-8. (Oct.)
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Bijou Le Tord, Author Yearling Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-41063-8
This ""deceptively simple"" version of the Biblical creation story ""portrays a world of harmony and peace,"" said PW. Ages 5-8. (Mar.)
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Bijou Le Tord, Author HarperCollins Children's Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-028235-6
Picture books about Noah's Ark abound, but few have the quiet beauty of Le Tord's (God's Little Seeds) portrait of a gentle, caring man who obeys God's commands without question or doubt. And few books convey so much with such simplicity: ""Noah...
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Bijou Le Tord, Author Bradbury Press $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-756450-1
Joseph and Nellie, with their baby, get up early and go to their fishing boat. They chug out to sea and fish. When they return, the nets are hung up to dry, and they sell the catch of the day dockside. Then they all go home. The couple cooperates in
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Bijou Le Tord, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-385-30623-2
``There are elephants in Africa,'' writes the author of this sweetly told and delicately painted picture book. Le Tord ( Peace on Earth: A Book of Prayers from Around the World ) shows adult elephants tenderly caring for their young; coexisting with
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Bijou Le Tord, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-32034-4
In her jubilant reworking of the Lord's Prayer, Le Tord celebrates creatures great and small, emphasizing the potential for harmony and underlining the human need to fully appreciate the miracle of God's creation. Her language is clear, precise and...
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Bijou Le Tord, Author, Bijou Le Tord, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-31102-1
Creating a picture book about an extraordinary painter and his work without using that artist's paintings is a very large gamble, but Le Tord wins big in this visual poem about the French Impressionist master. Incorporating the familiar imagery of...
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Bijou Le Tord, Author, Bijou Le Tord, Illustrator Yearling Books $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-40961-8
``The Lord is my Shepherd. I will not need much to make me happy each day.'' And so begins this gentle adaptation of a well-known biblical passage. All ages. (Oct.)
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Bijou Le Tord, Author, Bijou Le Tord, Illustrator Eerdmans Books for Young Readers $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5169-7
In this gentle gem of a book, Le Tord (The River and the Rain: The Lords Prayer) introduces children to two favorite parables of Jesus, ""The Parable of the Sower"" and ""The Parable of the Mustard Seed."" Following a brief description of the word ""
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Bijou Le Tord, Author, Bijou Letord, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-756480-8
LeTord's latest work (following My Grandma Leonie ) relates in spare language the story of Joseph and Mary and their donkey Naboth, happy and at home among the hills of Nazareth. ``Joseph picked apricots / for their supper . . . When it came time /...
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