Books by Bill Grossman and Complete Book Reviews
Bill Grossman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.89 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-022409-7
Grossman's rhythmic poem recounts, with silly word play and wacky humor, the wry tale of a piglet named Tommy, whose mother inadvertently leaves him at the grocery store. The grocer decides that Tommy must be salami and sets him on the deli shelf,...
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Bill Grossman, Author, Florence Wint, Illustrator, Florence Wint, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-021570-5
Once again Grossman ( Tommy at the Grocery Store ; Donna O'Neeshuck Was Chased by Some Cows ) serves up a rip-roaring escapade told in rollicking verse. Young Cowboy Ed takes a midnight journey to a fantasy frontier where ``the horses / Rode the...
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Bill Grossman, Author, Robert Zimmerman, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-024497-2
In this wacky (and whack-ey) rhyming tale of destruction and reconstruction, Grossman (Tommy at the Grocery Store) seems initially to adopt an if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em attitude. With cacophonous glee, two boys and two girls-mallets, bats and...
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Bill Grossman, Author, Susan G. Truesdell, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (38p) ISBN 978-0-06-022158-4
Donna O'Neeshuck likes to pet animals and people on the head. One morning she pets a cow, and sets off a chain reaction that seems never-ending. The cow gets her friendschickens, pigs, dogs and peopleto chase Donna, who manages to stay just a few...
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Bill Grossman, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator Bill Grossman , illus. by Kevin Hawkes. HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-051604-8
In this collection of short verses about characters with silly names who meet equally silly fates, "the happy combination of wildly exaggerated illustrations and cracked humor make this a promising read-aloud choice," said PW. Ages 3-7. (Feb
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Bill Grossman, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator , illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Knopf $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-517-80017-1
The creators of My Little Sister Ate One Hare
here turn their attention from counting to the alphabet, echoing the playfully off-color humor of that earlier collaboration. In rollicking rhymed couplets, the camera-toting young narrator chronicles...
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Bill Grossman, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-88576-5
A girl eats snakes, ants and other creatures but peas make her nauseous. PW said, ""For those who are not quick to get queasy, enjoying this feast will surely be easy."" Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Bill Grossman, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator Crown Books for Young Readers $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-59600-5
In this zany, cumulative counting book, the narrator's ravenous sister devours--and manages to keep down--some decidedly unorthodox delicacies: ""My little sister ate 3 ants./ She even ate their underpants./ She ate 2 snakes. She ate 1 hare./ We...
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Bill Grossman, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator Laura Geringer Book $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028010-9
Grossman and Hawkes, the team behind My Little Sister Ate One Hare, serve up a collection of short verses about characters with silly names who meet equally silly fates, including the titular Timothy; Hannibal, who encounters a cannibal; and Harold...
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Bill Grossman, Author, Jonathan Allen, Illustrator Dial Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1742-8
Although amiably illustrated and bouncily rhymed, this tall tale ends on a disturbing note when, after a brief separation, a bear skin and its bones are rejoined. At a wooded lake, a bear takes off his skin ""To rinse off his bones./ Skipping along...
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Bill Grossman, Author, Judith Glasser, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-022268-0
Born five minutes late, eponymous ``Guy'' remains consistent as he grows up--he is always five minutes late. Throughout his life he is late for church, late for school, for work, play and supper. And this causes some romantic woes: ``At twenty he...
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