Bob Graham, Author . Candlewick $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1551-2
As soon as baby William takes his first step his family can't keep up with him. "Lavish watercolors reveal William in various situations. The places where he turns up will be as surprising to the readers as they are for his family,"...
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Bob Graham. Perseus/Vanguard, $25.99 (314p) ISBN 978-1-59315-660-2
Senator Graham's distinguished record of public service and unquestioned expertise on national security matters may not be tarnished by this subpar suspense novel, but it certainly won't be enhanced. In a fictional 2008, retired U.S. senator John...
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Bob Graham, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1857-5
""What's a family of superheroes to do when their progeny is slow to develop his flying skills? Graham answers this question handily with scenarios that will have readers laughing out loud, as Max discovers his own special qualities,"" wrote...
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Bob Graham, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-050826-0
``Graham's new slant on sibling rivalry is droll and replete with funny moments,'' said PW , as tough football hero Crusher is beguiled by his friend's baby sister. Ages 3-8. (Apr.)
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Bob Graham, Author Viking Children's Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-82081-8
Pete warns his mother not to kiss him after school, because he is bringing home a football hero named Crusher for a visit. And he doesn't want baby sister Claire to intrude, either. But Crusher is a sweet-natured lug, and Claire beguiles him. Pete...
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Bob Graham, Author Bedrick $0 (30p) ISBN 978-0-87226-139-6
Australian author-illustrator Graham (Libby, Oscar and Me, Pearl's Place commands the attention of readers with his slightly offbeat sensibility. Russell lives with his parents, his sister, two dogs, a duck, a frog, a rabbit and a turtle in a house...
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Bob Graham, Author Little Brown and Company $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-32310-9
Even before she was born, Julia was given a lovely red woolen blanket that she used ""right from the start.'' Indoors and outside, baby Julia found warmth and comfort in her lovely blanket. The red corners were sucked and chewed; the treasured...
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Bob Graham, Author Little Brown and Company $0 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-32313-0
Nobody saw William's first step. He took it right off the front stoop and tumbled into the grass. As William learns to walk, he causes the members of his family to ask one another, perhaps once a day, ``Where is William?'' Luckily, this highly...
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Bob Graham, Author Bradbury Press $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-737030-0
First came Frances, who lives alone near the city until Graham moves in. Over the course of the book their family grows and grows with children and Grandma and animals of every type: Teak, the dog; Katy, the goat; Errol and Berryl, the guinea pigs;...
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Bob Graham, Author Kane/Miller Book Publishers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-916291-40-2
A seemingly doomed camping trip at the seashore turns into a sunny vacation in this wacky picture book by the creator of Crusher Is Coming! and The Red Woolen Blanket . When a family reaches its campsite only to find a gang of motorbikers called the
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Bob Graham, Author . Candlewick $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3078-2
Young readers may think
they know all there is to know about Mother Goose's clumsy egg character, but Graham (Oscar's Half Birthday
) sets them straight in his hilarious picture-book profile of the whole Dumpty family. As members of a...
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Bob Graham, Author . Candlewick $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2324-1
Graham (Max
) paints an African waterhole as a hive of activity, especially during a hot summer, and especially for the quirkily charming cast of animal pals in this illustrated collection of five related tales. Morris the crocodile finds no...
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Bob Graham, Author . Candlewick $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1703-5
"Bravo for Benny," wrote PW
in a starred review. "As he did in Queenie, Graham once again delivers a dog's-eye-view tale that pulls the heartstrings and elicits giggles." Ages 4-7. (Mar.)
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Bob Graham, Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4683-7
Graham (How to Heal a Broken Wing) serves up a sweetly comic adventure starring a family of tooth fairies. Seven-year-old April Underhill has been summoned by cellphone to perform her very first nighttime tooth collection. She and her six-year-old...
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0359-5
Graham's (Crusher Is Coming!) quirky tale of a chicken and her adoptive family will have animal lovers cheering. Caitlin's father rescues a bantam from drowning in the lake and, as they nurse Queenie back to health, she becomes one of the family....
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Bob Graham. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7377-2
Letting his airy, bird's-eye view watercolor images do most of the telling, Graham (The Silver Button) melds the globe-spanning journey of a scavenging sparrow and a toddler's outing with her grandparents in a tale that subtly celebrates the world's
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Bob Graham. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6437-4
In this quiet, thought-provoking picture book, Graham (A Bus Called Heaven) marvels at the myriad things that transpire in a moment’s time. At 9:59 one Thursday morning, Jodie is about to put the finishing touch on her drawing of a duck when her...
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Bob Graham. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5893-9
An abandoned, broken-down bus—destination “Heaven”—unites a community and inspires Stella, the heroine of Graham’s (April and Esme: Tooth Fairies) uplifting story. “It could be... ours,” whispers Stella, a quiet girl “the color of moonlight” who...
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator . Candlewick $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1452-2
Dog lover Graham (Max) adds another tail-wagging treat of a picture book to an oeuvre that includes the canine-inspired titles Benny
and Queenie, One of the Family. Following the death of her cat, young Kate has grown lonesome for a new pet. Mom...
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator . Candlewick $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-848-8
Even before Julia was born she was given a red woolen blanket that she used "right from the start." PW
said, "Graham's colorful paintings show a humorous, tender regard for a preschooler's inexplicable attachment to a...
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1400-3
""This quirky tale of a chicken and her adoptive family will have animal lovers cheering,"" said PW. ""Children will giggle, and Queenie and Caitlin enthusiasts will hope there's another story about the endearing pair in the works."" Ages 5-up. (Mar.
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1138-5
What's a family of superheroes to do when their progeny is slow to develop his flying skills? Graham (Benny; Queenie) introduces just this dilemma in his sweetly silly picture book about discovering one's specialness. Caped crime fighters Captain...
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0813-2
Bravo for Benny, the multitalented pooch who gives new meaning to the term ""show dog."" As assistant to Brillo the Magician, Benny gets his chance to shine on stage, tap-dancing and performing cowboy rope tricks and other feats. But before long the
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-039-0
Although the welcome wagon is nowhere in sight when the Summers family moves into their new house, the chipper clan quickly plants a garden and soon feels right at home. But oldest daughter Rose is curious about the spooky house next door where ``mea
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator . Candlewick $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1772-1
Combining the humorous, the magical and the mundane, Graham (Max; Benny) creates another warm, sweet-natured picture book. As Annabelle plays alongside the fence near her family's apartment building, she hears something bounce down from the sky.
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator . Candlewick $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2193-3
Following the death of her cat, Kate grows lonesome for a new pet, and her family heads to the animal Rescue Center in what PW
called a "tail-wagging treat of a picture book." Ages 3-up. (Aug.)
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator . Candlewick $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2699-0
Graham (Max
) serves up a slice of urban family life—and of birthday cake—in this picture book celebration of Oscar's first half-year. Mom, Dad and almost-four-year-old Millie think that a whole year is too long to wait to mark baby...
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Bob Graham, Author, Bob Graham, Illustrator . Candlewick $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3903-7
“High above the city, no one heard the soft thud of feathers against glass,” begins Graham (“Let's Get a Pup!” Said Kate
). And no one notices the wounded pigeon that falls to the sidewalk—until Will comes along....
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Bob Graham. Candlewick, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8109-8
Conveying a tone of quiet wonder, Graham’s travelogue imagines the daily journey of the sun as it makes its way to one girl’s home. As Coco is tucked into bed, the sun rises above a polar bear and two cubs on the other side of the world. The glowing
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Bob Graham. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9884-3
Graham (Home in the Rain) takes as his subject a gold poesy ring, “given for friendship and love,” with the words “Love never dies” inscribed on its inner face. The opening endpaper bears an image of a woman on a rearing horse and the tantalizing...
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Bob Graham. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1113-9
In Graham’s (The Underhills: A Tooth Fairy Story) tender portrait of childhood, when young Ellie finds a rainbow-colored dragon hatchling in the supermarket’s egg case, she names the tiny critter Scratch and sets him up cozily in her dollhouse at...
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Bob Graham. Candlewick, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2499-3
When the Kelly family receives a jigsaw puzzle in the mail, the package has no return address—just an unsigned card that reads “Good luck to you all.” What follows—for jigsaw puzzle fans, anyway—is almost too painful to relate. In softly tinted...
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Bob Graham. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3380-3
After a “cold, hard winter” in a building whose watercolor-and-ink facade nearly fills the page, a few adults wearing surgical face masks and a group of maskless children “spilled out like candies from a box” onto a concrete plaza. The last of the...
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