Brock Cole, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-32559-6
Cole has created an unlikely duo in his latest booka clumsy giant and his troublesome toe. Dressed in baggy pants with suspenders, a floral print shirt and straw hat, Cole's giant resembles a retired W. C. Fields, with bushy eyebrows protruding over
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Brock Cole, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-14-130696-4
PW's Best Books citation called this story of a sexually abused 13-year-old who witnesses the murder of the man with whom she's been having an affair a ""brilliant psychological study. The author's stringent refusal to resolve disturbing questions...
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Brock Cole, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $4.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-44041-1
This simple story of virtue rewarded brims with droll details; PW said, Cole proves that familiar plots can be fashioned into new, refreshing and mighty diverting tales. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Brock Cole, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-42576-0
One of the publisher's first titles in its new line of teen fiction is this widely praised, thought-provoking novel about two children who find inner strength under stressful circumstances. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Brock Cole, Author First Glance Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-30241-2
Cole ( The Goats ; The Giant's Toe ) further enhances his standing as a gifted author and illustrator with this boisterous, highly original tale. Sensing an opportunity in a parental spat, two devil's imps turn Alpha's Papa and Mama into a lump of...
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Brock Cole, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-45541-5
Friendship triumphs in the nick of time, in this cautionary tale of Preston, a pig with lordly aspirations who is sold to a city squire with ham and bacon on his mind. Ages 3-up. (Apr.)
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Brock Cole, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (216p) ISBN 978-0-374-31234-3
The typical girl-meets-boy story gets turned inside out in this witty, offbeat novel. Yes, the title character ends up with Jake, the boy next door, only he's still in grade school and wears Superman underwear. Celine, a budding artist, wants to...
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Brock Cole, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (184p) ISBN 978-0-374-32678-4
A boy and the girl have been chosen as ""the goats'' at summer camp. Stripped naked, they are marooned on Goat Island, as part of an annual prank played on campers who don't fit in. But the goats have much more spirit than their fellow campers...
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Brock Cole, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $8.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-41082-7
In PW 's words, ``The typical girl-meets-boy story gets turned inside out in this witty, offbeat novel. Cole's irrepressible heroine somehow manages to get the best of almost every situation. Her wry comments on everything from modern art to divorce
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Brock Cole, Author . FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-32737-8
As in Larky Mavis
, Cole introduces an eccentric village misfit who emerges a heroine. The bedraggled lass lives on the streets, selling “stale buns and paper birds,” begging for food (“Sometimes she would starve”) and...
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Brock Cole, Author . FSG/Sunburst $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-41013-1
After their portly father eats so much that his britches burst and his buttons fly into the fire, three daughters concoct plans to find replacements. "A series of farcical mishaps steadily ups the comedy in this brightly polished romp,"...
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Brock Cole, Author, Brock Cole, Illustrator . FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-34365-1
Brock (Buttons) delivers a lyrical and ever-relevant picture book. Larky Mavis, depicted in loose-flowing but highly expressive watercolors as a simpleton in rags, "moons about" the byways and squares of a village where time has stopped....
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Brock Cole, Author, Brock Cole, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31001-1
A series of farcical mishaps steadily ups the comedy in Cole's (Alpha and the Dirty Baby) brightly polished romp. After their portly father eats so much that his britches burst and his buttons fly into the fire, three daughters concoct plans to find
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Brock Cole, Author, Brock Cole, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-40357-7
PW lauded this ``boisterous, highly original tale'' about two imps who wreak havoc in a family, and added, ``Cole's text is understated and poetic, and his line and wash illustration... are supremely stimulating.'' Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Brock Cole, Author, Brock Cole, Illustrator . FSG/Sunburst $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-42557-9
Cole creates an unlikely duo: a giant and his troublesome toe. "His giant resembles a retired W.C. Fields," said PW. "Whimsical illustrations animate the story, which will leave readers hoping for further episodes." Ages 4-8. (Sept.
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Brock Cole, Author, Handprint, Author . Front Street $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-932425-07-9
Brock (Buttons
) creatively fuses the real and the fanciful, past and present in this affecting story that opens as three sisters arrive at their grandmother's apartment in a rundown city neighborhood. " 'Can we take a walk?' asked...
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Brock Cole, Author, Handprint, Author Boyds Mills Press $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-886910-14-0
Readers are given a lot to digest in the first chapter of this stream-of-consciousness narrative told from the point of view of 13-year-old Linda. The novel opens when Linda, who has just witnessed the murder of her middle-aged lover, enters a...
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