Candace Groth-Fleming, Author, Candace Fleming, Author, Don Weller, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-87047-8
Semi-psychedelic art stamps this effort with a dated look. Although the subject of Groth-Fleming's debut-an Old West rainmaker-might entrance audiences, her tale is overlong for the picture book set; and, while Weller's (Cowboys Night Before...
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M.T. Anderson et al. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $18.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5247-1620-2
Seven young adult authors provide consistent, captivating accounts of the six marriages of Henry VIII of England, told from the perspectives of his wives and the king himself. Henry’s entries (written by Anderson) reflect a lust for life and power,...
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Candace Fleming, Random/Schwartz & Wade, $18.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-375-84198-9
In a stirring account of an American icon, Fleming (The Great and Only Barnum) seeks to portray the Amelia behind the mythology—some of which, she explains, was perpetuated by Earhart herself. Chapters alternate between the tense search for the...
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Candace Fleming. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-86781-1
Dead men may tell no tales, but dead teenagers do. In this clever collection of ghost stories, 16-year-old Mike Kowalski discovers an abandoned cemetery for teenagers where nine 15- to 17-year-old ghosts tell him how they died. The stories span 100-o
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Candace Fleming, Author . Random/Schwartz & Wade $15.99 (186p) ISBN 978-0-375-83672-5
A rowdy group of students and their eccentric teacher star in Fleming's (Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
) collection of determinedly loopy vignettes, each of which ends with an Aesop-like moral. On the day before school opens, the frantic principal...
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Candace Fleming, Author . Atheneum/ Schwartz $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-86544-2
In this standout biography, Fleming employs the scrapbook style she debuted in Benjamin Franklin's Almanac
for another American icon, Eleanor Roosevelt, the "first lady of the world," in the words of former president Truman. Short...
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Candace Fleming, Author . Atheneum/Schwartz $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-689-86299-1
Fleming's (Ben Franklin's Almanac
) warm if somewhat slow-paced novel introduces an affable nine-year-old narrator who moves with his parents from Bombay to Hamlet, Ill. Lowji immediately notes the differences between his old and new life: &#
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Candace Fleming. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $18.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-86782-8
Making vibrant use of primary sources that emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Fleming (Amelia Lost) brings to life the last imperial family of Russia. Writing with a strong point of view based on diary entries, personal letters,
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Candace Fleming. Roaring Brook/Porter, $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-159643-763-0
Fleming's even-handed biography of William Cody, the "hardscrabble frontiersman who became America's legendary showman," is more than just the story of a larger-than-life figure. Fleming (The Family Romanov) weaves Cody's life into a history of the...
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Candace Fleming, Author . Atheneum/Schwartz $19.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-689-83549-0
Fleming (The Hatmaker's Sign: A Story by Benjamin Franklin) apes the design of Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack
with her clever format here, to "illuminate each of the many facets" of her subject (as the author states in a...
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Candace Fleming, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30075-6
Fleming (Gabriella's Song) offers a piquant retelling of a story that master raconteur Benjamin Franklin relayed ""to heal the hurt pride"" of Thomas Jefferson, whose draft of the Declaration of Independence was being picked apart by the quibbling...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Lori Nichols. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-86648-7
Night has fallen on the farm and, as in many human households, none of the animals wants to sleep in its own bed. Pig’s plan to get shut-eye in his sty is thwarted when he discovers Cow sleeping there. Cow is admonished, but after she trudges to her
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Candace Fleming, Author, Yumi Heo, Illustrator , illus. by Yumi Heo. Atheneum/Schwartz $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83548-3
"Waa! Waa! Waa! Lily keeps on crying. Oh, who knows what to do?" The strategies of Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle each prove ineffective (Grandma changes Lily's diaper, then nibbles her granddaughter's feet and declares she
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5894-8
Fleming and Rohmann subvert expectations several times in this handsomely illustrated follow-up to Bulldozer’s Big Day. Initially, it looks like a familiar too-small-to-help construction story. Then, after Bulldozer is asked to flatten out a section
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Gérard DuBois. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-399-55238-0
In this fictionalized account, Fleming focuses on the childhood of outsider artist Joseph Cornell, when he began collecting the found objects that would later comprise his assemblage pieces. She explains that Cornell initially kept his collections...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by G. Brian Karas. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5403-3
In this follow-up to Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! and Tippy-Tippy-Tippy, Hide!, Mr. McGreely has had it with his “bunny problems,” so he packs up and heads to the beach. Naturally, the bunnies come along (“Tippy-tippy-tippy, pat! Click-click-snap!” goes...
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Candace Fleming, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator , illus. by G. Brian Karas. Atheneum/Seo $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-87479-6
Fleming and Karas bring back the three bunnies that made Mr. McGreely's life so difficult in Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
This time it's winter, and "those wily twitchwhiskers" are seeking warm shelter. "Oh, no," says Mr....
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Candace Fleming, illus. by G. Brian Karas, Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-84979-4
The creators of Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! celebrate storytelling with a sparkling specimen of that very thing. Too poor to buy a birthday gift for the princess, Jack decides to make her a cake. He trades for ingredients, giving a hen seed for two eggs
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Candace Fleming, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator , illus. by G. Brian Karas. Atheneum/Schwartz $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83152-2
This onomatopoeic romp opens calmly, with a hopeful gardener planting a vegetable patch behind his brownstone house. Bright green leaves sprout from the rich soil. " 'Yum! Yum! Yummy!' said Mr. McGreeley. 'I'll soon fill my...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Eugene Yelchin, S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5402-6
Weary mothers will identify with the beleaguered heroine in this counting book far more than young readers will identify with Mama Bird's demanding children. "Feed us! Feed us!" the newly hatched babies screech, as Mama Bird showers them with...
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Candace Fleming, Author, Nancy Carpenter, Illustrator , illus. by Nancy Carpenter Random/Schwartz & Wade $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-83607-7
Young history buffs will delight as tenacious heroine Imogene Tripp fights to save her town’s ramshackle historical society building and its contents. Prone to reciting the “immortal words” of famous historical figures, Imogene...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Boris Kulikov. FSG/Ferguson, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-39908-5
This quirky tale—based on actual, less whimsical events of the 19th century—profiles a would-be inventor and his indulgent family. Out fishing one day, daughter and narrator Virena happens to ask, “Papa... have you ever wondered what it’s like to be
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Candace Fleming, Author, George Booth, Illustrator , illus. by George Booth. Atheneum/Schwartz $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-83153-9
Young 'uns will eagerly accept these collaborators' tempting invitation to hop aboard this clever cumulative counting caper, which opens as a wild-haired girl in a small boat chimes, "I was a-polin' through the swamp,/ only one,/...
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Candace Fleming, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator , illus. by S.D. Schindler. FSG/Sunburst $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-40627-1
In the late 19th century, the folks of Cheshire, Mass., a locale known for its delectable cheddar, grow disgruntled when they learn that the president is serving cheese from a Connecticut town. PW
called the story "a satisfying, well-aged slice
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Candace Fleming, Author, DK Publishing, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2573-7
As she did in The Hatmaker's Sign, Fleming once again parlays a little-known historical nugget into a diverting picture book. In the late 19th century, the folks of Cheshire, Mass., a locale known for its delectable cheddar, grow mighty disgruntled...
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Candace Fleming, Author, Maggie Smith, Illustrator , illus. by Maggie Smith. FSG/Kroupa $16.50 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-37486-0
"No! No! Nooo!" is a toddler's resounding chorus as his or her mother patiently tries to dress the child in umpteen layers of winter clothing. In this House-that-Jack-Built cumulative tale, Fleming's (Smile, Lily!
) rhymes, ideal for
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-84271-9
In this first collaboration from Fleming (Clever Jack Takes the Cake) and Rohmann (Bone Dog), jungle animals tumble one by one into a deep pit: “Frog fell into a deep, deep hole. Ribbit-oops! Ribbit-oops!” The rhythm of the lines recalls the old...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0097-8
The team behind Oh, No! (2012) imagines a construction-site birthday celebration that ends with a multi-story surprise. Wide-eyed Bulldozer bumps and bounces over the site, eager for the bigger, older machines to share in his birthday excitement. “Gu
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann. Roaring Brook/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-599-5
Fleming and Rohmann (Bulldozer’s Big Day) draw readers in to the ocean’s murky depths in search of a seldom-seen creature. Tips of arms and tentacles reach up from the bottom of the first page; more reddish-white appendages appear in subsequent...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-101-93410-4
Based on a true story, this absorbing novel from the duo behind Giant Squid and other books introduces Strongheart, a German shepherd that worked as a police dog in Germany until his discovery by Hollywood director Larry Trimble in the early 1920s....
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Candace Fleming, Author, Stacey Dressen-McQueen, Illustrator , illus. by Stacey Dressen-McQueen. FSG/Kroupa $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-30922-0
Inspired by actual events, Fleming's (Ben Franklin's Almanac, reviewed below) engaging story of post-WWII Holland serves as a potent—and merry—lesson in generosity. The residents of war-ravaged Olst "patched and repatched...
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Candace Fleming, Author, Anne Wilsdorf, Illustrator , illus. by Anne Wilsdorf. FSG/Kroupa $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-37297-2
Fleming (Gator Gumbo
) embellishes the true story of a 1930 stunt in this picaresque tale, told by a tortoise. "I have always longed for the quiet life," begins Sunny Boy, who careens from one adventure to the next. Originally slated to...
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Candace Fleming, Author, Sally Anne Lambert, Illustrator , illus. by Sally Anne Lambert. FSG/Kroupa $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-38050-2
Until its rather shocking ending, this humorous picture book with its Cajun-flavored language and sly watercolors, contains many ingredients found in traditional tales. Like Br'er Rabbit, Possum pretends to be scared of aged Monsieur Gator as he
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Candace Fleming, read by Kimberly Farr. Random House Audio, , unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-553-39528-0
This educational history geared to young adult readers explores the reversals of fortune that attended the Romanov family, from their reign as privileged rulers of 130 million Russians at the turn of the 20th century to their violent deaths at the...
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Candace Fleming, Author, Ray Fenwick, Illustrator , illus. by Ray Fenwick. Random/Schwartz & Wade $18.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-375-84197-2
The life of showman Phineas Taylor Barnum gets show-stopping treatment in Fleming's (The Lincolns
) latest biographical work. Presented as clever, resilient and ever-consumed with making a buck, the Barnum of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
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Candace Fleming, Author, David Catrow, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-81063-3
When readers of this giddy frontier spoof first meet opera singer Carlotta Carusa, she's bending over an orchestra pit awash with the bucketsful of tears shed by her audience. But the diva pines for a change of scenery from the same old opera houses,
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Candace Fleming, Author, Giselle Potter, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-80973-6
Fleming's (Madame Lagrande and Her So High to the Sky Uproarious Pompadour) tale of an Italian girl with a song in her heart, accompanied by Potter's (Mr. Semolina-Semolinas) delicate renderings of Venetian life, has a refreshing, innocent...
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Candace Fleming, Author, Giselle Potter, Illustrator , illus. by Giselle Potter. S&S/Aladdin $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-85118-6
In a starred review of a quirky tale of a Victorian heroine with a talent for bird calling, PW
said, "Young birdwatchers will cheer on this spunky heroine who outsmarts the evildoer, from the fact-filled endpapers to the feathery finale."...
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"Delicate renderings of Venetian life set the stage for this heartwarming tale of a girl with a song in her heart that kindles emotion and inspiration in everyone who hears it," said PW
in its Best Books citation. Ages 3-8. (Apr.)
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Candace Fleming. Schwartz & Wade, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-64654-9
Fleming (Strongheart) skillfully crafts a layered portrait of a controversial figure: Charles Lindbergh. Well-paced sections covering Lindbergh’s soaring popularity and plunging fall are divided into engaging segments. Passages about his early...
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Candace Fleming. Random House/Schwartz, $19.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-17742-6
In five distinct sections, this gripping, thriller-paced true crime portrait by Fleming (The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh) centers Nathan Leopold (1904–1971) and Richard Loeb (1905–1936), who in May 1924 as University of Chicago students and...
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Candace Fleming. Scholastic Focus, $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-338-82946-4
From Roswell forward, this intriguing reportorial narrative history traces the facts, fictions, and ambiguities surrounding extraterrestrials and UFOs. Fleming (Murder Among Friends) begins by documenting the infamous 1947 Roswell, N.Mex., crash...
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Candace Fleming. Scholastic Focus, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-338-74957-1
In this WWII narrative that ranges from 1939 to 1945, Fleming (Crash from Outer Space) chronicles the experiences of 10 young women who, with “record players and teddy bears in tow,” took up top secret work at Bletchley Park. Urgent prose sets the...
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Candace Fleming. Scholastic Focus, $26.99 hardcover (160p) ISBN 978-1-5461-1028-6; $8.99 paper ISBN 978-1-339-03793-6
“You are an investigator for the Black Swan Scientific Investigation (BSSI) team,” Fleming (The Enigma Girls) declares in the opening chapter of this interactive foray into unraveling “the natural world’s greatest mysteries”—in this instance, the...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Amy Hevron. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4915-6
Fleming’s examination of a liminal natural world starts before the title page: waves “cr-e-e-e-e-p” back from a shoreline, stranding creatures in pools of seawater until high tide returns. Using acrylic paint and pencil, Hevron drafts flat, graphic...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4285-0
“Tongues lick./ Antennae touch.” The brief but complex life of a Apis Mellifera—a worker honeybee—is explored with depth in this richly detailed picture book. Fleming uses lyrical language to describe just how jam-packed Apis’s short life is—her...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4916-3
The team behind Honeybee and Giant Squid portrays beauty and suspense in the lives of a polar bear family struggling to adapt to a warming Arctic. In an early image, two cubs nestle by their mother’s great bulk. Following a month of waiting for the...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-6659-1331-7
In this sanguine work from longtime collaborators Fleming and Rohmann (Honeybee), young Penny is the lone witness to a dinosaur egg’s hatching during a class trip to the Museum of National History. As Penny, portrayed with brown skin, tours the...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann. Random House/Schwartz, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-18166-9
This rhyming fable by married team Fleming and Rohmann (Oh, No!) begins with a single, shiny red apple hanging from a tree, ready to fall. Spotting it amid the leaves, several animals each decide—seemingly unbeknownst to others—that it will be “Mine!
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Julie Downing. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4318-5
There’s a fairy tale quality to Fleming’s story of Helen Martini, a woman whose longing for a baby was filled by raising a series of orphaned big cat cubs, which unexpectedly led to her becoming the first female zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo. And like...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Matthew Cordell. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4263-8
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) assembled an idiosyncratic collection of artworks over her lifetime. In the palazzo she built to house it, priceless treasures still hang next to souvenirs and personal mementoes—in this picture book biography’s...
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Candace Fleming. Random House/Schwartz, $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-48006-9
In riveting detail, Fleming (The Enigma Girls) recounts the murder of more than 900 Peoples Temple followers in Guyana by American cult leader Jim Jones (1931–1978). A prologue poses complicated questions (“What caused seemingly ‘normal’ people to...
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Candace Fleming, illus. by Deena So’oteh. Random House/Schwartz, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-593-37778-9
In prose both graceful and suspenseful, Fleming (Mine!) introduces the “shy,/ swift/ small (for a whale)” narwhal, weaving scientific observation into gripping
storytelling. Icy landscapes and naturalistic, watery blue aquatic scenes of whales and...
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