Carole Lexa Scharfer, Author, Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Lynn Pauley, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1958-2
In what is the picture-book debut for both author and artist, ripe, robust prose describes the work of young gardeners in a community plot that blooms in Seattle. Beginning with the soil (``deep, dark dirt, rich with rotted grass, apple peels and...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Stanley Fellows, Illustrator, Stan Fellows, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0471-4
A treasured heirloom inspires a boy's reverie about his forebears in this tender picture book celebrating the strength of family ties. To Sammy Carl, nothing tastes better than cocoa sipped from his favorite cupDthe copper tin one etched with the...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, illus. by Becca Stadtlander. Candlewick, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7433-5
In this homage to the handcrafted, Schaefer (the Monkey and Elephant series) uses story vignettes to introduce 14 handmade 19th-century museum pieces from the northern and eastern U.S. Each of the objects, including a hand-painted butter churn and a
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Catherine Stock, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1234-4
Although Lindsay is excited to be invited to Aunt Fiona's ""end-of-the-summer, snazzy, ritzy dress-up party,"" she balks at dressing up. Lindsay prefers baggy shorts for beachcombing, old jeans for tree-climbing and patch overalls for jumping in...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, illus. by Pierr Morgan. Little Bigfoot, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-63217-291-4
Six grandmothers and their individual chicken farms around the world take the spotlight in this accessible picture book that centers language. Opening on Gram’s U.S. farm in Walla Walla, Wash., Schaefer subsequently leads readers through farms in...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Christine Davenier, Illustrator , illus. by Christine Davenier. Candlewick $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1878-0
The combination of moonglow, a cricket's catchy "zweet-zweet-zweet" and a frog's basso backbeat ("thrum, thrum, thrum") proves too irresistible for a collection of farm animals, who learn a thing or two about being a partner...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Pierr Morgan, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-517-70980-1
Fans of Schaefer and Morgan's elegant ode to imagination, The Squiggle, may be disappointed by this meandering text, which sacrifices the story to teach a lesson. Morgan's gouache illustrations, done on speckled, light-brown paper, strongly suggest...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, illus. by Pierr Morgan. Viking, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-01231-2
Five children exit their brownstone buildings to explore the neighborhood in an uplifting alphabet book. From sidewalk to playground, the children take on different roles based upon the play activity of the moment: “P is for Piggyback riders.
Q is...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, illus. by Pierr Morgan. Viking, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-01241-1
After what has clearly been a long and glorious day of meadow hopping, the small bunny narrator of Schaefer and Morgan's latest collaboration (Kids Like Us; Dragon Dancing) literally leaps into his cozy, green bed without a fuss. And that's when an...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Pierr Morgan, Illustrator Crown Publishers $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-517-80015-7
October snowfall inspires an unusual snowman in this low-key tale by the team behind The Squiggle. Delighted to find ""a little pillow of snow"" on her windowsill one fall morning, Lily bundles up and races to the park, where other children pack...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Pierr Morgan, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-88579-6
A schoolgirl's game with a rope is the subject of this playful story, winningly illustrated in fluid, calligraphic strokes. Ages 5-8. (June)
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Pierr Morgan, Illustrator , illus. by Pierr Morgan. Viking $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-03664-6
In this low-key account of imaginative play, nine classmates spend a day making up pleasant activities. Each time "someone" proposes a game, the rest happily cooperate. When they arrive at school, "Someone says, 'Let's leapfrog...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Vanessa Cabban, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0843-9
As bedtime approaches the forest, settling down seems out of the question for a trio of bear cubs, while a quartet of young rabbits insist, ""We're still peek-a-booing."" As twilight's first stars appear, wise old Grandma Owl takes over. She knows...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Vanessa Cabban, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2566-5
A pair of bedtime books wind up the list. PW praised Schaefer's ""wonderfully evocative word choices"" as well as Cabban's ""plump, pert, but never cloying"" forest creatures in Down in the Woods at Sleepytime by Carole Lexa Schaefer, illus. by...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Vanessa Cabban, Illustrator , illus. by Vanessa Cabban. Candlewick $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1743-1
A trio of bear cubs settles down in the nighttime forest. "Author and artist make bedtime about as appealing as it gets," said PW
in a starred review. Ages 2-5. (Sept.)
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Pierr Morgan, Author, Pierr Morgan, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $17 (1p) ISBN 978-0-517-70047-1
This call to creativity shows that rope need not serve a purely functional purpose. Walking with her classmates on a trip to the park, a dark-haired girl finds a flexible length of red cord and begins to shape it into outlines on the sidewalk. Her...
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Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author, Pierr Morgan, Author, Pierr Morgan, Illustrator , illus. by Pierr Morgan. Viking $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-05928-7
The team behind The Squiggle
transports readers to a magic moment in the savanna, when all the animals momentarily come together to celebrate "cool time." During the day, "Sun burns so very strong/ that lion, royal
lion,/ sits weak as...
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Emilie Chollat, Illustrator, Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author , illus. by Emilie Chollat. Knopf $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-81569-0
When spoiled young Louie clamps his stubborn lips around a whistle his Grand-père
brought from Paris ("WHOUI! WHOUI! WHOUI!") the results are both clamorous and comical. Louie says, "I don't like
sweet" and "I don'
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Lexa Schaefer, Author, Pierr Morgan, Illustrator, Carole Lexa Schaefer, Author , illus. by Pierr Morgan. Dell/Dragonfly $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-440-41749-1
An October snowfall is the inspiration behind this story, which, PW
said, "quietly reminds its readers of the electrifying first snowflakes and the pleasurable warmth of an oversize sweater." Ages 5-8. (Sept.)
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