Caroline Arnold, Author Charlesbridge Publishing $5.95 (18p) ISBN 978-1-57091-493-5
A pair of accordion-fold, cardstock books by Caroline Arnold helps youngsters understand size and numbers. Who Is Bigger? Who Is Smaller? shows farm animals of ascending sizes on one side, then their descending sizes on the other, from a mouse to a...
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Caroline Arnold, Author Charlesbridge Publishing $5.95 (18p) ISBN 978-1-57091-495-9
A pair of accordion-fold, cardstock books by Caroline Arnold helps youngsters understand size and numbers. Who Is Bigger? Who Is Smaller? shows farm animals of ascending sizes on one side, then their descending sizes on the other, from a mouse to a...
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Caroline Arnold. Charlesbridge, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-58089-735-8
Through photographs and direct, unadorned writing, Arnold (Living Fossils) takes readers to a (real-life) kindergarten class in Los Angeles, where the teacher, Mrs. Best, brings in eggs from the chickens she keeps at home. As the children tend to...
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Caroline Arnold, illus. by Jamie Hogan. Charlesbridge, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58089-267-4
Arnold explores global warming by focusing on how it directly affects several species and their habitats. Some animals, like Edith’s checkerspot butterfly, are forced to migrate north because temperatures in southern areas have become too warm for...
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Caroline Arnold, illus. by Andrew Plant. Charlesbridge, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58089-691-7
Dinosaur buffs are a natural audience for this informative overview of six living species that closely resemble their distant ancestors. Plant’s (the Ancient Animals series) naturalistic acrylic paintings shift between “then” and “now” as Arnold (Too
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Caroline Arnold, Author, Lambert Davis, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-284750-0
Ole Swenson and the other lumberjacks fear the terrible Hodag, a beast with the head of an ox, the feet of a bear, the back of a dinosaur and the tail of an alligator. They never work in the woods at night, when the creature roams the forest. Then...
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Caroline Arnold, Author, Madeleine Comora, Author, Rahul Bhushan, Illustrator , illus. by Rahul Bhushan. Lerner/Carolrhoda $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7613-2609-0
One of the world’s architectural wonders takes center stage in this exquisitely illustrated story about its history and lore. With abundant detail and poetic license, Arnold (The Terrible Hodag and the Animal Catchers
) and Comora (George...
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Caroline Arnold, Author, Mary Peterson, Illustrator , illus. by Mary Peterson. Charlesbridge $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-58089-306-0
The eponymous heroes of this early reader are two genial, googly-eyed earthworms who are also best friends. In five short chapters, Wiggle and Waggle (the latter, distinguished by a pair of glasses) learn that singing makes a job go faster; a...
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Caroline Arnold, Author, John Sandford, Illustrator , illus. by John Sandford. Boyds Mills $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-166-1
A blueberry-eating monster's lumberjack friends devise clever strategies to protect him from capture in this tale inspired by a Wisconsin logging camp legend. Sandford's dramatic and often comical black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings abound...
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Caroline Arnold, Author, Richard Hewett, Illustrator William Morrow & Company $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07069-4
Most photos of giraffes are interesting: that powerful neck and the long slim body that go with it make every movement unusual. Here they crane toward their favorite foodleaves from the acadia trees, posing awkwardly to drink water without tipping...
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