Caroline Jayne Church, Author . Scholastic/ Orchard $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-439-68765-2
A clever feathered hero prevails in this sweet picture book about camouflage and common sense. While most of the geese in the gaggle preen and gleam in their white feathers and bright beaks, one goose stands alone, muddying himself in the pond. But...
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Caroline Jayne Church, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-16179-4
Madison, a genial gray mouse, has no trouble getting ready for and into bed (in fact, parents may be in awe of her unwhiny self-sufficiency). It's following through with actual sleeping that has her hung up: “Madison tried to sleep, but...
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Caroline Jayne Church, Author . Scholastic/Cartwheel $7.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-545-11816-3
Celebrate spring with a sampling of Easter-themed books.
Here Comes Easter!
Caroline Jayne Church
. Scholastic/Cartwheel
, $7.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-545-11816-3
A titian-haired girl takes readers on an indoor Easter egg hunt featuring cool pastels in
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Caroline Jayne Church. Scholastic/Cartwheel, $7.99 (10p) ISBN 978-0-545-35080-8
A toddler announces that he’s a “big kid today,” because he’s not wearing diapers. Along with his teddy bear (they both have their own “potties”), the boy instructs readers on what to do, from sitting down and waiting to cleaning up, and, of course,
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Caroline Jayne Church. Scholastic/Cartwheel, $8.99 (22p) ISBN 978-0-545-53601-1
Church aims to get readers up and moving with action-driven rhymes and a fuzzyheaded toddler who, along with his teddy bear, is happy to provide a demonstration. “Touch your toes,/ bend down low./ Touch your legs,/ up you go,” writes Church as boy...
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Caroline Jayne Church. Scholastic/Cartwheel, $8.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-545-64771-7
Title aside, Church isn’t exactly channeling Guns N’ Roses with this gentle tribute to love, whose lilting rhymes underscore a parent’s love no matter the time of day, season, or weather. A girl with soft curls appears in each scene with her...
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Caroline Jayne Church, Author, Caroline Jayne Church, Illustrator . Scholastic/Chicken House $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-12871-1
Church (Hungry Hen) pictures two long-eared pups' playful romp in this reprise of a ridiculously catchy rhyme. Beginning with the title line, "Do your ears hang low?," a brown hound strolls up a hill alone. In the next spread, "Do...
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Caroline Jayne Church, Author, Caroline Jayne Church, Illustrator . S&S/McElderry $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3441-7
Brimming with cheekiness, Church (One Smart Goose
) tells the story of Digby, a new sheepdog who is definitely not being treated like top dog by his woolly charges. The six sheep on the farm “had different ideas,” Church writes. “Th
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Caroline Jayne Church, Author, Caroline Jayne Church, Illustrator . Eerdmans $16 (28p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5320-2
In this wisp of a tale, the cutie-pie protagonist is “ordinary in every way”—with one major exception: while other goats are content to chomp on garbage and clothes, she loves anything that grows in an orchard. Then, having chowed...
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Caroline Jayne Church. Harper, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-201498-6
Ruff’s perky snout and delighted expression don’t look very different from those of other adorable puppies, but he doesn’t live to romp around. He works nonstop, cheerfully and independently. He weeds his garden, washes his windows, and digs a...
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