Carol Lee Cohen, Author, Caron Lee Cohen, Author, Roni Shepherd, Illustrator Dutton Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44721-4
Sixgun Gus and Cannonball Clyde are mutts--and two of the cussedest varmints the Wild West has ever seen. Because of their ornery ways the folks out California way call them Bronco Dogs. The two buddies have themselves a time, riding and shooting...
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Caron Lee Cohen, Author, Linda Bronson, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5300-5
Adventure and magic on the high seas are the hallmarks of this whale of a tale. In Cohen's (Where's the Fly?) version of New England lore, Ichabod Paddock uses ""his pappy's harpoon for a teething ring"" and snags his first killer whale on the day...
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Caron Lee Cohen, Author, Hiroe Nakata, Illustrator , illus. by Hiroe Nakata. Clarion $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-07335-1
When a boy and his mother leave the city for his grandparents' farm, "everything is different." This beguiling young narrator's comparisons flow with believable, grammatically creative child-speak: "No honk, honk taxis jam the...
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Caron Lee Cohen, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Dodd Mead $13.95 (39p) ISBN 978-0-396-08999-5
This epic poem about a cat who travels by ""kibitka'' boat begins with the lines ``There was a cat sailed the briny deep,/ Briny deep, briny deep;/ There was a cat sailed the briny deep,/ And his name was Whiffle Squeek.'' He sleeps beneath a ``hugeo
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Caron Lee Cohen, Author, Shonto Begay, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-41525-5
From the Skidi branch of the Pawnee Indians of the Plains comes this tale of a boy who achieves greatness in his tribe with the guidance of a pony he made out of mud. Too poor to own a pony like the other boys, he fashions a small mud pony and goes...
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Caron Lee Cohen, Author, Rosanne Litzinger, Illustrator , illus. by Rosanne Litzinger. Clarion $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-618-04229-6
Young Daniel becomes so taken with the song "Happy Birthday to You" after attending his first birthday party that he bestows its good wishes on everything he sees during the rest of the day. "At home Daniel hugged his brown cow named Moo/
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Caron Lee Cohen, illus. by Sergio Ruzzier, Simon & Schuster, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9113-7
A brief tussle between a girl witch and a green goblin over the use of a broom is neatly resolved in this short but absorbing story. The witch wears a too-long purple robe and a huge, pointy red hat; the goblin has ears that stick straight up and...
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