Catherine Rayner, Author . Good Books $16 (28p) ISBN 978-1-56148-510-9
Scottish author and artist Rayner combines a poetic sensibility with textured backgrounds and sweeping brushstrokes in this understated, visually dramatic story of one tiger's quest. Engulfed in sadness, Augustus embarks on a search for his...
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Catherine Rayner, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-32217-5
In keeping with this story's work-in-progress theme, Rayner (Harris Finds His Feet) uses green graph paper as a backdrop for Ernest, a moose who's too big to fit into the book's spreads. His pinprick eyes and ample schnozz, smudged with brown paint...
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Catherine Rayner, Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3576-7
"[B]eing a wise bear, Norris knew that plorringes were the best fruit of all." Norris also knows that good things are worth waiting for, so he rests under the plorringe tree in the perfect spot to acquire the globular fruit when it falls. But Norris
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Catherine Rayner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-38064-9
Short, sweet, and tailor-made for story time, this perfectly paced tale of jungle mischief introduces a toddlerlike crocodile, Solomon, whose definition of “fun” is what other animals would probably
label “annoying.” In quick succession, Solomon “sp
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Catherine Rayner. Tiger Tales, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58925-147-2
Rayner, an experienced creator of winsome creatures including Solomon Crocodile and Ernest, the Moose Who Doesn’t Fit, imagines a giraffe who loves numbers and wanders the African savannah looking for things to count. Abigail is first seen in an...
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