H. A. Rey, Illustrator, Charlotte Zolotow, Author HarperCollins Children's Books $4.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443092-0
A little boy who lives in the country asks his mother, ""What is a park like?'' She tells him about the various changes in the urban setting, describing the people going back and forth to work, the mothers who bring their children, the lovers at...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Javaka Steptoe, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-027879-3
Steptoe's (In Daddy's Arms, I Am Tall) bold mixed-media collages invigorate Zolotow's (Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present) tender 1958 tale of a girl's affection for her brother. As Zolotow's poetic images flow in a rhythmic question-and-answer...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Linda Bronson, Illustrator Running Press Kids $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7624-1553-3
In The Three Funny Friends by Charlotte Zolotow, originally published in 1961, but with new artwork by Linda Bronson, Guy-guy, Bickerina and Mr. Dobie do all sorts of things the girl heroine would never do, but her parents can't see any of them...
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Charlotte Zolotow, illus. by Marta Álvarez Miguéns. Jabberwocky, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4926-0171-5
First published in 1963 and reissued twice since then, this story about a little boy who worries that no one will like him has been illustrated in various ways. In this fourth version, Tomás is Latino, and touches of Spanish alter the text: “Why...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-020818-9
The necessity for a marriage of good art with good text in a picture book is clearly illustrated in this oddly packaged assortment from the venerable Zolotow. Recycled ``snippets'' from earlier works are presented in this low-key volume as complete...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Wendell Minor, Illustrator HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443364-8
A boy's mother describes the shore in what PW termed ``tactile, vivid and musical images''; watercolors ``evoke place with imaginative accuracy and visual grace.'' Ages 3-8. (June)
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Wendell Minor, Illustrator, Wendell Minor, Photographer HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-020213-2
When a boy asks his mother, ``What is the seashore like?'' she lovingly describes what might happen if they spent a day together in the sand. Zolotow's images are tactile, vivid and musical: cold sea water makes the boy's ``skin feel like peppermint'
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Anita Lobel, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $7.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-17527-6
A girl observes the various stages of her mother's life through photographs that unfold like a family album. ""The deceptively plain text speaks volumes when paired with these tender watercolor and gouache paintings,"" said PW. Ages 3-up. (Apr.)
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Anita Lobel, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-09305-1
One of the most amazing discoveries a child makes is learning that their parents led a completely different life before their offspring came along. In this sensitive picture book, a girl winds her way through the house pointing out photographs of...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Ben Shecter, Illustrator HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443197-2
When a girl's friend ignores her completely, all bad feelings get out of hand, in this gentle look at friendship. Ages 4-8. (Apr.)
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Erik Blegvad, Illustrator HarperCollins $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443248-1
Blegvad's radiantly colored pictures in this newly illustrated edition enhance an endearing story that explains why one girl (and her dachshund) enjoy being little. Ages 5-9. (Sept.)
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Erik Blegvad, Illustrator , illus. by Erik Blegvad. HarperCollins $14.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-026698-1
Looking through this reassuring beginning reader is like taking a nostalgic stroll through a miniature Norman Rockwell painting. The quiet poems and etched pen-and-ink drawings from this team, previously paired for I Like to Be Little, seem vaguely...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Erik Blegvad, Illustrator , illus. by Erik Blegvad. HarperTrophy $3.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-051854-7
"Looking through this reassuring beginning reader is like taking a nostalgic stroll through a miniature Norman Rockwell painting," said PW
in a starred review. "Zolotow filters each poem through the lens of a child's sense of...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, James Stevenson, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-688-11519-7
Touching and gentle, this deceptively simple tale concerns a girl who muses about a kindhearted neighborhood senior. Ages 4-up. (May)
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Margaret Bloy Graham, Illustrator HarperCollins $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443194-1
From the last moments of an oppressively hot day, to the moment a rainbow breaks out over the countryside, this Caldecott Honor book lyrically explores the impact of a storm. Ages 3-7. (Jan.)
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, James Ransome, Illustrator HarperCollins $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024409-5
With pensive, autumnal oils, Ransome (Aunt Flossie's Hats & Crab Cakes Later) tenderly illustrates this quiet book about the death of a pet. Each full-page painting faces a text page bordered with a panel of fallen leaves-a fitting symbol of the...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Stefano Vitale, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-027873-1
Charlotte Zolotow's 1958 text conjures all the ways animals wind down for the night in The Sleepy Book: from ""pigeons [that]/ sleep/ in/ a row/ pressing/ against/ each other/ for/ warmth"" to ""little boys/ and girls [who]/ .../ sleep/ warm...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Margot Tomes, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $11.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-226488-8
This collection of poems, arranged under eight subject categories, successfully pairs two distinguished children's book creators. Like Japanese haiku, Zolotow's poems offer images rather than developed ideas, and they focus on the senseson feeling,...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Helen Craig, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-86265-0
First published nearly 40 years ago, Zolotow's ingenuous paean to spring, a time ""when everything lovely begins once again,"" indeed feels reborn with Craig's (Angelina Ballerina) winsome illustrations. Combining full-page spreads with smaller...
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Charlotte Zolotow, illus. by Tiphanie Beeke. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4926-0168-5
Published in time to mark what would have been the 100th birthday of acclaimed author/editor Zolotow, this collection of 28 seasonally organized poems celebrates the delightful, unexpected moments that arise as the months pass, temperatures change,...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Stefano Vitale, Author, Stefano Vitale, Illustrator Running Press Kids $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7624-1335-5
A girl longs for her faraway father in If You Listen (1980) by Charlotte Zolotow, newly illustrated with serene illustrations painted on wood by Stefano Vitale. ""If I can't see him, or hear him, or feel his hugs, how can I know he loves me when...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Hilary Knight, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443175-0
Two blithe works about a girl and a boy, who vow to ignore all ridiculous parental restrictions when they have offspring of their own. Ages 4-8. (June)
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Amanda Harvey, Illustrator , illus. by Amanda Harvey. Dragonfly $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-41562-6
"I know everything about John and he knows everything about me," says the narrator, describing just what makes this friendship tick in this tale, originally published in 1968. Ages 5-8. (Feb.)
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Carol Thompson, Illustrator Hyperion Books $19.99 (60p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0518-1
Five stories and poems previously published by Charlotte Zolotow come together in Hold My Hand: Five Stories of Love and Family, illus. by Carol Thompson. From a baby uttering his first word (""Ma Ma!"") in ""But Not Billy"" (1947) to Thompson's...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Ilse Plume, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-026967-8
This reissued, newly illustrated version of Zolotow's nighttime book is filled with gentle, pastel drawings of sleeping animals, insects and birds. The litany is like a lullaby: ``Crickets sleep in the long meadow grass and look like the grass...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Kathryn Jacobi, Illustrator HarperCollins $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-027351-4
Staring out of his bedroom window one inky night, Ben has an epiphany. Feeling at one with ""the blackness itself,/ smooth and velvety and dark and safe,"" he discovers his own reassuring answer to two of life's most compelling questions: ""Where...
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, Valerie Coursen, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6306-6
First published in 1964, Charlotte Zolotow's The Poodle Who Barked at the Wind, starring the lovable noisy pup, gets new illustrations by Valerie Coursen. Her paintings of the small black poodle aptly contrast the canine's busy, protective bounce
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Charlotte Zolotow, Author, James P. Stevenson, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-14-050550-4
A little girl describes the old woman who befriends the children in her neighborhood, supplying them with the fruits of her garden and the treats of her kitchen. In PW's words, ""Zolotow's quiet, lyrical style infuses her story with a lasting appeal.
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Charlotte Zolotow, illus. by Philip Stead. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4320-8
Stead (Music for Mister Moon) takes this seasonal poem, first published in 1960 by the late writer and editor Zolotow, and divides its lines between two speakers. One, an older woman in a red raincoat and loose braid, treasures the seasons through...
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Charlotte Zolotow, illus. by Julie Morstad. Cameron, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-951836-74-0
In a palette of sunset pink, orange, and lilac, Morstad (The Puppets of Spelhorst) creates new illustrations for this creation by the late Zolotow (William’s Doll), reenvisioned by Crescent Dragonwagon as a string of extravagant promises made by a...
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