Christine Loomis, Author, Christine Loomie, Author, Maxie Chambliss, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-10172-5
Loomis ( My New Baby-Sitter ) adeptly guides children and parents through another potentially turbulent experience--vacations. In a five-page foreword, Loomis offers parents thoughtful travel advice that ventures beyond the typical packing tips to...
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Christine Loomis, Author, George Ancona, Photographer Morrow Junior Books $13.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-09625-0
In this lucid, candid guide, Loomis, an editor at Parents magazine, attempts to reduce the anxiety kids--and their parents--commonly experience when faced with a new day-care or baby-sitting situation. In the book's opening pages, addressed to...
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Christine Loomis, Author, Robert Neubecker, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-54340-8
Loomis's (The Hippo Hop) four brief, rhyming stories introduce a hippo whose personality is as outsized as her physique. Most of the comedy is familiar, and even youngest readers will spot the punch lines coming: a tutu-wearing Hattie executes a...
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Christine Loomis, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-395-69702-3
As this festive rhyming picture book begins, a polite hippopotamus in tropical attire ushers readers into a jungle hot spot, a pink shack called the Hippo Hop. Behind its curtained doorway, smiling capybara waiters and a simian hostess hover...
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Christine Loomis, Author, Kate Kiesler, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0366-8
Loomis (Cowboy Bunnies) assumes the poetic voice of a mother addressing a child as she draws parallels between this country's natural phenomena and a youngster who is growing increasingly independent. As the narrative opens, California sequoias ""cra
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Christine Loomis, Author, Mari Takabayaski, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-69129-8
This picture book follows the rhythms of a work day in New York City, from the first stirrings of the morning to the moment when parents and children are joyfully reunited in the evening. The main focus, of course, is the bustle of rush hour: the...
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Christine Loomis, Author, Ora Eitan, Illustrator Grosset & Dunlap $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23465-1
A companion to Astro Bunnies and Cowboy Bunnies, Scuba Bunnies by Christine Loomis, illus. by Ora Eitan, suggests that bathtime is the perfect time for an undersea excursion. The bunnies ""Poke and peek in secret places/ Peering into fishy places,
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Christine Loomis, Author, Ora Eitan, Illustrator, Ella Fitzgerald, Author Putnam Publishing Group $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-698-11831-7
""Young cow-bunnies will welcome this rhyming tale about the daily routine of rabbits who play at being cowboys,"" said PW. ""The artist, painting in earth tones on weathered wooden planks, embraces her subject with originality and visual gusto.""...
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Christine Loomis, Author, Ora Eitan, Illustrator, Ella Fitzgerald, Author Putnam Publishing Group $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22625-0
Loomis's (Rush Hour) subject is the daily routine of rabbits who play at being cowboys, and Eitan (Inch by Inch) embraces it with originality and visual gusto. Her illustrations are painted in earth tones on weathered wooden planks of varying sizes.
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