Cyndy Szekeres, Author Golden Books $2.98 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-12340-4
It's summertime in the meadow, and the perfect day for a mouse family picnic. While mama and papa gather seeds and berries, children Sam and Emily find a glass jar and try to capture unsuspecting creatures in it. Accompanied by ``their good friend...
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Cyndy Szekeres, Author Scholastic $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-590-69195-6
Reminiscent of the work of the late Richard Scarry (to whom Szekeres gives a nod on her dedication page), this roundup of brief diversions for preschoolers sounds a familiar chord. Its oversized spreads are indisputably ""busy,"" teeming with...
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Cyndy Szekeres, Author Scholastic $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-69197-0
Szekeres (Cyndy Szekeres' Favorite Mother Goose Rhymes) again shapes her own fresh variation on a classic, by putting a wintertime spin on a familiar cumulative verse. Her Jack, an amiable young rabbit who smiles with his entire face--even while...
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Cyndy Szekeres, Author Cartwheel Books $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-590-38361-5
Cute-as-a-button Wilbur Bunny asks readers to join him in counting the 99 members of his exceptionally extended family, who have gathered to celebrate the arrival of Bunny No. 100: Wilbur's new sister, Sweet Petunia (her introduction makes for the...
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Cyndy Szekeres, Author Cartwheel Books $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-69198-7
Children should have no trouble recognizing their own families and bedtime rituals in this sprightly tale of a woodland bunny family getting ready to call it a day. Mama Bunny struggles to gather up her five little ones from a game of hide-and-seek,
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Cyndy Szekeres, Author, Golden Books, Author, Cyndy Szekeres, Illustrator Golden Books $3.98 (45p) ISBN 978-0-307-15560-3
Szekeres has crammed her collection of Mother Goose rhymes with rollicking backgrounds, frolicsome animals and calico patch trimmings. The cock that ""crows in the morn'' wears long, white underwear, a downy white Mother Goose bids small mice to...
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Cyndy Szekeres, Author, Golden Books, Author, Cyndy Szekeres, Illustrator Golden Books $7.95 (45p) ISBN 978-0-307-15589-4
In this fairy tale collection, Szekeres has retold and illustrated six well-known classics The Bremen Town Musicians , The Elves and the Shoemaker , The Emperor's New Clothes , Stone Soup , The Sleeping Beauty and The Princess and the Pea. Szekeres'
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Cyndy Szekeres, Author, Cyndy Szekeres, Illustrator Little Simon $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82645-0
Szekeres's (I Love My Busy Book) insight into toddlers is once again in evidence in this spunky series introducing an energetic young mouse. In the first and strongest entry, Toby complains of boredom (""I need to be busy!""), and his ability to...
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Cyndy Szekeres, Author, Cyndy Szekeres, Illustrator Little Simon $4.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-689-82656-6
With the fifth installment in the Toby board book series, Toby's Dinosaur Halloween, Cyndy Szekeres lets toddlers in on the fun as the titular mouse dresses up as a Tyrannosaurus Rex. In Santa Toby's Busy Christmas, the fellow completes the...
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Cyndy Szekeres, Illustrator, Cyndy Szekeres, Author Little Simon $4.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-689-84275-7
Cyndy Szekeres's popular mouse returns in two new board books. In Toby's Please and Thank You, the author/artist presents basic manners (please, thank you, be patient and I'm sorry) in a rhyming text, and pictures preschoolers having fun being...
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