Cynthia Jabar, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-58132-0
Jabar's (Mommies Are for Counting Stars) rhythmic, rhyming and visually exuberant book functions like a greeting card, as a faraway adult delivers a long-distance pep talk. The opening scenes illustrate how the grown-up (represented in early scenes...
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Cynthia Jabar, Author Little Brown and Company $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-43456-0
This birthday counting book features bunnies who count from one to 10 while making a cake, opening presents and counting stars on their way home from the party. The page borders are made up of illustrations of each word, as in ""7 candles,'' with...
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Cynthia Jabar, Author Joy Street Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-43457-7
In what amounts to an inventive primer on the days leading to that all-important first day of school, Jabar presents a busy five-year-old who just can't wait for the big event. When Alice Ann picks out new shoes, she tries on red shoes, silly shoes,
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Cynthia Jabar, Author Little Brown and Company $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-43459-1
Jabar's buoyant sketchlike figures ``Flip it, flop it, / She hip-hop it'' and ``Shimmy shake it'' throughout this snappy collection of 18 poems about dancing. She depicts such assorted characters as a Scottish bagpiper and Russian dancers, and her...
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