Cynthia Rylant, Author . S&S/Aladdin $4.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-689-84495-9
In a boxed review, PW
called this novel of 11-year-old Ellie Farley, living in a coal-mining town in West Virginia, "an exquisite novel, written with love." Ages 9-12. (June)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author . Scholastic $4.50 (96p) ISBN 978-0-439-23149-7
"Adopting a silky prose style, Rylant imagines a stopping place between heaven and earth," said PW.
"Those who don't mind spirituality delivered warm and fuzzy will find this as satisfying and sweet as a cup of cocoa." Ages 10-u
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Cynthia Rylant, Author . Scholastic $5.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-07331-8
PW
called this tale of a foundling cat living a charmed life "a cat-lover's confection." Ages 7-10. (July)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author . HarperCollins $14.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-06-009433-1
Like Hollywood movies that present God as a human being with curiosities and foibles much like our own, Rylant's imaginative series of poems about God living on earth are filled with more contemporary references than developed theological ideas.
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Cynthia Rylant, Author . Harcourt $5.95 (97p) ISBN 978-0-15-205312-3
An idealistic 17-year-old's life changes dramatically when he enlists in the service, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. According to PW
's boxed review, "This finely drawn novel projects emotional truths to rival those of Remarque's
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Cynthia Rylant, Author . Harcourt $16 (74p) ISBN 978-0-15-205412-0
The narrator of Rylant's (Missing May
) fragmented poem addresses her beloved cat, Boris, adopted from a humane shelter, along with his sister. The frequently choppy free verse compiles anecdotes about Boris's experiences and personality,...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author . HarperTempest $4.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-06-009435-5
In these poems, according to PW
, "Rylant pushes the envelope of political and theological correctness, in a wink-wink, saucy manner." Ages 12-up. (Mar.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Blue Sky Press (AZ) $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-54331-6
Business is booming at Martha Jane's Bookshop, because everyone in town loves Martha Jane, the owner's dog. In fact, they love her so much that when the owner gets sick and needs a dog-sitter, fights break out over who should do the honors. Martha...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Scholastic $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-531-05996-8
This short novel is a study of grief--chiefly, that felt by Summer after her foster mother's sudden death, but also her sorrow at witnessing the grief of Ob, her foster father--she realizes that she herself may not be reason enough for him to go on...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Orchard Books (NY) $16.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-531-05900-5
As poignant and vibrant as Rylant's previous works ( A Blue-Eyed Daisy ; A Fine White Dust ; Every Living Thing ), this collection of short stories examines the nature of love and its effects on eight people's lives. Four of the selections deal with
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $10.95 (97p) ISBN 978-0-15-238003-8
Newbery Medalist Rylant has always let her readers slip easily into her characters' hearts and souls. Never before, however, has she so successfully portrayed the thoughts and emotions of a character as she has here. From the very first page, the...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (64p) ISBN 978-0-15-200843-7
Miracles are always in the making at the Van Gogh Cafe in Flowers, Kans.: the small restaurant, housed in a renovated theater, has ``magic enough to last forever in its walls.'' Readers will share the wonder of 10-year-old Clara and her father Marc,
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $4.99 (106p) ISBN 978-0-689-80462-5
""Richly, heartbreakingly human"" characters, said PW, populate this stirring Newbery Honor book about 13-year-old Pete, who yearns for religious fulfillment and seems to find it in Preacher Man, a traveling evangelist. Ages 11-13. (Mar.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Scholastic $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-58285-8
""In the blackness of the Black Sea,/ the whales are thinking today./ Thinking of those things/ that matter most to them:/ friends, family, supper./ A song they used to know."" Using language that both anthropomorphizes and sentimentalizes the...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Scholastic Paperbacks $4.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-590-90717-0
Within the walls of a small Kansas restaurant there is magic to cure all manner of ills. In PW's words, ""Newbery Medalist Rylant breaks new ground in producing this whimsical tale, dexterously weaving extraordinary events into the fabric of...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-201083-6
In three very brief biographies heralding the life and work of Margaret Wise Brown, L. Frank Baum and E. B. White, Rylant tells the kind of anecdotes that are sure to spark the interest of young readers who might otherwise be turned off by...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Scholastic $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-54329-3
A foundling cat lives a charmed life in this companion to The Bookshop Dog. After morning kisses from the cookie bakers, the plump, ginger-colored cat visits the neighborhood shopowners and keeps the regulars company. Even better, he basks in...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Scholastic $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-439-04096-9
Adopting a silky prose style, Rylant (Give Me Grace, reviewed above) imagines a stopping place between heaven and earth, a village where those who ""have taken one step into heaven and hesitated"" can stay and ""finish their stories."" Each chapter...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Yearling Books $5.5 (96p) ISBN 978-0-440-41542-8
PW's starred review said, ""Rylant breaks new ground with this allegorical tale set on an island off the coast of British Columbia."" Ages 10-up. (Nov.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Bradbury Press $16 (106p) ISBN 978-0-02-777240-1
Pete is 13 the summer the Preacher Man comes to his small town, vulnerable with both adolescent yearning and the need to find religious fulfillment. His parents are lapsed church-goers, who neither share nor encourage their son's deeper convictions.
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Yearling Books $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-42499-4
A heartbreakingly human story of a boy on the brink of self-discovery, and his mesmerizing acquaintance, the Preacher Man. A Newbery Honor book. Ages 8-12. (December)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-05806-0
In this autobiographical essay, Rylant recounts the formative events of her childhood: the early loss of both her mother and father, who sent her to live with grandparents after their separation; years spent in a small Bible-belt town after her...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-05767-4
Chip, 15, has always lived alone with his mother; he doesn't know his father, who left when Chip was a baby. His mother, Anne, an artist, is rather vague about practical matters, and Chip is responsible for handling the finances and running their...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author Little Simon $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-778026-0
The titles of these five board books may be unintentionally self-descriptive; Rylant offers rather quotidian glimpses of people, things and settings familiar to very young children. The volumes contain six spreads, each of which illustrates four...
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Cynthia Rylant. Beach Lane, $16.99 (160p) ISBN SBN 978-1-5344-1277-4
A sensitive and perceptive girl searches for balance and order in this taut, graceful novel from Rylant, set in small-town Indiana in 1972. Flora, “who sometimes felt quite acutely the stress of being nine years old,” is grappling with the death of...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Julie Downing, Illustrator Scholastic $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-07037-6
As portrayed in Downing's comfortingly realistic pastels, Rylant's gentle celebration of a postmaster's passion for matters of mail could serve as a model employee handbook--for any trade. Ages 4-7. (Mar.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Julie Downing, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $14.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-531-05769-8
A simple idea reigns in Rylant's quietly dignified picture bookthat it is possible to be take pride in and in fact relish what others may believe is the humblest of tasks. Mr. Griggs is the one-man show at a small town's post office. He weighs the...
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Marla Frazee. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4424-6518-3
Sixteen poems from Rylant’s God Went to Beauty School (2003) return in a new collection, accompanied by new artwork from Frazee, whose graphite-and-gouache illustrations are ideally attuned to the poems’ moments of irreverent humor and poignant...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Fumi Kosaka, Illustrator , illus. by Fumi Kosaka. HarperCollins $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-009270-2
What are the rewards of becoming the boy narrator's valentine? That depends on whom he's addressing. On the left-hand side of each spread, readers see a homemade heart-themed missive specially tailored for a beloved recipient; opposite, a...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Harvey Stevenson, Illustrator , illus. by Harvey Stevenson. Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201078-2
Rylant (the Little Whistle series) wisely explores a child's separation anxiety through her relationship with her doll. The author conveys the girl's bond with the doll, handmade for her by Grandmama ("It was ticky, her mother said,...
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Christian Robinson. Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-553-50770-6
Five small penguins and their mother chill out in this playful, minimalist approach to winter. Rylant (the Mr. Putter and Tabby books) supplies only a few words per spread as the pointy-beaked penguins peek out of their blue-green igloo: “Snowflakes?
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Steven Henry. Chronicle, $15.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-4521-2533-6
A piglet learns what trick-or-treating is all about in this gentle father-son story. “Herbert was not sure about Halloween,” begins Rylant. Herbert’s father attempts to share his love of the holiday, starting with an old photo of himself in a cowboy
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator , illus. by Melissa Sweet. HarperCollins $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-029711-4
In a gentle holiday outing, Moonlight, a black cat with a pink nose and friendly green eyes, prowls under a starlit Halloween sky. She gazes at glowing jack-o'-lanterns ("Pumpkins smile at her") and, in casual feline style, curls up on a
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Ivan Bates, Illustrator , illus. by Ivan Bates. Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202321-8
A farmyard's worth of animals smile their way through this rhyming poem cum bedtime book about what makes each one of them happy. Rylant (Baby Face
, reviewed above) starts off with brisk, chirpy lines: “Kitty loves a garden/ Kitty loves...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Lauren Stringer, Illustrator , illus. by Lauren Stringer. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202480-2
According to PW, "Newbery Medalist Rylant lyrically imagines the scarecrow as a grateful 'witness to life,' while the acrylic paintings evoke a warm, even nostalgic sense of plenty." Ages 6-9. (Apr.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Lauren Stringer, Illustrator , illus. by Lauren Stringer. Harcourt $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-205303-1
Rylant and Stringer (previously paired for Scarecrow
) celebrate winter wonderlands in a cozy, lyrical tribute. Whether they encounter heavy snow that buries “cars up to their noses,” or the best snow of all, the kind “that comes...
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Jen Corace. Abrams, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0432-1
Teaming up for another fairy tale retelling, following Hansel and Gretel (2008), Corace and Rylant breathe life into Hans Christian Andersen's story of a one-legged tin soldier who falls in love with a dancing doll. She's as delicate as he is...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $14.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-009098-2
Bunny Brown and Jack Jones help Ramon find his missing lawn chair in The Case of the Sleepy Sloth by Cynthia Rylant, illus. by G. Brian Karas, the fifth title in the High-Rise Private Eyes series. (Aug.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-16306-8
Rylant (Missing May; the Henry and Mudge series) delivers two snappy stories full of humor, action and tenderness in the debut titles of this beginning-reader series. From a high-rise ""deep in the heart of a big city,"" unlikely animal pals Bunny...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Nikki McClure, Illustrator , illus. by Nikki McClure. Abrams $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-8321-2
McClure's (Collect Raindrops
) illustrations draw most of the attention here. Using an X-Acto knife and black paper, McClure suggests textures as varied as pea-plant tendrils, falling rain and the softness of a mother's body. “A day...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Maggie Kneen, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (64p) ISBN 978-0-15-201081-2
Four cozy stories lovingly chronicle the domestic adventures of Nigel Chipmunk and his friends, all of whom live on or around Thimbleberry Lane. Without heavy-handed moralizing, Rylant's (The Blue Hill Meadows) characters, all with their own...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Arthur Howard, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (44p) ISBN 978-0-15-256255-7
Two tales about companionship mark the highly propitious start of a new series. The gentle, affecting first volume introduces elderly Mr. Putter, who decides that a cat will keep him from feeling lonely. Only kittens are available at the pet store (`
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Arthur Howard, Illustrator Scholastic $4.99 (133p) ISBN 978-0-590-94715-2
An unlikely group of animals bands together to help a squirrel in need. ""Readers will relish every moment of this impeccably paced fantasy,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 8-12. (Dec.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Arthur Howard, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (44p) ISBN 978-0-15-202414-7
A number of familiar characters return in beginning reader sequels. In Mr. Putter and Tabby Catch the Cold by Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Arthur Howard, Mr. Putter is miserable: ""Colds aren't so much fun when you're old."" Luckily, Mrs. Teaberry ...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Arthur Howard, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-15-232242-7
An assortment of domesticated pets and untamed creatures band together to help a friend in need in the Newbery Medalist's rollicking animal tale. At the center is Stumpy, a squirrel who gives birth to triplets shortly before her nest in Gooseberry...
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Arthur Howard. S&S/Beach Lane, $16.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0449-5
Twenty years after Gooseberry Park, Rylant and Howard return with a companion book, and it’s well worth the wait. While an ice storm figured prominently in the previous book, a drought is now causing trouble for Stumpy the squirrel, Murray the bat,...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Mark Siegel, Illustrator , illus. by Mark Siegel. S&S $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-85426-2
Rylant's (When I Was Young in the Mountains
) lilting prose-poetry, with sometimes only a few words per page, introduces the traditional Native American name for each month's full moon: "In April/ the Sprouting Grass Moon brings/ all...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Carson Ellis, Illustrator , illus. by Carson Ellis. Harcourt $16 (71p) ISBN 978-0-15-206184-5
Rylant (All in a Day
) hones six myths into clear, accessible stories for younger readers. Plainspoken and captivating, they draw readers into the sagas of Pandora, Persephone, Orpheus, Pygmalion, Narcissus and Psyche. The stories grab attention...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Mary Szilagyi, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-71122-0
A pigtailed little girl tells how she and her family work through the seasons on the garden. In PW's words: ""Stunningly evocative, the paintings are a remarkable combination of deep tones and glittering shades. This is a lovely, unpretentious story.
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Mary Szilagyi, Illustrator Atheneum Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-71473-3
PW praised the ``exceptionally beautiful illustrations'' of this ``remarkable picture book that sweeps the reader into the quiet, special world of a country night.'' Ages 4-7. (Mar.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Mary Szilagyi, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-777210-4
""There is no night so dark, so black as night in the country.'' So begins a remarkable picture book that sweeps the reader into the quiet, special world of a country night. Exceptionally beautiful illustrations bring the scenes to life as the text...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $5.99 (81p) ISBN 978-0-689-71263-0
With a deft hand, Rylant offers readers glimpses of the lives of 12 people, whose lives are altered by their contact with animals. Ages 10-up. (Oct.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator Bradbury Press $14 (81p) ISBN 978-0-02-777200-5
Rylant's comparatively short career has earned the poet and author an enviable reputation. Her second collection of short stories is set in the West Virginia hills, as were the entries in A Blue-Eyed Daisy. Artless, memorable telling creates tales...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $14.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-08306-2
Six Christmas stories by the Newbery Honorwinning author converge to portray the sensitive moods of togetherness, loss, belonging, privation. Garnet Ash has lived alone in an out-of-the-way house ever since his parents died; his solace is growing...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Diane Goode, Illustrator , illus. by Diane Goode. Scholastic/Blue Sky $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-07334-9
Rylant and Goode return to some of the themes of their first collaboration, When I Was Young in the Mountains, for
this evocative picture book about the simple things that make one girl's Christmas special. Rylant's idyllic subjects—en
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Diane Goode, Illustrator , illus. by Diane Goode. S&S/Wiseman $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4909-1
Produced by a winning team, this collection of six poems celebrating universal moments in a baby's life (bathtime, first steps, a ride in the carriage) turns on the “awww” factor. Rylant's rhyming verse offers numerous...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Diane Goode, Illustrator Dutton Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-42525-0
When I was young in the mountains, Grandfather came home in the evening covered with the black dust of the coal mine. Now, Cynthia Rylant's When I Was Young in the Mountains, illus. by Diane Goode, a Caldecott Honor book, returns in a 20th-annive
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Diane Goode, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-206092-3
It's not uncommon for an imaginative child who grows tired of being the same person day in and day out to take on the identity of someone-or something-else. In this whimsical tale by the team behind Christmas in the Country, a boy decides that by...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Lisa Desimini, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-84744-5
Rylant (Missing May; Cat Heaven) and Desimini (Love Letters) take to the open road in this picture book scrapbook. A young man who has never ventured beyond his Ohio homeland buys a green Beetle and heads west with his dog, Tulip. They see the farms
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Lambert Davis, Illustrator , illus. by Lambert Davis. Scholastic/Blue Sky $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-590-30717-8
Rylant (The Stars Will Still Rise
) again shows her versatility with this picturesque work exploring the migratory habits of a half dozen creatures. Each one—locust, gray whale, American silver eel, monarch butterfly, caribou and Arctic tern
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Peter Catalanotto, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.53 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-07048-2
Light-drenched watercolors illuminate the Newbery Medalist's story about a boy's friendship with an artist. Ages 5-7. (Mar.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Peter Catalanotto, Illustrator, Peter Catalanotto, Photographer Orchard Books (NY) $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-05777-3
The gradual friendship between a shy boy named Charlie and Gregory, a paint-splattered artist, is handsomely illustrated by newcomer Catalanotto in watercolors that are full of shadows and brilliant patches of light. Although both Charlie and...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Peter Catalanotto, Illustrator, Peter Catalanotto, Photographer Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (45p) ISBN 978-0-531-05864-0
Although this unique collaboration by Rylant and Catalanotto is in the format of a 48-page picture book, it is intended for young adult readers. The 28 untitled, resonant poems are an extended dramatic monologue by the book's title character, a...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201605-0
Like a cherished photograph album, this portrait of Appalachia by two natives of the region is suffused with memories made golden by time. Beginning with the dogs that are ``named Prince or King'' and live in towns ``with names like Coal City and...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-47345-3
Together again, Rylant and Moser (Appalachia) here intertwine themes of nature and human loss into a modern-day fairy tale. Cheerless and homeless, a girl is ambling along a river when her sadness is arrested by the sight of a bright blue house...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator, Barry Moser, With Scholastic $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-590-47341-5
The inspired re-pairing of Rylant and Moser, whose previous collaborative effort yielded the evocative and deeply personal Appalachia , proves that the talented author and artist share more than geography. This time around they offer a fanciful yet...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Walker Evans, Photographer Harcourt Children's Books $18 (64p) ISBN 978-0-15-277090-7
As in Rylant's Soda Jerk , the subjects of this extraordinary and elegantly designed volume are ordinary moments in the lives of ordinary people. Rylant, responding to Evans's famous photographs of America during the Great Depression, pens spare,...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Cynthia Rylant, Illustrator Scholastic $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-41701-3
Newbery winner Rylant, who debuted as an illustrator with her Everyday board books (1993), offers paintings and text in tribute to ``Dog Heaven.'' Here there are fields to run in, soft beds (made of clouds turned inside out) and ``angel children,''...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Cynthia Rylant, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-10054-0
Those who liked Rylant's Dog Heaven will undoubtedly welcome this companion volume, which is similar in its themes and execution. The text, this time in rhyme, has the same complement of sentimentality; the art again consists of bright, cheery...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Cynthia Rylant, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82293-3
In this small gem, childlike prayers and paintings for each day of the week illuminate an understanding of God as one who nurtures, teaches, protects, comforts and blesses children and their loved ones. The Newbery-winning author fashions simple...
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Cynthia Rylant. Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-7039-1
Rylant’s illustrations for a simplified version of the Genesis creation story, adapted from the King James Bible, recall those from her Dog Heaven and Cat Heaven—wet, thickly painted acrylics in which childlike forms appear against milky backgrounds.
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Kathryn Brown, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-257809-1
The unlikely protagonist of this quirky and tenderhearted story is a little old lady with cat glasses and a beehive who might have stepped out of The Far Side. Lonely, she names inanimate objects-her car is Betsy, her bed is Roxanne. A stray dog...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator Scholastic $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-590-84782-7
City pig Poppleton adjusts to small-town life in this understated and roundly appealing chapter book. In ""Neighbors,"" the polite Poppleton tries to think up a polite way to say ""no thanks"" to Cherry Sue, a friendly llama who invites him to...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator , illus. by Wendy Anderson Halperin. S&S $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82326-8
In an oversize yet cozy-looking picture book, Rylant and Halperin explore the components of a home that could easily serve as a setting for this pair's Cobble Street Cousins series. Rylant quickly gets to the heart of her subject: "No matter
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $14 (64p) ISBN 978-0-689-81711-3
Three creative cousins bring can-do spirit and goodhearted fun to this new chapter book series from Newbery Medalist Rylant. Nine-year-olds Lily, Rosie and Tess are bunking with their Aunt Lucy for a whole year while their parents--ballet dancers...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $15 (80p) ISBN 978-0-689-83242-0
Book Six in the Cobble Street Cousins series, Cynthia Rylant's Wedding Flowers, illus. by Wendy Anderson Halperin, tells of Rosie, Lily and Tess's return to Cobble Street for Aunt Lucy's wedding to Michael. (Apr.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Ellen Beier, Illustrator , illus. by Ellen Beier. Harcourt $6 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-202467-3
Four short chapters in a format between beginning-to-read and longer chapter books describe a family's existence through the seasons. A starred PW
review said, "Every word is carefully chosen, and it is this precise rendering of each...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Ellen Beier, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-201404-9
Newbery Medalist Rylant's (Missing May) talent for bringing sparkle to the everyday world of family, pets and friends is evident in her latest offering, which has a format designed to fill the gap between beginning-to-reads and longer chapter books.
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Nancy Hayashi, Illustrator , illus. by Nancy Hayashi. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-216316-7
"A rabbit family makes a ramshackle house into a comfy home in this soothing story. The book is the literary equivalent of a cup of chamomile tea at bedtime," said PW. Ages 2-5. (Mar.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Nancy Hayashi, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $13 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201092-8
A rabbit family makes a ramshackle house into a comfy home in this soothing book. Rylant's (Bear Days) rhyming text extols the pleasures of fluffy towels, teatime picnics, rocking chairs, hand-knitted blankets and bedtime stories on the porch swing.
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The title character of this inaugural volume in a new series set in Toytown exerts a great deal of visual charm. Like Paddington, Bowers's (Sometimes I Wonder If Poodles Like Noodles) hero sports a blue coat and an irresistible hat, and will...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Tim Bowers, Illustrator , illus. by Tim Bowers. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-204762-7
This first book in the series introduces Toytown plus the "real" guinea pig star of the title, and his toys-who-came-alive-at-night companions. PW called the artwork "refreshingly lighthearted and full of character." Ages 3-7. (Sept.
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Tim Bowers, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201086-7
Starring in his third volume, the titular guinea pig turns health-care practitioner and storytime savior in Little Whistle's Medicine by Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Tim Bowers. Little Whistle, happily anticipating Soldier's nightly ritual of a...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Tim Bowers, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201079-9
Toytown's favorite guinea pig returns in Little Whistle's Dinner Party by Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Tim Bowers, to host a midnight supper. He searches high and low for food and supplies, but when his friends finally arrive, Little Whistle is...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Tim Bowers, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-204590-6
In Little Whistle's Christmas by Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Tim Bowers, the eponymous guinea pig helps his toy friends in Toytown when they wonder if Santa made them.
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Linda Davick. Beach Lane, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4424-6511-4
Rylant (Little Penguins) and Davick (Say Hello!) introduce opposites in a series of chapter-like scenarios starring two good-natured siblings and their frisky, floppy-eared dachshund, Rosie. A chatty narrative emphasizes each term while sounding...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Preston McDaniels, Illustrator , illus. by Preston McDaniels. S&S $14.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-689-84880-3
It's smooth sailing for Rylant's (the Henry and Mudge series) sweet, sea-inspired tale, first in a new series of early chapter book readers. Pandora the cat has weathered her share of rough waters, but for the past four years she has enjoyed
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Preston McDaniels, Illustrator, Rylant, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $14.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-689-84881-0
In The Whale, the second book in the Lighthouse Family series by Cynthia Rylant, with sepia-toned graphite illustrations by Preston McDaniels, the young mice Whistler and Lila come across a baby beluga whale who has lost his mother. They enlist...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Coco Dowley, Illustrator , illus. by Coco Dowley. S&S/Aladdin $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-86355-4
"Like the lyrics to The Sound of Music's '
My Favorite Things,' this picture-book list of what is wonderful in the world includes both raindrops and roses. The sweet, rhythmic text is both cheery and unabashedly sentimental,"...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Coco Dowley, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-83177-5
Like the lyrics to The Sound of Music's ""My Favorite Things,"" Rylant's picture-book list of what is wonderful in the world includes both raindrops and roses. The sweet, rhythmic text is both cheery and unabashedly sentimental. It begins with basic
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Brian Biggs, Illustrator , illus. by Brian Biggs. S&S/Beach Lane $12.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8632-4
A birthday party (“Cats are invited”) is the outing spotlighted in Newbery Medalist Rylant's sweet snippet of a story, first in a planned series, which introduces a happy if a bit timid girl (Brownie) and her similarly sanguine cat (
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Brian Biggs, S&S/Beach Lane, $13.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8631-7
In the second book to feature Brownie and her kitty, Pearl, they’re getting dressed to the nines. Each page focuses on a different adornment Brownie and Pearl select: “Brownie finds feathers. Pearl finds pearls.... A little powder? Yes!”). The...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Gustaf Tenggren, Illustrator ., illus. by Gustaf Tenggren Disney Press $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1861-9
Rylant's poetic, restrained retelling of this well-loved story is a noteworthy addition to the trove of retold fairy tales; like the recent Alice in Wonderland
and Cinderella
picture books, this adaptation uses art from the original Disney...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Sucie Stevenson, Illustrator Scholastic $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-07026-0
In PW 's words, ``On the first five birthdays of one small girl, five different cakes are baked. Before her sixth birthday, she has learned to offer her parents gifts on their birthdays. A celebration of love, this book is as delicious as a `chocolat
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Sucie Stevenson, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-05705-6
On the first five birthdays of one small girl, five different cakes are bakedstar cake, clown, train, robot and dinosaur cakes, respectively. There are also demands for presents, and questions as to who and how many guests should attend. The...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Sucie Stevenson, Illustrator, Sucie Stevenson, Photographer Bradbury Press $14 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-778003-1
In this third book of the series (Henry and Mudge and Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble), Rylant's portrayal of the small Henry and his affectionate large dog is even better than before. When Henry and Mudge go on a picnic and Henry is stung by a...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Cynthia Ryland, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21210-2
The Newbery Honor author demonstrates in these eight evocative tales that love is indeed where--and when--you find it. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Richard Jackson, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2490-7
Rylant (Missing May) breaks new ground with this allegorical tale set on an island off the coast of British Columbia. Through the perspective of an adult narrator revisiting his pivotal 10th year, Rylant has invoked the voice of a true loner...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Jennifer Selby, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $12 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201090-4
Rylant (The Blue Hill Meadows) sounds a minor note in this paper-over-board book; nonetheless, her rhyming tale is agreeably sweet. Bear's day is chronicled from reveille on: ""He wakes in striped pajamas,/ a sock still on his head./ He says hello...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator , illus. by Jane Dyer. S&S $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82377-0
In eight poems and accompanying portraits, Rylant (When I Was Young In the Mountains) and Dyer (I Love You Like Crazy Cakes) extol the joys of domestic life from a toddler's eye view. Taken together, the album is one big love fest from wake-up...
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Cynthia Rylant, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator , illus. by Jane Dyer. S&S/Aladdin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-87060-6
"In eight poems and accompanying portraits, author and artist extol the joys of domestic life from a toddler's eye view," PW
wrote. "Every poem feels like a warm hug." Ages 1-5. (Oct.)
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Lisa Congdon. Beach Lane, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4424-6509-1
Via keen observation and soothing repetition, lilting text from Rylant (Life) celebrates rain’s onset, and its regenerative, nourishing power. “There is a softness/ and a quiet/ before the rain comes,” anticipatory lines begin. In patterned digital...
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Brendan Wenzel. Beach Lane, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5162-8
Rylant (Creation) looks to the natural world for wisdom and consolation as Wenzel’s (They All Saw a Cat) lush, heavily worked artwork imagines a primordial Earth with few signs of human existence. “Life begins small,” Rylant opens; among bare hills,
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Katie Harnett. Beach Lane, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-534-44957-2
What makes a place a home? As Rylant (We Give Thanks) and Harnett (Monty and the Poodles) take readers through differing dwellings, highly specific particulars blend with a sense of reverie, evoking feelings of connection and belonging. In one...
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Mike Austin. Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-4523-8
Fish buddies Henny, Penny, Lenny, Denny, and Mike live a glorious life in their tank—except on “clean the fish tank day,” when they are “unceremoniously plopped into a bowl.” But their newly sparkling home is worth it, and things get even better...
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Cynthia Rylant. Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-7041-4
In a companion to 2016’s Creation, which drew on the book of Genesis, Rylant crafts a spare, graceful rendition of the Nativity, with text adapted from the King James Bible. Following pages that herald Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem, Rylant moves beyond
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Cynthia Rylant. Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-7654-6
In a companion to Creation and Nativity, Rylant offers a stirring picture book rendering of Ecclesiastes. Each portrait-oriented spread includes a single phrase from the paean, presented with spare, brightly colored acrylics in a naïf style. One...
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Sergio Ruzzier. Beach Lane, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-6507-7
On the title page of this journey in couplets, a lanky-limbed rabbit and frog approach a house in a sun-drenched, fancifully colored landscape. “We give thanks for mittens/ and for coats and boots and hats,” Rylant’s gentle verse begins, as the...
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Arthur Howard. Beach Lane, $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9126-6
Given the title, readers may expect to meet a mouse who’s crazy about cars and always zooming about. But while Motor Mouse does have a little red car and drives it “here and there, making deliveries,” neither car nor service are central to the book’s
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Arthur Howard. Beach Lane, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-66592-481-8
A cautious moose named Hornbeam stars in this warmly rendered series kickoff comprising three gently comedic stories by Rylant and Howard, cocreators of the Motor Mouse books. Expressive colored pencil, watercolor, and gouache spreads capture...
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