Dav Pilkey, Author Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-06876-2
In this inventive nocturnal romp, Pilkey's (When Cats Dream; the Dragon books) delectable poetry sweeps readers into a fun-filled world where animals can be found ``skating in moonlight/ And drifting in breezes,/ Rolling in starshine/ And dancing in
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Dav Pilkey, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (88p) ISBN 978-0-15-204708-5
Treasured picture books return to delight a new generation of readers. The Complete Adventures of Big Dog and Little Dog collects five stories about Dav Pilkey's mischievous canines originally published as board books. Big Dog and Little Dog ...
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Dav Pilkey, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $5.95 (29p) ISBN 978-0-15-204950-8
From the creator of Captain Underpants comes the hilarious Dogzilla and Kat Kong by Dav Pilkey, first published in 1993 and featuring a wacky mix of animal photos, art and a deadpan Sam Spade-style narrative. The first title begins, ""It was ...
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Dav Pilkey, Author Harcourt Paperbacks $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-204949-2
From the creator of Captain Underpants comes the hilarious Dogzilla and Kat Kong by Dav Pilkey, first published in 1993 and featuring a wacky mix of animal photos, art and a deadpan Sam Spade-style narrative. The first title begins, ""It was ...
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Dav Pilkey, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15 (29p) ISBN 978-0-15-204951-5
From the creator of Captain Underpants comes the hilarious Dogzilla and Kat Kong by Dav Pilkey, first published in 1993 and featuring a wacky mix of animal photos, art and a deadpan Sam Spade-style narrative. The first title begins, ""It was ...
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Dav Pilkey, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14 (29p) ISBN 978-0-15-204948-5
Several old favorites are being reissued this month. The Caldecott Medal-winning The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Leonard Weisgard, tells about the seasons and animals that touch a small island (""There was a little Island in ...
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Dav Pilkey, Author Scholastic Inc. $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-05934-0
In the first title of this new series, A Friend for Dragon, a snake plays a joke on gentle Dragon that is carried too far. Tricked into believing that an apple is his new friend, Dragon is brokenhearted when a hungry walrus eats it. He buries the...
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Dav Pilkey, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-531-05982-1
The beguiling, bright blue star of three previous early readers here deals with the trials and tribulations of adoptive parenthood as only he can. ``One snowy day in January,'' Dragon rescues a gray tabby from the elements and names it Cat. So far,...
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Dav Pilkey, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-05997-5
In this unusual and humorous picture book, Pilkey ( 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving ; the Dragon books) leaps into the unknown territory of a cat's dreams and conjures forth the colorful world found therein. A wakeful cat's life is ordered; the...
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Dav Pilkey, Author . Scholastic $5.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-54847-2
In these Halloween-themed episodes, "bright blue Dragon never disappoints," wrote PW in a starred review. "The series hero is affability incarnate." Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Dav Pilkey, Author Orchard $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-07075-8
Pilkey envisions cats' dreams in a ""Chagallian landscape of inverted reality,"" said PW in a starred review, describing the book as ""a celebration of the imagination and the extraordinary."" Ages 4-7. (Mar.)
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Dav Pilkey, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-200248-0
Pilkey's (the Dragon books; The Hallo-weiner) exuberant artwork takes on a mystical tone in this inspirational story about the presence of angels. As his occasionally labored rhyming verse posits, gargoyles were originally intended to guard churches
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Dav Pilkey, Author Scholastic $5.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-95735-9
""Pilkey creates an altogether festive mood, cheering those who waddle to a different drummer,"" said PWof this introduction to the Silly Goose family. Ages 4-8. (May)
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Dav Pilkey. Scholastic, $9.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-545-17534-0
A toast of “non-alckaholick wine” to the ninth Captain Underpants novel—and to Dav Pilkey’s refusal to coast. In fact, the title is something of a red herring since the true centerpiece of this installment is a lengthy flashback to “exactly five...
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Dav Pilkey. Scholastic/Graphix, $9.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-58160-8
Dog Man, “a brand-new crime-fighting sensation” created by surgically attaching the head of a police dog to the body of a policeman, gets his own full-color adventure in this terrifically funny spin-off comic from Pilkey (the character’s origins...
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Dav Pilkey, Author Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-05905-0
Patterned as a parody of the celebrated Clement Moore poem, this story of eight baby turkeys unfolds with joyous abandon and crackling vitality, as eight children embark on a Thanksgiving field trip that will change their lives forever. They are...
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Dav Pilkey, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-202104-7
Angels befriend the grotesque church guardians in this comforting story. ""Pilkey imbues these dreamy vistas with electricity, the skin-prickling feeling of witnessing a special event,"" said PW. All ages. (Aug.)
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Dav Pilkey, Author Harcourt Paperbacks $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-242037-6
In a bold departure for Pilkey ( When Cats Dream ), these two brazenly funny picture books spoof Godzilla and King Kong as they launch the mice inhabitants of Mousopolis against, respectively, a killer cat and dog. Touched-up photographs of the...
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Dav Pilkey, Author Scholastic $5.99 (139p) ISBN 978-0-590-63427-4
In this worthy sequel to The Adventures of Captain Underpants, Pilkey maintains the original's satiric, self-referential formula as he revisits fourth-grade pranksters Harold and George, along with their school principal and principle nemesis, Mr....
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Dav Pilkey, Author Scholastic $5.99 (133p) ISBN 978-0-439-04996-2
Fourth-grade cut-ups Harold and George and their principal-turned-superhero are as funny as ever in Pilkey's third Captain Underpants caper. (For those in the dark, the superhero in question is an underwear-clad, toilet-paper-toting crusader for ""Tr
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Dav Pilkey, Author Scholastic Inc. $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-439-04995-5
Fourth-grade cut-ups Harold and George and their principal-turned-superhero are as funny as ever in Pilkey's third Captain Underpants caper. (For those in the dark, the superhero in question is an underwear-clad, toilet-paper-toting crusader for ""Tr
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Dav Pilkey, Author Scholastic Inc. $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-07946-4
Costumed by his mother as a hot dog with bun, Oscar the dachshund goes from hangdog to top dog in what PW's starred review called a ""pun-o-rama."" Ages 4-7. (Sept.)
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Dav Pilkey, Author Orchard Books $5.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-531-07068-0
About this fourth book starring the beguiling blue reptile, PW remarked, ``Pilkey's narrative understatement and cheery, heavily defined artwork once again form a humorous, harmonious whole.'' Ages 6-8. (Sept.)
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Dav Pilkey, Author Scholastic $5.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-531-07054-3
About this witty tale of friendship, PW noted that ``Pilkey has created a positively precious prehistoric prototype'' and praised the ``excellent vocabulary choices and crafty characterizations.'' Ages 6-8. (Sept.)
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Dav Pilkey, Illustrator Scholastic Paperbacks $19.96 (525p) ISBN 978-0-439-69054-6
The Second Captain Underpants Collection by Dav Pilkey packs more fun in a slipcover as the BVDs-clad hero takes to the skies in a quartet of titles: Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman; Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad...
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Dav Pilkey, Illustrator . Scholastic $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-59839-2
"Shannon juggles dark humor and an anti-peer-pressure message," said PW
of this tale of a girl whose affliction causes her to change colors and shapes at others' commands—until she is cured by admitting the truth (she loves lima...
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Dav Pilkey, Illustrator Blue Sky Press $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-47466-5
It could be said that Pilkey (Kat Kong; the Dragon books) never let a good story go unPUNished. From its open-mouthed mutt to its put-upon family to its climactic burglary scene, this latest entry might have been modeled on Susan Meddaugh's Martha...
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Dav Pilkey, Illustrator Blue Sky Press $16.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-590-84627-1
Few things command disrespect like the sight of a man wearing whitie-tighties. However, the bald and barefoot Captain Underpants happens to be a superhero. As one character notes, ""Most superheroes look like they're flying around in their underwear.
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Dav Pilkey, Illustrator Blue Sky Press $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-439-04999-3
Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman serves up waistband-expanding comedy in this fifth story in the series. George and Harold struggle to pass fourth grade after their comic book imaginings rub their teacher,...
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Pilkey, Author Scholastic $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-09506-5
Pilkey (When Cats Dream; the Dragon books) is at his best in this highly atmospheric work. Here his trademark color palette glows quietly under the cover of darkness; violet skies and emerald-shadowed fields predominate until the explosion of a...
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Dav Pikley, Illustrator Blue Sky Press $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-590-63136-5
In this worthy sequel to The Adventures of Captain Underpants, Pilkey maintains the original's satiric, self-referential formula as he revisits fourth-grade pranksters Harold and George, along with their school principal and principle nemesis, Mr....
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Martin Ontiveros, Illustrator Blue Sky Press $4.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-439-37645-7
In the sixth book in Dav Pilkey's adventure series aimed at younger readers, Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Stupid Stinkbugs from Saturn by Dav Pilkey, illus. by Martin Ontiveros, a smelly space monster kidnaps Ricky's cousin Lucy. When ...
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Martin Ontiveros, Illustrator Blue Sky Press $16.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-439-37642-6
Ricky's birthday excursion takes an unexpected turn as he tries to prevent General Jackrabbit from taking over Earth in Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Jurassic Jackrabbits from Jupiter by Dav Pilkey, illus. by Martin Ontiveros.
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Martin Ontiveros, Illustrator Blue Sky Press $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-439-25295-9
In a fourth episode, the titular mouse must rescue his robot from the evil Major Monkey, who plans to mount an assault on Squeakyville in Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Mecha-Monkeys from Mars, by Dav Pilkey, illus. by Martin Ontiveros. ""F
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Martin Ontiveros, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $16.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-590-30719-2
""Some day something BIG will happen, and you will find a friend,"" his father tells Ricky, a lonely mouse whose diminutive stature makes him a target of bullies. Mr. Ricotta is only partially right: Ricky does find a friend, but nothing of...
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Dav Pilkey, Author, George Beard, Author, Dav Pilkey, Illustrator (aka Dav Pilkey). Scholastic/Blue Sky $16.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-439-37606-8
When the principal discovers incorrigible fourth graders George and Harold in the gym, running over ketchup packets with their skateboards, he punishes them with the assignment of writing a 100-page essay on good citizenship and cautions them...
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Dav Pilkey, Author, Sue Denim, Author Scholastic $8.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-94733-6
Pilkey, the mastermind behind the Dumb Bunnies, introduces the Silly Gooses (not ""Geese""--that wouldn't be silly). Mr. Goose floats on a polka-dot raft and sports big cowboy boots and ridiculous hats. ""One day the geese at the pond were sitting...
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Richard Blanco, illus. by Dav Pilkey. Little, Brown, $18 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-37144-5
The creator of Captain Underpants might seem a surprising choice to illustrate a serious poem written in honor of President Obama’s second inauguration, but Pilkey’s work shines. In incantatory free verse, Blanco draws American themes together from...
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Dav Pilkey, Illustrator, Dav Pilkey, Author Scholastic Paperbacks $5.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-439-37610-5
George and Harold get into a sticky situation in Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets, the ""sixth epic novel"" by Dav Pilkey. Harold and George's latest prank makes ""
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Sue Denim, Author, Dav Pilkey, Author, Dav Pilkey, Illustrator Scholastic Inc. $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-58288-9
-84743-0. Tying in with the new Saturday morning cartoon show, these series installments feature the feckless family in a string of misadventures. Ages 5-8. (Oct.)
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Dav Pilkey. Graphix, $12.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-338-71276-6
Dog Man sidekick Li’l Petey and tadpole Molly are running a weeklong comics workshop for 21 quarrelsome froggies while the frogs’ father, bionic fish Flippy, tries to enforce decorum. (Flippy admonishes the kids, “There is NOTHING funny about POO-POO
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