David A. Adler, Author Jewish Publication Society of America $16.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-8276-0805-4
The seventh in the series, The Kids' Catalog of Hanukkah by David A. Adler is a comprehensive paperback guide to the holiday. Sections include ""All About Hanukkah,"" ""Hanukkah Stories"" and ""Hanukkah Fun"" and feature blessings written in Hebrew...
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David A. Adler, Author Three Rivers Press (CA) $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-88024-1
Writes Adler of the King, ``Food, his first love, was the love that destroyed him.'' Here is some that did, along with story snippets from the life of Elvis. If you want fried squirrel, you can find it. Likewise, ``Shit on a Shingle''--the creamed...
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David A. Adler, Author , illus. by Ronald Himler. Holiday $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2009-4
An escape from a burning White House opens this picture-book biography on a thrilling note. Unfortunately, the attention-grabbing anecdote soon yields to a more predictable parade of dates and facts about America's fourth president and his...
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David A. Adler, illus. by Edward Miller. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2290-6
The team behind numerous math-oriented books, including Mystery Math: A First Book of Algebra and Fun with Roman Numerals, turns to length, width, and depth using a cast of digitally rendered monsters that are starring in a 3-D movie, Monsters in...
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David A. Adler and Michael S. Adler, illus. by Matt Collins. Holiday House, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2369-9
At the battle of San Jacinto during the Texas revolution against Mexico, Sam Houston famously declared, “We are Texans.... If you wish to fight, here is your chance and now is the time.... Remember the Alamo!” But Houston’s life was filled with many
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David A. Adler, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (148p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3715-9
PW noted that Adler's skillful use of personal accounts by Holocaust survivors ``gives readers a broad scope of genuine feeling.'' Ages 10-up. (Apr.)q
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David A. Adler, Author, Linda Heller, Illustrator Holiday House $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0756-9
Heller's muted folk-art illustrations enhance this explanation of major religious observances; the book includes a Jewish calendar and a brief glossary. Ages 5-8. (Oct.)
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David A. Adler, illus. by Anna Raff. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2862-5
Adler shows his customary skill for explicating mathematical concepts in this smart exploration of floatation and density. Several experiments allow for a hands-on approach: Adler suggests filling a sink with water and testing whether different...
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David A. Adler, illus. by Edward Miller. Holiday House, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2403-0
Math book veterans Adler and Miller put giant numbers into perspective by using familiar frames of reference and by appealing to readers’ imaginations: “How many ice cream sundaes would one billion dollars buy? At five dollars a Sunday, you could...
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David A. Adler, illus. by Jeffrey Ebbeler. Behrman/Apples & Honey, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-68115-500-5
When Sara sees an elderly man scrounging by her neighborhood grocery store, she leaves him small amounts of food to help. And when she realizes that he attends her synagogue (“the man eats some challah. He drinks some grape juice. We all do”) she...
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David. A. Adler, illus. by Edward Miller. Holiday House, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3642-2
Frequent collaborators Adler and Miller follow their books on fractions, time zones, triangles, and other topics with a thorough look at all things circular. After a brief run-down of two- and three-dimensional shapes with round aspects (cylinders,...
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David A. Adler, illus. by Edward Miller. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2289-0
In an entertaining and effective math primer, two children solve a haunted house's riddles using algebra. "The two sides of each equation are balanced. They're equal," Adler explains, before introducing the concept of a variable or "mystery number."
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David A. Adler, illus. by Jill Weber. Holiday House, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2902-8
Hewing closely to the magid (“the telling”) of the Passover story, Adler (who previously teamed up with Weber for The Story of Hanukkah) begins with Jacob’s arrival in Egypt and ends with the Israelites’ jubilant celebration on banks of the Red Sea.
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David A. Adler, illus. by Jill Weber. Holiday House, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2295-1
The events commemorated in the holiday of Hanukkah are retold simply for young ears by prolific children's author Adler (Cam Jansen books) in a religious and historical lesson. Weber's full-spread color illustrations, with an emphasis on traditional
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David A. Adler, Author, John Wallner, Illustrator, Alexandra Wallner, Illustrator Holiday House $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0731-6
The prolific Adler ( Cam Jansen ) and the Wallners have collaborated on two highly accessible and involving picture-book biographies. Each book begins with the childhood of the leader and firmly places its subject within the continuum of American...
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David A. Adler, Author, Robert Casilla, Illustrator Holiday House $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0770-5
As with Adler's previous books in this series, the picture-book format serves as a highly effective, empathetic way to introduce the life and legacy of important Americans to young children. Here the highlights of King's life are presented with an...
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David A. Adler, Author, Robert Casilla, Illustrator Holiday House $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0734-7
In simple, fluid language, Adler writes of the sports hero who paved the way for other minorities by being one of the best athletes of this century. Jackie Robinson wasn't offered fat scholarships or mind-boggling salaries for his sports skills. He...
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David A. Adler, Author, Karen Ritz, Author, Karen Ritz, Illustrator Holiday House $17.95 (29p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1003-3
This most recent addition to the Picture Book Biography series balances candor with discretion in its presentation of heroine Anne Frank. Adler traces the intersection of Anne's brief life with the forces of Nazism, chronicling the girl's earliest...
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David A. Adler, Author, Karen Ritz, Illustrator Holiday House $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1288-4
In their fourth book about the Holocaust, Adler and Ritz (Child of the Warsaw Ghetto) again funnel a vast, horrific subject through the true experiences of one Jewish child. This story belongs to Lore Baer, whose German parents fled to Holland just...
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David A. Adler, Author, Karen Ritz, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1091-0
Adler and Ritz follow up their A Picture Book of Anne Frank by briefly describing two other young victims of the Holocaust, 18-year-old Hilde Rosenzweig and nine-year-old Eli Lax. Neither has a particular claim on public memory-Hilde's brother...
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David A. Adler, Author, Terry Widener, Illustrator , illus. by Terry Widener. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205026-9
In the Bronx in 1932, a boy goes to work and ends up learning a great strategy for selling papers. "Adler and Widener score big—their book reads like a labor of love," wrote PW
. Ages 6-9. (Mar.)
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David A. Adler, Author, Terry Widener, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202483-3
PW called this picture-book biography of the man who played 2,130 consecutive games for the New York Yankees ""a gracious tribute to a stalwart, modest and tirelessly optimistic man. Widener's stylized acrylics vividly re-create the look and feel of
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David A. Adler, Author, Terry Widener, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201969-3
The team behind The Babe & I and Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man here abandons the baseball field for the chilly, choppy waters of the English Channel, which Ederle swam across in 1926. The first woman to accomplish this feat, Ederle also beat, by...
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David A. Adler, Author, Terry Widener, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201378-3
In the Bronx in 1932, a boy out walking with his friend discovers that his ostensibly employed father is actually selling apples on the street. Shocked, the boy numbly follows the friend, a ""newsie,"" to work and ends up learning a great strategy...
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David A. Adler, Author, Terry Widener, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200523-8
In memorable paintings-a view of a baseball diamond from behind a swinging batter's shoulder; Lou Gehrig as seen from a ""nosebleed seat"" in Yankee Stadium-newcomer Widener inventively manipulates perspective and scale. His stylized acrylics, in...
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David A. Adler, Author, Terry Widener, Illustrator , illus. by Terry Widener. Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205585-1
These creative collaborators (Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man
) offer a multidimensional portrait of another athlete worthy of the spotlight. Born in Alabama in 1906, Satchel Paige was called by many the greatest pitcher of his day (quoted here saying...
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David A. Adler, Author, Terry Widener, Illustrator , illus. by Terry Widener. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205251-5
"Text and art offer a compelling, in-depth account of the adult Ederle's crossing of the English Channel," said PW
. "Kids will dive right in." Ages 6-9. (July)
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David A. Adler, Author, Nancy Tobin, Illustrator Holiday House $6.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1341-6
Bright cartoons enliven an introduction to fractions, that incorporates common cents (money) and ""pizza math,"" a delicious way to teach numerators and denominators. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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David A. Adler, Author, Chris O'Leary, Illustrator , illus. by Chris O'Leary. Harcourt/Gulliver $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202196-2
Adler (The Babe and I; Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man) heads back to the ballpark for this tale of a girl whose mother makes it into a women's pro baseball league during WWII. "While Dad's away, I need to work," Mama tells Amy, who...
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David A. Adler, Author, Will Hillenbrand, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $14 (144p) ISBN 978-0-15-201295-3
Seven of Andy's gerbils have escaped from their cage at home (and his mother hates animals). At school, preoccupied with thoughts of his pets on the loose, the boy offers ""China"" as the solution to a math problem. And just when he's about to ask...
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David A. Adler, Author, Sucie Stevenson, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0427-4
The heroine of this story is convinced that she is a real witch. After checking her calendar and noting that it is Aunt Ruby's birthday, the girl predicts both a visit to the less-than-loved relative and that her cat won't be allowed to go (without...
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David A. Adler, Author, Jan Palmer, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $11.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-82419-9
The telling of the traditional Hanukkah story, extremely abbreviated here, is good as far as it goes. The plot woven around it, though, is so weak it might have been better to stop right there. Young Sharon puts all her toys on the floor, one after...
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David A. Adler, Author, Jacqueline Garrick, Illustrator Holiday House $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0667-8
A model of clear, coherent writing for children in early grades, this well-proportioned biography amply shows why Jefferson, ""one of our greatest leaders,'' was also ``one of America's most talented men.'' An accomplished writer, scholar, architect,
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