Nancy Willard, Author, David Christiana, Author, David Christiana, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-94115-0
Willards (A Starlit Somersault Downhill) latest relies on the impressionistic beauty of her writing, capturing readers attention with her seductive rhythms and imagery. A girls yellow ball leads her on a chase through an otherworldly place not quite
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David Christiana, Author . Scholastic $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-24401-5
"This imaginative tale ponders what Mother Nature was like as a girl," wrote PW. "Ethereal, slightly fey illustrations evoke a fully realized fanciful world." Ages 4-8. (Dec.)
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David Christiana, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-38390-9
In his second solo outing, Christiana ( Drawer in a Drawer ) once again pulls readers into a parallel universe where the peculiar is the norm and one should always expect the unexpected. Stylistically, his watercolors at times recall both Stephen...
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David Christiana, Author Sunburst $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-41881-6
Fud Butter practices his artistic skills in this surreal and sophisticated poem. Ages 5-8. (Apr.)
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David Christiana, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-31874-1
This is one of those picture books that may well receive critical acclaim for its imaginative concept and stylish execution--but will take some heavy explaining to the intended age group. The abstruse plot concerns a mysterious yarn-like ``line''...
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David Christiana, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-37677-2
In his most accessible work to date, Christiana ( Drawer in a Drawer ; White Nineteens ) melds his chimerical artistic style with an intriguing story of a tiny tooth fairy and a giant (a boy, actually). First the tooth fairy barters with the giant...
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David Christiana, Author Scholastic $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-22855-8
Christiana dips his brush in whimsy for this imaginative ""what if?"" tale that ponders what Mother Nature was like as a girl. A warm weather fan, the little minx schemes to delay the coming of Winter (shown here as a boy bundled in muffler, mittens
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David Christiana, Author, David Christiana, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-47942-8
In a starred review, PW said, ""Christiana's genius delights and entertains... creating parallel universes that through the sheer dynamism of his vision become perfectly believable."" Ages 5-8. (Sept.)
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Alvin Schwartz, Author, David Christiana, Author, David Christiana, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-32690-6
Schwartz carefully assembles facts, fiction and folklore around a fascinating subject for children: the finding of buried treasure. In the now-familiar style of Schwartz's Fat Man in a Fur Coat and Tales of Trickery , the book is documented with...
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