David Martin, Author, Frank Remkiewicz, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1327-3
Candlewick adds to its Brand New Readers series with Piggy and Dad by David Martin, illus. by Frank Remkiewicz; The Rosa Stories by Sheila White Samton; and Wow, It's Worm! by Kathy Caple. Each consists of a slipcase that includes four paperback
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David Martin, illus. by Lori Richmond. Holt, $16.99 ISBN 978-1-250-12706-8
Even ghouls encounter Halloween wardrobe malfunctions. Soon after an eager skeleton named Skelly decides a ghost is the perfect Halloween costume, his bedsheet gets caught in a momentary updraft and he crashes to the ground in pieces. A snake, an...
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David Martin, Author, Valeri Gorbachev, Illustrator , illus. by Valeri Gorbachev. Candlewick $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2393-7
As warm and comforting as fresh-baked apple pie, this cinnamon sweet picture book about cooperation and sharing is just right for a family read-aloud. The Cat family is so satisfied with the apple pie Grandma Cat bakes that they leave only one last...
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David Martin, Author, David Martin, Author, Matt Dorfman, Illustrator Arriviste Press $17.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-9746270-2-1
In this inane collection of political satire, Canadian columnist Martin offers up short comic pieces in which the choice of offbeat form constitutes virtually the only creatively intriguing element. The result is a lot of high-concept formatting,...
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David Martin, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2350-8
An upscale woman from Washington, D.C., falls hopelessly in love with an oafish Appalachian farmer in veteran author Martin's engaging romantic fairy tale, which begins when 30-year-old Katherine Renault retreats to her rich fiancé's...
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David Martin, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator , illus. by Melissa Sweet. Candlewick $5.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3029-4
In this cheerful board book, five children light a new candle on their menorah for each night of Hanukkah as they indulge in activities like exchanging gifts, making shadow puppets and reading a story. The text is simple and soothing—“Han
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David Martin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (340p) ISBN 978-0-312-95835-0
A man becomes a murder suspect after an old childhood friend begins killing off his enemies. (Sept.)
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David Martin, Author Random House (NY) $16 (289p) ISBN 978-0-394-58471-3
Prominent TV anchorman John Lyon breaks down on camera after discussing the escalating rate of violence against children. Later, an African American woman exhorts Lyon to seek out Mason Quindell, a West Virginia doctor and ``monster''; then the...
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David Martin, Author Grove Press $16.95 (241p) ISBN 978-1-55584-063-1
There are three heroes in this breathtaking novel by the author of The Crying Heart Tattoo: Jess, the youngest, a fat wunderkind with glasses; Johnny Reace, a charming wanderer who stays fixed for a moment that lasts forever; and Bonner Relee, as...
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David Martin, Author Random House (NY) $18.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-394-58491-1
Like Elmore Leonard, Martin ( The Crying Heart Tattoo ) favors seamy-side life where evil is abrupt, foreordained, explicable and unforgivable. Phil Jameson, a nut case, waits in a Virginia woods holding the hand of the 15-year-old hitchhiker he...
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David Martin, Author Pocket Books $6.5 (305p) ISBN 978-0-671-73876-1
Influential real estate developer Jonathan Gaetan is murdered. Was the killer Mary, his wife? Nut case Phil Jameson? Mary and Phil in collusion? Deposed detective Teddy Camel makes a comeback and sets the record straight in this ``violent,...
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David Martin, Author Villard Books $23 (289p) ISBN 978-0-679-41056-0
At the beginning of Martin's stylish but unbearably brutal new thriller, Donald Growler puts a severed human head into a washing machine, pours in some shampoo after it, notes it's called Head & Shoulders, thinks ""Or in this case just Head,"" then...
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David Martin, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-85348-2
A comic romp through the dark underbelly of New Orleans in Martin's latest (after Tap Tap) begins when protagonist Charlie Curtis is instructed by his dying father to check up on the ""Pelikan,"" the French Quarter's notorious criminal kingpin who...
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David Martin, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0777-7
A poignant, funny tale about the love between a young man and a woman twice his age. (Sept.)
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David Martin, Author, Susan Meddaugh, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56402-918-8
This uncommonly diverting picture book tells why this little piggy went to market and that one stayed home. Five chapters introduce the porcine quintet one by one, according to the nursery rhyme. In the first episode, Momma Piggy sends her daughter...
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David Martin, Author, Sue Heap, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-381-0
Unlike Chicken Little, this story's title character doesn't worry about the sky falling. All the same, Little Chicken Chicken has an overactive imagination. Other chickens make fun of her for calling a string a tightrope and pretending that some...
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David Martin, illus. by Valeri Gorbachev. Candlewick, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3693-7
A bunny learns about self-acceptance and belonging in this Christmas Eve fantasy, energized by whimsical ink-and-watercolor art by Gorbachev, Martin’s collaborator on All for Pie, Pie for All. Little Bunny is dismayed when his taller younger...
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David Martin, illus. by John Manders. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3704-0
As every host knows, a successful party is as much a matter of venue as it is the mix of guests and food. So when Grandpa Crow decides to hold a high altitude soiree—“What could be better than friends together at a party in a tree?”—everybody comes,
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David Martin, illus. by David Walker. Candlewick, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5039-1
Martin (Let's Have a Tree Party!) covers the highs and lows of a play date in the park with this story of two young friends—a tiny yellow duckling and an even tinier blue bird. The rhymed verse has a playfulness that echoes the birds' light...
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David Martin, illus. by David Walker. Candlewick, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6884-6
Friends Peep and Ducky get together for a second play date in this follow-up to Peep and Ducky. There are some minor upsets as they play—the birds “bonk heads” when their chair-and-blanket tent collapses, and both want to be the captain of an...
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