Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author . Tundra $14.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-88776-586-5
In this posthumous publication from Khalsa (The Snow Cat), a giant green cat takes the role traditionally played by a rabbi in the classic folktale of a family that complains of too little space. Here, two siblings say their room is "too small./
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.67 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-88199-6
Bright, busy paintings and a sympathetic narrative depict canine-coveting May's solution to her parents' ban on pets. Ages 4-9. (Feb.)
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-56137-9
It's hard to know just what to make of this Grandmashe must be the least conventional grandparent in all of children's books. Her granddaughter narrates the tale of how Grandma left Russia and came to Brooklyn, where she married a man who was Dutch...
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $15 (24p) ISBN 978-0-517-56532-2
The creator of Tales of a Gambling Grandma presents the age-old argument between kids and their parents: May wants a dog, and the more her parents deny her one, the more obsessed she becomes. They tell her to wait until she's older, but she can't....
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $7.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-517-56917-7
The author/artist of I Want a Dog and Tales of a Gambling Grandma tells of the different ways people and animals sleep, through the eyes of a girl who insists she will be staying awake on this night. ``My grandfather sleeps after every meal. He says
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $15 (26p) ISBN 978-0-517-57126-2
May, of My Family Vacation , is staying with her good friends Linda, Judy and Peggy Penny while her parents are away. The Penny family is visited by a distant cousin, elderly Mrs. Pelligrini, who walks through the kitchen door, sniffs the air and...
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-56697-8
Tales of a Gambling Grandma , I Want a Dog and Sleepers established varied aspects of Khalsa's gifts: one a fresh-faced satire, the others cheeky looks at more typical childhood concerns. This new work contains a little of each previous work. May...
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $12.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-517-57279-5
This picture book reads more like a dog's biography than fiction. The female narrator tells of her once-peaceful life on a farm with her two cats Victoria and Rocky Rainbow. Because the groundhogs were eating all the vegetables, she acquired a dog,...
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $16 (24p) ISBN 978-0-517-57490-4
In a diverting tale guaranteed to fulfill any child's fantasies about life in the Old West, a city girl who longs to become a cowboy serves as heroine and narrator. She listens to Lone Ranger radio broadcasts (`` `Hi Ho, Silver! Away!' were...
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-517-59183-3
This early work of Khalsa's, posthumously published, resonates with the heartfelt emotion of her other titles ( I Want a Dog ; Tales of a Gambling Grandmastet no comma/rl et al.). In the middle of a bleak winter, Elsie prays that God will send her a
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Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Author Kane/Miller Book Publishers $7.99 (36p) ISBN 978-980-257-238-0
Gr 3-5-This flawlessly translated and marvelous story is fully deserving of all the prizes it has garnered over the years since its first English edition in 1986. In it, a young girl tells the story of her immigrant grandmother's life. This spunky...
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