Debi Gliori, Author . Knopf $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-81410-5
Gliori's (Tell Me What It's Like to Be Big) debut novel merges traditional fantasy with high technology; the result is a bit of a conceptual mish-mash with a tangled plot, enlivened by an eccentric sense of humor. In Scottish castle...
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Debi Gliori. Razorbill, $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-451-48173-3
In a small-format picture book aimed at a teenage and adult audience, Gliori (Side by Side) uses stark language and somber charcoal-like artwork to reflect on the weight and intensity of depression. A girl with chin-length hair who looks to be...
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Debi Gliori. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-80273-759-5
A penguin named Bib asks his mother for a bedtime story, and as she complies, it becomes clear that the story is actually a family history about unlikely but enduring love. Bib’s mother, it turns out, was raised by a childless dragon who gave her...
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Debi Gliori, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-81411-2
Debi Gliori follows up the darkly humorous Pure Dead Magic with Pure Dead Wicked. This time around, the Strega-Borgia family must take up residence in the Auchenlochtermuchty Arms after their roof collapses, and the reconstruction crew conspires...
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Debi Gliori, Author Orchard $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-45590-9
The winsome bunny star of Flora's Blanket returns in Flora's Surprise by Debi Gliori. While her older brothers and sisters are busy planting the family garden, Flora plants a brick. ""I'm growing a house,"" she announces. As everyone else's...
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Debi Gliori, Author Timun Mas $12.95 (1p) ISBN 978-84-480-1670-8
PreS-Gr 2-Gliori and her work are well known to the English-speaking markets. This very smooth translation of Polar Bolero will introduce a new population of readers to this author/illustrator. Her oversized watercolor drawings, done in rich,...
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Debi Gliori, Author Timun Mas $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-84-480-1632-6
Colin is a young fox who isn't sure that he is loved. He throws a tantrum to see if his bad behavior will make his mother turn away from him. The mother fox responds patiently and lovingly. The youngster tests her further by posing a series of ""
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Debi Gliori, Author Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30152-4
The latest installment in Gliori's ongoing adventures of Mr. Bear will be familiar to anyone who's spent a wakeful night with a newborn. Mr. Bear and his wife try everything to soothe their newest little one to sleep--feeding, patting, singing--but...
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Debi Gliori, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82292-6
A social outcast makes a snowman--and her first friend--in this well-pitched tale. Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
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Debi Gliori, Author Scholastic $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-20304-3
One snowy night, while redheaded Sam and his father are counting their flock, Bess the sheepdog disappears to search for a pregnant ewe. Bess finds her, but Sam worries about Bess out in the storm: will she ever find her way home? The pair returns...
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Debi Gliori, Author . Harcourt $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-202436-9
The star of Gliori's (Flora's Blanket, reviewed April 9) latest bedtime tale is a small caramel-colored bear who lives in a refrigerator on a handsomely manicured lawn. One sleepless night, "too hot to sleep," the cub joins up with...
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Debi Gliori, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202061-3
Gliori (Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep) here explores anxiety about the limits of a parent's love--especially whether it can survive a bout of pint-size bad behavior. With a gentle, rhyming text and illustrations that exude a snuggly...
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Debi Gliori, Author Larousse Kingfisher Chambers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7534-5023-9
The Princess Podkin finds palace life a bore until an ostensibly dashing Pirate-King turns up at her doorstep, and informs her, ""I want to make a MESS, I want NOISE, and I want to CRASH and SHATTER!"" At first Podkin revels in the presence of...
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Debi Gliori, Author . Dell/Yearling $4.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-440-41849-8
"Gliori's debut novel follows events after a 10-year-old waves her mother's magic wand and loses her baby sister in the modem, merging traditional fantasy with high technology," PW
said. Ages 10-up. (Aug.)
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Debi Gliori, Author . Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205373-4
Rhyming four-line stanzas chronicle Gliori's (No Matter What
) tale of a newly minted sibling's misgivings and eventual acceptance of the family's new addition. The narrator, a tiger cub, observes all the mess and nuisance, and ponders...
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Debi Gliori, Author . Dell/Yearling $4.99 (211p) ISBN 978-0-440-41936-5
In this follow-up to Pure Dead Magic, the Strega-Borgia family must take up residence in the Auchenlochtermuchty Arms after their roof collapses, and the reconstruction crew conspires to destroy rather than repair their home. Ages 10-up. (Aug.)
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Debi Gliori, Author, Gliori, Author Orchard $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30305-4
As she showed in previous books such as Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep and No Matter What, Gliori excels at conveying a warm and supportive family. Here she knowledgeably explores a toddler's attachment to her security blanket. Without
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Debi Gliori. Walker, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3432-7
In the variation on the game of tag that shares its name with this book (better known in the U.S. as “What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?”), children ask the “wolf” for the time, moving closer with each answer until “dinnertime” sends them scrambling. Gliori’s
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Debi Gliori, Author, Debi Gliori, Illustrator Orchard $5.95 (4p) ISBN 978-0-439-24404-6
A pair of board books by Debi Gliori features ursine stars. The final spread of Tickly Under There shows the cuddly cub and Mr. Bear frolicking on the floor: ""Two waving arms/ two kicking legs/ and one very tickly tum!"" Can I Have a Hug?...
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Debi Gliori. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-68119-363-2
It’s time for the whole world to go to sleep: “Goodnight planet, goodnight world./ Peaceful clouds around Earth curled.” Waves rock ocean liners to sleep (wispy Zs puff out of their smokestacks), and even a rocket ship has put on a pair of plaid...
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Debi Gliori, Author, Debi Gliori, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-079-6
According to the narrator of this agreeable tale, her little brother is a bother; in fact, as she writes the book's title on the mirror with lipstick, she adds the first r in brother only as an afterthought. Wishing that he would ``just disappear,''
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Debi Gliori, Author, Debi Gliori, Illustrator Orchard $6.95 (4p) ISBN 978-0-439-27602-3
A pair of board books by Debi Gliori features ursine stars. The final spread of Tickly Under There shows the cuddly cub and Mr. Bear frolicking on the floor: ""Two waving arms/ two kicking legs/ and one very tickly tum!"" Can I Have a Hug?...
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Debi Gliori, Author, Debi Gliori, Illustrator . Walker $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-9789-6
Gliori's (No Matter What
) heedless, self-centered dragons think they can treat the earth like a doormat: they overconsume and overpopulate, and they “chop down the forests/ which melts both the Poles/ and punctures the atmosphere/ full...
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Debi Gliori. Walker, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-80272-391-8
Timid and “very, very little,” Pip the rabbit keeps a running list of everything he’s afraid of—and he can barely keep up. As raindrops fall, he imagines “a gobbler blowing bubbles at the bottom of the lily pond.” Tree stumps? “Pip was 99.9 percent...
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Debi Gliori, Author, Debi Gliori, Illustrator, Debbie Gliori, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7894-6678-5
Need a nursery rhyme? Pick up The Dorling Kindersley Book of Nursery Rhymes, illus. by Debi Gliori, and find one. Unique to this collection are the facts about the meanings behind the rhymes. For example, after ""Hickory, dickory, dock,"" one learns,
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Debi Gliori, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-307-17506-9
Father Bear doesn't know best when it comes to baby-sitting in this unconvincing and visually confusing domestic sitcom. While Mr. Bear fumbles through bathing and feeding the neighbor's baby, he's repeatedly reminded of his ineptitude by three...
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Debi Gliori, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-17558-8
Nothing goes quite as planned when Mr. Bear offers to take the baby on a picnic while Mrs. Bear sleeps in. The two Grizzly-Bear boys also join the party, but complain about Mr. B.'s choice of lunchtime locales (``Dad always brings us here.... It's...
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Debi Gliori, Author, Mary Ling, Editor . DK $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-7894-8861-9
Gliori (Penguin Post, Children's Forecasts, Sept. 9) here reworks nine childhood chestnuts, four of them in verse. In her most successful effort, she sharpens the edge of the usually stolidly portrayed Little Red Hen. The plucky heroine...
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Debi Gliori, Author, Allyn Johnston, Editor . Harcourt $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-216765-3
Milo is a dubious sibling-to-be in a family of penguin postal workers. Given the choice between keeping the egg warm and delivering the mail, he eagerly chooses the latter—not knowing that his father has mistakenly packed the egg in the red...
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Debi Gliori, Author, Signora Strega-Borgia, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-81412-9
In Pure Dead Brilliant, Debi Gliori's follow-up to Pure Dead Magic and Pure Dead Wicked, things are as chaotic as ever at the family castle StregaSchloss. Twelve-year-old Titus is about to inherit his grandfather's entire fortune-if his Uncle...
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