Denys Cazet, Author Orchard Books (NY) $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-07021-5
PW said, ``Cazet evokes childhood experience and the bittersweet moments of emotional growth. In glowing watercolor and ink illustrations his characters are shown as animals, yet the stories have sensitive qualities that will reverberate long after...
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Denys Cazet, Author Bradbury Press $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-717960-6
Gregory, an imaginative kid who can't always focus on the tasks at hand, is having a bad day. When his teacher calls him up to the board to draw a circle, another kid calls it ""a flat tire.'' An ant crawls onto Gregory's desk, and he draws a city...
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Denys Cazet, Author Orchard Books (NY) $12.99 (30p) ISBN 978-0-531-05750-6
Sam meets his visiting Great-uncle Felix at the bus stop, eager to show off his invention for carrying suitcases. On the way home, they swap family stories and Great-uncle Felix gives the boy his own mother's champion yo-yo; they share memories of...
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Denys Cazet, Author HarperTrophy $3.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-444314-2
The bovine buddies are back to share their love in Minnie and Moo: Will You Be My Valentine? by Denys Cazet. From Moo's ""Ode to the Cream Puff"" (inspired by a mishap that sends Minnie's pastry into her lap) to some misdirected love poems that...
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Denys Cazet, Author Orchard Books (NY) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-05830-5
When Mother Night comes ``to shake her dark quilt / and let dreams tumble down,'' animal parents put their children to sleep. Mother Mouse sings to her children, and they dream of an orchestra of bewigged pigs and hippos; the fox children dream of...
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Denys Cazet, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-623752-7
In the beginning reader Minnie and Moo: The Night Before Christmas by Denys Cazet, the bovine series heroes consult the ""Clement Moose"" classic (""It's a how-to book on delivering Christmas gifts"") when the farmer forgets where he's hidden his
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Denys Cazet, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-623748-0
All the animals are running scared when a thunderstorm strikes the barnyard in Denys Cazet's Minnie and Moo Meet Frankenswine. The two courageous cows unmask the mystery of a reputed monster on the premises. This seventh book about Minnie and Moo,
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Denys Cazet, Author Orchard Books (NY) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-05881-7
Few can match Cazet ( A Fish in His Pocket ; Frosted Glass )--a master of school-age slice-of-life in picture book format. Featuring perhaps the most sweetly anthropomorphized and consistently childlike animals ever to populate an elementary school,
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Denys Cazet, Author Scholastic $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-06822-9
Animated, large-scale illustrations convey most of the humor in Cazet's ( ``I'm Not Sleepy' '; Born in the Gravy ) slight yet peppy tale. Perched on the arm of a scarecrow, a rooster with a megaphone issues his traditional wake-up call, and the...
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Denys Cazet, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-05488-8
Reminiscent of ``Never Spit on Your Shoes '' in its style and narrative technique, Cazet's latest school story is sprinkled with Spanish words and phrases. After her first day of kindergarten, Margarita has much to share with her proud Papa....
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Denys Cazet, Author Orchard Books (NY) $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-05451-2
It would be difficult to imagine a more delightful sequel to the endearing `` Never Spit on Your Shoes '' than this larky picture book. Arnie, a sweetly anthropomorphized puppy, relates the story of his first-grade class's visit to the aquarium...
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Denys Cazet, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $4.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-71259-3
Memories of his grandfather, who has died, keep Patrick awake on Christmas Eve, until his mother soothingly reminds him of the good times they shared. Ages 4-7. (Oct.)
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Denys Cazet, Author Bradbury Press $11.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-02-717970-5
It was Saturday when beginning readers first met Barney and Grandpa and Grandma Spanielson for a day full of pranks and high spirits. Now it is Sunday, and Cazet pokes fun at passing the church collection plate, playing Bingo and eating a...
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Denys Cazet, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $3.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-689-71065-0
Barney's weekend with his grandparents starts off badly, but thanks to pancakes and rocket ships, it becomes something special. Ages 6-9. (March)
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Denys Cazet, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-05713-1
Russell is walking to school on a brisk November morning. He stops by the Long Meadow pond. Suddenly his math book falls into the pond! He quickly grabs it from the icy water, but not before it's slimy with algae. At school, Russell finds a small,...
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Denys Cazet, Author Bradbury Press $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-717950-7
Emily and Louie arrive at Grandpa and Grandma Rabbit's house with a special present. They hand it to Grandpa, who says, ""Thank you! A Happy New Year's Day to you!'' But it isn't New Year's that Emily and Louis want to celebrate. Grandpa keeps...
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Denys Cazet, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-000506-1
More holiday misadventures await readers in Minnie and Moo: The Attack of the Easter Bunnies by Denys Cazet. When they hear that the farmer is too old to dress up as the Easter Bunny, the bovine duo decides to find a replacement. Cazet's...
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Denys Cazet, Author . HarperTrophy $3.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-444313-5
In this beginning reader, the bovine series heroes consult the Clement Moose "classic," in which the farmer forgets where he's hidden his grandchildren's presents. Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
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Denys Cazet, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2516-4
Staying out till the cows come home takes on a whole new meaning in the first of Cazet's (Never Spit on Your Shoes) spunky new chapter books, especially when it's the cows who are boogying late into the night. Minnie and Moo are best bovine pals...
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Denys Cazet. Atheneum/Jackson, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6140-5
Cazet is no stranger to offbeat friendship stories, as readers of his Minnie and Moo books or his recent Snail and Slug know. In a deadpan, dialogue-driven story that stretches from morning till night, he introduces farm turkeys Bob and Tom, who may
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Denys Cazet. Creston (PGW, dist.), $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-939547-08-8
The bovine stars of several picture books and early readers (and the 2003 chapter book Minnie and Moo and the Seven Wonders of the World) make a raucous return as hosts of the “First Annual Hoot, Holler, and Moo Talent Festival.” Take-charge Moo...
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Denys Cazet, Author, Denys Cazet, Illustrator . HarperCollins $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-000500-9
Centering on the engaging rooster friend to Cazet's Minnie and Moo, this new I Can Read book handily showcases the author's snappy humor, which permeates both narrative and pictures. When a bug flies into Elvis's mouth just as he...
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Denys Cazet, Author, Denys Cazet, Illustrator HarperCollins $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-000503-0
Denys Cazet's moovelous bovine duo make hay on Halloween in the I Can Read book Minnie and Moo: The Night of the Living Bed. The fun begins when Minnie dreams that a giant mouse has eaten the last bit of chocolate left in the world, and continues
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Denys Cazet, Author, Denys Cazet, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-623754-1
Familiar faces make a special Valentine's Day appearance. The bovine pals become barnyard Cupids, penning love poems for friends and delivering them, surreptitiously, via bow and arrow in Minnie and Moo: Will You Be My Valentine? by Denys Cazet,...
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Denys Cazet, Author, Denys Cazet, Illustrator . Atheneum/Jackson $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0935-4
This sweet-tempered book features lonely Hamlet—a pig who just doesn't fit in with the rest of his family. He wears clean tennis shoes, doesn't like mud and loves to read and write poetry. Hamlet's benighted parents not only...
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Denys Cazet, Author, Denys Cazet, Illustrator . Atheneum/Jackson $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-86467-4
Mrs. Wilkerson prepares the perfect pie for her husband, reminding him "After we pass on,... there will be no more pie
." With that, he shouts, "Then I ain't goin'!
" and promptly expires. The widow buries him in the yard and
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Denys Cazet, Author, Denys Cazet, Illustrator . Atheneum/Jackson $16.95 (134p) ISBN 978-0-689-85330-2
Though the stars of Cazet's popular beginning-reader series make a rather lumbering leap to a heftier, chapter-book format, loyal fans will no doubt willingly make the jump with them. When Moo overhears the farmer talking about selling the farm,
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Denys Cazet, Author, Cazet, Author Orchard Books (NY) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-05847-3
The author/illustrator of Frosted Glass and A Fish in His Pocket again captures the humor and nuance of the early elementary years. Arnie arrives home exhausted. ``How was Mr. First Grader's first day?'' his mom inquires. And so this endearing book...
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Denys Cazet, Author, Craig Bond, Photographer Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-09466-2
A disappointing offering, Cazet's (``I'm Not Sleepy'') slight, sentimental story focuses on Alex, a boy disgusted by his noisy newborn sibling. ""Maybe we can send the baby back to the hospital,"" he suggests to his father. But Father shows the boy...
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