Books by Ed Emberley and Complete Book Reviews
Ed Emberley, Author Little, Brown/LB Kids $7.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-316-01891-3
There are plenty of cute surprises in this lift-the-flap book that takes readers on a search to answer the titular question. Beside the query, “In this chair?” flipping a chair-shaped flap reveals a teddy bear and the refrain, “But
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Edward R. Emberley, Author, Ed Emberley, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-23487-0
A pair of reissued books makes available the launches of two significant careers. The Wing on a Flea: A Book About Shapes, Ed Emberley's first book, published in 1961, makes an affable companion to his playful yet instructive series of drawing ...
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Edward R. Emberley, Author, Ed Emberley, Author, Edward R. Emberley, Illustrator LB Kids $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-23314-9
A bevy of companion titles arrives just in time for back-to-school reading. With nary a note of text (save a pointed front-page explanation and one-word labels, as in his other drawing books), Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Weirdos uses ...
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Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley, Scholastic/Orchard, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-21829-0
This father-daughter team builds on the winning formula of 2009's There Was an Old Monster with a silly spin on another familiar song. In digital illustrations, flamboyant angular monsters—composed of patterned geometric shapes with tentacles, teeth,
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Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley. Roaring Brook/Porter, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-627-5
It's survival of the fittest in this wild counting book. This father-and-daughter team offers a cast of spiky, angular, black-and-white monsters that cavort to a riff on the "Ten Little Indians" nursery rhyme. "One little/ two little/ three little...
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Ed Emberley. Little, Brown/LB Kids, $8.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-21041-6
Twenty years after Go Away, Big Green Monster! Emberley uses die-cuts to introduce readers to a new monster, and this one’s much younger (and far less scary) than its predecessor. As with the earlier book, the die-cuts accumulate to reveal the...
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