Liz Garton Scanlon. S&S/Beach Lane, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4814-1147-9
“It’s the surprise and mystery of it that makes us want to watch,” quips Ivy Green, age 12, about watching remote-control airplanes fly, though she could just as easily be talking about her story itself. Ivy is a classically risk-averse good girl,...
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Liz Garton Scanlon, illus. by Stephanie Graegin. S&S/Beach Lane, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0287-4
While the title isn’t especially distinctive, this is as memorable and heartfelt as a birthday book gets. Scanlon (All the World) presents the special day through a series of questions. “What are these and what are those?” the young birthday bunny...
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Liz Garton Scanlon, illus. by Arthur Howard, S&S/Beach Lane, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0288-1
Noodle the worm wakes up "with a rain-cloudy heart," and it's not until he gets a pep talk from his blue jay friend, Lou, that he gives "his sorry old slither/ a jaunty new strut." In sturdy yet none-too-formal couplets with an unfaltering rhythm...
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Liz Garton Scanlon, illus. by Kady MacDonald Denton. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-44870-3
Three girls hatch a plan to help make their parting truly sweet in a story that celebrates the bond of friendship while acknowledging the reality of transition. Posy Peyton is feeling blue, faced with moving away and leaving behind her two best...
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Liz Garton Scanlon, illus. by Ashley Wolff. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0348-1
Equipped with a map, boots, a walking stick, and a jaunty trail hat, a girl ventures from the rim of the Grand Canyon down to the Colorado River at the very bottom. In expansive block prints whose radiant colors and heroic characterizations recall...
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Liz Garton Scanlon, illus. by Vanessa Brantley Newton. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59990-611-9
A group of children—with an assist from their fun-loving and attention-hogging cat—put together a theater production from scratch without a whiff of adult supervision. The event is revealed to be a kind of pageant of professions entitled “When We...
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