Elizabeth Lee O'Donnell, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-09500-0
Like the song from The Sound of Music extolling rain-splattered roses and bewhiskered kittens, this poem-cum-lullaby is also a celebration of favorite things, from fat brown teddy bears to puddle-stomping with Dad to a steaming pot of cocoa. As a...
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Elizabeth Lee O'Donnell, Author, Amy Schwartz, Illustrator Four Winds $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-768830-6
There is much reassurance in this humorous, unforced tale. ""My sister, Maggie, doesn't want to move,'' the young narrator, Simon, explains. The text, wisely, never spells out that it is Simon, not Maggie, who is apprehensive. But Simon soon finds...
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Elizabeth Lee O'Donnell, Author, Amy Schwartz, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-71375-0
PW found ``much reassurance in this humorous, unforced tale,'' in which Simon, via his little sister, voices his own apprehensions about moving. Ages 5-8. (Mar.)
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Elizabeth Lee O'Donnell, Author, Maxie Chambliss, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $11.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-688-07323-7
A young farm girl is disappointed by her napping turtle's reluctance to move. In her morning rounds of the farm, she encourages two fish to swim, three kittens to purr, finally calling on 10 rabbits that hop at her request. How does she get that...
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