Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-216518-5
Dot & Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery by Ellen Stoll Walsh is the third in a series about the two mouse detectives. This time their scientific mystery involves the insects they've been watching, which seem to disappear. As the two search for bugs,
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-216512-3
When, after a rainstorm, the stream is empty, the eponymous mouse detectives forage for clues in Dot & Jabber and the Mystery of the Missing Stream by Ellen Stoll Walsh, the follow-up to Dot & Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery. Mixed-media...
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-201012-6
A mouse is mistaken for a fox by a goose; PW said the story lacks the magic of Walsh's other works and is ""apt to confuse."" Ages 3-8. (Apr.)
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-252264-3
Feisty mice akin to the heroes of Mouse Paint and Mouse Count trip and tumble across the festive cut-paper collages in this beguiling book. After Samantha, the tiniest and most timid of the brood, wishes aloud for a fairy godmother to protect her...
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-292871-1
Walsh ( Mouse Paint ) is at her sprightly best with this tale of Betsy, who's bored by hopping and jumping like all the other frogs. Looking for another way to express herself, Betsy tries imitating falling leaves and soon discovers dancing. The...
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Harcourt Children's Books $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-292850-6
Pip, a salamander afraid of the dark, sets out in search of Old Abra the wizard, hoping he will help him to be brave. His travels take him through a pitch-dark forest, ``black as shadows under a rock,'' into a tunnel ``as black as night with my eyes
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author . Harcourt $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-202602-8
Walsh's (Mouse Paint; Mouse Count) mice characters here deliver a somewhat disjointed nature lesson. Spying a young oak tree, "detectives" Dot and Jabber set out to find the larger oak that produced the acorn that sprouted into the...
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Voyager Paperbacks $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201375-2
A frog teaches her cohorts to dance; ""Wide-eyed and wiggling, rendered in a fresh, focused palette and invitingly designed, these hip hopsters are a joy to behold,"" said PW in a starred review. Also available in a Spanish-language edition, Salta y
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $5.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-15-200265-7
Mice, a rottweiler, an arachnid and a few other assorted critters make sturdy reappearances in five board book versions of picture books. In Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint, ``three white mice on a white piece of paper"" enjoy a colorful romp, while
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Voyager Paperbacks $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200223-7
A gang of mice learns to mix colors and to count; the ``naive charm and exuberance'' of Walsh's cut-paper art helped earn Mouse Paint a spot among PW's Best Books of 1989. Ages 2-6; 4-8. (Mar.)
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Voyager Paperbacks $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200118-6
A gang of mice learns to mix colors and to count; the ``naive charm and exuberance'' of Walsh's cut-paper art helped earn Mouse Paint a spot among PW's Best Books of 1989. Ages 2-6; 4-8. (Mar.)
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-256025-6
Three white mice get into some primary hued paint pots, and emerge as artful members of a lesson on color and camouflage. When they are white mice, on white paper, the cat can't see them. Then they spy three jars of paint, one red, one yellow and...
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, S&S/Beach Lane, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0757-2
With characteristic simplicity and charm, Stoll (Mouse Shapes) introduces two mice who fashion a teeter-totter by balancing a tree branch on a rock. Poised on each end—and playfully standing on one foot—the friends are in perfect equilibrium (“Ta-da!
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author, Patrick C. Walsh, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200323-4
In Walsh's (Mouse Paint) spontaneous and crafty story-within-a-story, a pencil-toting frog author recruits a reluctant Jack (who's also a frog) to be the main character in a fairy tale. Vowing that he'll be famous, the author tells Jack that his job-
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author, Diane D'Andrade, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-200324-1
The sole alligator among three flamingos, Pete knows he is green, but he wants to be pink because ""everyone else is."" In one of this brief yet insightful tale's typically witty passages, his flamingo pals reassure him: ""Don't worry.... You...
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author, Diane D'Andrade, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-299865-3
George, a mouse, brings news of a nearby fox when he visits his friend Emily and her newborn goslings. His description of the lurking animal--``big ears, bright eyes and sleek, shiny fur''--causes Emily's neighbor Lulu to insist that George himself...
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author, Diane D'Andrade, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-256023-2
The protagonists of Walsh's Mouse Paint return, with a few companions, to bring another basic concept to life for toddlers: this time, the numbers from one to 10. ``Mouse Count!,'' a greedy snake proclaims, and gathers them up until he has filled...
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Ellen Stoll Walsh, Author, Diane D'Andrade, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200326-5
The creator of Mouse Paint and Mouse Count dishes up more concept fun in this picture book about complementary colors. Now that Kit, an androgynous mouse, has mastered primary and secondary colors, a wizard bird wants to teach Kit some color magic....
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