Ethan Long. Holiday House, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2604-1
The eponymous fowl siblings, first seen in The Wing Wing Brothers Math Spectacular!, test their computing strengths in carnival activities that address counting, adding, and subtracting by 10s. In the first episode, Willy, Wendell, Woody, Wilmer,...
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Ethan Long. Appleseed, $9.99 (20p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2305-6
What goes into readying Santa’s sleigh? For mouse elves, the ingredients are what one might expect for trimming a tree: “First, the lights!/ Then, the garland!/ Hang the ornaments./ Candy canes! Yum!” Unexpected elements include snacks, a pair of...
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Ethan Long. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-68119-825-5
In Long’s third book to feature the green-and-purple-hued Fright Club monsters, Vampire Vladimir and his friends are busy preparing a Thanksgiving feast. Then, the vampire’s extended family members make an unexpected appearance. Though “it was a...
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Ethan Long. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-61963-433-6
The monsters and animals from 2015’s Fright Club are back, and one of them, Fran K. Stein, has love on his mind. “Hmm. Pink paper... Scissors... Glue... Are you making a mask?” guesses vampire Vladimir, turning two pink hearts into oversize fangs. “I
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Ethan Long. Abrams, $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1896-0
Long (Fright Club) kicks off a series featuring a trio of pals: Lion, Tiger, and Bear. Lion is trying to paint by himself, but Bear and Tiger want to play tag. “Artists need peace and quiet,” Lion tells his friends. The more he tries to make himself
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Ethan Long. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-61963-337-7
After a witch, vampire, ghost, and other creatures convene for a tree house meeting of Fright Club, it soon becomes clear that the club’s first rule is that cute creatures need not apply: “Fright Club is for monsters only!” says vampire Vladimir as...
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Ethan Long. Abrams Appleseed, $7.95 (20p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1365-1
More than a dozen animals salute each other with rhyming exclamations in a typically quirky offering from Long. In facing single-page vignettes, the animals smile and wave at each other: “Chirp!” says a red bird, perched on its birdhouse. “Slurp!”...
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Ethan Long. Amazon/Two Lions, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4778-4728-2
A colossal mouse dwarfs his young master in this romp from Geisel Award–winner Long (Up! Tall! and High!), who taps into the same sort of comedy inherent in the relationship between Norman Bridwell’s Clifford and Emily Elizabeth. As Michael...
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Ethan Long, Author . LB Kids $10.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-01722-0
Duck, star of Tickle the Duck!
and Stop Kissing Me!
, is confident he's been nice. Case in point: he's baked a batch of cookies for Santa. But the steaming treats are irresistible and he noisily gobbles them up. When he realizes what he�
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Ethan Long. Holiday House, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2428-3
In this succinctly silly addition to the I Like to Read series, readers meet Pig, whose rotundity and heavy-lidded angst may prompt speculation that he and Garfield were separated at birth. Contrary to the title, Pig actually has two plans. The...
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Ethan Long. Holiday House, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2320-0
In comic book–style panels, Long augments a circus routine—performed by five bug-eyed ducks punnily dubbed the Wing Wing Brothers—with simple math lessons. Act one, which involves balancing spinning plates, introduces the idea of greater than, less...
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Ethan Long. Running Press Kids, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7624-4354-3
"Tee hee hee! Some soup for me!" cries a delighted insect as he flies through an open window into a bowl of soup on a kitchen table. Not prepared to share, the fly becomes increasingly vexed as one bug after another joins him ("No more! No more!/ It
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Ethan Long. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4022-4239-7
As a boy lists superpowers that his father lacks, this story's comedy plays out in pop art–style panels that show the man bumbling his way through everyday activities. "He cannot leap tall buildings in a single bound," but instead trips over the...
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Ethan Long. Little, Brown, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-08612-7
"Most chameleons like to blend in. But not Chamelia." With a wardrobe made up entirely of boldly patterned statement pieces, Chamelia definitely rocks the different drummer look. But her fierce individuality proves distracting when collective...
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Ethan Long, Holiday House, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2291-3
What looks like a mild-mannered, amphibian-themed variation on the birthday party favorite turns out to be a nifty little comedy about best-laid plans. Inspired by a tasty-looking dragonfly, a group of frogs decides to perform their own version of...
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Ethan Long, Author . Tricycle $14.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-58246-321-6
Unlike the well-defined characters in classic children's books about friendship such as Frog and Toad, George and Martha, or even the more recent Dog and Bear, the two friends in these three stories seem like male and female clones of a single...
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Ethan Long. Holiday House, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2951-6
The ever-daring Wing Wing Brothers return for a third outing, ready to reveal three “amazing feats” of geometry. The birds first demonstrate relative positions by launching themselves “in front of,” “above,” “behind,” “beside,” and finally “through”
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Ethan Long. Putnam, $15.99 (44p) ISBN 978-0-399-25611-0
With the help of a flock of brightly colored, googly-eyed birds and some gatefold pages, Long (Chamelia) explores the title’s three words in a trio of short stories with the vibe of an animated educational TV clip. “I am tall,” declares a self-satisf
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Heather Long, illus. by Ethan Long. S&S/Aladdin, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-5143-8
Parents Heather and Ethan Long—she in her debut and he the creator of recent picture books including Soup for One and Pig Has a Plan—fictionalize the repartee between their real-life sons in this jittery bedtime story. Brightly lit comics panels,...
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Travis Foster and Ethan Long. Chronicle, $16.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4521-6040-5
Bloo, a blue rabbit (drawn by Long), catches Redd, a shaggy red monster (drawn by Foster), reading Bloo’s book. A barrage of accusations and denials ensues, but readers will surmise that Redd is indeed trying to pull a fast one on Bloo. Their...
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Travis Foster and Ethan Long. Chronicle, $16.99 (44p) ISBN 978-1-45216471-7
At first, dogs Miles and Spike seem like run-of-the-mill nature lovers: Miles wears a jaunty red cap and is well-equipped for the journey with a backpack and shovel, Spike has a sturdy walking stick, and they both sport big, eager smiles. Very soon,
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Ethan Long. Bloomsbury, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-68119-828-6
Intent on his caped and masked alter-ego, the deceptively brave boy at the center of this spry cartoon battles the forces of evil in his bedroom, but stalls when directed to don his school clothes—and with good reason: “To win this nail-biting...
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Ethan Long. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-33312-2
Long (the Junior Monster Scouts series) pulls from events in his childhood to deliver an ardent illustrated novel. A month after 10-year-old Benny’s parents’ divorce, Benny and his siblings have been living with their chain-smoking father, who...
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Ethan Long. Holt/Ottaviano, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-250-19175-5
A giant billboard welcomes readers to Happy County, “the place for fun,” at the start of this peppy activity-filled collection by Long (Fangsgiving). Much like Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town, Happy County is populated by a cast of cartoon animals...
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