Eve Merriam, Author, Ivan Chermayeff, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-88353-9
This book's punning title sets the tone here, as simple rhymes join closeup illustrations for a witty and instructive look at (or through?) ``all kinds of holes.'' Often shot from unusual perspectives, Chermayeff's crystal-clear photographs are...
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Eve Merriam, Author, Sheila Hamanaka, Illustrator, Shelia Hamanaka, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $15 (53p) ISBN 978-0-688-08152-2
Cavorting with words, Merriam maintains a serious purpose: by bending the rules of diction and syntax, she aims for a universal language of rollicking onomatopoeic richness, where words achieve a lyricism that reduces the reader to a state of wonder
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Eve Merriam, Author, Sheila Hamanaka, Illustrator, Shelia Hamanka, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-08137-9
This collection of Merriam's ( Blackberry Ink ; You Be Good and I'll Be Night ) bouncy, spirited poems will appeal to modern kids who spend their days at ice cream counters trying to decide between ``cinnamon spasm, / pistachio burp, / cantaloupe...
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Eve Merriam, Author, Dale Gottlieb, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1934-6
Gottlieb, the author/illustrator of Big Dog and My Stories by Hildy Calpurnia Rose , has deftly turned the neat synchronization of Merriam's lilting counting rhyme into an artistic express run. Between the rolling cadences of this peripatetic choo-ch
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Eve Merriam, Author, David Frampton, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $13.95 (46p) ISBN 978-0-02-766860-5
The award-winning poet displays her versatility in this volume of 45 poems that invite children to redecorate the ordinary world with unusual images""fresh paint.'' New shoes are ``wooden boats/ so slippery/ I can't even stay/ afloat.'' The first...
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Eve Merriam, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-85356-2
Designed to shiver the timbers of youngsters all year round, the previously published Halloween ABC (1987) is now Spooky ABC by Eve Merriam, illus. by Lane Smith. The handsome edition pits 26 alphabetically organized poems-""Demon"" and ""Lair""
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Eve Merriam, Author, Lane Smith, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $14.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-02-766870-4
Award-winner Merriam slips on a Gothic cloak and mask to titillate and tease with 26 varied Halloween poems, highlighting all letters of the alphabet, that playfully and ironically address readers. The book offers ""guises, disguises, all kinds of...
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Eve Merriam, Author, David Small, Illustrator William Morrow & Company $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-05255-3
The anticipatory airs of the holiday are visible in Small's lovely, full-color pictures of the outside and the festively decorated indoors of a house on Christmas morning. Grandparents, parents, children, their aunt and Whiskers the cat rush...
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Eve Merriam, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $14.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-671-64964-7
It's plain to see where most of the animals are: the narwhal is in the noodle house, the vicuna is at the video store and the quail is on the quarterdeck. But finding the dapper, sleepy-eyed mole will keep children turning the pages of this deft...
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Eve Merriam, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator Little Simon $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-77821-7
Droll illustrations of anthropomorphized critters accompany such alliterative alphabetical antics as ``Elephant is on the escalator.'' Ages 3-6. (June)
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Eve Merriam, Author, Bernie Karlin, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $7.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-80892-0
Lively combinations of items add up to 11 in what PW called ""a counting book with an innovative twist."" Ages 2-6. (July)
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Eve Merriam, Author, Karen Lee Schmidt, Illustrator Mulberry Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-13984-1
""This collection of cheerful, rollicking rhymes... is sure to be a favorite,"" said PW, adding that Schmidt's ""bright, exuberant watercolors [are] the perfect accompaniment for Merriam's joyful music."" Ages 3-up. (May)
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Eve Merriam, Author, Karen Lee Schmidt, Illustrator, Karen Schmidt, Photographer Morrow Junior Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-06742-7
Like Merriam's Blackberry Ink , this collection of cheerful, rollicking rhymes is sure to be a favorite. These are not sleepy bedtime poems, but bouncy, jingling verses guaranteed to please lively children who should be ready to ``turn out the light
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Eve Merriam, Author, Dan Yaccarino, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5796-6
A demolition team uses a wrecking ball to destroy a building. ""Vibrantly told and boldly illustrated... POW!"" said PW. Ages 3-7. (Apr.)
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Eve Merriam, Author, Dan Yaccarino, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3527-8
Vibrantly told and boldly illustrated, this story of urban construction is a perfect marriage of text and art. The late Merriam's straightforward, muscular verse (""SLAM, SLAM, SLAM,/ goes the steel wrecking-ball,/ BAM, BAM, BAM,/ against a stone...
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Eve Merriam, Author, Hans Wilhelm, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-11948-5
Fans of Blackberry Ink will delight in Merriam and Wilhelm's second collection of bouncy, joyful poems for preschoolers. Merriam's appealing verses contain a wealth of rhythms, rhymes and action: a pair of boots go ``clomping / stomping along''; a...
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Eve Merriam, Author, Eugenie Fernandes, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64386-7
This revised, re-illustrated version of a 1955 book presents lots of interesting pictures showing a multitude of mothers in both conventional jobs (teacher, bank teller) and less conventional ones (assembly line worker, air traffic controller). The...
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Eve Merriam, Author, Julia Horton, Illustrator, Julia Gorton, Illustrator HarperCollins $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-027887-8
This simple countdown book adapts a lilting text to a picture book format, in this case encouraging children to learn how to subtract. ""Ten rosy roses standing in a line"" are picked by a multicultural bouquet of students, one spread at a time; in...
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Eve Merriam, Author, Pam Paparone, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82820-1
Pitch-perfect illustrations by Paparone (Fire Fighters) contemporize this 1962 rhyme by Merriam (1916-1992), author of Blackberry Ink and The Inner City Mother Goose. The poem celebrates objects that appear at a child's-eye level: ""I like things...
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Eve Merriam, Author, Pam Pollac, Author, Joanna Harrison, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82904-8
Completed by Merriam's (Ten Rosy Roses) editor Pollack after Merriam's death, this bouncy picture book finds a feline leading her young owner on a merry chase. ""Jitterbugs, Jitterbugs glides out the door,/ onto the road--he's far away,/ looking for
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