Fiona Roberton, Author, Fiona Roberton, Illustrator . Putnam $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-25461-1
For her U.S. debut, Roberton provides line drawings just substantive enough to carry her story. Her hero, Henry, is a moon-headed boy who has 27 kinds of frogs but deeply wants a dog. Though her images possess an understated humor, Roberton seems...
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Fiona Roberton. Putnam, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25773-5
When readers left Henry and his pet duck, Spot, in 2010’s Wanted: The Perfect Pet it was the beginning of an unlikely but beautiful relationship. Now it’s Henry’s birthday, and Spot has picked out a perfectly thoughtful birthday present: a fishing...
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Fiona Roberton. Putnam, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-16497-2
Design aficionados will appreciate the typographical voices that rowf, baa, and oink their way through the latest from Roberton (Wanted: The Perfect Pet). In a wallpapered hollow tree, light-gray Cuckoo hatches next to two dark-gray siblings. The...
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Fiona Roberton. EDC/Kane Miller, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-61067-361-7
Roberton (Cuckoo!) spins a clever he-said/she-said story about a girl's rescue of a squirrel-like creature in the woods. At least, that's how she sees it. After she describes her oh-so-thoughtful adoption of the animal ("I wrapped him warmly up in...
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