Asch Vagin, Author, Frank Asch, Author, Vagin Vladimir, Illustrator Scholastic $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-41854-6
This unique Soviet/U.S. collaboration, in PW 's words, features ``colorful, humorous illustrations that include delightful details'' and ``turns the universal `cat vs. mouse' theme pleasantly upside down.'' Ages 4-8. (May)
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Frank Asch, Author Scholastic $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-45488-9
The seventh Bear adventure has the much-cherished ursine hero inviting the moon to cut a rug. Ages 4-6. (May)
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Frank Asch, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (167p) ISBN 978-0-385-29546-8
Pearl and Wilbur, the lively mice from Pearl's Promise, are back, but this time their adventures take them far from the security of their cage. The two mice and their owner Jay are a happy threesome until a bicycle accident puts Jay in the hospital,
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Frank Asch, Author Prentice Hall $11.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-13-071606-4
Bear and his constant companion, Little Bird, are back to gladden hearts in Asch's new book. Deceptively simple pictures in his inimitable style and glowing colors highlight features of the story about the friends' agreement. ""I wish I could fly,''
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Frank Asch, Author Prentice Hall $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-13-601055-5
Bear's delight in a game of hide-and-seek with the moon turns to despair when he fears his friend is lost for good. Ages 4-8. (April)
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Frank Asch, Author Holiday House $13.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0751-4
Previously Asch has been known for his well-received picture books ( Bear Shadow ) and stories for younger readers ( Pearl's Promise ); this first volume of the Orb Trilogy represents his first attempt to write for middle graders, and his first...
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Frank Asch, Author Harcourt Children's Books $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200836-9
In this gentle, straightforward picture book, Mother Bear has a harder time than most parents getting her baby to sleep, as bedtime here means winter hibernation. The beleaguered mother fetches a snack and then a drink into the cave, but when Baby...
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Frank Asch, Author Holiday House $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0844-3
In this suitably silly narrative, a baby climbs into a box, plays with blocks and encounters a fox and an ox; PW said, ``Asch's rhyming text and luminescent pictures . . . make this an ideal read-aloud.'' Ages 2-4. (Oct.)
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Frank Asch, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200189-6
Stylistically and thematically reminiscent of Asch's recent The Earth and I, this picture book offers variations on a basic ecological concept: the importance (and omnipresence) of water. With simple, declarative sentences, the author runs through a
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Frank Asch, Author Scholastic $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-44149-0
Amy, age 12, is particularly shy around Tony, a new student who wants to impress ``the cool clique.'' When her activist friend Lindsay is falsely accused of defacing school property, she suspects that a vindictive someone from the popular crowd...
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Frank Asch, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202127-6
Asch (the Moonbear books) is in top form with a child's simple yet lyrical paean to the sun's magic and usefulness. Following the sun from morning to night, the young narrator (of indeterminate sex) often gives way to whimsy, noting, for example,...
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Frank Asch, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200443-9
``The Earth and I are friends,'' begins this sentimental picture book in which a boy inventories the many ways he and the planet benefit and enjoy each other. Examples both obvious (``I help her to grow. She helps me to grow'' accompanies pictures...
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Frank Asch, Kids Can, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55337-368-1
The Big Bad Wolf turns out to be a softy in Asch's high-spirited farce. The pig family hides when the wolf knocks on their door, but Little Pig recalls his grandfather's surprise party and assumes it's the wolf's birthday. He springs from his hiding
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Frank Asch, Author, Vladimir Vagin, With Scholastic $11.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-41859-1
Word is out among the mice that the cat is coming. Whether they are frightened or merely excited by the prospect is not clear from the illustrations, but the mice gather in the center of town to await the feline's arrival. Suddenly, a large cat-shape
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Frank Asch, Author, Vladimir Vagin, With Scholastic $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-590-45493-3
This imaginative tale about a faerie who loses her magical abilities and her will to live after she is taken captive signals a new direction for these collaborators. Much to his young son's horror, a greedy emperor wishes to keep the captured faerie
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Frank Asch, Author, Vladimir Vagin, Author Scholastic $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-43107-1
The spirit of glasnost lives on in this collaboration from the Russian and American creators of Here Comes the Cat! While cleaning out the attic, mouse brothers Joey and Marvin discover a box of old letters, which turn out to be the correspondence...
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Frank Asch, Author, Gail Gibbons, Illustrator Holiday House $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0725-5
Clad only in a diaper and multicolored cap, the smiling baby in Asch's engaging book examines a box of blocks. He then empties the box and climbs in, and is soon joined by a fox. When they climb out to play with blocks, an ox appears and he takes a...
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In a story with echoes of the elder Asch's Happy Birthday, Moon, an eager-to-roam duckling befriends a rubber ducky who has fallen out of a truck and plopped into his watery path. "You don't talk much... but you sure are fun!" Baby...
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Frank Asch, Author, Devin Asch, Joint Author . Harcourt/ Gulliver $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-216376-1
Following their Baby Duck's New Friend,
the father-and-son team offers a rollicking testament to the excitement whipped up by the wind. A girl watching a golden leaf swept away on the breeze exclaims, "I want to play like a windy day."...
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Frank Asch, Author, Frank Asch, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201726-2
In Asch's (the Baby Bear books) latest picture book, Baby Bird falls out of her mother's nest one night and manages to return with the help of new friend Little Frog. The nest of the title refers to a new one that the two pals build together; it is...
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Frank Asch, Author, Frank Asch, Illustrator Kids Can Press $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55074-515-3
Traditionally, the story of the Three Little Pigs is about the triumph of industriousness and diligence. But in this update, the hero is a nonconformist pig number four named Ziggy, who sleeps under the stars and prefers the beach to being locked...
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Frank Asch. S&S/Aladdin, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-6678-4
Yes, it works just like a library does: patrons check out real zoo animals to take home. It’s a terrific idea, but Asch (the Moonbear series) opts for a plot that dampens the possibilities rather than amplifies them. His focus is on a chase...
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Frank Asch, Author, Frank Asch, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-85310-4
Moonbear and Little Bird think they're dreaming when they see a kangaroo (escaped from the zoo) hopping across the yard, in the ursine hero's latest caper. Ages 2-6. (Sept.)
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Frank Asch, Author, Frank Asch, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82094-6
Bear and Little Bird adopt a fish in this warmhearted series installment. Ages 2-6. (Nov.)
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Frank Asch, Author, Frank Asch, Illustrator . Kids Can $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55337-461-9
"Not by bread alone," goes the old saying, but tell that to Monsieur Saguette, who needs only a skinny loaf of French bread—fresh from the boulangerie—to handle any size calamity with the coolness of le concombre
. He prevents...
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Frank Asch, Author, Frank Asch, Illustrator . Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-216368-6
In this hibernation tale, Mother Bear attempts to put down her cub for the winter. "The story is a welcome addition to the bedtime genre, one parents will be glad to have as a resource when it's time to get their own little ones to nod off,&
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Frank Asch, illus. by Devin Asch, Kids Can, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55453-281-0
This father-and-son team (Mr. Maxwell's Mouse) set their sights on another familial duo: Hayward, a savvy kid with a tabloid-journalist father whose "Go to Work with a Parent Day" is more than he bargained for. Hayward's irritation with his father's
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Frank Asch, Author, Devin Asch, Illustrator , illus. by Devin Asch. Kids Can $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55337-486-2
Father-son team Frank and Devin Asch (Like a Windy Day
; Baby Duck's New Friend)
here team up for a cat-and-mouse tale that showcases the younger Asch's lush digital artistic talents, alongside the elder's witty text. Lunching at the...
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Frank Asch, Author, Asch, Author Scholastic $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-44150-6
Amy gets caught up in her best friend's scheme to save the environment. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Frank Asch, Author, John Kanzler, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers $14.95 (89p) ISBN 978-0-689-84657-1
Molly and Jake, the sibling mice stars of the Class Pets series, teach survival lessons to an escaped class gerbil, Dexter, in their third adventure, Class Pets: Survival School by Frank Asch, illus. by John Kanzler. When Molly and Jake offer to...
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Frank Asch, Author, John Kanzler, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-689-84655-7
Big Gray, the monster cat introduced in The Ghost of P.S. 42-which PW called ""an agreeable romp""-is back to harass the sibling mice Molly and Jake in Class Pets: Battle in a Bottle by Frank Asch, illus. by John Kanzler. Eschewing the safety of...
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Frank Asch, Author, John Kanzler, Illustrator , illus. by John Kanzler. S&S $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-689-84653-3
In a promising start to the Class Pets chapter book series, Asch (the Moonbear series) delivers an agreeable romp of a tale about brother and sister mice in search of a new home. Molly and Jake have come of age, and with Deli Dan's crowded with...
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