Tony Johnston, Author, G. Brian Karas, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $8.99 (1p) ISBN 978-0-679-84701-4
Three young sheep leap onto their bikes for a day in the country in this winning and energetic picture book. Spiffy in tweed pantaloons and color-coordinated backpacks, they are soon caught up in the promise of adventure. Their progress is...
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Judy Sierra, illus. by G. Brian Karas. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4814-1851-5
Sierra returns to the subject of Wild About Books and Born to Read with another exuberant celebration of reading, this time focusing on the joys of a good read-aloud session. As the story opens, young animals ride scooters, skateboards, and bikes to
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Jama Kim Rattigan, Author, G. Brian Karas, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-65661-7
Karas's strong signature style adds punch to Rattigan's ( Dumpling Soup ) sweet but befuddling tale. On his birthday Truman receives a mail-order ``ant farm'' from his Aunt Fran. But homonyms, for some reason, prove his downfall--pretty soon, he's...
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G. Brian Karas, Author . Puffin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-240027-2
" 'I am the Atlantic Ocean,' announces the watery narrator of this artistically intriguing book," wrote PW
. The first-person narrative enumerates facts and an afterward registers a plea for the care of the oceans. Ages 4-up. (Mar.)
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G. Brian Karas, Author . Scholastic Press $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-439-72806-5
Karas (On Earth
) opens this spirited embellishment of Zeus's little-documented boyhood with an author's note explaining that he drew from early accounts of the Greek gods and “true to the nature of myths, imagined the rest.”...
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G. Brian Karas, Author Scholastic $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-590-46575-5
Karas (Like Butter on Pancakes, Children's Forecasts, Jan. 23) may not know why the old lady of the 1960 Rose Bonne/Alan Mills song swallowed the fly, but his funereal palette captures the mood of the rhyme in all its macabre splendor. Clad in a...
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G. Brian Karas, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-80156-3
Poor Ned. A swamp is no place for a cowboy, but his mother wants the two of them to live closer to Granpa, so the swamp is where he's stuck. As if moving weren't bad enough, Ned's lasso has broken and he has to use a garden hose instead; to top it...
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G. Brian Karas, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-17814-7
According to the flap copy, Karas's (Home on the Bayou: A Cowboy's Story) own elementary-school experience with a difficult art project inspired this tale, which portrays a classroom episode that many readers will recognize. From the start,...
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G. Brian Karas, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator . Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23632-7
"I am the Atlantic Ocean," announces the watery narrator of this artistically intriguing but sometimes confusing book. The first-person narrative enumerates facts ("The sun/ so many millions of miles away/ heats my water,/ which turns...
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G. Brian Karas, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-81449-5
Karas (Home on the Bayou) foreshadows the imminent arrival of the wind in a ""tidy town"" right from the dedication page, where newspapers fly, heads are unhatted and a girl chases after her jump rope. The story opens as a curl of wind looms large...
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G. Brian Karas, Author, G. Brian Karas, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-16182-8
Night after night, Bebe dreams that green trolls arrive in a flying saucer, climb in her window and try to devour her. At the dinner table, Bebe's brother, Walter, teases her about her fears (""I'm hungry, please pass the Bebe"") and her friends are
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G. Brian Karas. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25233-4
Karas (On Earth) juxtaposes a steadily growing oak tree with the changing landscape around it in this engaging tale of transformation and constancy. It opens with a Native American boy planting an acorn on a forested hill. Subsequent scenes and to-th
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G. Brian Karas. Holt/Ottaviano, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9372-8
Karas (A Poem in Your Pocket) hints at the structure of this picture book through its title: the first half follows the activity at three farms as vegetables are harvested, cheese is made, and mushrooms are grown, while the second half is set at a...
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Megan McDonald, Author, G. Brian Karas, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2559-1
In a mythic narrative voice accompanied by primitive images, McDonald (Is This a House for Hermit Crab?) describes a mysterious old woman who sifts sand to find bones. Readers can almost hear a drumbeat accompaniment to the text: ""Like the desert...
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