Grace Maccarone, illus. by Gail de Marcken. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-312-67958-3
Fairy tales often involve transformation, and Maccarone converts 10 familiar stories into swiftly moving and skillfully constructed iambic tetrameter poems. Despite the brevity of the retellings, Maccarone retains subtle moments of drama and humor;...
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Grace Maccarone, illus. by Célia Chauffrey. Little Bee, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4998-0281-8
Maccarone (Princess Tales) and French illustrator Chauffrey present an odd adaptation of Hoffman’s 1816 story, which spawned the famous Tchaikovsky ballet some 80 years later. Nutcrackers are often an eerie bunch, but Chauffrey’s version can be...
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Grace Maccarone, illus. by Hollie Hibbert. Albert Whitman, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8075-7823-0
The story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears gets an abecedarian twist, courtesy of Maccarone and Hibbert. Goldilocks, who has bronzed skin and wavy blonde hair, approaches the bears’ home when they are away: “H is for house. Goldilocks saw the bears’
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Grace Maccarone, illus. by Pistacchio. Albert Whitman, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-7901-5
Similar to her treatment of letters in The Three Bears ABC (2013), Maccarone blends the story of the Three Little Pigs with a counting lesson, adding in a primer on shapes and several nursery-rhyme references. Pistacchio (a pseudonym for Spanish...
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Grace Maccarone, illus. by Christine Davenier, Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-312-38243-8
In both its pictures and rhyming text, this book is in many ways a ballet-themed version of the Madeline books: "In a cozy white house, in the town of Messina,/ eight little girls studied dance with Miss Lina./ Christina, Edwina, Sabrina, Justina,/...
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Grace Maccarone, illus. by Christine Davenier. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-00580-9
In the third story to feature Miss Lina and her ballet students, a dapper visitor to the class offers a big opportunity for the children to star in a production of Sleeping Beauty—eight as ballerinas, and two as rats. Unhappily assigned to be a rat,
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Grace Maccarone, Author, Hans Wilhelm, Illustrator Cartwheel Books $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-20655-6
Aimed at youngsters ready to graduate from board to picture books, these reasonably priced, jacketed volumes launch the Cartwheel Books Story Corner line. With their sturdy pages, minimal text and large-scale, uncluttered art, the 8""x63/4"" books...
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Grace Maccarone, Author, Sam Williams, Illustrator Scholastic Inc. $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-23505-1
Previously paired for A Child Was Born, Maccarone and Williams offer an unusually gentle bedtime verse, a sweetly distilled prayer for the very young. The work opens with a view of one pajama-clad child kneeling on a crescent moon to wave at...
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Grace Maccarone, Author, Sam Williams, Illustrator Cartwheel Books $6.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-439-62332-2
Originally published in hardcover as A Child's Good Night Prayer, this gentle title, Bless Me by Grace Maccarone, illus. by San Williams, now appears in board-book format. Spare text follows an array of multiracial children as they bestow blessings...
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David M. McPhail, Author, Grace Maccarone, Author, David M. McPhail, Illustrator Scholastic $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-40715-1
For each letter of the alphabet, a host of animals familiar and exotic (, and a variety of inanimate objects as well), are integrated into a single composition. Readers can check their identification skills against a list provided at the end (althoug
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