Harry Allard, Author, James Marshall, Illustrator Yearling Books $2.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-15711-6
Trevor Hog believes a seance will be the perfect cure for his friend Dudley Stork's haunted house. According to PW , this comic tale achieves ``stratospheric heights of tomfoolery. The deadpan telling could coax guffaws from a stone.'' Ages 5-8. (Oct
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Harry Allard, Author, James Marshall, Illustrator Yearling Books $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-41366-0
In this gleefully goofy outing, Potter Pig, determined to crash a party, tries a variety of ruses to get in the door. Ages 4-7. (June)
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Harry Allard, Author, James Marshall, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-41668-6
Miss Nelson goes away for a week, and the kids in Room 207 fear that they'll have the dreaded substitute teacher, Viola Swamp. Instead, they get Principal Blandsworth, who bores them into taking drastic measures. ""A nutty sequel to Miss Nelson Is...
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Harry Allard, Author, James Marshall, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-48654-2
The Smedley Tornadoes have a big football game coming up, so Miss Nelson calls in dreaded substitute teacher Viola Swamp to whip the team into shape. Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
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Harry Allard, Author, James Marshall, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17 (30p) ISBN 978-0-395-50068-2
Allard and Marshall are more than ever in tune with their Stupid characters. Using their plane, the loopy family take off on an early vacation to escape a visit from boring Uncle Carbuncle. Piloted by faithful feline Xylophone and accompanied by...
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Harry Allard, Author, George Booth, Illustrator , illus. by George Booth. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-37187-6
Despite an inspired pairing and divinely ridiculous moments, this venture is more shaggy dog tale than comic revelation. Starlight (aka Ethel Fae Klucksworth) is a scrawny, google-eyed Tennessee hen who, aided by a “professional chicken fairy...
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Harry Allard, Author, Ned DeLaney, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-020046-6
Allard's latest, a sweet but insubstantial tale about the dangers of judging by appearances, lacks the inspired silliness of his titles in the Stupids series. Sunny is a gregarious green snake who lives in the middle of the Texas desert, and she...
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