Holly Hobbie, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-36593-2
Dedicated to ""readers-to-be,"" this appealing alphabet lesson comes sandwiched between a slight but agreeable story about how Puddle the pig teaches Otto the turtle to write his name. First Puddle explains, ""The alphabet is all the letters we need
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Holly Hobbie. Random House, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5247-1863-3
“Friends Wanted” reads the sign that Elmore, a self-sufficient but solitary porcupine, posts in the woods. There are no takers—everyone is scared of his quills. “I’m your friend,” says his elderly uncle. “That’s different,” replies Elmore in an...
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Holly Hobbie. Random House, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-553-53744-4
“Then he was alone.” With this abrupt opening sentence, Hobbie (Hansel & Gretel) launches readers and her hero—a solitary, homeless kitten whose family has vanished—on an extraordinary trajectory. After barely surviving life on the streets, the...
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Holly Hobbie. Little, Brown, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-20334-0
Two letters—from grandmother to granddaughter and vice versa—frame this otherwise wordless story of a toad named Gem. Over a spread of a New England cottage in the midst of a snowstorm, a letter from “Gram” to her granddaughter Hope explains the...
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Holly Hobbie, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36636-6
Readers rejoin favorite characters for new adventures this fall. It's back to Woodcock Pocket in Toot & Puddle: The New Friend by Holly Hobbie, eighth in the series. When Opal comes to visit, she brings a friend, Daphne, who excels at everything...
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Holly Hobbie, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36703-5
Children can now read about best friends Toot & Puddle in a miniature boxed set, Toot & Puddle: Welcome to Woodcock Pocket by Holly Hobbie. The three adventures are Toot & Puddle, in which the two pals remain close while they are apart from each
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Holly Hobbie, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36552-9
In this charming, sweetly illustrated debut picture book, home was ""such a perfect place to be that Puddle never wanted to go anywhere else. Toot, on the other hand, loved to take trips."" So in January when Toot goes on his ""biggest trip ever,""...
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Holly Hobbie, Author Little, Brown Young Readers $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-16687-4
Poor Fanny\x97she has one of those mothers who will never let her daughter have a Connie doll. Her best friends have them, but \x93They're just too... much,\x94 says Mom, who, in fine children's book tradition, is seen only from the neck down....
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Holly Hobbie, Little, Brown, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-07019-5
In a radical departure from her Toot & Puddle series and recent Fanny books, Hobbie offers an affecting yet never sentimental memoir of her childhood move to a "ramshackle" farm out in the country. Quickly overcoming her initial fear of the...
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Holly Hobbie, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-16688-1
In a follow-up to Fanny
, the resourceful heroine decides to create a picture book about her doll, Annabelle. As Fanny writes, she finds, “The story just happened all by itself.” Hobbie's book alternates between spreads that show...
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Holly Hobbie, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-16686-7
The popular porcine pals make their swan song in this charmer of a holiday volume, which marks the end of Hobbie's series. With Christmas fast approaching and no snow in sight, Toot and Puddle are more jumpy than jolly, each trying to find the...
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Holly Hobbie, Author . Little, Brown $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36633-5
With its eye-catching and charming cover, this low-key tale of Puddle's diminutive cousin Opal will likely please fans of the titular duo's previous books. When Opal visits Toot and Puddle in Woodcock Pocket, she wants her wobbly tooth to
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Holly Hobbie, Author, Holly Hobbie, Illustrator . Little, Brown $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36623-6
Come canceled flights or high snowdrifts, piglet pals Toot & Puddle will
be together for Christmas in Hobbie's latest series charmer. Globe-trotting Toot, who has been in Scotland for a family reunion (and who has a tam and tartan kilt to...
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Holly Hobbie, Author, Holly Hobbie, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $11.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-14564-0
Fans of Holly Hobbie's bosom buddies can now take Travels with Toot and Puddle everywhere they go. The three titles appear in small paper-over-board editions-Toot and Puddle; Toot and Puddle: A Present for Toot; and Toot & Puddle: You Are My ...
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Holly Hobbie, Author, Holly Hobbie, Illustrator . Little, Brown $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36513-0
Hobbie's winsome pigs are traveling again, up Orchard Hill and through the woods to the top of the world, but this time the various themes of the book are less integrated. What begins as a tender story about the fear of loss and friendship...
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Holly Hobbie. Little, Brown, $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-07017-1
Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti’s version of Hansel and Gretel may be a current darling, but Hobbie’s version is as harrowing, if not more; the starving family’s plight and grim cruelty that drive the action seem grounded in a not-very-distant...
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