Jan Ormerod, Author . HarperCollins $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-17870-3
Ormerod's heroine from Miss Mouse's Day
here captures the wonder of plane travel. The passengers include Miss Mouse's owner, the girl's mother and the ultra-gangly rag doll herself. Once again, Miss Mouse ostensibly narrates the...
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Jan Ormerod, Author Clarion Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-57493-3
Set in a bygone time, Ormerod's (When an Elephant Comes to School) gentle story introduces a close-knit family living in a small, remote house on the Australian bush. When Papa goes off in his horse-drawn wagon to sell sandalwood in town, Lizzie,...
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Jan Ormerod, Author HarperCollins $4.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-12770-1
Playful, action-filled illustrations, laid out in comic book-style panels, show a girl and her parents spending a day with the new baby. Upbeat and cozy. Ages 3-up. (Mar.)
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Jan Ormerod, Author HarperCollins $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-12558-5
Armed with a paintbox and a handful of rhymes and fingerplays, Ormerod ( 101 Things to Do with a Baby ) once again proves how closely attuned she is to a baby's world. The selections (``Two Little Dicky Birds,'' ``What Are We to Do?'' and several...
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Jan Ormerod, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09878-0
A family's tour of the zoo provides a rich vehicle for Ormerod's precise, delicate art. Her animals are intricately drawn and alluring without being ``cute,'' and the borders and boxes with which she divides her spreads create the subtle illusion...
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Jan Ormerod, Author Mulberry Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09353-2
In this wordless tale, a girl wakes up as sunlight floods her room, goes about her morning routine and watches as her parents do the same. Ages 4-8. (May)
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Jan Ormerod, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $5.95 (20p) ISBN 978-0-688-07276-6
In her previous Baby BooksDad's Back, Messy Baby, Reading and SleepingOrmerod introduced a beguiling baby, a loving father and an attentive black-and-white cat. This time it's Mom, expecting another child, who lovingly shares the spotlight with her...
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Jan Ormerod, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-08536-0
Step into a day in the life of a small girl and her kitten. She is an ordinary girl, with an appealing gamine look, and the same could be said of the kitten. Together they play hide-and-seek, eat snacks and wash themselves--the cat with its tongue...
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Jan Ormerod, Author, Jan Ormeord, Illustrator, Jan Omerod, Illustrator Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09568-0
Although textually straightforward, this is a visually sophisticated treatment of Grimm's tale. Its force derives not from broad characterizations or expressions but rather from subtleties of color, mood and detail. Ormerod paints a somber world...
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Jan Ormerod, Author, David Slonim, Illustrator , illus. by David Slonim. Chronicle $15.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3615-9
Offering five brief slice-of-life "chapters" about two idiosyncratic animal friends, Ormerod's (illustrator of Robie H. Harris's I Am NOT Going to School Today!
) and Slonim's (Oh, Ducky!
) picture book shares the pacing, subject
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Jan Ormerod, illus. by Freya Blackwood. Putnam, $16.99 (38p) ISBN 978-0-399-25709-4
With her Mary Janes, hair bow, and wardrobe of vintage shifts and jumpers, Blackwood’s (Harry & Hopper) supremely confident Maudie is a girl plucked from the pages of Kate Greenaway. As her best friend/parent surrogate, Bear weathers Maudie’s diva...
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Jan Ormerod, Author, Jan Ormerod, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-16333-4
Ormerod's (Who's Whose) buoyant, paneled pictures propel this storybook about a mouse doll and her girl owner who start the morning with a cuddle in bed. The minimal text narrated by Miss Mouse offers a breezy commentary on the day's activities....
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Jan Ormerod, Author, Jan Ormerod, Illustrator Clarion Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-77611-7
Ormerod's (Sunshine) buoyant book gives the toe-tapping refrain of ""Old MacDonald Had a Farm"" a bustling classroom setting and inventive, mildly tongue-twisting lyrics. After taking a field trip to a farm, Ms. MacDonald's class ""makes some plans""
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Jan Ormerod, Author, Jan Ormerod, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-169-4
Studded with questions (``Has your pillow ever wanted to play in the middle of the night?''), Ormerod's ( Sunshine ; One Ballerina Two ) playful text will involve little ones from its opening page. Told primarily through motion-filled watercolor and
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Jan Ormerod, Author, Jan Ormerod, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-14678-8
With bustling pen-and-inks and an energetic, sometimes tongue-twisting text, Ormerod (The Frog Prince) follows three families through a whirlwind week as they intermingle continually--and confusingly--and keep up schedules that will set readers'...
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Jan Ormerod, Author, Jan Ormerod, Illustrator . Scholastic/Orchard $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-73967-2
Ormerod has demonstrated her psychological astuteness with titles such as I Am Not Going to School Today!
, and this quality shines through once again in this tale, aimed at allaying readers' first-day jitters. Posing as a manual to help...
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Jan Ormerod, Author, Jan Ormerod, Illustrator . Clarion $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-13056-6
"This buoyant book gives the toe-tapping refrain of 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm' a bustling classroom setting and inventive, mildly tongue-twisting lyrics," wrote PW. Ages 4-6. (Sept.)
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Jan Ormerod, illus. by Andrew Joyner. S&S/Little Simon, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4814-1914-7
It’s lovely to have one more reminder of the late Ormerod’s talent. Caroline Crocodile deems her baby brother a smelly, “no fun” drooler who “takes up all the room” on Mama Crocodile’s lap. Stuck minding him in the shopping district, she does what...
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Jan Ormerod, Author, Lindsey Gardiner, Illustrator , illus. by Lindsey Gardiner. Star Bright $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-932065-10-7
Ormerod (the Miss Mouse books) and Gardiner (the Poppy and Max books) riff on a favorite children's song in what looks to be a surefire circle time favorite. An unnamed girl who brings to mind a blonde version of Gardiner's Poppy character...
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Jan Ormerod, Author, Jan Crmerod, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $13 (26p) ISBN 978-0-688-06058-9
In the shadows of an audience of parents, engrossed in a production of Chicken Licken that's taking place on stage, a baby crawls out of its carrier and makes a break for the spotlight. This is but one of the many subplots that takes place in...
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