Joyce Dunbar, Author, Jane Cabrera, Author, Jane Cabrera, Illustrator Holiday House $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1510-6
In a story both clever and wise, Dora the duck decrees that the following day will be ""eggday,"" complete with a competition for best egg. She tells Humphrey the horse to bring a ""horse egg,"" Pogson the pig a ""pig egg,"" and so on. Humphrey,...
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Jane Cabrera, Author . Holiday House $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2230-2
Cabrera's (Old MacDonald Had a Farm
) version of this familiar schoolyard song takes readers all the way up through the number 20, as her rabbit heroine helps some animals get ready for a big party. Though the rhymes are occasionally a stretch (
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Jane Cabrera, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $4.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1795-0
Animals introduce a series of first words in Monkey's Play Time and Bear's Good Night, both by Jane Cabrera. In the first, colorful illustrations feature Monkey cavorting with ""Bear,"" ""Dog"" and ""Sheep."" A foldout spread wraps it up,...
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Jane Cabrera, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $4.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1796-7
Animals introduce a series of first words in Monkey's Play Time and Bear's Good Night, both by Jane Cabrera. In the first, colorful illustrations feature Monkey cavorting with ""Bear,"" ""Dog"" and ""Sheep."" A foldout spread wraps it up,...
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Jane Cabrera. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2519-8
Cabrera expands on this classic nursery rhyme, taking readers around the globe as friendly parent-child animal pairs cuddle together and gaze up at a chunky five-pointed star in the night sky. With each new verse, Cabrera switches both the setting...
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Jane Cabrera, Author, Jane Cabrera, Illustrator . Holiday $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1659-2
Cabrera's tempera illustrations always virtually bubble over with high spirits: her bold, saturated colors, broad brushstrokes and luscious, wet-paint surfaces bring to mind an especially creative and satisfyingly messy episode of finger...
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Jane Cabrera, Author, Jane Cabrera, Illustrator Dial Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2090-9
In her first book for children, British artist Cabrera covers almost every inch of space with thick, energetic paint strokes with the look of finger-painting. Her style exudes the joy of creation: the illustrations possess a tactile vitality and a...
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Jane Cabrera, Author, Jane Cabrera, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1490-1
In a lively variation on the familiar nursery rhyme, Cabrera (Eggday) offers an appealing and energetic landscape of boldly applied colors. Smudges reminiscent of finger painting dot the meadow, and each animal, outlined in thick black, stands out...
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