Janet Stevens, illus. by Susan Stevens Crummel. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2218-0
Tired of the commotion caused by an antsy house dog, a pet bird persuades the canine that he should head to the country to herd cows (never mind that neither of these city slickers knows what a cow is). Crummel’s mixed-media artwork gives the story’s
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Janet Stevens, Author Holiday House $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0608-1
There have been countless retellings of this classic but this new entry into the crowded field may well become a favorite. The narrative is pleasingly faithful to the basic plot elements, and Stevens's humorous watercolor paintings are a bit more...
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Janet Stevens, Author Holiday House $17.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1154-2
Stevens (Coyote Steals the Blanket: A Ute Tale) writes-and draws-herself into this innovative explanation of how authors and artists create picture books. Rendered in black-and-white drawings, she sits in her studio surrounded by vividly colored and
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Janet Stevens, Author Holiday House $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1337-9
The lessons in this tale of the legendary trickster Coyote are ""delivered with droll understatement and wit,"" said PW. Ages 5-8. (Sept.)
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Janet Stevens, Author, Susan Stevens Crummel, Joint Author, Janet Stevens, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-201924-2
Stevens (Tops and Bottoms) and her sister cook up a boisterous romp as four animal friends set out to bake a strawberry shortcake. Rooster, tired of pecking for chicken feed, remembers that his famous great-grandmother (the Little Red Hen) wrote a...
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Janet Stevens, Author, Susan Stevens Crummel, Joint Author, Janet Stevens, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-202298-3
The creators of Cook-a-Doodle-Doo! here serve up a concoction of visual treats and broad jokes as Cow, Cat and Dog search for their missing colleagues, Dish and Spoon. After previewing a page with the famous rhyme from Mother Goose, the authors...
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Janet Stevens, Author, Janet Stevens, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1215-0
A snappy raconteur and artist, Stevens (Coyote Steals the Blanket) offers an animated interpretation of a Shoshone tale featuring the legendary trickster Coyote. Now an aging, decidedly mangy creature who yearns for youth, Coyote begs a stalwart...
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Janet Stevens, Author, Aesop, Author, Janet Stevens, Adapted by Holiday House $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0633-3
With her customary charm, Stevens offers a version of this Aesop's fable that modernizes the tale while preserving the spirit of the original. ""One day, the town mouse went to visit her cousin in the country. She swished through the door and flung...
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Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel, illus. by Janet Stevens. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-547-32767-9
Sisters and frequent collaborators Stevens and Crummel return to the setting of Tops & Bottoms, Stevens’s 1996 Caldecott Honor Book. Bear is still a magnificent creation, a velvety cantankerous slob with a ramshackle farm and perpetually untied...
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Janet Stevens, Author, Susan Stevens Crummel, Author , illus. by Janet Stevens. Harcourt $17 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-204626-2
The Stevens sisters (Cook-a-Doodle-Doo
) prove that there's a lot of mileage to be gained from a wacky premise and some roly-poly prairie dogs. When Violet the pooch accidentally drops a tennis ball into a prairie-dog town, the rodents discover...
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Janet Stevens, Author, Susan Stevens Crummel, Author, Janet Stevens, Illustrator . l, illus. by Janet Stevens Harcourt $17 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-204628-6
Every dog has its rough day now and then, which in this high-energy picture book calls for a letter to Mr. Mutt, Canine Counselor. Whether addressing a dog put on a diet by his people, or a pooch who's scolded for barking too much, Mr. Mutt...
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Janet Stevens, Author, Susan Stevens Crummel, Author, Janet Stevens, Illustrator , illus. by Stevens. Harcourt/Voyager $7 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-205658-2
"In this boisterous romp, four animal friends set out to bake a strawberry shortcake," said PW
's starred review. "The illustrations are startling in their pop-off-the-page dimensionality." Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel, illus. by Janet Stevens, Harcourt, $16.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-206432-7
Initially echoing the plot of "The Little Red Hen," sisters and longtime collaborators Stevens and Crummel introduce a bespectacled, schoolmarmish red pen with a stack of papers to grade. Her desk-drawer friends, however, refuse to help, even when...
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Janet Stevens, Author, Susan Stevens Crummel, Author, Janet Stevens, Illustrator , illus. by Janet Stevens. Harcourt $17 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-216736-3
This team's (And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon) new fable features a multi-layered story line, kinetic art and a lot of sass. A shambling armadillo in oversize cowboy gear hosts the tale ("Ever seen a jackalope?") and offers down-home
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Janet Stevens, Author, Susan Stevens Crummel, Author, Janet Stevens, Illustrator Golden Books $9.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-307-10220-1
The arrival of a big-hearted, dopey golden retriever puppy disrupts a reigning cat's domain in sister collaborators Stevens (Tops & Bottoms) and Crummel's irresistible tale told from the feline's point of view. Merl, a crotchety brown-and-white cat...
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Author, Jacob W. Grimm, Author, Janet Stevens, Author Holiday House $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0939-6
One may question the need for yet another rendering of this Brothers Grimm tale of the four aging animals who set out for Bremen to start life anew as musicians, yet who end up residing happily in a cottage whose inhabitants--three robbers--they...
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Susan Stevens Crummel, Author, Janet Stevens, Author, Janet Stevens, Illustrator , illus. by Stevens. Holiday $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1561-8
Plaidypus, a homemade stuffed toy fashioned from Grandpa's old plaid shirt, has a problem: his pigtailed owner can't seem to stop losing him. "I'm sorry, Plaidypus. I'll never, ever, ever, ever lose you again," the girl...
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