Janni Howker, Author Greenwillow Books $11.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-688-04233-2
Howker's first novel more than lives up to the expectations in readers of her debut, Badger on the Barge and Other Stories. The very young British author's narrator here is Billy Coward, a Lancashire lad. Billy's dad, Ned, and grandfather, Chunder,...
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Janni Howker, Author Puffin Books $4.95 (201p) ISBN 978-0-14-032253-8
Old people and young reach mutual understanding in this collection of memorable stories. Ages 1014. (April)
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Janni Howker, Author, Sarah Fox-Davies, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0319-9
This poetic picture book takes readers into the snowy Yukon Territory, where wolves roam (as they once did throughout the Northern Hemisphere). ""Walk with a wolf in the cold air before sunrise./ She moves, quiet as mist,/ between spruce trees and...
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Janni Howker, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $14.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-531-06891-5
Initially published a decade ago in Howker's story collection Badger on the Barge, this elegantly crafted tale devolves in the shadow of a topiary garden on the grounds of Carlton Hall, an English country home. Liz and her older brother are camping...
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