Walter Wick, Photographer, Jean Marzollo, Author, Walter Wick, Author Cartwheel Books $13.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-19900-1
Fans of Walter Wick's previous delectable photographic feasts for the eyes will gobble up the I Spy Extreme Challenger!: A Book of Picture Riddles by Jean Marzollo. The volume includes a stunning spread of ""Odds and Ends"" (from the original I Spy)
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Jean Marzollo, photos by Chad Phillips. Holiday House, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2401-6
In the third title in the photograph-based Help Me Learn series (following Help Me Learn Numbers 0–20 and Help Me Learn Addition), Marzollo uses puppets, figurines, and other playful items to demonstrate math equations, which are presented both...
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Jean Marzollo, photos by Chad Phillips. Holiday House, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2398-9
In this companion to Help Me Learn Numbers 0–20, Marzollo and Phillips teach basic addition skills by making use of rhymed verse and bright photographs of toys and other recognizable objects. In one spread, a word problem prompts readers to add up...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Jean Marzollo, Illustrator HarperFestival $10.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-053052-5
A rhyming counting book, Ten Little Eggs by Jean Marzollo lets readers count down from 10, as hard plastic eggs peek through die-cut holes in thick pages and hatch into colorful birds. The rhymes themselves are simple enough for youngest readers,
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Jean Marzollo, photos by Chad Phillips. Holiday House, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2334-7
Marzollo and Phillips team up for an idiosyncratic and eye-catching counting book featuring photographic compositions of miscellaneous objects including vintage toy cars, Dalmatian figurines, and rubber finger-puppet monsters. In one spread, 10...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Shane W. Evans, Illustrator Hyperion Books $7.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0635-5
First introduced in Shanna's Princess Show and Shanna's Doctor Show, the spunky African-American heroine takes on a new role in Shanna's Teacher Show by Jean Marzollo, illus. by Shane Evans. ""I'm a teacher,"" Shanna declares. ""Wonder how I know?
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Shane W. Evans, Illustrator Jump at the Sun $7.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0634-8
First introduced in Shanna's Princess Show and Shanna's Doctor Show, the spunky African-American heroine takes on a new role in Shanna's Teacher Show by Jean Marzollo, illus. by Shane Evans. ""I'm a teacher,"" Shanna declares. ""Wonder how I know?
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Steve Bjorkman, Illustrator Scholastic $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-44413-2
Thanks to the popular singsong verse ``In fourteen hundred ninety-two / Columbus sailed the ocean blue,'' the year in which Christopher Columbus weighed anchor may be history's best remembered date. Marzollo ( Pretend You're a Cat ) has expanded the
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Suse MacDonald, Illustrator Cartwheel Books $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-26616-1
Another pageant unfolds in Suse MacDonald's watercolors for Jean Marzollo's rebus story I See a Star. A rebus key introduces the 17 words of text; the q&a format makes it easy to get in the groove (""[can] U C a [camel]?/ [eye] C a [camel]"").
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Suse MacDonald, Illustrator Scholastic $7.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-37656-3
For this sweet valentine to youngest children, Marzollo (the I Spy series) and MacDonald (Alphabatics) join forces in a combination concept book and rebus. Word pictures substitute for the verse's nouns--and for the words ""I love you,"" which end...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Walter Wick, Author, Walter Wick, Photographer Cartwheel Books $13.99 (33p) ISBN 978-0-590-46293-8
It's hard to believe that Marzollo and Wick could top their I Spy Christmas , but their latest book of picture riddles is their best yet. Once again, each spread consists of a spectacular color photograph of an even more spectacularly propped 4 8...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Walter Wick, Author, Walter Wick, Photographer Cartwheel Books $13.99 (34p) ISBN 978-0-590-46295-2
Were this volume the first in the I Spy series (I Spy Funhouse; I Spy Mystery) instead of the fifth, it would astonish the reader with its ingenuity. Once again, rhyming riddles direct a hunt for a series of objects in each of 13 sumptuously styled...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Walter Wick, Author, Walter Wick, Photographer Scholastic $13.99 (33p) ISBN 978-0-590-48135-9
Fans of the elegantly energetic I Spy picture-puzzle series may wonder how Wick could top the lavish sets he created for I Spy Funhouse and I Spy Mystery. Here, however, he and Marzollo surpass their previous achievements-by reversing direction....
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Walter Wick, Author, Walter Wick, Illustrator Cartwheel Books $13.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-45401-8
Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick return with two new additions to their popular series. The paper-over-board I Spy Ultimate Challenger! A Book of Picture Riddles boasts brand-new riddles as well as old favorites, such as ""The Secret Note"" from I...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Walter Wick, Author, Walter Wick, Illustrator Cartwheel Books $13.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-31634-7
Jean Marzollo's riddles and Walter Wick's smashing photography combine from an amalgam of previous hits in I Spy Year-Round Challenger! A Picture Book of Riddles. ""I spy three walnuts, four almonds, four bows,"" begins January's riddle, and ""The
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Phyllis J. Fogelman, Editor, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0773-3
An invitation to action-filled role playing, this clever concept book consists of a series of 13 small poems that ask youngsters to pretend they are animals. ``Are you pink / As a bud? / Can you lie / In the mud? / Can you root? / Can you dig? / Can
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Jean Marzollo, Author, J. Brian Pinkney, Illustrator Scholastic $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-439-09942-4
""Accessible language"" combines with ""stunning, exquisitely shaded illustrations,"" said PW of this picture-book biography of the civil rights leader. Ages 4-8. (Jan.)
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Jean Marzollo, Author, J. Brian Pinkney, Illustrator, J. Brian Pin Kney, Illustrator Scholastic Press $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-44065-3
This effective collaboration between Pinkney ( Sukey and the Mermaid ; The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural ) and the prolific Marzollo presents a gentle, pared-down version of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. Geared to...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator HarperCollins $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-027562-4
Marzollo (I Spy series; Sun Song) and Wolff (Goody O'Grumpity) celebrate the natural world and the myriad wild creatures who live in its splendor in this verdant picture book. A simple rhyming verse set in large, bold type rolls elegantly across the
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Laura Regan, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-020787-8
Radiant large-scale, exactly detailed paintings light up this often bland poem. Marzollo, the author of the I Spy series, summons the sun to shine down on a host of living things: ""Sun, light the woods/ With a soft spring dawn;/ Shine on the spots/
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Jean Marzollo, photos by Walter Wick, Scholastic/Cartwheel, $13.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-22278-5
Celebrating the series' 20th anniversary, this collection pulls together scenes from previous I Spy books. In a typically detail-rich scene, photographed from Wick's meticulously crafted sets, flowers and potted plants are illuminated through a rain-
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Walter Wick, Illustrator, Walter Wick, Photographer Cartwheel Books $6.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-439-22158-0
Three books just right for Easter baskets come in fun formats. The board book I Spy Little Bunnies teams author Jean Marzollo's original rhymes with Walter Wick's photographs from previously published I Spy books with a focus on bunny masks, blocks...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Hans Wilhelm, Illustrator Scholastic Paperbacks $3.25 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-03714-3
Marzollo (the I Spy books) casts felines as farmers who harvest food and as ""kitchen cats"" who prepare it for the Thanksgiving feast in this rather insipid treatment. The narrative begins promisingly enough: ""Farmer cats grow wheat,/ potatoes,...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Claudio Marzollo, Author Dial Books $9.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0135-9
Another sprightly installment in Dial's easy-to-read series. Like the authors' popular Jed's Junior Space Patrol, this story transports readers to Spaceship Ace. Jed, his parents, two cogs (animals that are a mixture of cat and dog), and a teddy...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Claudio Marzollo, Author, Susan Meddaugh, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0378-0
Ruthie is the only kid from earth on Planet X10 in this humorous science fiction Easy-to-Read. Ages 4-8. (April)
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Blanche Sims, Illustrator Random House Books for Young Readers $3.99 (60p) ISBN 978-0-394-89608-3
In another Stepping Stone book of illustrated, readable chapters, Rosie discovers that winning isn't everything, but losing all the time hurts. Best friend Sally comes in first place in every race the two run together, and Rosie hates being second...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Carol Devine Carson, Author, Carol D. Carson, Illustrator Dial Books $14.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0254-7
Here, 41 favorite nursery rhymes and songs have been set in large type on uncluttered pages and turned into rebuses. The unique rebus illustrations are rubber-stamp images and Carson's colored pencil drawings. The stamp art is derived from 19th...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Carol Devine Carson, Author, Carol D. Carson, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.95 (6p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0644-6
Favorite nursery rhymes are retold in rebus form, with Carson's pictures and tinted rubber-stamp impressions. Ages 3-up. (Mar.)
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Blanche Sims, Author, Blanche Sims, Illustrator Random House Books for Young Readers $3.99 (62p) ISBN 978-0-394-82881-7
Billy is one of the best hitters on his Little League team, Castle Pizza, sponsored by his father's pizza parlor. But Billy has been in a batting slump, which he blames on Lily, his 18-month-old half sister, who calls out ``hit-a-hit-a-hit-a-hit''...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Ann Schweninger, Author, Ann Schweninger, Illustrator Puffin Books $3.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-054546-3
This assortment of simple, rollicking rhymes is cheerily complemented by a gaggle of lovable bruins. Ages 2-7. (July)
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Jeff Marzollo, Author, Susan Jeffers, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-054619-4
A father successfully induces sleep in his reluctant child in this ""beautiful and valuable bedtime book,"" said PW. Ages 2-6. (Apr.)
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Jean Marzollo, illus. by Ken Wilson-Max. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2325-5
Marzollo's gentle biography of botanist Carver is told from the perspective of a tree that bears witness to his early fascination with plant life. Wilson-Max paints Carver's childhood garden with broad, smudgy shapes and thick outlines, as Carver...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Nancy Sheehan, Photographer Roaring Brook Press $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1643-5
Everyday events in a baby's life play out in Baby's Alphabet by Jean Marzollo, photos by Nancy Sheehan. Captioned photos spell out the activities. ""All gone!"" accompanies a photo of a dirty-faced toddler and his upturned bowl; a photo of baby ...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Jean Marzollo, Editor, Walter Wick, Photographer Cartwheel Books $19.95 (78p) ISBN 978-0-439-45537-4
Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick return with two new additions to their popular series. The paper-over-board I Spy Ultimate Challenger! A Book of Picture Riddles boasts brand-new riddles as well as old favorites, such as ""The Secret Note"" from I...
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Jean Marzollo, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator Puffin Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-055993-4
""The rhymed verses are vivid and straightforward,"" said PW of this concept book in a review that praised Pinkney's ""inventive, engaging"" illustrations. Ages 4-8. (Mar.)
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Elzbieta, Author, Jean Marzollo, Author Dial Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0633-0
Ever-popular teddy bears are the unifying force in this collection of adaptations of songs, jump-rope rhymes, chants and poems. Instead of ``Ten Little Indians,'' there is ``Ten Little Teddy Bears''; ``Star Light, Star Bright'' becomes ``Bear Light,
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