Jeanne Birdsall, Author . Knopf $15.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-375-83143-0
This timeless tale from a first-time author introduces the thoroughly likable Penderwicks, on vacation in a rental cottage on Arundel, a sprawling Massachusetts estate. Their spirited family dynamics and repartee call to mind those in Hilary McKay
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Jeanne Birdsall, Author . Knopf $15.99 (308p) ISBN 978-0-375-84090-6
Happy families are not all alike, as previously met characters continue to prove.
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
Jeanne Birdsall
. Knopf
, $15.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-84090-6
This sequel to Birdsall's National Book Award winner, The...
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Jeanne Birdsall. Knopf, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-85851-2
The Penderwick sisters' third adventure brings them back in full entertaining force, despite the absence of their father, who is honeymooning in England, and Rosalind, who's vacationing with a friend in New Jersey. Birdsall fills the gaps in the...
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Jeanne Birdsall. Knopf, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-87077-4
With the addition of baby sister Lydia, the Penderwicks’ blended family returns with all the big-family drama and joys that fans have come to expect. In this fourth installment, musically inclined fifth-grader Batty is delighted to learn that her...
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Jeanne Birdsall. Knopf, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-75566-5
In this final installment of Birdsall’s Penderwicks series, the lovable, uniquely talented Penderwick family returns to the setting of the first novel, Arundel, a grand estate in the Berkshires, where oldest daughter Rosalind is to be wed to her...
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Jeanne Birdsall, illus. by Harry Bliss. Knopf, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-385-75570-2
Birdsall (the Penderwicks series) goes straight for hilarity in a story framed as a boy’s school assignment, with Bliss (Grandma in Blue with Red Hat) as an inspired coconspirator. Gus has a flock of 17 sheep, a healthy dose of curiosity, and...
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Jeanne Birdsall, illus. by Matt Phelan, Clarion, $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-98676-7
Birdsall's (The Penderwicks) crisp and delightful first picture book shares the virtues of her successful middle-grade novels: believable characters, a tightly constructed story line, and a nod to past children's literature—here, to the no-nonsense...
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Jeanne Birdsall, read by Susan Denaker. Listening Library, unabridged, 8 CDs, 9.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-553-55215-7
In the fourth installment to the Penderwick family series, fifth grader Batty Penderwick is doing her best to be a good big sister to siblings Ben and Lydia, while mourning Hound, her beloved dog. A new music teacher at school discovers Batty's...
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Jeanne Birdsall, Author, Susan Denaker, Read by, Listening Library, Manufactured by , read by Susan Deneker. Listening Library $39 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-28451-8
Ah, summertime and the living is easy—even if it's off to a rough start—in this sprightly audio edition of Birdsall's debut novel, which won the National Book Award. The Penderwick family, consisting of four daughters, their...
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Jeanne Birdsall, illus. by Jane Dyer. Harper, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-083150-9
Lucky and Squash are dog neighbors and best friends who long for a permanent play date. But a fence separates their two yards and their single owners, Mr. Bernard and Miss Violet, are “so shy they’ve never even said hello to each other.” So the pets
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Jeanne Birdsall, illustrated by Jane Dyer. Knopf, $16.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-593-17911-6
In a “higgledy-piggledy house” in Trelfdom, siblings Teaflet and Roog, who are “happy together until something goes wrong,” prepare for two events at cross purposes in this early chapter book. With wry humor, an unknown narrator introduces readers...
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Jeanne Birdsall, illus. by Matt Phelan. Knopf, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-57905-2
When neither of her parents are available to care for her, 11-year-old Gwen MacKinnon is sent to Dalgety, Mass., to stay with her great-uncle Matthew, whom she’s never met. Accustomed to her parents’ unpleasant attitudes, Gwen is caught off guard by
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