Jeanne Steig, Author , illus. by William Steig. HarperCollins/Cotler $17.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-028405-3
Kudos to the Steigs (A Handful of Beans), who employ colloquial prose, agile rhymes and art brut
imagery to retell Greco-Roman myths. But beware: Like Ovid's The Metamorphoses, this zesty volume is a Pandora's box of hubris, lust and...
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Jeanne Steig. Abrams ComicArts, $40 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8109-9577-2
A treasure trove of hundreds of previously unpublished illustrations by children’s book icon Steig, this compendium is organized thematically (people, dogs, “odd ducks,” etc.); the late Steig’s wife, Jeanne, introduces each section with delightful,...
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Jeanne Steig, Author, William Steig, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-41361-3
``Delicious rhymes'' about members of the animal kingdom make up this ``wily collaboration of two very kindred spirits,'' said PW. All ages. (Sept.)
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Jeanne Steig, Author, William Steig, Photographer, William Steig, With Farrar Straus Giroux $9 (46p) ISBN 978-0-374-31536-8
As with the best of Ogden Nash's verses, Jeanne Steig's poems surprise and amuse with clever wordplay and wry humor. Rhythmic and funny, the poems aptly consider not only the lemming (``No hawing and hemming'') but a variety of animals, both real...
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Jeanne Steig, Author, William Steig, Illustrator, William Steig, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $15 (45p) ISBN 978-0-06-205006-9
This animated alphabet book, abuzz with crazy characters, brings a crooked charm to the frequent drudgery of learning one's ABCs. Jeanne Steig's verse bubbles merrily along, drolly blending abundant alliterations with downright silliness in a...
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Jeanne Steig, Author, William Steig, Illustrator, William Steig, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $7.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-22583-4
In limerick, quatrain and couplet, Steig ( Consider the Lemming ) celebrates heroes and villains of various Old Testament books, lightheartedly evoking figures generally cloaked in solemnity. She presents us with Moses, worried he'll fall bringing...
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Jeanne Steig, Author, Britt Spencer, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24756-9
Steig's (A Handful of Beans
) shaggy dog story, like the swapping stories found in folk or fairy tales, takes readers on a hilarious journey with a farmer named Quantz. “Patta pim, patta pum, the day has begun,” says Quantz. “P
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Jeanne Steig, Author, Sandy Turner, Illustrator , illus. by Sandy Turner. HarperCollins/Cotler $16.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-06-000959-5
This mock-epic Western, told in rhyming text as long as the noonday sun is high, chronicles events in the dusty town of Fiasco. In three tales, loners amble into the local hangout, Gizzard's Grill, and forge unlikely friendships. "The...
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Jeanne Steig, Retold by, Jeanne Steig, Author, William Steig, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $21.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-205162-2
""A long time ago, when magic was more of an everyday matter...."" begins Jeanne Steig's version of ""The Frog Prince,"" an opener that typifies her sly irony and lilting language in this hand-sized volume. She and husband William Steig, who...
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