Jenny Koralek, Author Little Brown and Company $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-50179-8
In this sentimental barnyard tale, a fox, seeking friendship with rabbits and chickens, asks a wise owl for advice. The owl tells fox of a land ``behind the sun and beyond the moon . . . where the lion lies down with the lamb.'' Each night until...
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Jenny Koralek, Author, Patricia MacCarthy, Author, Patricia MacCarthy, Illustrator Hyperion Books $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0037-7
Not only ailurophiles will be touched by this affectionate portrait of a mature feline and a young foundling. A country-dwelling Cat, wise to the ways of the woods, fields and farm, one day discovers ``a sad sight: one small Kit.'' Cat presents Kit...
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Jenny Koralek, Author, Pauline Baynes, Illustrator , illus. by Pauline Baynes. Eerdmans $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5251-9
Invitingly told in words and pictures, the story of Moses among the bullrushes receives a streamlined, child-friendly adaptation. While passages from Exodus precede the narrative, Koralek (Night Ride to Nanna's) immediately homes in on the drama,
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Jenny Koralek, Author, Pauline Baynes, Illustrator , illlus. by Pauline Baynes. Eerdmans $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5277-9
The duo behind The Moses Basket
returns with this accessible interpretation of the story of Joseph. And happily for readers, Baynes's (The Chronicles of Narnia
) elegant paintings, evoking Egyptian stoneware tableaux, give the titular garment...
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Jenny Koralek, Author, Grizelda Holderness, Illustrator , illus. by Grizelda Holderness. Eerdmans $17.50 (27p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5348-6
Koralek (The Coat of Many Colors
) and Holderness (When the World Began
) play a little fast and loose with the details of the Book of Esther: the reason for Esther's recruitment as a royal bride is omitted (no Vashti, the queen who is banished
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