Jim Aylesworth, Author, Mavis Smith, Photographer Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3192-8
Whether kids or adults will be the most entertained by this nimble collaboration is anyone's guess--there is plenty here to amuse everybody. Aylesworth's (Old Black Fly) zippy rhyme describes a boy's visit to McGraw's antique shop in search of a...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, David Frampton, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1725-0
As in his The Cat & the Fiddle & More , rhyme-slinger Aylesworth enjoyably extends a traditional verse to picture-book length. An idealized day in a farm setting begins with ``Yellow yellow sunup, / My son Ed. / Up he jumps / From out of bed.''...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Michael Hague, Illustrator , illus. by Michael Hague. Walker & Co. $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-9637-0
It’s nighttime, the coast is clear—the perfect opportunity for Little Bitty Mousie to explore, in alphabetical order, all the delights of a human household: “She climbed the dirty Dishes/ That at dinner held some stew./ She sniffed
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. Dutton $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-46940-7
When Mom and Dad head out for their night on the town, will their "angelic" little monkeys behave? Not likely. First, there are as many of them as there are letters of the alphabet; second, as Cole (The Sissy Duckling) imagines them, the...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-31580-0
It is a quiet country road, slumbering in the softness of summer moonlight. The peacefulness of the blue night is soon broken by the sputtering of a 1920s-vintage car as it rolls to a stop at a railroad crossing. And then, everything happens at once.
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Stefano Vitale, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-021672-6
The valley depicted here lies deep in verdant Pennsylvania Dutch country; each letter of the alphabet begins a clever couplet that describes some aspect of life in a close-knit rural colony. Aylesworth's mellifluous rhymes introduce crafts such as...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Barbara McClintock, Author, Barbara McClintock, Illustrator , illus. by Barbara McClintock. Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-39545-8
The team behind The Gingerbread Man
sinks their teeth into this traditional but never dull retelling of a classic. McClintock borrows from Tenniel and Caldecott in her intricate ink-and-watercolor illustrations. Goldilocks may have the thick blonde
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Eileen Christelow, Illustrator Atheneum Books $13.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-689-31606-7
This extended version of the familiar nursery rhyme successfully combines simple counting concepts, the numbers one through 12 and a gentle introduction to telling time. Laced with phonetic harmonies, the additional verses have a nonsensical,...
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The clever collaborators behind The Gingerbread Man
and Aunt Pitty Patty's Piggy
offer another buoyant retelling in this tale within a tale. A teacher from yesteryear gathers her students around her to read to them a book—which keen-eyed
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Jim Aylesworth, illus by Barbara McClintock. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-92545-7
Based on the Yiddish folksong “I Had a Little Overcoat,” this splendid tale chronicles four generations. Aylesworth and McClintock (who collaborated on Our Abe Lincoln) perform a lovely pas de deux, from a boy’s arrival at Ellis Island (“He came...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Barbara McClintock, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-89987-1
Fresh from The Gingerbread Man, Aylesworth and McClintock offer a similarly energetic, folksy retelling of a sequential tale about a stubborn pig who refuses to pass through a gate to enter the yard of its new owner. Rendered in brown pencil and...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator Atheneum Books $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-81033-6
Halperin's (Hunting the White Cow) sprightly, elaborately paneled illustrations set a light-hearted tone for this variation on a classic folktale motif. When an old man who lives in a cozy but meager home saves a ""wee small man"" from a fox and...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Stephen Gammell, Illustrator , illus. by Stephen Gammell. S&S/Atheneum $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83897-2
Zany food rhymes and humorous portraits of bagels and bananas are the special of the day in this new collaboration from Aylesworth and Gammell (previously teamed for Old Black Fly). The 23 catchy verses feature personality-packed edible stars,...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Stephen Gammell, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3924-5
PW dubbed this rhythmic journey through the alphabet on the back of a pesky housefly an ``ebullient picture-book romp,'' lauding the ``waggish presentation of a basic concept.'' Ages 4-7. (Mar.)
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Stephen Gammell, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1401-3
Aylesworth and Gammell wing their way through the alphabet on the back of a pesky housefly in this ebullient picture-book romp. On a summer day, old black fly ``bothered the baby,'' ``coughed on the cookies'' and ``drove the dog nearly out of his...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Glen Rounds, Illustrator Atheneum Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-31367-7
Hanna is a backwoodswoman, pleased with her chickens and her hog; none of them ever give her any trouble. Every now and then, a chicken disappears, but, while Hanna suspects her neighbor Kenny has stolen it, she can never prove anything. Then one...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Aylesworth, Author, Ruth Young, Illustrator Trophy $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443242-9
Summer turns to winter in this rhyming counting book, whose bucolic illustrations have a pleasingly old-fashioned look and feel. Ages 2-6. (Sept.)
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Aylesworth, Author, Richard Hull, Illustrator Atheneum Books $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-689-31715-6
As a tribute to Mother Goose, Aylesworth has taken rhyme writing to new lengths in this zippy picture book. The prolific wordsmith has fashioned a collection of ``Hey Diddle Diddle'' ditties that begin with such phrases as ``Hey fetter fetter'' or ``
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Richard Hull, Illustrator Atheneum Books $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-31798-9
Aylesworth takes readers on a preposterous, rollicking romp as his narrator introduces the eccentric individuals he visits during a cross-country bike ride. The breezy verse rolls off the tongue as smoothly as the protagonist's wheels whir: in West...
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Jim Aylesworth, Author, Thomas Graham, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2096-0
This folksy frontier tale employs colorful cartoon-like illustrations and a cumulative text featuring rhyme and repetition. Ages 5-7. (Mar.)
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