Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $10.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-15-203590-7
Eleven-year-old Anna and her father, Americans, are street musicians in Rome: they sing melancholy ``songs from home'' for tourists-then pass around the beret. The two have lived hand-to-mouth for many years, ever since Papa, for reasons that have...
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Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Author Golden Books $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-307-16521-3
A young bear named Pippin isn't sleepy, and asks for a bedtime story about himself as a baby. Mama obliges, telling him about the time the pirates took Pippin away, and she came to his rescue. Then she tells him about the time Papa saved Pippin from
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Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Author, Dominic Catalano, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59078-088-6
The energetic elephant returns in Bernard Wants a Baby by Joan Goodman, illus. by Dominic Catalano, this time impatient for a new baby brother-but he only wants one on his terms. When Mama has triplets, Bernard must adjust: ""When Sadie slept,...
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Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Author, Dominic Catalano, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-323-9
Bernard is an elephant, but he has something in common with many a human child-a loathing of bathtime. ""No bath,"" he announces, taking refuge in the towel closet. His parents' cajolings and even the lure of bubbles and bath toys fail to change his
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Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Author, Dominic Catalano, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $8.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-854-8
According to PW, ""There is much sly visual enjoyment"" in the details of this story about a bath-phobic elephant who learns to brave the waters. Ages 2-6. (Feb.)
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Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Author, Tom McNeely, Illustrator , illus. by Tom McNeely. Mikaya $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-9650493-7-5
Hewing to a format similar to her Beyond the Sea of Ice, Goodman recounts Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's epic journey of 1497–1499. The first European to sail around Africa to India (known for precious spices), da Gama risked not only
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Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Author, Tom McNeely, Illustrator Mikaya Press $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-931414-01-2
The latest installment in the Great Explorers series, Despite All Obstacles: La Salle and the Conquest of the Mississippi, by Joan Elizabeth Goodman and illus. by Tom McNeely, traces the life and journeys of the intrepid French explorer Ren-Robert
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