Jon Agee, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-36249-2
``Curses!'' cries the famous French aviator Freddy LeGrand, parachuting out of his beloved early-20th-century biplane as it hurtles towards earth. Luckily, he has already made it across the Atlantic, and lands on the farm of a couple who are...
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Jon Agee. Dial, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-53852-0
Dramatic irony rules this expedition to Mars, in which a young human roams the rocky environment, unaware that he is not alone. The sky is black, the landscape the color of dust. The frowning boy astronaut, who carries an incongruous white box tied...
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Jon Agee. Dial, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3908-6
Bypassing storefronts that advertise karate, tutoring, and violin lessons, this book’s young narrator walks into a shop offering “Lion Lessons” and chooses a tawny, maned costume. His instructor, an actual lion, holds a degree from the Harvard...
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Jon Agee. Dial, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3907-9
Stanley the beagle is a diehard fixer-upper, and for some reason he likes doing noisy chores in the middle of the night. One by one, he wakes up every member of the alliteratively named Wimbledon family, from parents Wilma and Walter to their four...
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Jon Agee, Author et al. Dial $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3094-6
Fourteen picture book creators try their hands on an age-old question in this intermittently funny compendium. Each participant faces the challenge in a full-bleed spread. Some take a wordless approach. Jerry Pinkney pictures an elaborate picnic; a...
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Jon Agee. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3906-2
How did Santa become Santa? Agee’s inspired account of the jolly man’s boyhood offers some clues. Though Santa’s miserable parents and six older siblings want to trade their tough North Pole life for the warmth of Florida, young Santa can’t imagine...
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Jon Agee. Scholastic/di Capua, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-16204-3
After picking up a rotund mustachioed man in a head-to-toe green jumpsuit and pink briefcase, a seen-it-all New York City cabbie takes his fare to “the other side of town.” There, amid the hustle and bustle of Schmeeker Street, folks root for the...
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Jon Agee, Scholastic/di Capua, $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-545-16203-6
Mr. Putney has the bald pate, brushy mustache, and unsmiling stare of a stereotypical schoolteacher—the better to cast deadpan expressions at his oddball collection of animals, from an industrious "boa constructor" to a "clangaroo" that wears...
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Jon Agee. Scholastic/di Capua, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-29441-6
Adopting a rhinoceros, in and of itself, would be absurd enough for most storytellers. For Agee (Milo's Hat Trick), it is simply the first in a series of weird narrative curveballs. The young narrator discovers that his mellow, sleepy-eyed new pet...
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Jon Agee, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14.41 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-33473-4
Agee's lighthearted black-and-white cartoons illustrate a roundup of clever palindromes--words and phrases that can be read from left to right and in reverse. Among the 60-odd entries are those depicting a handful of long-necked animals in the...
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Jon Agee, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-34666-9
Lurid colors combine with the dense black in Agee's illustrations of a strange tale about louring Ludlow. Born with his mouth in a downward curve, Ludlow never smiles. When he becomes an adult, he works in a complaint department, the right place for
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Jon Agee, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-33633-2
Who paints the most fantastic pictures in France? Is it Gaston du Stroganoff? Felicien CaffayOllay? Alphonse LeCamembair? Only when an unknown painter by the name of Clousseau paints a portrait of a duck so realistic that it quacks is the true...
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Jon Agee, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-42082-6
A canine professor decides a dog's life is the one for him. Ages 3-up. (Apr.)
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Jon Agee, Author . Hyperion/di Capua $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0902-8
With marvelously economical narration and line drawings, Agee (The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau) conjures a formidable tale of a struggling magician. Milo could be Little Orphan Annie's uncle or a caricature of John Lennon. His brick-re
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Jon Agee, Author, John Agee, Author Sunburst $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-46230-7
PW's starred review praised the ``dramatic flair'' and ``effervescent spirit'' of this inventive tale about a French aviator with nine lives. Ages 3-up. (Sept.)
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-32127-7
With characteristic glee, oxymoron and palindrome fiend Agee (Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp?; Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis!) here presents a set of anagrams--some of them borrowed from other wordplay enthusiasts. In this latest effort to unravel and...
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $13.31 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-22473-8
Palindromic pundit Agee follows up his Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog! with another volume of black-and-white cartoons and punchy captions that can be read forward or backward. Some of the palindromes clearly will tickle kids' fancy: ""Pupil's...
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $14.41 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-31808-6
Agee, whose previous palindromic volumes include Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog! and So Many Dynamos!, makes another dizzying effort to exhaust the English-language palindrome supply. He provides animal lovers with the slogans ""Revile liver!""
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16.61 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-35730-6
Even the price is a palindrome in Jon Agee's latest witty collection, Palindromania!, the fourth title in a series that started with Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog! The oblong edition runneth over with clever b&w cartoons. ""In the Garden""
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Jon Agee. Dial, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-55545-2
In this sly fable by Agee (Life on Mars), a tall brick wall runs along the book’s gutter, and the action takes place on either side. On the verso, a short, perky knight approaches the wall with a ladder. On the recto, a menacing-looking tiger and...
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator HarperCollins $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-205074-8
Like Agee's (The Return of Freddy LeGrande; The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau) previous protagonists, his latest lead character accomplishes what should be a loudly heralded feat: Dmitri has just returned from the moon, where he has spent...
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $7.97 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-44473-0
Wacky cartoons elaborate upon LLAMA MALL, TAHITI HAT and other novel palindromes. All ages. (Apr.)
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-43582-0
In this droll, sophisticated tale, an unknown artist enters a Paris contest with a painting of a duck; the repercussions are mighty when the painting begins to quack. Ages 3-up. (Oct.)
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator . Hyperion $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4231-0314-1
“It's been a wonderful eight years... but I need a break,” says Brian, exhausted from school, soccer and broccoli-eating. Toting golf clubs, he boards a plane to Florida. At the Happy Sunset Retirement Community, Brian plays cards,...
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator . Hyperion $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-3694-9
Money for nothing? Certainly—that’s the premise of Agee’s (Terrific
) wry story of desire and excess. Antiques dealer Otis has sold all his wares and is sweeping his bare floor when Suzie Gump, “the richest lady in town,”
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator . Hyperion/di Capua $14.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7868-3692-5
With its unmannerly title in red capital letters, this book hails spoonerisms as a puckish delight. It also dares upstanding adults to put it on display, and invites giggling and cringing alike—a calculated risk, for the title is by far the...
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator . Hyperion/di Capua $15.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-7868-5184-3
Eugene Crumb, the balding and paunchy protagonist of this desert-island send-up, views every lucky break with pessimism. When he wins a cruise to Bermuda, he sighs, "Terrific... I'll probably get a really nasty sunburn." His glass...
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator . Hyperion/di Capua $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1987-4
Agee (Milo's Hat Trick) serves up a witty, stylish abecedary that is deceptive in its simplicity. Edging slyly into the proceedings with a pair of "preview" pages that show a bold red "Z" in a "City Zoo" sign climbing...
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Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator . FSG/Sunburst $8.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-48372-2
"Palindrome collector Agee turns his attention to oxymorons in this witty compendium" said PW. "He pairs 60 illogical sayings like 'Near Miss' and 'Sharp Curves' with his own loosely drawn, duotone illustrations with...
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Dee Lillegard, Author, Jon Agee, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator Dutton Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44528-9
At first glance, a story of a boy and an empty cardboard box would seem devoid of potential, but an elephant, a giraffe, a monkey and a host of assorted other jungle animals enliven the situation considerably--especially when all these creatures...
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Jon Agee, Illustrator, Jon Agee, Author HarperCollins $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-06-205159-2
Palindrome collector Agee (Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog!) turns his attention to oxymorons in this witty compendium. He pairs 60 illogical sayings like ""Near Miss"" and ""Sharp Curves"" with his own loosely drawn, duotone illustrations; as...
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Jon Agee. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-55546-9
In this story by Agee (The Wall in the Middle of the Book), a child visits the Happydale Animal Shelter and asks for a dog. The tall, skinny man who runs the shelter presses her to accept an armadillo, or maybe an anteater. “How about this baby...
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Jon Agee. Rocky Pond, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-53137-2
In this comic dialogue from Agee (Otto: A Palindrama), a child plotting to stay outside “all day long” invites a parent to engage in pretend play—as a tree. In response to young Madeleine’s inducement to “pretend your arms are branches... and then...
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Jon Agee. Dial, $17.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4162-1
Agee’s (I Want a Dog) graphic novel fantasy adventure is written entirely in 200 palindromes created by himself and “a variety of sources”—from the names of white-skinned protagonist Otto and his little dog Pip, to a billboard advertising Lion Rock...
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