Caroline Kennedy, illus. by Jon J Muth. Disney-Hyperion, $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4231-0805-4
Kennedy and Muth return with a stellar second poetry compilation, following 2005’s A Family of Poems. Meant to be memorized, the more than 100 poems are divided into nine thematic sections—family, friendships, war, and nature, among others—and come...
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Karen Hesse, Author, Jon J. Muth, Author, Jon J. Muth, Illustrator Scholastic Press $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-33125-8
""Up and down the block,/ cats pant,/ heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway./ Miz Grace and Miz Vera bend, tending beds of drooping lupines,"" as a whole neighborhood waits for rain. The narrator, Tessie, is the first one to see the ""
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Jon J. Muth, Author . Scholastic $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-439-63425-0
Stillwater, the giant panda who taught Zen parables to siblings Karl, Addy and Michael in Zen Shorts,
continues to combine his slow-moving grace with genuine spiritual tranquility. This time, Michael faces a daunting spelling bee, and Stillwater,...
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Jon J Muth, Scholastic Press, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-63430-4
In the third of Muth's contemplative series, Stillwater the panda comes dressed as a ghost to join Addy, Michael, and Karl on Halloween. After trick or treating, they travel through the misty night to Stillwater's house. There, another panda (which...
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Jon J Muth. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-16668-3
Twenty-six gossamer watercolors celebrate the changing seasons with Koo, the young panda Muth introduced in Zen Ties (he’s the nephew of Stillwater, Muth’s famous panda sage). Each page features a haiku about an evocative moment (eating cookies,...
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Jon J Muth. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-16669-0
Muth continues his series of stories about Stillwater, the neighborhood panda who may or may not be a Zen master. Stillwater’s original neighbors, Addy and her brothers, are gone—grown up, perhaps—and new neighbors, Leo and Molly, have recently...
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Jon J Muth. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-545-85282-1
Mama Lion and Tigey—two gawky stuffed animals—are preparing for a car race along with the other toys in their town. The race begins (some famous picture book friends can be spotted in the starting-
line crowd), and the vintage automobiles hurtle...
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Jon J. Muth, Author, Jon J. Muth, Illustrator . Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-33909-4
With the same aesthetic grace he displayed with Tolstoy's The Three Questions, Muth here transports a classic tale to rural China. The setting not only allows his evocative, impressionistic watercolors to play over mist and mountains but also...
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Jon J. Muth, Author, Jon J. Muth, Illustrator . Scholastic $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-33911-7
Muth, who has retold traditional stories such as Stone Soup
and Tolstoy's The Three Questions
, and played up their spiritual elements with his elegant watercolors, here introduces three Zen stories from Japan. He frames the trio of tales...
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Jon J. Muth, Author, Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Based on a Book by . Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-19996-4
Muth (Come On, Rain!) recasts a short story by Tolstoy into picture-book format, substituting a boy and his animal friends for the czar and his human companions. Yearning to be a good person, Nikolai asks, "When is the best time to do things?...
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Jon J. Muth, Author, Thea Von Harbou, Screenplay by, Fritz Lang, Adapted by . Abrams $24.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-8109-9522-2
Long before Criterion DVDs or the Independent Film Channel—which is to say, in 1990—painter Muth adapted Fritz Lang's classic serial killer tale M
into a four-part comics miniseries. He hewed closely to Lang's original German...
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