June Crebbin, Author, Katherine McEwen, Illustrator, Katharine McEwen, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0645-9
Lending itself to a sing-along rather than a read-aloud (the text can be sung to the tune of ""Skip to My Lou""), the merriment of this mischievous book is contagious. Barnyard animal sounds punctuate Crebbin's (Into the Castle) catchy text: ""Ducks
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June Crebbin, Author, Katharine McEwen, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2129-2
Picture book favorites return in a board book format just right for smallest hands. A lazy farmer presides over the wacky doings of Cows in the Kitchen by June Crebbin, illus. by Katharine McEwen, set to the rhythms of ""Skip to My Lou."" The...
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June Crebbin, Author, Stephen Lambert, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-149-6
Blink, a restive fledgling owl, must wait out an interminable day for his first chance at flight. As butterflies flutter and a falcon soars, the owlet wonders, ``When will it be my time?'' ``Soon,'' his mother replies, and urges the nocturnal...
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June Crebbin, Author, Stephen Lambert, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-546-3
Enthusiasm is the order of the day as a round-faced child and her mother board a cheery red train: ""We're off on a journey/ Out of the town-/ What shall I see?/ What shall I see?"" On each subsequent spread, Crebbin's bouncy text and Lambert's...
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June Crebbin, Author, Stephen Lambert, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-508-1
An impatient owlet must wait to try his wings; according to PW, ``The twist supplied by Blink's daytime slumbers will amuse those who must suffer the indignities of a nightly bedtime.'' Ages 3-up. (June)
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