Kate Klise. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-250-00842-8
Klise (Grounded) looks at the effects of hoarding and the struggles and joys of smalltown life in this honest, good-natured coming-of-age story set in the early 1980s. Twelve-year-old Benny’s mother leaves his father, whose hoarding has gotten out...
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Kate Klise. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-210805-0
Klise takes a break from her bestselling children’s books for her first foray into adult fiction. This lively love story is told through four voices—those of star chef Daisy Sprinkle; her precocious 18-year-old daughter, Coco; the art installation...
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Kate Klise, Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-57039-2
Klise (the 43 Old Cemetery Road series) spins an insightful story about loss and family, set in the tiny town of Digginsville, Mo., told from the plainspoken perspective of 12-year-old Daralynn Oakland. Her brother, sister, and father die in a plane
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Kate Klise, illus. by M. Sarah Klise. Holt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9313-1
The Klise sisters (Little Rabbit and the Meanest Mother on Earth) have once again hit the nail on the head: some relatives—okay, old relatives—fill kids with dread. Take Larry Lamb’s Grammy Lamby: she’s loud, boring, and clueless, sewing pink polka-d
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Kate Klise, illus. by M. Sarah Klise. Feiwel and Friends, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-250-10714-5
Who says bucket lists are just for humans? Not the Klise sisters (Grammy Lamby and the Secret Handshake), who gracefully trace a girl’s growing awareness of her dog’s impending death. When Astrid’s parents bring their newborn daughter home from the...
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator , illus. by M. Sarah Klise. HarperCollins $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-380-97880-9
The sisters Klise once again use the format they mastered in Regarding the Fountain
to cleverly recount Lily Watson's experience as the "first juvenile juror in the state's history." The sixth grader here records her experience as a
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator Gulliver Books $15 (127p) ISBN 978-0-15-205019-1
Using the same ""scrapbook"" style as their Regarding the Fountain, sisters Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise visit the students of Geyser Creek Middle School in Regarding the Sink: Where, Oh Where, Did Waters Go? The school seeks out Florence Waters,...
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-380-97539-6
A bit less satisfying than the Klises' Regarding the Fountain, this summer camp mystery employs the same roundabout storytelling style, unfolding its plot through an avalanche of letters, memos, menus, ledgers and legal documents. The premise is...
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator Dial 16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3404-3
The Klise sisters (the Little Rabbit books) tell the story of Ella Kate Ewing, who turned what could have been a miserable existence into a life of dignity. Gigantism, not understood in the 19th century, made Ella a child who needed a specially made
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator , illus. by M. Sarah Klise. Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-206201-9
Chimerical details abound in this strong follow-up to Little Rabbit and the Night Mare
. Even though he wants to see the circus, Little Rabbit's mother directs him to first clean his out-of-control playroom, shown complete with framed bug...
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator , illus. by M. Sarah Klise. Harcourt $15 (147p) ISBN 978-0-15-205727-5
This fresh, funny launch of the 43 Old Cemetery Road series introduces an eccentric cast with pun-tastic names. I.B. Grumply, a cranky children's book author with writer's block, rents a dilapidated Victorian mansion (from realtor Anita...
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator , illus. by M. Sarah Klise. Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205717-6
Things that go scare in the night, namely anxiety-induced dreams, challenge sweet and sensitive Little Rabbit in the Klise sisters' (Imagine Harry
) reassuring picture book. When a school assignment puts Little Rabbit's mind into overdrive
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator , illus. by M. Sarah Klise. Holt $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7319-5
The rabbit duo from Shall I Knit You a Hat?
returns for a gentle tale that explains how no one ever really outgrows tears. There's no crying at age five—at least, that's what Little Rabbit, on the verge of his fifth birthday, believes.
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator , illus. by M. Sarah Klise. Holt $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7318-8
Beating the winter chill and warming hearts are the themes in the Klise sisters' (Regarding the Fountain
) darling tribute to knitwear and holiday giving. With a blizzard reportedly on the way, Mother Rabbit quickly knits one and purls two to...
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator , illus. by M. Sarah Klise. HarperTrophy $5.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-380-81672-9
A sixth grader records her experience as a sequestered juror for a research paper assignment tracing the highly publicized case of a classmate's mysterious disappearance. "This three-ring circus will set in motion readers' flights of...
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Kate Klise, illus. M. Sarah Klise. Algonquin Young Readers, $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-61620-244-6
Elderly Sir Sidney loves his circus, and he pampers his animals and performers, as well as the two mice and crow who are part of its extended family. When he decides to take some time off, he hires brash Barnabas Brambles, who promises to care for...
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Kate Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Author, M. Sarah Klise, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-380-97538-9
What Dry Creek Middle School needs is a plain, functional drinking fountain to replace its leaking old one. What it gets is Florence Waters, impresario fountain designer who has in mind something with exotic birds, an ice skating rink, geysers and...
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Kate Klise, illus. by Celia Krampien. Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-250-75686-2
In this swiftly paced adventure inspired by Rear Window, active, overachieving, pale-skinned 10-year-old Ivy Crowden breaks her leg on the last day of fourth grade. Stuck in a full leg cast until August, Ivy must cancel her summer plans. “Think of...
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