Kevin Lewis, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator , illus. by Daniel Kirk. Scholastic/Orchard $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-60371-3
The dinosaur hero of this story may be little, but he's got big things to do over the course of the day. After a "grumpy-lumpy" wake-up, a "yummy-tummy" breakfast, tenacious teeth brushing and getting dressed, he heads outside...
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Kevin Lewis, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator , illus. by Daniel Kirk. Hyperion $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-5615-2
In its title and subject matter, this book recalls this team's Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo
. With a "Toot! Toot!," a spunky little tugboat shows how it's the hero of the harbor, whether helping the big ships ("Giant tanker needs a...
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Kevin Lewis, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator, Daniel Kirk, Author Hyperion Books for Children $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0429-0
First-time author Lewis and Kirk (Breakfast at the Liberty Diner) here embrace an enduring childhood fantasy--the playroom that comes alive at night--and pare it down for very young readers. A toy engineer and his son drive a train loaded with ""frei
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Kevin Lewis, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator , illus. by S.D. Schindler. Scholastic/Orchard $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-43974-9
In Lewis's (Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo) rhyming tale, it is Halloween day when an enormous pumpkin bounces downhill and through the Baxter family farm. At the sight of this "thumpety/ bumpety/ thumpin'/ bumpin'/ round and rolly/ runaway
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Kevin Lewis, Author, Daniel Kirk, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator , illus. by Daniel Kirk. Hyperion $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0534-1
How many engines does it take to get a pothole-ambushed dump truck unstuck? Readers travel through a stretch of desert road with canines at the wheel before arriving at a shaggy dog of an answer. The pooch driver flags down four vehicles in...
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As the architects of this sunny, House That Jack Built–style cumulative rhyming tale, Lewis (Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo) and Cartwright (Mr. Potter's Pigeon) know what their readers want: construction, and lots of it. The narrator is a lucky...
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Kevin Lewis, illus. by David Ercolini. Scholastic/Orchard, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-43981-7
"Livingstone Columbus Magellan Crouse,/ I'll have no bugs inside this house!/ I'll say it once. Won't say it twice./ Repeating myself will not suffice!" The overall-wearing boy who's the object of this tirade doesn't look like a troublemaker—his...
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