Larry Dane Brimner. Boyds Mills/Calkins Creek, $16.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-59078-990-2
Brimner (Strike! The Farmworkers' Fight for Their Rights) brings to light the story of enigmatic, entrepreneurial rainmaker Charles Hatfield. Claiming to be able to enhance rainfall amounts with his secretive chemical mixing and evaporative...
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Larry Dame Brimner. Calkins Creek, $17.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-62979-586-7
Using a straightforward, present-tense narrative and a diary-style format, Brimner (The Rain Wizard) recounts the first freedom ride of the civil rights movement. After opening with a recap of several landmark court cases that affected civil rights...
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Larry Dane Brimner. Calkins Creek, $17.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-62091-603-2
Brimner (Twelve Days in May) provides a cinematic recounting of the 1947 investigation into the motion picture industry by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Extensive quotes from contemporary sources help to recreate the struggle—complete...
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Larry Dane Brimner, Author, Karen E. Pellaton, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-431-7
There's no candy coating from ""Red"" and ""Yellow"": the duo introduces each topic with questions, comments and witty quips in The Official M&M's Brand History of the Calendar by Larry Dane Brimner, illus. by Karen Pellaton, a well-researched ...
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Larry Dane Brimner, illus. by Dominic Catalano, Boyds Mills, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-758-8
While the bespectacled armadillo from Merry Christmas, Old Armadillo waits for his Halloween visitors indoors, his friends are gathering outside in their costumes. Catalano's atmospheric pastels show both the indoor and outdoor activities: "Inside...
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Larry Dane Brimner, Author, Tom Payne, Illustrator Children's Press(CT) $4.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-516-27007-4
PreS-Gr 2-In this fun book for fledgling readers, a little girl plays with a frisky gang of cats and kittens. Acting as the ringmaster, she issues commands and countercommands: ""Come in, let's play; stay down; don't swing; don't fight; don't...
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Larry Dane Brimner, Author, Tom Payne, Illustrator Children's Press(CT) $19.5 (24p) ISBN 978-0-516-22024-6
PreS-Gr 2-In this fun book for fledgling readers, a little girl plays with a frisky gang of cats and kittens. Acting as the ringmaster, she issues commands and countercommands: ""Come in, let's play; stay down; don't swing; don't fight; don't...
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Larry Dane Brimner, Author, Jose Aruego, Illustrator, Ariane Dewey, Illustrator , illus. by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Harper-Collins $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-029039-9
Shored up by simultaneously tender and zingy illustrations, Brimner's (Country Bear's Good Neighbor) tale rises above its prosaic theme to comfort children frustrated by the achievements of their older siblings. Big Gray discovers his...
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Larry Dane Brimner, Author, Ruth T. Cooncell, Illustrator, Ruth Tietjen Councell, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-674-2
A roly-poly bear's friends torment him by pretending to forget his birthday, ignoring his increasingly dramatic hints. Soft colored-pencil drawings shed a happy haze on the eventual surprise party. Ages 3-6. (Oct.)
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Larry Dane Brimner, Author, Chris L. Demarest, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-146-4
Demarest's (When Cows Come Home) watercolor illustrations virtually explode with energy and spontaneity as he depicts the sheer joy of a dog endowed with a pair of wings and thus liberated from the bonds of the earth. According to Brimner's (Merry...
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Larry Dane Brimner, Author, Eugenie Fernandes, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-113-6
A familiar story line yields its share of amusement in this competent if unexceptional picture book. Elliot Fry can cope with most of life's little anxieties--his mother's complaints about mud tracks across the kitchen floor, his father's aversion...
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Larry Dane Brimner, illus. by John Bendall-Brunello. Two Lions, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5039-5096-2
Brimner (Trick or Treat, Old Armadillo) and Bendall-Brunello (Otter Out of Water) introduce two new friends whose happy summer of play comes to an end as Bear, who is older than Puppy, heads off to school. The book’s emotional tone doesn’t vary much:
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Larry Dane Brimner, Author, Ruth T. Councell, Illustrator, Ruth Tietjen Councell, Photographer Orchard Books (NY) $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-05708-7
One by one, Country Bear borrows a number of ingredients from the little girl who lives next door: first apples, then sugar, an egg, and so on. Finally, the girl loses patience and proclaims ``absolutely not!'' before he even makes clear his request.
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Larry Dane Brimmner, Author, Larry Dane Brimner, Author, Les Gray, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-56397-010-8
Max and Felix, the two funny frogs featured in this chapter book, record their mishaps and misadventures with the click of a camera. Whether the frogs are building a new porch, telling spooky stories or going fishing, Felix captures the unwittingly...
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Larry Dane Brimner, illus. by Maya Gonzalez. Calkins Creek, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-68437-195-2
Dense paragraphs of small text outline the tale of Roberto Alvarez, a California-born student of Mexican heritage who, along with his Mexican and Mexican American peers, was instructed to attend a school separate from white students in 1930s...
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