William Joyce and Laura Geringer, illus. by Joyce. S&S/Atheneum, $14.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4424-3048-8
Launching the Guardians series, a chapter book counterpart to Joyce's Guardians of Childhood picture book series, this beguiling clash of good vs. evil brings together several legendary figures, updated by Joyce. Key players include Ombric, a wizard
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Laura Geringer, Author, Arnold Lobel, Illustrator HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443157-6
A gently comic tale about R. R. Pottle the Third, a man who dreams of the perfect wife and finds her. A Reading Rainbow selection. Ages 4-8. (August)
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Laura Geringer, Author, Bagram Ibatoulline, Illustrator , illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. S&S/Atheneum $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-85093-6
Geringer's (A Three Hat Day
) bouncy beats and sound effects will have musical readers all a-clamor. The cover pictures a toy gnome and his drum under a tent of a storybook that reads, “A Most Unusual Bedtime Story,” and the story�
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Laura Geringer, Author, L. G. Bass, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-06-021986-4
Billing itself somewhat coyly as a ``scrambled alphabet book to be read at breakfast,'' this ABC book is not so easy to figure out. In each spread--the same scene throughout--a girl is eating breakfast and an animal enters, accompanied by a verse (``
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Laura Geringer, Author, L. G. Bass, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18.95 (153p) ISBN 978-0-06-023849-0
A maze of madness, dreams and mythological characters pervades this story of 12-year-old Cora's growing need to meet her Greek father, who disappeared before she was born. Most of the characters in this sometimes beautiful, sometimes impenetrable...
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Laura Geringer, Author, L. G. Bass, Author, Leonid Gore, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-395-68192-3
Geringer's adaptation of the Greek myth about the seasons boasts a few modern touches, namely, a slightly more outspoken and headstrong Persephone and a Demeter cast as something of a conflicted working mother. No longer is the kidnapped Persephone...
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Laura Geringer, Author, L. G. Bass, Author, Susan G. Truesdell, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-021711-2
A boy is biking home one day when a furry blue creature, elephantine in size but puppylike in personality, swoops down from the sky and invades his life in bizarre ways. ``Look out, look out, it's coming,'' the refrain warns, as the intruder floods...
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Laura Geringer, Author, L. G. Bass, Author, Andrea Baruffi, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-020399-3
Hearts appear in most unexpected places in this slight but artsy Valentine's Day volume. More of an expanded greeting card than a book, and clearly aimed at an older audience, it pairs a dozen zippy holiday messages (``Be my valentine. Yours 'til...
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Author, Wilhelm Grimm, Author, Laura Geringer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-023552-9
The poetic, immediate style of this deeply satisfying adaptation honors the Grimm tradition. To the original tale about a girl who sets out to rescue her seven older brothers, turned into ravens by their father's unwitting curse, Geringer (A Three...
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