Laura Rankin, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-88105-6
Magic-marker sketches and fairy-tale characters come to life in this inventive, fully realized tale. Merl the cat and Jasper the dog are ink doodles, seated at a table, forks at the ready. When Ann, who has drawn them, is called to dinner before...
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Laura Rankin, Author, Phyllis Frucht, Author Dial Books $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0974-4
From a hand grasping two asparagus stalks to a zippered sleeve tracing the letter Z, Rankin's alphabet book is a glorious success as it displays the American Sign Language alphabet. The colored pencil illustrations on charcoal paper of varied hues...
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Laura Rankin, Author, Laure Rankin, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-055876-0
ENQUIRING MINDS... The I Want to Know series, imported from Italy, rolls out with Rain, Where Do You Come From?; Flower, Why Do You Smell So Nice?; Wind, What Makes You Move? and Sun, Where Do You Go?, all by Francesca Grazzini, illus. by Chiara...
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Laura Rankin, Author, Laura Rankin, Illustrator . Bloomsbury $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59990-010-0
Like a lot of girls (and girl foxes) in her peer set, Ruthie loves “tiny things—the tinier the better.... She had dinky dinosaurs, itty-bitty trains, ponies no bigger than your pinky, and teddy bears that were barely there.” So...
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Laura Rankin, Author, Laura Rankin, Illustrator Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2561-4
A pair of titles explores letters and numbers in the natural world. Laura Rankin, author of The Handmade Alphabet, chronicles the changing seasons in a small Maine town in Swan Harbor: A Nature Counting Book. Acrylic portraits appear throughout,
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