Laurence Anholt. Barron’s, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7641-6644-0
The long-running Anholt’s Artists series of picture-book biographies expands with a tribute to Marc Chagall, in which the artist responds to his grandchildren’s repeated requests for a story by recalling his childhood, growing passion for painting,...
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Laurence Anholt, Author . Barron’s $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7641-6282-4
In this solid addition to Anholt’s Artists series, Paul Cézanne invites his son to visit him in the countryside. Arriving by train, the boy finds his father on a mountainside, “making a wild painting.” He leads his son to...
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Laurence Anholt, Author First Glance Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-87156-569-3
Opening with a sleepy and inauspicious introduction--``A long time ago, but not so far away, there was a country that was covered by trees''--this environmental fable tells how a vast, long-ago forest once filled with the sounds of children shrivels
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Laurence Anholt, Author Barron's Educational Series $16.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7641-7524-4
The Child's Gift of Art, a boxed set by Laurence Anholt, contains four handsize titles, each a tale about a child's encounter with an artist: Leonardo and the Flying Boy (da Vinci); Degas and the Little Dancer; Picasso and the Girl with the...
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Laurence Anholt, Author, Laurence Anhold, Author Barron's Educational Series $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7641-5225-2
Anholt (Camille and the Sunflowers) continues his imaginative series about great artists with this cleverly executed and engaging account of one of Leonardo da Vinci's real-life apprentices. When Leonardo tells Zoro that one day ""people will sail...
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Laurence Anholt, Author, Catherine Anholt, Illustrator Albert Whitman & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-0743-8
The Anholts (The Big Book of Families) offer a poignant but reassuring treatment of the anxiety a child feels facing the first day at a new school. Billy confides his fears to the birds in his backyard; he's worried not just about getting lost, but...
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Laurence Anholt, Author, Catherine Anholt, Illustrator Albert Whitman & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-7550-5
The Anholts (The Big Book of Families) synchronize the cycle of life with the rhythms of the seasons in this heartwarming book about a new sibling. Young Sophie's new brother arrives amid the first snowfall, and the heroine's mood soon turns just as
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Laurence Anholt, Author, Catherine Anholt, Illustrator, Catherine Anholt, Author Dial Books $6.99 (8p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2772-4
Monkey business ensues in two new Chimp and Zee board books by Catherine and Laurence Anholt. Chimp and Zee's Noisy Book shows the pair copying sounds: ""Woof woof woof!"" and ""clap clap clap"" start the symphony. In Monkey Around with Chimp and
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Laurence Anholt, Author, Catherine Anholt, Illustrator, Catherine Anholt, Author Dial Books $6.99 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2773-1
Monkey business ensues in two new Chimp and Zee board books by Catherine and Laurence Anholt. Chimp and Zee's Noisy Book shows the pair copying sounds: ""Woof woof woof!"" and ""clap clap clap"" start the symphony. In Monkey Around with Chimp and
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Laurence Anholt, Author, Sheila Moxley, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30148-7
Anholt's cumbersome and text-laden story centers on the early years of Mary Anning, born in 1799 and known in her native England for her discovery of ancient fossils. From the moment that her beloved father, nicknamed ""Pepper"" for his ""speckled...
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Laurence Anholt, Author, Jim Coplestone, Illustrator , illus. by Jim Coplestone. Frances Lincoln $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84507-300-8
This poignant tale unfolds through letters exchanged between Ruby, who lives with her struggling parents in their high-rise city apartment, and Grampa, alone in the country with a magpie family nesting in a hollow tree outside his window. Ruby's
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Laurence Anholt, illus. by Jim Coplestone. Frances Lincoln/Otter-Barry (PGW, dist.), $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84780-323-8
The team behind 2006’s Seven for a Secret, which addressed the death of a family member, uses a family of birds to illustrate the idea of divorce. Writing in chirpy, nursery rhyme–like verse that tailors this story to a young audience, Anholt paints
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Catherine Anholt, Author, Laurence Anholt, Author, Laurence Anholt, Joint Author Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0585-8
The festive cartoons and minimal text in these cheerful companion books tell what toddlers like and dislike, what makes them happy and sad, etc. Ages 3-up. (Nov.)
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Catherine Anholt, Author, Laurence Anholt, Author, Laurence Anholt, Joint Author Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0323-6
This collection of short poems, by turns rollicking and sweet, pays homage to families of various configurations and personalities. The Anholts (Kids; What I Like) capture the many moods and dynamics of families from a child's point of view, via...
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Catherine Anholt, Author, Laurence Anholt, Author, Catherine Anholt, Illustrator Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2700-7
The mischievous monkeys return in Chimp and Zee and the Big Storm by Laurence Anholt, illus. by Catherine Anholt. In this adventure, the duo is swooped up by high winds, then saved just in the nick of time by their quick-thinking Mumkey. ( Sept.)
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Catherine Anholt, Author, Laurence Anholt, Author, Catherine Anholt, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2210-7
Gathering another quintet of previously published books, Catherine and Laurence Anholt's Big Book of Little Children by the husband-and-wife team, adapts material from books published between 1991 and 1998. The round-up surveys a range of topics,
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Ross Collins, Author, Laurence Anholt, Author . Bloomsbury $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-750-9
There's a back-up on the bedtime beltway in this humorous fantasy about the various visitors to children's slumberland. When Ben, a lad with a loose tooth, toddles off to sleep, a long line of nighttime guests begins showing up in his...
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