Lisa Westberg Peters, Author Avon Books $2.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71444-5
This heartwarming novel concerns Grandma Inga, Tania's first piano teacher, who now helps her granddaughter conquer her stage fright. Ages 6-9. (Apr.)
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Jennifer Taylor, Illustrator , illus. by Jennifer Taylor. Greenwillow $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-009095-1
Featuring digital photography, newcomer Taylor's mixed-media art adds comedic zing to Peters's quirky counting tale. Frankie is an apron-wearing marmalade cat who has the run of a hardware store at night—he empties one wastebasket,...
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Lauren Stringer, Illustrator, Westberg Peters, Author , illus. by Lauren Stringer. Harcourt $17 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-201772-9
"All of us are part of an old, old family," begins Peters's (Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck) lyrical, child-friendly book about evolution. Stressing the kinship of humans with all living things, the text identifies each of the species at...
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Ian Schoenherr, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-059675-0
Peters (Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck) has such a knack for putting readers in the title cub's shoes-er, paws-that they, too, will be able to feel his anguish at not being able to get to sleep. The rhyming verse moves the story along at just the...
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Steve Jenkins, Illustrator , illus. by Steve Jenkins. Holt $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8287-6
Personified features of a Hawaiian landscape speak in verse during a day in the life of a waking volcano, rendered in Jenkins’s atmospheric trademark cut-paper collages. The poems shift between the volcano, a pair of crickets, ferns, the sun,...
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1776-2
In this subdued chronicle of a year's passage, Peters (When the Fly Flew In) depicts the months as 12 fair- and foul-weather friends. Her volume begins with the onset of winter: ""Shy November looked out with her eyes puddle-gray./ I peeked in and...
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1481-5
While Elizabeth builds a mountain out of wet sand, the geological concept of mountain formation is clearly explained and impressively illustrated. Ages 4-7. (Sept.)
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Arcade Publishing $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55970-062-7
Snug indoors during winter, Tony hopes for snow. While he waits, climatic changes mirror changes inside his house. Steam from a pot of soup hits a cool window pane and clouds the glass; moist sea air rises, cools and forms clouds. Finally, the air...
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator, Ted Rand, Photographer Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0699-5
The evolution of a mountain is explained in simple terms. In simultaneous story lines, Elizabeth makes a mountain of sand at the beach that is eroded by wind and rain, while on opposing pages, a nearby mountain is formed during a variety of geologic
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Sharon Wooding, Illustrator Arcade Publishing $10.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-55970-040-5
``Now, now, Tania, everything will be all right.'' How Tania longs to hear these reassuring words from her beloved Grandma Inga, but the old cantankerous figure who arrives for a visit is not the cozily comforting grandmother Tania remembers. Tania...
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Barbara McGregor, Illustrator Arcade Publishing $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55970-167-9
Two upper-crust urchins, Muff and Freddy, discover how challenging jam-making can be when they try to revive an old-fashioned tradition. After talking Grandma into going berry-picking, they learn that preparing the treat involves thorny bushes,...
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Brad Sneed, Illustrator Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1431-1
As any parent knows, pleas to kids for clean rooms often generate creative excuses. Here, a youngster begs off tidying up his room because ``all the animals are sleeping''-he'll wait until they awaken. However, a wayward fly sails through the window
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Lisa Westberg Peters, Author, Sam Williams, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-16178-1
In this visually sumptuous testimony to patience and the power of positive thinking, a brown duckling arrives back at her pond a bit too early for spring. Her feet stick to the frozen water--""stuck stuck stuck""--and the brisk air makes her ""shake
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Lisa Westberg Peters, illus. by Victoria Tentler-Krylov. Random House/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-12313-3
Overly glossy metaphor undermines this narrative nonfiction explanation of how the U.S. became culturally and racially diverse. Peters employs a metaphor of wind, chronologically tracing human migration to the North American continent, from First...
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Lisa Westberg Peters, illus. by Serge Bloch. Wordsong, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-63592-527-2
Westberg’s scientific yet silly verse uses a dog’s antics to memorably illustrate physics concepts, identified in the table of contents as including energy, force, friction, gravity, inertia, and others. Beginning lines about matter set the tone,...
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