Lissa Rovetch, Author Morrow Junior Books $12.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-688-08057-0
Mr. and Mrs. Goodsmile wonder what happened to their delicious French toast with cherries and turn a questioning eye toward their son Arnie. ``Trigwater did it!'' says Arnie with a smile, blaming the big green creature who is his friend. On the bus...
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Lissa Rovetch, Author, Martha Weston, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-84335-0
After telling their adopted daughter Cora how they found her in her infancy, washed ashore, Edward and Ophelia-who, unlike Cora, are elephants-promise to pursue their sole clue to her origins: a life-preserver tag labeled ""Pier 38, San Francisco.""
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Lissa Rovetch, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Shannon McNeill, Illustrator , illus. by Shannon McNeill. Chronicle $12.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2660-0
Rovetch (Sweet Dreams Little One) composes repetitive chants around single-syllable words, and the results are as catchy as they are vapid. The author creates names like "Ake the Snake" and "Eep the Sheep" by dropping initial letters.
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Lissa Rovetch, Author, Dave Whamond, Illustrator , illus. by Dave Whamond. Chronicle $4.95 (95p) ISBN 978-0-8118-5156-5
Copiously illustrated with wacky cartoons, the debut Hot Dog and Bob caper introduces a normal kid named Bob, who discovers a talking hot dog in his lunchbox. The wiener explains that he is from the planet Dogzalot, where Big Bun commands superhero...
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