Lita Judge, Author . Roaring Brook/Flash Point $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-59643-443-1
“Every giant was once a baby,” asserts this insightful book, filled with fascinating details about the rearing habits of less familiar dinosaurs. Using fossil evidence and comparisons to modern species, Judge speculates about how...
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Lita Judge, Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1389-8
Walter Rothschild, the shy eldest son of Lord Nathan Rothschild, never took an interest in the family banking business, instead developing an all-consuming veneration for the wild; at age seven, he began collecting living animals like kangaroos and...
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Lita Judge. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2007-6
With a few well-chosen sound effects, a cozy winter landscape, and a group of enthusiastic, four-legged sledders, Judge (Strange Creatures: The Story of Walter Rothschild and His Museum) creates a story that’s both cuddly and smartly paced. “Scrunch
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Lita Judge. Roaring Brook/Flash Point, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-646-6
With humor and sensitivity, Judge translates the secret language of birds, both verbal and nonverbal, that they use to attract mates, communicate with partners or offspring, and thwart predators. “I have the most experience. I’ll make the best mate,”
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Lita Judge. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-719-7
Judge (Born to Be Giants) revisits familiar territory with this lighthearted but factual look at dinosaur size. Moving from smallest to largest, her illustrations juxtapose 12 dinos with modern-day objects and animals for comparison. A close-up of a
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Lita Judge. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-59643-925-2
Judge offers an intimate study of the lives of animal babies and their parents, accompanied by her typically tender, naturalistic illustrations. Emphatic phrases like “the baby needs to be caressed and groomed” introduce spreads on these and other...
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Lita Judge. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-42837-4
Hoot the owl is ready to share his “owly wisdom” with his younger sister, Peep, and introduce her to nocturnal life in the city (which looks to be a cross between the historic sections of London and Paris). But Peep, deeply moved by the sounds and...
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Lita Judge. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-250-23707-1
In author-illustrator Judge’s comprehensive nonfiction picture book, free verse poems from the perspective of trees occur alongside factual paragraphs of supplementary prose. The collection conveys trees’ “secret language... that allows them to work
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Lita Judge, Author, Lita Judge, Illustrator . Hyperion $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-0008-9
A mother and daughter's homegrown relief effort, which spanned a year and a half and aided numerous German families after World War II, is the subject of Judge's debut picture book. Judge's lyrical prose tells the true and poignant...
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Lita Judge, Author, Lita Judge, Illustrator . Disney-Hyperion $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1390-4
As she did in One Thousand Tracings
, Judge weaves a compelling tale based on a true, heartwarming incident. In 1914, the children of Boston raised $6,000 to buy three trained elephants for the Franklin Park Zoo. But told through the eyes of...
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Lita Judge, Author, Lita Judge, Illustrator . Viking $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-01132-2
In 1871, American artist Thomas Moran journeyed with a team of geologists through the Rocky Mountains to “the land called the Yellowstone,” observing and sketching the landscape around him. Judge’s watercolor illustrations capture...
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Lita Judge. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-4232-0
In this warm-weather companion to 2011’s Red Sled, a boy’s pointy hat is as irresistible to the local wildlife as his sled was in the previous book. As in that story, the only text is the occasional sound effect—the “Fffwwup” of a hat being grabbed...
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Lita Judge. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-8177-0
Some are born to run; little Penguin believes he was “hatched to fly.” That’s why he’s come all the way from the South Pole (via a bright red motorboat) to attend a tropical shoreline flight school run for birds by birds. “I have the soul of an...
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Lita Judge. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0369-6
Beatrix the parrot: threat or menace? She really is a loving bird; in fact, she’s constantly telling the other animals in her cottage home that she loves them. But she’s so clueless and so loud—and doesn’t she ever sleep? It’s hard to be her friend...
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Lita Judge. Atheneum, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-3755-5
On this book’s wordless opening pages, a girl who waves goodbye to one parent and walks hand-in-hand with another caretaker is palpably apprehensive, evidenced by her expressive face and body language. As the two arrive at Little Dreamers Preschool,
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Lita Judge. Atheneum, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-6659-1676-9
Sharing is easy—as long as the item in question belongs to someone else. That seems to be the driving philosophy of this picture book’s indefatigable duckling narrator, who decides that Wuddles the sheep, a somnolent ball of curly white fleece, can...
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Lita Judge. Abrams, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-7152-1
Drawing, per an author’s note, on childhood experiences, Judge (Wake Up, Moon!) narrates this picture book via the voice of a child whose family lives in a van called Old Blue. Loosely stroked watercolor and colored pencil spreads show Old Blue...
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Lita Judge. Atheneum, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-66593-925-6
Anchored by the opening refrain “The storm is over. The stars are out,” declarative lines build to trace a wide-awake squirrel’s antics in Judge’s playful after-hours jaunt. The rodent ventures out for a moonlit romp in the snow, urging friends and...
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