Liz Rosenberg, Author . Cricket/Marcato $16.95 (142p) ISBN 978-0-8126-4915-4
This series of prose poems voicing the many woes of 17-year-old Stephanie teeters between art and melodrama. Third-person narrative calls on specific details and imagery ("All day she tastes his lips and breathes in the dark, musty old smell of...
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Liz Rosenberg, Author . Avon A $13.99 (328p) ISBN 978-0-06-173456-4
Rosenberg, a poet and children’s book author, makes a clean break into adult fiction with the story of a middle-aged woman whose journey to independence begins at a garage sale. Forty-six-year-old Eve’s garage sale takes an unexpected...
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Liz Rosenberg, illus. by Julie Downing, Roaring Brook/Porter, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643120-1
George and his imaginary friend, Nobody, are the heroes of Rosenberg's (This Is the Wind) extended play on words. Downing (No Hugs Till Saturday) gives the small boys more than a passing resemblance—both have pudgy bodies, pajamas, and bedhead,...
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Liz Rosenberg, illus. by Matthew Myers. Roaring Brook/Porter, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-531-5
In the "How do Dinosaurs...?" series, it's the dinosaur kids who are beastly; Rosenberg (Nobody) and Myers (Clink) turn the tables with a story about a regular kid, Tobias, whose father is a "terrible lizard." Tobias is pretty cool with this...
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Liz Rosenberg, illus. by Matt Myers. Roaring Brook/Porter, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-908-5
The team behind Tyrannosaurus Dad examines how conflicts often arise from simple misunderstandings. The narrator is a primary school–aged Caucasian girl with brown hair and freckles; her friend James is an African-American boy with glasses and an...
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Liz Rosenberg, Author, Liz Rosenberg, Editor Henry Holt & Company $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6433-9
In another title that takes its inspiration from the family tree, Roots & Flowers: Poets and Poems on Family, ed. by Liz Rosenberg, 40 poets make a statement about family, followed by one to three poems. Perhaps the soul of the collection is best...
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Liz Rosenberg, Author, Lisa Desimini, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-025102-4
As Adelaide tries to fall asleep in her bed, she can hear real trains in the distance, louder, then softer. But afterward, the night seems even quieter and darker. She's lost her way to sleep. But then the conductor calls, ``All aboard!'' and the...
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Liz Rosenberg, Author, Peter Catalanotto, Illustrator , illus. by Peter Catalanotto. Roaring Brook/Porter $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1597-1
With a simple, poetic elegance befitting her tender subject matter, Rosenberg (Monster Mama) taps into the feelings of longing, love and joy that accompany the adoption of a child. Catalanotto's (Emily's Art; Dad and Me) images create an...
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Liz Rosenberg, Author, Joanna Yardley, Illustrator , illus. by Joanna Yardley. Scholastic/Orchard $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30316-0
In this soothing tale, a resourceful boy finds an alternative to his night light, which burns out just as he is drifting off to sleep. Rather than panic or call for Mom and Dad, Eli looks around his room and realizes there is light everywhere. "T
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Liz Rosenberg, Author, Susan Gaber, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200947-2
Deploying a color-saturated blend of watercolor, acrylic and colored pencil, and setting a lively visual pace that skips from full-page illustrations to small insets, Gaber (Bit by Bit) crafts a stimulating backdrop for this imaginative tale. Eli...
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Liz Rosenberg, Author, Chris K. Soentpiet, Author, Chris K. Soentpiet, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30084-8
This portentous picture book about a child exiled by war gets tripped up by its pacing. While the book's opening sounds like a fairy tale (""Once there was a boy named Iskander who lived in a land so sweet, so beautiful, some people called it...
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Liz Rosenberg, Author, John Clapp, Illustrator , illus. by John Clapp. Roaring Brook/Porter $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1627-5
Even through icy wind and blinding snow, Santa's special kid-tracking system is in perfect working order as proven in this reassuring picture book. A family traveling on Christmas Eve must take refuge at a motel during a fierce winter storm, and
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Liz Rosenberg, Author, Stephen Gammell, Illustrator Philomel Books $16.99 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-21989-4
Patrick Edward's mother is a monster--literally. An impish-faced woman experiencing a decidedly bad hair day and needing a manicure, ``Monster Mama'' lives in a cave behind the family house. In addition to her roaring and spell-casting skills, this...
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Liz Rosenberg, Author, Jim LaMarche, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201887-0
Two sisters must tame a group of carousel horses that have magically come to life. In a starred review, PW said, ""Rosenberg's atmospheric tale is greatly enhanced by LaMarche's singularly luminous artwork."" Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Liz Rosenberg, Author, Jim LaMarche, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200853-6
When two sisters take a shortcut through the park one rainy winter day at dusk, the horses on the canvas-shrouded carousel magically come to life and take them for a thrilling twilight ride, soaring up into the sky above town. Something goes awry,...
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Liz Rosenberg, illus. by Julie Morstad. Candlewick, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6057-4
Rosenberg’s comprehensive biography of the author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables series presents a multidimensional portrait of a complicated and conflicted writer. Opening with 30-year-old Montgomery starting to write the book that brought her
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