Lizi Boyd, Author . Candlewick $11.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1980-0
In this fresh and friendly look at a morning ritual, a dark-haired child prepares to go outside. "Time to get dressed, Black Dog!" he tells his pet, a solid-black Lab. Routine expectations are disrupted, however, when the dog takes the child&
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Lizi Boyd, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $8.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2217-6
Two paper-over-board titles with rounded corners use frog families to demonstrate familial love: I Love Mommy and I Love Daddy by Lizi Boyd. Each traces a day's activities with Mommy or Daddy, using basic concepts to show a child's love (""Mommy...
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Lizi Boyd, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $8.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2216-9
Two paper-over-board titles with rounded corners use frog families to demonstrate familial love: I Love Mommy and I Love Daddy by Lizi Boyd. Each traces a day's activities with Mommy or Daddy, using basic concepts to show a child's love (""Mommy...
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Lizi Boyd, Author Viking Children's Books $11.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-82072-6
Maddie and Nick find that they can assert their independence and defy their parents' well-meant directives by shrieking ``no, no, no!'' and becoming ``half wild, half child''. From their waist to their toes, the wild half is complete with reptilian...
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Lizi Boyd. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-1894-9
Boyd follows Inside Outside (2013) with another wordless picture book, this one about a boy’s nocturnal backyard explorations. Working in gouache, Boyd paints on vast expanses of black, outlining the boy (who could easily be the same one from the...
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Lizi Boyd, Author, Lizi Boyd, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $11.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-82719-0
Bailey the bully is accustomed to getting his own way. One by one, the kids in the neighborhood have learned that to ignore Bailey's threats or orders is to invite arm-twisting and hair-pulling. The adults provide useless advice: ``Ignore him.'' A...
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Lizi Boyd, Author Puffin Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-054190-8
This reassuring look at stepfamilies features Hessie, who fears that her new half-brother will hog the limelight. Ages 3-8. (May)
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Lizi Boyd, Author Hyperion Books $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1059-8
Though unlikely to garner any Pulitzer Prizes or Tony Awards, this collection of 14 one-page playlets can foster youngsters' imaginary powers while spurring littlest thespians to greater dramatic heights. The two-person scenarios progress with La...
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Lizi Boyd, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-050825-3
A dire threat causes a rebellious brother and sister to reform; according to PW , ``this comical and cleverly handled story has familiar elements that are treated in a zany way.'' Ages 3-8. (Mar.)
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Lizi Boyd, Author Viking Children's Books $11.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-83636-9
Willy spends the day at his dad's office, where a shipment of new computers has just arrived. After the big boxes have been opened and emptied, Willy is free to play with them. Markers, scissors and string--and a lively imagination--help the boy...
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Lizi Boyd, Author Little Brown and Company $12.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-10443-2
Blocky, mimimalist drawings illustrate this playful and straightforward introduction to 13 colors. Boyd's ( Bailey the Big Bully ; The Not-So-Wicked Stepmother ) characters, a roly-poly child and an angular pooch known simply as ``black dog,''...
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Lizi Boyd, Author Little Brown and Company $12.95 (14p) ISBN 978-0-316-10444-9
This clever cardboard construction looks like a board book, but unfolds and becomes a four-room residence for the soft, sturdy, gray felt mouse which is packaged with it. Brightly colored lamps, rugs, dressers, a bed and even a piano are among the...
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Lizi Boyd, Author, Leslie L. Brooke, Author Little Brown and Company $14.45 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-10419-7
Fresh colors and amiable animals invite readers into this whimsical book, which is based on L. Leslie Brooke's 1903 Johnny Crow's Garden. Here, all the action takes place in Lulu Crow's garden, represented by a structured background of violet-blue...
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Lizi Boyd, Text by (Art/Photo Books), Lizi Boyd, Illustrator, Lizi Boyd, Author Chronicle Books $15.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3271-7
Youngsters can gather memories and mementos for a handful of years as they go along, in My Birthday: Five Years of Celebrations by Lizi Boyd. Inside the lavender and light blue cover with matching satin ribbon, they can record remembrances of...
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Lizi Boyd. Chronicle, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-0644-1
Boyd’s (I Love Grandma) wordless book features die-cut windows that readers can use to peer at small details on adjacent pages. The story’s greatest charm is in its portrait of a boy who lives alone and is constantly (yet tranquilly) busy. Clean...
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