Lynne Jonell, Author . Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23962-5
Jonell (Mommy, Go Away!) here reenacts the events of September 11 through the eyes of an animal who perhaps can help young readers to shoulder their fears. Mole wears a hard-hat, carries a lunch pail and lives in a burrow with his molewife and...
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Lynne Jonell. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9683-5
A boy who has been taught to hide his true potential is thrust into extraordinary circumstances when he gains the wrong sort of attention. Eleven-year-old Duncan McKay, who learned to speak the language of cats at an early age, is frustrated by his...
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Lynne Jonell, Author, Lynne Tonell, Author, Petra Mathers, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23176-6
From the team that produced Mommy Go Away! comes a story for slightly older readers. Robbie yearns for a snake, but his mother won't grant his wish. She's unsuccessful at mollifying him with the usual parenting tactics--giving him a book about...
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Lynne Jonell, Author, Petra Mathers, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23001-1
In this swiftly moving tale, told and illustrated from a child's perspective, a boy turns the tables. ""Go away, Mommy!"" says young Christopher, after being ordered around one time too many. He then gets Mommy back by magically shrinking her until...
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Lynne Jonell, Author, Petra Mathers, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23422-4
Here's the fourth installment of life in the sharply funny, stick-figure world of Jonell and Mathers (Mommy Go Away!; It's My Birthday, Too!). While Mommy is frantically preparing a Thanksgiving-esque dinner for company, Christopher and his younger...
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Lynne Jonell, Author, Petra Mathers, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23433-0
This season, several series get new additions. Younger brother Robbie comes up with a plan to improve his mother's mood and saves the rest of the unsuspecting family in When Mommy Was Mad by Lynne Jonell, illus. by Petra Mathers. Framed in white,
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Lynne Jonell, Author, Jonathan Bean, Illustrator , illus. by Jonathan Bean. Holt $16.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8150-3
Jonell's (the Christopher and Robbie picture books) first novel is a lustrous affair, a droll fantasy with an old-fashioned sweep and a positively cinematic cast. The beginning will hook readers right away: the class pet, a rat, mocks the...
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Lynne Jonell, Author, Petra Mathers, Author, Petra Mathers, Illustrator G. P. Putnam's Sons $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23323-4
Jonell and Mathers hit the bull's-eye with this look at sibling rivalry, which brings together the two lead characters from their earlier books. Christopher, the magically empowered toddler of Mommy Go Away!, now six (judging by the candles on his...
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Lynne Jonell, illus. by Vivien Mildenberger. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-11767-0
Jonell beguilingly entwines history and fiction in this sprawling time travel novel set at Menzies Castle in the Scottish Highlands. Will and Jamie Menzies arrive from the U.S. to stay with relatives, who keep the family castle open to tourists....
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