M. B. Goffstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-021994-9
Goffstein's simplified, lyrical writing will ignite her readers' imaginations and teach them to see, to feel, not merely look at the obvious in great works. Small but excellent reproductions of paintings and drawings in this book are masterpieces...
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M. B. Goffstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-06-022152-2
Deceptively simple, the strength of Goffstein's new book is that it not only captures the delight of a first winter's snowfall, but it also explores the joy life offers when it is lovingly shared. A little girl shows her younger brother how to build
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M. B. Goffstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-06-021984-0
In Goffstein's latest, we recognize the theme central to her unique creations. Speaking always of what she loves, she turns our thoughts to what is dear to us. Here the colors in small, delicate paintings are muted but seem lit with an inner glow....
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M. B. Goffstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-022181-2
Like School of Names and Our Snowman, Goffstein's new offering is rendered in soft pastels and characterized by spare lines and minimal text. It comprises a series of four vignettes about five pieces of chalk: ""Blanc, Noir, Gris, Bistre, and...
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M. B. Goffstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-06-022168-3
A companion to Goffstein's portraits of A Writer and An Artist, this elegant prose poem explores the relationship between actor and audience. The curtains open to reveal a chalk-drawnhand puppet who announces, ""Welcome to my theater, and to tonight'
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M. B. Goffstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-022290-1
Goffstein carved a set of miniature wooden dolls 26 years ago that have inspired many of her picture books. Now the dolls themselves take center stage, photographed against the muted interiors of a dollhouse, in a book that captures moments in a day
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M. B. Goffstein, Author, M. B. Goffstein, Illustrator Puffin Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0284-4
Grandmother hurries through her morning chores so that she can get to the real business of the dayfishing until sunset and then eating a pan-fried fish for supper. PW found this Caldecott Honor Book ""a tale that is as entrancing as it is tidy.'' (37
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M. B. Goffstein, Author, M. B. Goffstein, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $4.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-42740-5
""Goffstein's stories never include an unnecessary word,"" observed PW about this 1969 black-and-white book, ""one of the artist's classics in miniature."" Ages 4-7. (Mar.)
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Brooke Goffstein, Author, M. B. Goffstein, Author HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-06-022436-3
In this starkly evocative book, Goffstein uses photographs of a dollhouse made of cardboard and wood that illustrate her views about the relationship between people and the houses they make into homes: ``A house has skin / and eyes / and bone, / a...
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