Maria Kalman, Author, Maira Kalman, Author, N. Paulsen, Editor Puffin Books $4.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-14-050840-6
In the middle of the night Lulu tells a string of short and larky stories; Kalman's fanciful illustrations seem a happy marriage of Matisse's colors and Roz Chast's angular lines. Ages 3-8. (Sept.)
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Maira Kalman, Author . Putnam $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-399-23953-3
In relating the heroic role of the John J. Harvey
on September 11, Kalman (Next Stop Grand Central) intelligently conveys those unfathomable events in a way that a picture book audience can comprehend. She begins with the year 1931, which saw some...
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Maira Kalman, Author . Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23478-1
In this whimsical sequel to What Pete Ate, from A–Z, Pete the dog makes like Mary's little lamb and follows his owner to school. Poppy Wise, the girl who casually reports on Pete's antics, is in math class with "Mr. Grompi Spitzer,
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Maira Kalman, Author . Puffin $6.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-14-240362-4
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "In relating the heroic role of the John J. Harvey
on September 11, 2001, Kalman intelligently conveys those unfathomable events in a way that a picture book audience can comprehend." Ages 3-up. (Sept.)
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Maira Kalman, Author Puffin Books $7.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-698-11888-1
PW wrote, ""Kalman succeeds in recreating the station's frenetic pace and the blurred sense of passersby, and her creative reportage conveys the importance of all the individuals whose lives intersect at New York's Grand Central Terminal."" Ages 4-8.
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Maira Kalman. Harper Design, $35 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-212297-1
Artist Kalman’s (Girls Standing on Lawns) latest monograph explores the relationship between objects and memory. The volume coincides with an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt curated by illustrator, for which she selected her favorite items from the...
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Maira Kalman. Skira Rizzoli, $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8478-4377-0
Only the mischievous Kalman (Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Everything) could make an alphabet book in which “poodle” appears under E. The poodle lives at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City; it’s a...
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Maira Kalman, Author Viking Children's Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-82945-3
While watching a performance of The Mikado , Alexander suggests to his older sister Lulu that perhaps they should visit Japan. Lulu, eager to avoid her piano lesson and her teacher, the dreaded Mrs. Kackleman, is only too happy to agree. The two...
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Maira Kalman. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24039-3
As she did in The Principles of Uncertainty, Kalman transforms digital material—in this case, her New York Times illustrated column “In Love with A. Lincoln”—into
analogue format. Kalman’s fond and bittersweet account of our lanky 16th president...
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Maira Kalman, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22926-8
Kalman, whose Chicken Soup, Boots visited people (and dogs) at their jobs, salutes the unsung staffers and commuters who pass through New York City's Grand Central Terminal every day. Mention is made of the train station's ""stupendous star-filled...
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Maira Kalman, Author Viking Children's Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-85646-6
``Holy Madras!'' Max the dog, offbeat poet and hirsute hero of such adventures as Max in Hollywood, Baby is back, the locus of perhaps Kalman's most ambitious themes to date. This time Max is a slightly flustered, first-time father-to-be, destined...
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Maira Kalman, Author Viking Children's Books $15 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-85201-7
Unpredictable as ever, Kalman ( Max in Hollywood, Baby ) dons the cap of career counselor in her idiosyncratic and loquacious book. Speaking in the first person, Kalman presents biographies of various relatives and acquaintances (and one working...
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Maira Kalman and Barbara Scott-Goodman. Penguin Press, $25 (96p) ISBN 978-1-101-98154-2
Illustrator and author Kalman (And the Pursuit of Happiness) and Scott-Goodman (The Beach House Cookbook) charmingly write about the importance of cake in daily life. Kalman documents the role of cake in her family’s life, whether it’s cake to mend...
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Daniel Handler, illus. by Maira Kalman. MoMA (Abrams, dist.), $15.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-87070-959-3
This follow-up to Girls Standing on Lawns gathers vintage photographs of people moving quickly, moving slowly, and sometimes standing still. Accompanied by Handler’s musings and enlivened by Kalman’s paintings, the first group of mostly b&w...
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Maira Kalman, Author, Susan Guevara, Author . Putnam $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-23362-3
Kalman (Next Stop Grand Central) unleashes her extravagant whimsy in this loquacious alphabet book, "in which a certain dog devours
a myriad
of items
which he should not." Shaggy yellow Pete, staring benignly from the book's flame-red
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Maira Kalman, Author, N. Paulsen, Editor, Maira Kalman's Max, Author Viking Children's Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-83545-4
In this bohemian celebration, Max the dog, the poet, the dreamer, is back. His struggle for acceptance since Hey Willy, See the Pyramids has not been easy--Max has had to post his poems on a wall at the corner of Pastrami and Salami Streets for his...
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Maira Kalman, Author, Maira Kalman's Max, Author Viking Children's Books $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-84479-1
Ordinarily, a dog's life isn't characterized by glamour, but Max Stravinsky, canine extraordinaire, runs with the in-crowd. Max, last sighted among the poodles and bulldogs of gay Paree in Ooh-la-la (Max in Love) , here continues his postmodern,...
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Maira Kalman, Author, Maira Kalman's Max, Author Viking Children's Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-84163-9
Ooh-la-la , c'est magnifique. Max Stravinsky, the poet dog hero of Max Makes a Million , realizes his dream of going to Paris in Kalman's latest high-spirited high jinks. In the City of Light he goes to museums and clubs, meets like-minded suffering
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Maira Kalman, Author, Maira Kalman's Max, Author Viking Children's Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-82163-1
This book, by the illustrator of David Byrne's Stay Up Late , is one of the more unusual offerings of the season. Alexander has trouble falling asleep and begs his sister Lulu to tell him stories. ``How many?'' she asks. ``A million?'' ``No.'' ``Five
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Maira Kalman. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-24040-9
Kalman turns her gaze on America’s third president, without the unconditional adoration she brought to Looking at Lincoln. Jefferson was “a terrible speaker but a great writer,” Kalman explains, lingering on his Declaration of Independence’s notions
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David Byrne, Author, Maira Kalman, Author, Maira Kalman, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-81895-2
Kalman's paintings accompany the words to ""Stay Up Late,'' the Talking Heads song. The action in this book is all in the pictures. A girl and boy somewhat cruelly entertain themselves by preventing their baby brother from sleepingyanking and...
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David Byrne and Maira Kalman. Bloomsbury, $24 (160p) ISBN 978-1-63557-668-9
In this frothy amuse-bouche of a book, snippets of Talking Heads frontman Byrne’s lyrics jump and skip across pages, illustrated with watercolor sunniness by Kalman (My Favorite Things). Readers could get all the way through without realizing it’s...
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Maira Kalman. Little, Brown, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-33062-6
This picture book by Kalman (Bold & Brave), based on journal entries, records moments of beauty and mystery for a new grandchild, the “darling baby” of the title. “Today a thousand tiny silver fish jumped out of the water at the same time. They...
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Maira Kalman. Harper, $35 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-339181-9
Artist Kalman (Women Holding Things) poignantly examines loss, death, and regret in this idiosyncratic collage of vignettes rendered in verse and still life paintings. Her father and uncles flee to Palestine in 1939 from Belarus, where their parents
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