Sophia Spencer with Margaret McNamara, illus. by Kerascoët. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (44p) ISBN 978-0-525-64593-1
Canadian fourth grader and social media phenomenon Sophia Spencer shares her first-person story and a guide to her favorite insects. Spencer’s mom supports her early passion for bugs, which begins at a butterfly conservatory, but things change in...
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Margaret McNamara, Author, Kathryn Mitter, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-87367-6
And for slightly older fans, two Ready-to-Read titles introduce readers to the heroine's tutor in Eloise Has a Lesson (""Philip says, What is five plus six?' I say, You do not know?' ""); and in Eloise Breaks Some Eggs, she cooks up a mess at her...
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Margaret McNamara, illus. by Mark Fearing. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-86689-0
This boisterous galactic retelling of "The Three Little Pigs" pits resourceful pea-green alien children against a skyscraper-size robot. Siblings Bork, Gork, and Nklxwcyz live with their mother "in a snug, cozy crater on a tiny little planet." When...
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Margaret McNamara, illus. by Jake Parker. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-72808-9
McNamara (The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot) offers a smart, alphabetical tour of all things apple, handsomely illustrated by Parker (the Missile Mouse series). Through such entries as “deciduous,” “grafting,” “nutritious,” and “pollen,”
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Margaret McNamara, illus. by Micah Player. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-9848-9280-5
Every Election Day, Stanton Elementary School “changes from a school to a POLLING STATION!” And while the kids who attend Stanton are too young to vote, they’ve realized, as McNamara puts it, “Kids have to live with adult choices!” So they’re going...
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Margaret McNamara, illus. by Julia Denos. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-222801-7
This breezy novel opens the Fairy Bell Sisters chapter-book series, which introduces Tinker Bell’s younger siblings. An amiable narrator explains that while Tinker Bell lives in Never Land with Peter Pan, her five sisters live on Sheepskerry Island,
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Margaret McNamara, illus. by Esmé Shapiro. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5247-6588-0
In an epistolary picture book, McNamara envisions Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton as an elderly woman writing a letter to her yet-to-be-born great-granddaughter Elizabeth: “My daughter, who is your grandmama, has asked me to devote this day to writing a
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Margaret McNamara, illus. by G. Brian Karas. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-84744-8
Mr. Tiffin and his loquacious students take a field trip to an apple orchard in this companion to How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? (2007). Before Farmer Hills (who is, refreshingly, a woman) gives a tour, Mr. Tiffin challenges the kids to solve a riddle:
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Margaret McNamara, illus. by G. Brian Karas. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-307-97947-6
Last seen in The Apple Orchard Riddle, Mr. Tiffin and his class are back to celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day, which includes the chance to recite their poetry in an assembly starring a poet named Emmy Crane. Almost everyone embraces his or her muse,
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Margaret McNamara, illus. by Barry Blitt. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-84499-7
It’s George Washington’s seventh birthday, but he can’t get anyone to
acknowledge it. “Another cold day,” he says, dropping a 10-ton hint on his harried mother. “But I guess there’s nothing special about that.” His stern father isn’t cutting him...
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Margaret McNamara, Author, Tammie Speer Lyon, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-87368-3
And for slightly older fans, two Ready-to-Read titles introduce readers to the heroine's tutor in Eloise Has a Lesson (""Philip says, What is five plus six?' I say, You do not know?' ""); and in Eloise Breaks Some Eggs, she cooks up a mess at her...
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Margaret McNamara, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator , illus. by Richard Egielski. Hyperion $18.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7868-4890-4
Here's a great concept, handsomely executed. Take a song known to virtually every preschooler, “The Wheels on the Bus,” and update it with a vehicle much more widely adored by this group, a train, then soup it up with lavish but...
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Margaret McNamara, Author, Nate Wragg, Illustrator , illus. by Nate Wragg. Disney Press $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-14231-0539-8
Rats in the kitchen are not normally a welcome sight, but kids will be delighted to spy the amusing and assuredly appetizing antics of the rodents that star in this comical culinary caper, a tie-in to the new Disney/Pixar film Ratatouille
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Margaret McNamara, illus. by Kerascoët. Random House Studio, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5931-2567-0
A “born naturalist,” redheaded
young Daisy is delighted to discover that when she skips bathing for five weeks, moss sprouts behind her ear and seeds start taking root. Daisy’s literal blooming alarms her parents, but horticulture-loving Auntie...
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