Ann Hoberman, Author, Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Malcah Zeldis, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.89 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-022426-4
The 14 poems in this sprightly collection are bursting with wordplay and foot-stomping rhythms that will give young readers new ways to appreciate familiar creatures. The snake is ``Perfectly moving / Yet perfectly still'' as ``its zigzag coils...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Marla Frazee, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-200096-7
One needn't be a picky eater to revel in Hoberman's (A House Is a House for Me) deft and funny verse about a mother whose seven offspring each insist upon eating only his or her favorite food. Catering to these choosy children (who arrive in...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, illus. by Patrice Barton. Knopf, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-86951-8
“I like old clothes,/ Hand-me-down clothes,/ Worn outgrown clothes,/ Not my own clothes.” Former U.S. children’s poet laureate Hoberman’s poem, first published in 1976, holds up nicely; families are still trading bags of too-small clothes, and...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Meilo So, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-81201-9
In the tradition of clever heroes who outwit wily animals, this agreeable picture book features an unflappable hero who is anything but simple. When challenged by various animals, Simon can growl like a dog, stretch like a cat and jump like a horse.
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Meilo So, Illustrator , illus. by Meilo So. Dell/Dragonfly $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-440-41772-9
A boy can growl like a dog and jump like a horse, but when a cunning tiger asks the lad to demonstrate his skills, he needs all his wits about him to wriggle out of becoming supper. "So's swirls of color and animated black lines, and her...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Marc Boutavant, Illustrator , illus. by Marc Boutavant. Little, Brown $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-14633-3
Hoberman's (A House Is a House for Me
) whimsical rhyming treatise on what constitutes a family will have children looking for myriad ways to use that classification. “Eggs in a carton can seem like a family/ So can a loaf with its slices
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Linda Winston, Author, Barbara Fortin, Illustrator . Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky $19.99 (209p) ISBN 978-1-4022-2517-8
“Science and art have often been cast as opposites, but the division is an artificial one,” reads the introduction to this expansive collection of poems about the natural world. Hoberman, current children's poet laureate, and...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-60687-5
In the latest book in the Sing-Along Stories series, Mary Had a Little Lamb, adapted by Mary Ann Hoberman, illus. by Nadine Bernard Westcott, Mary and her classmates sneak the lamb into their classroom, where they attempt to teach it to read and
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator Megan Tingley Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36232-0
Mary Ann Hoberman and Nadine Bernard Westcott team up for another rousing rendition of a popular children's chant, Bill Grogan's Goat. ""Bill Grogan's Goat Was feeling fine Ate three red shirts Right off the line."" Westcott's watercolor-and-ink
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator Megan Tingley Books $15.99 (28p) ISBN 978-0-316-36330-3
Capering caterpillars and blooming spring flowers ornament this bouncy reprise of a nursery standby. The book opens with musical stanzas for ""The Eensy-Weensy Spider,"" along with a diagram of hand and arm gestures to be performed by the singer. A...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator Megan Tingley Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36301-3
Several books invite youngsters to join in the fun. There Once Was a Man Named Michael Finnegan, adapted by Mary Ann Hoberman, illus. by Nadine Bernard Westcott, is a silly song that instructs young singers to ""begin-igan"" at the end of each verse.
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Author, Marry Ann Hoberman, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-93118-2
Hands will be clapping and toes will be tapping to this spunky rendition of a favorite school yard rhyme. Most kids--and grown-ups, too--will readily recognize the first three stanzas of this comical chant, but after the ""elephant, elephant,...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Marjorie Priceman, Author, Marjorie Priceman, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36731-8
A proud and amiable pooch discovers there's some truth to the saying ""the more the merrier"" when he tires of being alone in his house filled with ""one of each thing."" The dog, named Oliver Tolliver, lives ""in a little old tumbledown house of...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-517-80068-3
This utopian tale begins with passing discord between siblings and progresses to a vision of world peace through an enormous parade. Inspired by Dr. Seuss's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, the light-footed rhythms of Hoberman's (One...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator , illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Dell/Dragonfly $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-41776-7
Inspired by Dr. Seuss's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, "This utopian tale begins with passing discord between siblings and progresses to a vision of world peace through an enormous parade," said PW. Ages 4-8. (Feb.)
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator , illus. by Wendy Anderson Halperin. Little, Brown $15.99 (230p) ISBN 978-0-316-04136-2
In this old-fashioned coming-of-age story, set during the Great Depression, 10-year-old Allie's father finds a new job, and her family moves to a street called Strawberry Hill. Poet and first-time novelist Hoberman draws a full portrait of life
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Lynne Cravath, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202221-1
In measured, never forced verse, Hoberman's (A House Is a House for Me) flightyDor is it grounded?Dromp introduces Lilly, who wants a cat like her friend Sammy's. When he advises her to chop down some nearby trees, Lilly thinks this sounds a little...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Michael Emberley, Illustrator Megan Tingley Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-14611-1
Conflict resolution seems the theme of You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman, illus. by Michael Emberley. As with this duo's first collaboration, the tales take the form of a conversation...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Michael Emberley, Illustrator , illus. by Michael Emberley. Little, Brown/Tingley $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36350-1
John Ciardi's collection of 35 poems with drawings by Edward Gorey is perhaps the best known book with this title (published in 1962); it, too, used the concept of dividing a poem on the page, designed for a more experienced reader to read with...
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Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman,
illus. by Michael Emberley. Little, Brown/Tingley, $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-316-12947-3
Former children’s poet laureate Hoberman compiles a broad range of poems for young readers—brief enough to invite memorization—from writers including Frost, Silverstein, Sandburg, Milne, and Grimes, among many more. The works are divided...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Tiphanie Beeke, Illustrator , illus. by Tiphanie Beeke. Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-216592-5
Why is this visit to Grandma's different from all other visits? Because the young pigtailed narrator is "not only going/ to stay for the day/ I'm going to stay/ for the night!" The house holds a host of pleasures, from dressing up in
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Laura Huliska-Beith, Illustrator , illus. by Laura Huliska-Beith. Little, Brown/Tingley $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36328-0
As its title suggests, this jaunty picture book offers plenty of fun for eagle-eyed readers. When Ned's cat, Pistachio, goes missing, the boy embarks on a page-by-page search for his beloved (and slightly mischievous) pet. Lucky for readers, but
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Nicholas Wilton, Illustrator , illus. by Nicholas Wilton. Mondo $15.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-59034-194-0
With two brief lines per page, Hoberman (The Marvelous Mouse Man) focuses on precise details associated with each season, while Wilton's (Feathers and Fools) illustrations imagine the view from an unseen child's window, with broad expanses...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Jenny Mattheson, Illustrator Little, Brown Young Readers $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-14840-5
Hoberman (I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly) takes off on another golden oldie, giving the ditty about a cow and the Chicago Fire an upbeat ending. The winking cow still knocks over Mrs. O'Leary's lantern, but while the refrain remains ""There'l
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Hoberman, Author, Mary Ann Hoberman, Adapted by Little Brown and Company $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36738-7
The 14 works in this outstanding multicultural anthology will introduce young readers to a generous range of artistic and literary styles. James Houston's transcription of an Eskimo chant, for example, is accompanied by Dale DeArmond's starkly...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Betty Fraser, Author, Betty Fraser, Illustrator Browndeer Press $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-276620-7
Skillfully constructed rhymes and tender, tidily detailed watercolors point out to children all the ``cozy doings'' of ``a very cozy day,'' from the time ``you wake up bright and early/ In your roasty toasty bed'' all the way to bedtime. Hoberman...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Betty Fraser, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-201956-3
PW praised the ""skillfully constructed rhymes and tender, tidily detailed watercolors"" that evoke one cozy day in this ""thoroughly childhood-affirming"" book. Ages 4-7. (Sept.)
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator , illus. by Jane Dyer. Harcourt/Gulliver $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-202631-8
At the opening of this inviting, oversize picture-book tribute to the ecosystem known as a garden, Mrs. McGee and her stroller-bound companion happen upon a beautifully blooming flower and vegetable garden. The woman wonders whose green thumb can...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Laura Forman, Illustrator , illus. by Laura Forman. Harcourt/Gulliver $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-201715-6
In a memorable picture-book debut recalling both the golden age of children's illustration and contemporary artists like Jim LaMarche, Forman contributes luminous, finely detailed illustrations to Hoberman's (A House Is a House for Me)...
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Catharine O'Neill, Photographer Joy Street Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-36735-6
Without an ounce of sermonizing, this clever picture book in three chapters is a primer on compromise. Mr. and Mrs. Muddle, compatible in every other way, do not agree on cars. ``Mrs. Muddle liked cars. Mr. Muddle hated them. . . . It was a problem.'
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Nadine Bernard Westcott, Author, Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator Megan Tingley Books $14.99 (11p) ISBN 978-0-316-93021-5
A trio of board books The Lady with the Alligator Purse; Miss Mary Mack and Skip to My Lou plus their words set to music make up the contents of Mary Ann Hoberman and Nadine Bernard Westcott's Sing-Along Songs: Three Books and Tape Set. A sturdy
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Nadine Bernard Westcott, Author, Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $6.99 (28p) ISBN 978-0-316-93136-6
The lady of nonsense-rhyme fame cures Tiny Tim of his mysterious ailment in this whimsically illustrated rendition. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Nadine Bernard Westcott, Author, Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Nadine Wescott, Author Hyperion Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0053-7
Matched with perky illustrations, the spirited, on-the-job lyrics to this ever-popular American folk song serve as narrative to a lighthearted, contemporary train journey that pays homage to traditional railroad imagery. A singing trio-banjo and...
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Marry Ann Hoberman, Author, Mary Ann Hoberman, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator Megan Tingley Books $6.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-316-36642-7
Another song worth singing, Eric Carle's Today Is Monday, begins with string beans on Monday and spaghetti on Tuesday. Different animals eat their way through the week, teaching the names of the days as they go. Music and lyrics included. ( Apr.)
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Mary Ann Hoberman, illus. by James Perry Hoberman. Little, Brown/Tingley, $18.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-316-16765-9
In 50-plus short rhyming poems, former children’s poet laureate Mary Ann Hoberman and debut illustrator James Perry Hoberman take readers on a playful journey through English linguistics. The verses celebrate words mono- and multisyllabic,...
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