Marylin Hafner, Author School Specialty Publishing $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57768-894-5
Intrepid Molly and her cohort, tabby cat Emmett, head for the great backyard in this picture book inspired by the duo's comic-strip stories in Ladybug magazine. When Molly happens upon some old blankets and other treasures in the family basement,...
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Marylin Hafner, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-966-9
Molly and her orange cat, Emmett, have cavorted across the pages of Ladybug magazine since 1991. Here Hafner (Lunch Bunnies; Mommies Don't Get Sick!) collects 15 sprightly new vignettes that follow the duo's adventures through a calendar year. In a...
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Marylin Hafner, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0154-6
Hafner uses a cartoon-strip format (pets get dialogue balloons, too) to recount the comic results when a girl takes over household chores for her sick mother. Ages 4-up. (June)
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Marylin Hafner, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0573-5
These stars from Ladybug magazine cavort through the calendar year. ""In a playful, comic-strip-like style, Hafner shows the tender and fun ups and downs of a pet and owner devoted to each other,"" said PW. Ages 5-7. (Sept.)
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Roni Schotter, Author, Marylin Hafner, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $15.45 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-77518-2
In Schotter's clever introduction to Purim, the show must go on, even if two performers have the flu. Every year, Frannie, her brother Ezra, and their two cousins put on a Purim play, reenacting the Bible story of how Queen Esther saved the Jews...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Marylin Hafner, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-51525-2
What if he spills soup all over his tray? What if no one wants to sit with him? On his first day of first grade, Clyde is terrified of lunchtime, and his merciless older brother, Jefferson, who tells him that the school cooks will make him eat ""myst
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McGraw-Hill Companies, Manufactured by, Marylin Hafner, Author McGraw-Hill Consumer Products $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57768-895-2
And finally, the girl-and-cat duo from Ladybug magazine returns to plant Grandma's vegetable seeds in Molly and Emmett's Surprise Garden by Marylin Hafner. The volume concludes with directions for young green thumbs to start their own ""Ready-Set
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Sid Fleischman, Author, Marylin Hafner, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-16948-0
A half dozen newly minted tall tales chronicle the merry havoc wreaked by a ""no-account little tornado"" that touches down on Barefoot Mountain. In the opening story (""The Windblown Child""), a group of friendly woodland animals rally round an odd,
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