Michael J. Rosen, Author . Broadway $29.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1371-3
To support the Share Our Strength anti-hunger agency, 100 of the most notable American-based chefs have contributed recollections and recipes to this fundraising volume. A whiff or taste of food evokes love, hate, comfort or amusement as food...
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Michael J. Rosen, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-385-41600-9
Companionship between a human and a dog connects these entertaining stories, many by well-known contemporary writers. The relationship is explored in a variety of ways. David Updike in ``Out on the March'' reflects on aging--a dog's and his master's:
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Michael J. Rosen, Author Broadway Books $29.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1639-4
Inspired by the annual fundraising bake sale of Share Our Strength, a nationwide anti-hunger organization, this volume contains 100 recipes for cookies, brownies, cakes and other sweet treats, contributed by an impressive array of 54 American...
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Tony Mendoza, Photographer, Roz Chast, Photographer Doubleday Books $20 (269p) ISBN 978-0-385-42077-8
Cats don't have an easy time in this collection, the companion volume to Rosen's The Company of Dogs. Serving as furry metaphors for loss and isolation, felines here are usually strays or unwanted to begin with, and often end up dead or missing....
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, David Butler, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0589-6
Rosen rolls through the alphabet and a gargantuan snowball rolls over the earth in this wintry fantasy. Each spread highlights several letters of the alphabet within key words: ""Once there was an Avalanche/ that started out quite small./ It all...
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Michael J. Rosen, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17 (45p) ISBN 978-0-15-201065-2
the poetry shelf A new crop of poetry books takes on a wild range of subjects, from pizza to the rain-making gods to the pleasures of milking a cow; they demonstrate how poetry can lend itself to joking, praying, yearning and simply experiencing the
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Michael Rosen, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-30838-4
Rosen (The Thanksgiving Wish) inflates a query into a conundrum in this issue-driven novel. Jared, who is Jewish, wants to bring his dog to the neighborhood Catholic church for the St. Francis Festival, which includes a blessing of the animals. His...
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Michael J. Rosen, illus. by Sonja Danowski. Creative Editions, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56846-273-8
In an allegorical story about time, change, and acceptance, a grouse mourns the loss of summer, clinging to a bouquet of “Forever Flowers—the first to appear, the last to disappear.” As other birds migrate, urging the grouse to let go of the old and
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Michael J. Rosen, illus. by Julia Patton. Millbrook, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4677-3489-9
Ms. Mary Math, “the go-to wiz for mind-boggling math questions,” answers questions related to volume, distance, weight, and other topics, framed as letters from curious kids. A Florida letter-writer, “Grounded in Groveland,” asks how long it would...
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Marc Burckhardt, Illustrator , illus. by Marc Burckhardt. Candlewick $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2140-7
Imagine a family car trip where no one zones out on a Game Boy or iPod, no child whines, “Are we there yet?” and no adult announces, “Don't make me pull this car over!” Rosen's (Elijah's Angel
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, James Ransome, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-209813-1
Rosen's (The Greatest Table) characteristically earnest tones turn mawkish in this self-consciously sensitive story. Isabel, an El Salvadoran girl, is adopted by an American couple who live in the country (``on Sunbury Road'') with oodles of animals.
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Barry Jason Stein, Author University of South Carolina Press $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57003-157-1
Rosen (A Drink at the Mirage) accomplishes a considerable a task: he tells the fragmented life story of a modern American everyman as a novel in poems. Gordon Penn is thoughtful, nostalgic, lonely, a widower and a quiet observer of the contemporary...
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Valeri Gorbachev, Illustrator , ILLUS. BY VALERI GORBACHEV. Harcourt/Gulliver $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-204938-6
The narrator, a bear cub, fears that he's permanently stuck at "just three feet small." Will life always be beyond his reach—or at least require him to use a booster seat? Then Grandpa remarks one day that the cub isn't so easy
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Melissa Iwai, Illustrator , illus. by Melissa Iwai. Harcourt/Gulliver $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202447-5
Rosen (Elijah's Angel) stresses multiculturalism in this bland venture. For example, on the seventh night of Hanukkah, the child narrator notices that the house of his best friend, who celebrates Christmas, is lit with lamps, "seven...
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Bagram Ibatoulline, Illustrator . Candlewick $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1538-3
Rosen's (The Blessing of the Animals) semi-epistolary novel encompasses two somewhat contradictory themes. On the one hand, it's a perky celebration of e-mail, complete with numerous emoticons and group "newsletters." On the other,...
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Stan Fellows, Illustrator , illus. by Stan Fellows. Candlewick $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3049-2
A rare gift for young and old alike, this exquisite book about birds combines delicate verses and stunning watercolors that celebrate the natural world. Designed as if it were a birder's notebook, the book provides an intriguing haiku for each...
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Stan Fellows, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0470-7
Rosen's (Down to Earth) disjointed retelling of a Kato creation legend describes a time in which land, animals and man have all been washed away; now the Great Traveler, with a dog as his companion, is recreating the world from its vast waters. In...
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Tom Leonard, Author, Tom Leonard, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56282-475-4
Giving the reader a dramatic, pond-dweller's-eye view, Rosen and Leonard memorably depict a freshwater ecology. On each spread, a lush, fluidly composed acrylic painting places the reader at the sight line of a different representative of pondlife--s
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Will Shively, Illustrator Artisan $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-885183-38-5
Rosen (Elijah's Angel; The Kids' Book of Fishing) offers a very different angle on angling with this poetic reminiscence of days he spent as a child fishing with his father. ""I remember it all, especially now, watching my son at his side...,"" the...
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Michael J. Rosen, Author, Matthew Valiquette, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16 (208p) ISBN 978-0-15-201402-5
Nature is used as a connecting line between isolated individuals as Rosen (Elijah's Angel) integrates biological images (sea mammals, fossils, hybrid flowers, stray morning glories) in five upbeat stories featuring sensitive middle-schoolers....
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