Michael Rex, Author . Holt $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6717-0
Rex (My Race Car) invites readers to spend breakfast, lunch and dinner with a family of round-faced, redheaded kids as they explore their kitchen's contents. He appeals to all five senses as he covers the colors in a fruit bowl, opposites ("T
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Michael Rex, Putnam, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25433-8
Rex, creator of the Margaret Wise Brown parodies The Runaway Mummy and Goodnight Goon, takes on the Rey franchise in this escapade. His protagonist’s resemblance to Curious George is only in the details, since Furious George is a huge purple gorilla
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Michael Rex, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6101-7
Rex (The Painting Gorilla) takes readers both behind the scenes and behind the wheel for an exhilarating stock car race. On the dedication page, he shows a boy caught up in the pretend world of his toy race cars and track. From the starting line,...
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Michael Rex, Author Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6682-1
A boy dons an engineer's cap and explains railroad cars, cargo, destinations and more in My Freight Train, a companion to My Fire Engine by Michael Rex. In his trademark illustrations, Rex's charcoal pencil lines and bright colors chart the train'
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Michael Rex, Author Putnam Publishing Group $9.99 (34p) ISBN 978-0-399-24009-6
Animals take to the road, sea and sky in Truck Duck, the latest vehicular volume (My Race Car; My Fire Engine) by Michael Rex. Animals take their favorite modes of transport-namely, those that rhyme with their own names. The slightly menacing Cab
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Michael Rex. Putnam, $5.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-399-25521-2
Flat, primitive art in yellow and gray brings to mind “what if the Wimpy Kid was instead Conan’s kid?” The book’s not attractive, but it is easy to read and very expressive. It looks like something a classmate might have scribbled on notebook paper...
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Michael Rex, Author, Michael Rex, Illustrator . Putnam $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24298-4
It's bedtime, which means it's a perfect time for a boy to ask his father one of the most important questions of all: "Daddy, if I got taken by pirates, would you save me?" "Of course, Son," the man assures him, which only...
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Michael Rex, Author, Michael Rex, Illustrator . Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25203-7
Rex, who parodied Goodnight Moon
with the creepy Goodnight Goon
, pokes monstrous fun at another Margaret Wise Brown/Clement Hurd collaboration, The Runaway Bunny
. Instead of the cozy call-and-response of Brown's rabbits, Rex crafts an...
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Michael Rex, Author, Michael Rex, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5020-2
In this comically far-fetched picture book, a talented gorilla's paintings of other zoo animals and their visitors earn her fame and fortune, which she's not sure what to do with: ""But what does a gorilla need money for? A gorilla doesn't need...
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Michael Rex. Putnam, $5.99 trade paper (122p) ISBN 978-0-399-25523-6
The third installment of Rex’s Fangbone! Third-Grade Barbarian series finds more adventures and danger for a young barbarian from a fantasy world hiding out in an elementary school in our world. While Fangbone’s serious warrior approach to life...
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Michael Rex. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3880-8
The hairy, snaggletoothed, horned monster who appears at Pete’s window isn’t some misunderstood creature in search of a friend, the kind of character that’s a fixture in so many children’s books. Nope, this monster has one goal in mind: “EAT PETE!”...
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Michael C. Rex. Viking, $22.99 (272p) ISBN 978-05932-0633-1
An AI with Ted Lasso spirit guilelessly approaches a dog-eat-dog world in Rex’s (Fangbone!) big-hearted comic. On the run in a postapocalyptic future, tan-skinned brothers Plug and Pug inadvertently activate an outdated toy, AI robot Your Pal Fred,...
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Michael Rex. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-9848-1626-9
“Do you know the difference between a fact and an opinion?” Rex (Eat Pete!) creates an essential picture book for the times, with a cast of digitally rendered robots as his eager-eyed, rambunctious object lessons. First introducing a yellow, a red,...
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Michael Rex. Putnam, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-9848-1362-6
Echoing the scheme and cadence of the classic children’s song, “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt,” Rex’s latest sassy send-up brings back the title character of his Goodnight Goon, as a costume-clad adult and kids set out to find the amiable green monster
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