Michael Townsend, Author . Knopf $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-83932-0
Townsend’s children’s debut shows a mischievous sense of humor but an unpolished storytelling style. With school picture day approaching, Billy Tartle needs a haircut. “All my school pictures are soooo boring,” Billy...
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Michael Townsend, Knopf, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-85717-1
Young readers will relate to the injured feelings and unkind pranks in this comics-inspired book, presented in stylized, aptly silly doodles. When Monkey peeks in Elephant's window and sees animals donning costumes, he assumes his best friend has...
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Michael Townsend. Knopf, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-85718-8
Maximally cute indeed, this comic strip–style tale examines the tense relationship between a forlorn dog and his owner’s brand-new cat. For her birthday, sugar-sweet Janie Jane gets “the cutest thing she’d ever seen: Sir Yips-a-lot.” A montage shows
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Michael Townsend. Dial, $14.99 paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-80373-748-8
In this cheerful, colorful book, Townsend introduces grade-schoolers to the lives and responsibilities of the president of the United States, as well as the constitutional separation of powers and the history of the White House. With the help of a...
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Michael Townsend. Blue Apple (Random, dist.), $12.99 (88p) ISBN 978-1-60905-365-9
Like an unholy union between the Dick and Jane series and R. Crumb–style psychedelia, Townsend’s contribution to the Jump Into Chapters line introduces an animate yellow ball with an enormous grin, rubbery limbs, and manic energy that never abates....
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