Mick Manning, Author, Brita Granstrom, With Bantam Books for Young Readers $14.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-385-32258-4
This upbeat if slim volume takes a cursory look at how human babies' development compares to that of various animals, revealing similarities as well as differences among species. Manning and Granstrom ably target their audience with a simple yet...
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Mick Manning and Brita Granström. Frances Lincoln (PGW, dist.), $18.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-84780-088-6
This nimbly illustrated field guide features children and adults exploring ecosystems that include urban oases, woodlands, and freshwater habitats. Wildlife sketches, flora and fauna identifications, and hand-written notes are scattered throughout...
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Mick Manning and Brita Granström. Frances Lincoln/Otter-Barry (PGW, dist.), $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-84780-451-8
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’s first visit to the U.S., Manning and Granström present a chronological tour of the ascent of “those fresh-faced, cheeky lads from Liverpool.” Opening in 1940 with John Lennon’s schoolboy years,...
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Mick Manning, Author, Brita Granstrom, Illustrator . Frances Lincoln $15.95 (18p) ISBN 978-1-84507-408-1
The latest book from this British husband-and-wife team (The World Is Full of Babies
) takes a comic look at the food chain. "Look!
A fly buzzing by...," says the bold handwritten text, as an endearingly goofy, orange bug–eyed insect...
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Mick Manning, Author, Brita Granstrom, Illustrator Good Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56148-568-0
Manning and Granstrom (Snap!) team up again to offer another goodhearted, vividly populated comedy. A cute little owl has taken refuge in a hen house on a stormy night, and the ditzy hens don't know what to do with him. They need a rooster, but...
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Mick Manning, Author, Brita Granstrom, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1641-7
Husband-and-wife team Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom suggest numerous activities for dinosaur-lovers, such as making a ""Pterosaur Mobile,"" Triceratops mask and a dinosaur video in Dinomania: Things to Do with Dinosaurs. Informative ""fact...
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Mick Manning, illus. by Brita Granström. Candlewick, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9757-0
Manning and Granström (William Shakespeare: Scenes from the Life of the World’s Greatest Writer) continue their exploration of English heritage with this lively “guided tour” of the British Library, which is akin to the U.S. Library of Congress. “Wel
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