Neil Waldman, Author . Boyds Mills/Wildlife Conservation Society $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-891-3
His curiosity sparked by a childhood memory of hearing the Bronx Zoo's bison called "the Mother Herd," Waldman (Masada) here presents an articulate and informative volume recounting the animal's bittersweet history. The tale begins...
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Neil Waldman, Author Boyds Mills Press $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-736-7
In another picture book in the burgeoning ordinary-child-meets-famous-artist genre, a ghostly Vincent Van Gogh pops up in contemporary Manhattan to fascinate a boy by doing what he does best: paint. Bernard guides the mysterious artist from ""far...
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Neil Waldman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16 (64p) ISBN 978-0-688-14481-4
Waldman (The Golden City) returns to Israel for this tribute to the legendary citadel, encompassing over 2000 years of history. A towering fortress built on a rock plateau in what is now the Negev desert, Masada was the last remaining Jewish...
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Neil Waldman, Author Boyds Mills Press $16.95 (30p) ISBN 978-1-59078-064-0
At the end of WWII, a boy and his family move from Lithuania's Vilna ghetto to Israel and begin planting trees in barren land in The Never-Ending Greenness: We Made Israel Bloom (1997) by Neil Waldman. But even before the trees grow, Waldman...
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Neil Waldman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-14479-1
Waldman (The Golden City: Jerusalem's 3,000 Years) may have bit off a little more than he can chew with this ambitious picture book. The story opens in pre-WWII Vilna, joyfully pictured in bright, candy-like colors applied in Waldman's...
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Neil Waldman, Author, Neil Waldman, Illustrator . S&S/Atheneum $18 (64p) ISBN 978-0-689-82559-0
This moving yet balanced overview of the massacre of the Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee gives young readers insight into a painful history of conflict. Waldman (The Golden City) immediately captures the audience's sympathy and interest with the...
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Neil Waldman, Author, Neil Waldman, Illustrator . Boyds Mills $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56397-332-1
A dramatic vertical format (7½"×13¼"), gold lettering on the jacket, gold borders within and abundant illustrations in Waldman's (The Golden City: Jerusalem's Three Thousand Years) reverent, contemporary style...
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Neil Waldman, Author, Neil Waldman, Illustrator . Holiday $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1857-2
Waldman's (Masada
) folksy narrative combines baseball fact, lore and nostalgia. The structure may be hard for some readers to follow, but baseball fans may well be willing to stick with it. In the opening vignette, set in 1951, a trio of boys...
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