Nicholas Oldland, Kids Can, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55453-580-4
The moose who had a cameo in Oldland’s Big Bear Hug (2009) makes the most of this starring role. Though he lives in the wild, the timid, wide-eyed fellow is anything but. While his friends go puddle jumping in the rain, he cowers under an umbrella,...
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Nicholas Oldland. Kids Can, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55453-749-5
Written and illustrated in the same breezy style as Big Bear Hug and Making the Moose Out of Life—whose protagonists play supporting roles in this outing—Oldland's small-format book sounds clear notes about being conscientious of one's surroundings.
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Nicholas Oldland, Author, Nicholas Oldland, Illustrator Kids Can $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55453-464-7
Recast Ferdinand the bull as a bear living in the North Woods, with hugs filling in for flower sniffing—that’s a workable summation of this debut effort. While the ursine hero may look like a hulking beast, he’s actually “so...
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Nicholas Oldland. Kids Can, $15.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-55453-834-8
Oldland (Big Bear Hug) offers a bare-bones (no pun intended) counting book that features an array of dinosaurs as it works its way down from “ten striding velociraptors (and one looming predator)” to zero: “no dinosaurs (they’re extinct,
silly).”...
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