Jack Gantos, Author, Nicole Rubel, Author, Nicole Rubel, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-62302-2
Can Mr. Fred's Feline Finishing School really expunge every trace of Ralph's unrepentant rottenness? For a few heart-stopping moments it seems so: although Ralph steadfastly resists the school's more conventional blandishments, he slips into a...
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Nicole Rubel, Author . Harcourt/Silver Whistle $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-216241-2
Grody, a slovenly brown pooch with pointy ears, deserves his gross-plus-dirty name. In this list of rules to live by, he makes a mess of his room, wears "disgusting smelly socks" and advocates both sleeping late and never going to bed ("W
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Nicole Rubel, Author Puffin Books $3.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-054541-8
A genial blue alligator, knocked senseless by a runaway baseball, comes to and experiences zany adventures in suburbia. Ages 4-8. (June)
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Nicole Rubel, Author Dial Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1444-1
Rubel (The Ghost Family Meets Its Match; the Rotten Ralph books) transplants the classic tale of the big-nosed romantic to a Wild West town for a galloping read. Cyrano the bear is a horseback-riding sheriff with two goals: to apprehend the...
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Nicole Rubel, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (202p) ISBN 978-0-374-33611-0
In this lukewarm novel set in 1964 Miami, Rubel (Ham and Pickles, reviewed above) introduces fifth-grade narrator Rachel, who wryly complains that her identical twin, Rebecca, ""stole half my brain and added it to hers"" before they were born. As a...
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Nicole Rubel, Author Dial Books $10.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0513-5
In this story by the illustrator of the Rotten Ralph tales, set in the Florida Everglades, Alfie the alligator learns that he can't play baseball and eat at the same time. After sustaining a rather hard ``bonk'' on the head, Alfie runs off in a...
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Nicole Rubel, Author Dial Books $10.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0246-2
All babysitters dream of having their charges fall asleep. And Uncle Henry and Aunt Henrietta are no exception. Caring for their niece and nephew, they hold the children spellbound with one frivolous tale after another detailing how they spent their
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Nicole Rubel, Author HarperCollins Publishers $11.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-025096-6
Goldie and her mom--a chick and hen duo--fly the coop one day and end up at the Big Store. Goldie's mother wants to find a dress, but Goldie doesn't want to stay in the changing room--so she leaves. Back in the main store, she tips over a mannequin.
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Nicole Rubel, Author Dial Books $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1093-1
A family of ghosts one day settles into a house abandoned by a famous African explorer and still adorned with his collection of curiosities. Mummies line the attic, dismembered statues litter the lawn and a gape-mouthed crocodile, presumably stuffed,
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Nicole Rubel, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-58773-7
Rubel, with Jack Gantos co-creator of the Rotten Ralph books, introduces yet another obstreperous fellow--and again displays her wry sense of humor. From birth, Conga has been banging on everything within reach--first his mother's nose, then his...
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Nicole Rubel, Author, Toby Sherry, Editor, Nicole Rubel, Illustrator Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2152-4
""Ernestine O'Reilly, with hair as wild and red as campfire flames, came all the way from County Clare, Ireland, to Lizard Lick, Texas, as a mail-order bride."" Dressed in a fine turquoise dress and ogled by scruffy buckaroos, Ernestine primly...
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Nicole Rubel, Author, Nicole Rubel, Illustrator . FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-36362-8
Ruthie hates eating vegetables so much she's even inspired to compose an ode: "Give me a yucky carrot,/ I'll feed it to the parrot./ Offer me slimy beets,/ I'll stomp them with my feets." But when her mother puts Ruthie to work...
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Nicole Rubel, Author, Nicole Rubel, Illustrator . Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205039-9
Two wide-eyed hamster siblings star in Rubel's (the Rotten Ralph series) offbeat story about first-day-of-school angst. Pickles voices her every worry to her older brother, Ham. The ever-cool Ham comes back with a wacky solution for each of her...
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Alice Colombo, Author, Nicole Rubel, Author Puffin Books $6.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0498-5
Did they really go to Antarctica, or walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls? Not even a skeptical niece or nephew can doubt their zany stories. Ages 3-7. (March)
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