Niki Daly. Eerdmans, $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5417-9
Malusi has a blue hat, a red blanket, and a difficult job: trying to keep his grandfather's sheep and goats safe from baboons. He has to watch for snakes and prevent his animals from falling into the ravine. "You have to be awake, and you have to be
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Niki Daly, Author . Clarion $16 (29p) ISBN 978-0-618-72345-4
The story of Little Red Riding Hood is reinvented for a new audience in this colorful retelling of the classic fairy tale. Set against the backdrop of West Africa, the famous red-caped heroine expands her fashion horizons by donning a more...
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Niki Daly, Author Viking Children's Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-84161-5
Jangling rhyme that borders occasionally on gibberish chronicles this family's shopping trip to town. The hustle and bustle of this zany burg and its inhabitants are both familiar and fantastic, as perambulating birds, alligators--one in Moroccan...
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Niki Daly, Author Viking Children's Books $4.95 (18p) ISBN 978-0-670-81252-3
Childhood moments, ones that might go unnoticed in a busy day, are here expanded into small books. In Look At Me!, Josh has trouble getting sister Suzie to watch himshe is busy inventing games with her friend Andy. Then Josh makes up his own game,...
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Niki Daly, Author Atheneum Books $16 (30p) ISBN 978-0-689-50367-2
The setting is South Africa and the names of the people are like poetry: Uzuti, Mongi, Mr. Motiki. Malusi is now old enough to accompany his grandmother, Gogo, into the city to shop. She is an old womanample, proud, not quite in step with modern...
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator . FSG/Sunburst $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-43720-6
In South Africa, Jamela's mother purchases some costly fabric for a wedding and leaves the girl in charge of it. Jamela struts through the town trailing the fabric like a train. "The affectionate interaction between mother and daughter is...
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Niki Daly. Clarion, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-547-68852-7
Beneath the heat of the South African sun, Mama Jumbo the elephant takes Motiki’s Taxi into town to visit the market, where animal vendors sell food, clothing, baskets, and other items. In this sequel to Welcome to Zanzibar Road, Daly divides his...
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Niki Daly. Frances Lincoln (PGW, dist.), $17.99 (28p) ISBN 978-1-84780-105-0
The multitalented Daly (A Song for Jamela) does a commendable job of portraying a house full of love—and way too much physical affection. Visits from Bernard’s four aunts—Lulu, Lola, Lilly, and Tallulah—mean showers of lipsticky kisses and endless...
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-38324-4
Third in the series that includes Jamela's Dress and What's Cooking, Jamela?, Where's Jamela? by Niki Daly finds the title character disappointed that her mother's new job means moving to a new neighborhood. When the packing is done, Jamela is...
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-33667-7
Daly (Bravo, Zan Angelo!) splashes luminous watercolors across the pages of this warmly evocative picture book, set in his native South Africa. Jamela's mother purchases a length of costly fabric for a wedding, and after washing it, leaves Jamela in
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82430-2
Sugar's widowed grandfather takes her with him as he dances on the street for change. ""Daly's text brims with both wide-eyed admiration and fond remembrance,"" said PW. Ages 5-8. (Jan.)
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (36p) ISBN 978-0-374-35602-6
The exuberant heroine of Jamela's Dress returns in a new adventure, What's Cooking, Jamela? by Niki Daly, that finds her determined to save Christmas, her pet chicken, from a starring role in the family's holiday meal. In a most satisfactory ...
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82175-2
Daly (Jamela's Dress, reviewed below) summons the sights and sounds of a summertime outing through sun-washed watercolors and keenly tuned language. A boy and his parents arrive at the shore, where it's ""hot as sun-melted tar in the beach parking...
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator HarperCollins $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-13331-3
In the beginning Sun and Moon live happily on earth, keeping house in grand style and sharing elegant taste. But when roving Sun discovers Sea, who ""shimmers and dances without end"" and whose songs are ""as soothing as sleep,"" he is infatuated...
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-50620-8
The delicate issue of alcoholism is thoughtfully explored in Daly's (Not So Fast, Songololo) latest picture book. Though the brother and sister featured here dearly love their father, they are embarrassed and increasingly anxious about his drinking.
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-50541-6
Papa Lucky could ``dance the sequins off a champ'' when he was a young man--but marriage and children required him to work a steady job and save dancing just for fun. Now, Papa Lucky is a widower and has moved in with his daughter's family. He...
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (31p) ISBN 978-0-618-64926-6
When she first sees sunny Zanzibar Road, Mama Jumbo the elephant says, ""What a nice place to live.... I think I'll build a house here and settle down."" With help from many friends and the companionship of a little rooster, big-hearted, amply built
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator . Bloomsbury $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-995-4
A misfit embraces her overpowering voice, transforming an impediment into a gift in Daly's (Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky
) inspiring story. When Ruby announces, "Hi, everybody—I'm home!
" the words float in large black...
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Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator . FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-35633-0
Sarie, a rural South African girl, dreads reading aloud in school: words on the page "tripped up her tongue. She stuttered and stammered over them." Everyone in class mocks her except Emile, who reasons that the ringleaders are jealous...
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Niki and Jude Daly. Frances Lincoln/Otter-Barry (Quarto, dist.), $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84780-484-6
The husband-and-wife Daly team (Seb and Hamish) presents a straightforward parable about the value of gratitude, starring a South African family of farmers. The farmer, his wife, and their son rely on their donkey, Jackson, to transport their...
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Ruth Craft, Author, Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-82456-4
A girl named Nerinder, a boy named Leroy and a woman, Mrs. Poppodopolous, all lose a precious item in the bustle of city streets on a hot summer day. Then the rain cools down the streets, and a rainbow forms, seeming to light on those three lost...
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Ruth Craft, Author, Niki Daly, Author, Niki Daly, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-050935-9
Precious objects are lost and later found--seemingly at a rainbow's end--in this bustling rhyme; PW said that Craft's ``cantankerous text. . . revels in the cacophony of the urban setting.'' Ages 3-8. (Mar.)
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Wendy Hartman, Author, Niki Daly, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $17 (1p) ISBN 978-0-689-81152-4
Edward is calmly reading a dinosaur book when his brother interrupts him to point out a rock under his twin bed. ""What if it's a DINOSAUR EGG... and it hatches, Edward?"" the older boy asks. Edward hides under the covers as his tormentor describes...
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Niki Daly. Catalyst, $7.95 paper (78p) ISBN 978-1-946395-33-7
In this early reader collection, Daly introduces Lolo, an energetic black girl who lives with her Mama and grandmother Gogo, as she faces four everyday obstacles and employs creative thinking to find solutions. Through efforts to earn a coveted gold
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