Books by Olivier Dunrea and Complete Book Reviews

Olivier Dunrea, Author . FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-39992-4
This quietly wondrous picture book exudes Dunrea's (Bear Noel) delight in revisiting two favorite themes: snowy landscapes and the rustic world of Moel Eyris, a mythical island featured in The Trow-Wife's Treasure and other titles. A peasant
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Olivier Dunrea. Houghton Mifflin, $9.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-43661-3
Gideon, “a small, ruddy gosling who likes to play,” joins Gossie and the other goslings on Dunrea’s farm. Always on the move, Gideon chases a piglet, plays “tag-the-mole,” leaps over a frog, and listens to bees buzzing in their hive—always with his...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-37380-1
An orphan answers a higher calling--literally--in this fanciful fable about desire and destiny. Young Hilda Louise leads a boring existence embroidering handkerchiefs with all the other children at Chez Mes Petits Choux orphanage in Paris. Though...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-37792-2
Meticulously yet unassumingly wrought in both text and art, this fairy tale possesses a distinct and ancient flavor. Bracken Van Eyck is more than content to tend his small farm and enjoy the companionship of his loyal dog, Caleb, on a mythical...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-35729-0
The hero of this quiet but inspiring picture book has a secret, quirky ambition. He longs to leave the city, where he earns a modest living by painting fine portraits of ``people, penguins and poodles,'' and buy a farm where he can paint his...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-385-30597-6
``There once was a hen / a broody hen, a moody hen. . . .'' With this teasing opening, youngsters are invited to join a determined hen seeking a place to lay her eggs. The softly rendered watercolor illustrations (in a captivating, Wyeth-like...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author Holiday House $13.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0583-1
The author introduces a little-known archeological wonder: the ancient village of Skara Brae. In 1850, a storm blew across the Orkney Islands north of Scotland, exposing a small part of a primitive village. Over the next 125 years, the settlement...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $13.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-02-732861-5
This cumulative counting book has an unusual theme and lovely art. ``Deep down underground / 1 wee moudiewort digs and digs / deep down underground.'' (``Moudiewort'' is the Scottish word for mole.) Two pink earthworms ``wriggle and wrangle'' out of
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Olivier Dunrea, Author Holiday House $12.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0578-7
The author-illustrator of Ravena; Eddie B, Pig Boy; and Fergus and Bridey presents another appealing picture book for tinies. It is an epic of nonsense, about a gaggle of gnomes whom Dunrea makes beguiling in their garishly bright, Middle-European...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author Yearling Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40691-4
Finding a treasure map, a boy and his Scottie dog cross the water in search of riches; PW praised the ``adroitly understated story in praise of good companions.'' Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Olivier Dunrea, Author Yearling Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40645-7
With its Stonehengian setting and atmospheric artwork with rock-like borders, this fantasy about a small banshee proves be-witching. Ages 5-8. (June)
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Olivier Dunrea, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-733205-6
Ben Salem is as exuberant and curious a boy as anyone is likely to find. He is also entirely under the spell of his older sister, Eppie M., who ``knows how to read'' and gives freely of her knowledge and opinions to all. Eppie M. tells her brother...
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Olivier Dunrea, Philomel, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24507-7
In this gently comic picture book about the push-and-pull between parent (or grandparent) and child, Old Bear and Little Cub don't always see eye to eye, although they love each other. At breakfast, Old Bear directs Little Cub to eat all his...
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Olivier Dunrea, Houghton Mifflin, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-53241-4
Simple, declarative phrases describe Ollie and his fellow goslings' Halloween activities on the farm. The sky darkens, filling with twirling leaves, as the goslings creep and poke around, "hooting like owls. Howling like wolves." As with the...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author . Houghton/Lorraine $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-35654-6
To his fetching flock of goslings (Gossie & Gertie ; Ollie) Dunrea adds two welcome and worthy feathered friends. Each of these tiny creatures, like their predecessors, has a distinct personality and a penchant for doing something that will...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author . Houghton $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-33930-3
In this pair of winsome, small-format follow-ups to Gossie and Gossie & Gertie, Dunrea introduces yet another endearing gosling—but the introduction takes some pleasantly paced time. Or rather, Ollie, whom Dunrea introduces in the first...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author, Olivier Dunrea, Illustrator . HoughtonMifflin $9.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-618-53243-8
Gossie, Gertie, BooBoo, and Peedie—the tiny but assertive ducks from the Gossie & Friends series—gather, dye, and hide eggs for Easter. But Ollie, wearing a pink bunny-eared bonnet, moves the eggs to a hiding spot, leading to some...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author, Olivier Dunrea, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-399-24216-8
In this intriguing illustrated chapter book, Dunrea (The Trow-Wife's Treasure ; the Gossie & Friends series) whisks readers to the misty island village of Skara Bree (a.k.a. Skara Brae, ancient settlement on the west coast of Orkney, off...
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Olivier Dunrea, Author, Olivier Dunrea, Illustrator . Houghton $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-17676-2
"This is Gossie. Gossie is a gosling," opens the first of Dunrea's hand-size square volumes starring two likable, diminutive characters. From the start, the author strikes an appealing, unorthodox note—Gossie is first seen only...
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Olivier Dunrea. Philomel, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24235-9
In a spare preamble to Old Bear and His Cub (2010), Dunrea reveals how Old Bear and Little Cub came to be companions. Dunrea strikes a matter-of-fact tone, subtly pointing out the similarities and differences between the bears, while studiously...
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Olivier Dunrea, illus. by Will Hillenbrand. Philomel, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-16808-6
Dunrea (the Gossie & Friends series) and Hillenbrand (the Bear and Mole books) assemble a cast of eccentric animals in this cumulative counting story narrated by a binoculars-toting monkey. He and another monkey, Annie McPhee, live on a tiny island...
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