Frances Arrington, Author, Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Elicia Castaldi, Illustrator , illus. by Elicia Castaldi. Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23857-4
This catchy song, whose musical notation is given as an endpaper bonus, explains that "Miss Polly has a dolly who is sick, sick, sick/ She calls for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick!" In her foreword, Edwards (Some Smug Slug
) recalls...
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Leah Wilcox, Author, Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Lydia Monks, Illustrator , illus. by Lydia Monks. Putnam $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23794-2
"Once upon a bad hair day,/ A prince rode up Rapunzel's way," opens Wilcox's debut book, offering a slight if agreeably silly take on the classic tale. In rhymed couplets of varying cleverness, the author relates a tale of...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Diana Cain Bluthenthal, Illustrator , illus. by Diana Cain Bluthenthal. HarperCollins/ Tegen $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-623970-5
Mother Goose meets Harold and the Purple Crayon
in this latest from Edwards (Some Smug Slug
) and Bluthenthal (I'm Not Invited?
), who introduce a scribble that starts out as a baby and grows up to help some nursery rhyme characters in distress.
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator , illus. by Daniel Kirk. Scholastic/Orchard $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-545-01756-5
“Come little sleepyhead, come with me,/ I've left my hole high in the tree./ Oh, what wondrous things we'll see,/ While the world is sleeping.” Edwards (Dinosaur Starts School
) issues readers this lyrical invitation as an...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Pamela Duncan, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. HarperTrophy $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443516-1
"The creators of Some Smug Slug
here use alliteration to lighthearted and humorous effect," wrote PW. "Childlike colored pencil drawings portray even the scariest of scenes in a wholly whimsical way to keep even the wimpiest of...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Hyperion Books for Children $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0308-8
A queen ant and her winged groom head for the altar in this buggy--though not particularly wacky--alphabet. The nuptials take place on the verdant and damp forest floor, the bride and groom thronged by a peaceable kingdom of butterflies, bees, birds
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443480-5
""Cole's illustrations... add a healthy dose of energetic humor to the tongue-twister text,"" said PW of this feisty alliterative tale. Ages 4-9. (May)
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443502-4
A self-satisfied slug ignores its friends' alliterative warnings as it proudly climbs a slope that turns out to be the back of a hungry toad: ""Such a shock, such a shame. Such a succulent slug!"" Ages 4-9. (May)
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Katherine Tegen Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028384-1
A lion cub just wants to have fun with his fellow inhabitants of the savanna. But he doesn't understand why, when he roars his invitation to join his game or dance, nobody wants to play with him. One red monkey ""scampers up a tree,"" plugging his...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Katherine Tegen Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-028995-9
Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole, the creators of Some Smug Slug and Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke, take on metamorphosis with Clara Caterpillar. ""Grow up to be courageous and contented, Clara,"" calls a cream-colored butterfly to the egg...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Katherine Tegen Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-027137-4
With a taut, involving narrative and dramatic, shadow-filled full-spread art, the creators of Some Smug Slug and Livingstone Mouse transport youngsters onto the overgrown path that an escaping slave stealthily follows one evening. The sound of the...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0309-5
In this offbeat fairy-tale homage, Edwards revisits the alliterative format of her Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke. Dinorella, a shy, pink dinosaur, lives with two greenish-brown diplodochi. ""Dinorella was dainty and dependable. Dora and Doris were
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. Dutton $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-47796-9
A woefully neglected clapboard house is at the center of this straightforward story from the creators of Ms. Bitsy Bat’s Kindergarten
. Cole’s visual personifications of the aged home include drooping eyes (two upstairs windows with...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028150-2
As they did in Some Smug Slug, Edwards and Cole here use alliteration to lighthearted and humorous effect. On a ""warm Wednesday morning,"" Wombat, Weasel and Woodchuck contemplate all the terrible misadventures that could befall them while...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0469-6
The stars of Warthogs in the Kitchen team up again in Slop Goes the Soup: A Noisy Warthog Word Book by Pamela Duncan Edwards, illus. by Henry Cole. The author uses onomatopoeia to demonstrate how a simple sneeze sets off a messy chain of events ...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Hyperion Books $9.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0894-6
A trio of miniature editions unite for Warthogs in a Box: Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book; Warthogs in the Kitchen: A Sloppy Counting Book; and Slop Goes the Soup: A Noisy Word Book, all by Pamela Duncan Edwards, illus. by Henry Cole. The ...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0470-2
The stars of Warthogs in the Kitchen: A Sloppy Counting Book learn a few things about the properties of primary colors in Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book by Pamela Duncan Edwards, illus. by Henry Cole. Stuck inside on a rainy day, they start ...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024925-0
A fox who flambees and fillets? Unfeasible? Not according to this alliterative tale, which introduces chef Fosdyke and his four siblings: Frank, Floyd, Freddy and Flo. When the quintet's mother scurries off for a five-day trip to Florida, all the...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, illus. by Henry Cole. Scholastic/Orchard, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-15625-7
This heavily alliterative retelling of "The Princess and the Pea" from the creators of The Old House is more like "The Princess and the Letter P." The porcine princess's palace is in disrepair, and in hopes of improving her digs, she answers Prince...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23357-9
The creators of Livingstone Mouse
and Warthogs in the Kitchen
travel back to 1773, when King George III's export tax on tea precipitated the Boston Tea Party. Ably targeting her audience, Edwards pares down the historical data. The narrative...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. HarperTrophy $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-443878-0
Two harpists set off for a contest to name the best in Ireland. "Edwards builds a mellifluous rhythm with her quaint phrasing and clean story line," wrote PW
. "Cole conveys the stark differences between the two characters." Ages 4-7
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. Hyperion $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0669-0
The collaborators behind Some Smug Slug
join forces to deliver this light look at how several animals' anxieties get stirred up when a new teacher begins on the second
day of kindergarten. Mr. Fox has to stay home to care for his newborn kits,
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. HarperCollins/Tegen $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-050752-7
Intense friendships are a fixture of childhood but suppressing one's individuality is never a good idea, as Gigi the pig and Lulu the mouse discover. All the adults chuckle over the many ways the two gal pals are "peas in a pod" (they...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. By Henry Cole. HarperTrophy $5.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-443691-5
The creators of Some Smug Slug
here take on metamorphosis. After crimson-colored Catisha scorns Clara for her plain coloring, the heroine's camouflage saves the day. Ages 3-6. (Mar
.)
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. HarperCollins/Tegen $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-623974-3
Where there are leprechauns, surely there is gold to be found—but at what price? Two men in long-ago Ireland find out in this chipper tale with dulcet undertones. Sharing a story line much like that of A Fine St. Patrick's Day
(see below)
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. Hyperion $15.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1951-5
Joining a lineup of books commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first flight, this cumulative tale from a pair of seasoned collaborators (Muldoon) packs an informational wallop as it plays to a primary-grade audience. "This is the sky, high
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028997-3
In another alliterative adventure, Edwards and Cole (previously paired for Some Smug Slug) send winsome Rosie Raccoon on a mission: to deliver four roses, tied with a rainbow ribbon, to Aunt Ruth. One by one, the roses are carried off by other...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Henry Cole. Hyperion $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0360-6
Floppy-eared Muldoon thinks of himself as his family's employee, and this newest offering from the creators of Some Smug Slug
stretches the joke from the first line ("Muldoon works for the West family") to the last ("But the day he...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Author, Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author Katherine Tegen Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443519-2
""A taut, involving narrative and dramatic, shadow-filled full-spread art"" adopt woodland animals' perspectives to tell of a runaway slave's flight, said PW. Ages 5-9. (Jan.)
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Danny Shanahan, Illustrator , illus. by Danny Shanahan. Houghton $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-44911-8
This glancing treatment of Rosa Parks's 1955 refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man unwinds as a cumulative narrative reminiscent of "The House That Jack Built." The style, jarringly at odds with this historical event, comes off...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, Illustrator , illus. by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick. HarperCollins/Tegen $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-623972-9
The correspondents in this appealing epistolary tale are Claire, newly six, and the eponymous diva of dentition herself—although older readers may suspect that the latter is actually Claire's grandma. Claire's letters, which serve as...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Illustrator Hyperion Books for Children $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0468-9
Bad Fred Flea, who shares residence on a dog with his angelic brother, Ed, hopes to get the whole hound to himself. When Ed, who reads the dog's whining as a warning to move on, invites Fred to bail out with him, Fred feigns illness to stay behind...
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Edwards, Author, Henry Cole, Author Hyperion Books for Children $13.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0399-6
Collaborators Edwards and Cole (Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke) pull out all the stops in this slapstick comedy of too many cooks, starring eight eager-eyed, quadruple-tusked, bristly warthogs and a little blue teddy bear. From one chef assiduously
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Barbara Nascimbeni, Illustrator , illus. by Barbara Nascimbeni. Holt $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7007-1
Rather than focus on a recalcitrant child, Edwards (Some Smug Slug) reverses the typical plot of a book about polite manners and places a child in charge of a slurping, tantrum-throwing mule. Throughout, the narrator directly addresses the reader: &#
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Pamela Duncan Edwards, Author, Darcia Labrosse, Illustrator , illus. by Darcia LaBrosse. Hyperion $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0467-2
This thin tale told in couplets begins as Brown Hen, an expectant mother, has been mysteriously summoned to the farmhouse. She overhears a passing cat remark, "There's going to be a shower!" and opens a large umbrella to protect her...
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