Adele Griffin, Author, Peter McCarty, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0351-4
Rock Kindle, a seventh-grade history buff, is fascinated by war but is blind to the one that is brewing under his own roof. His older brother, Cliff, is getting fed up with their militant father's belittling remarks and harsh punishments, which...
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Jeff Gottesfeld, illus. by Peter McCarty. Knopf, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-385-75397-5
Gottesfeld (Anne Frank and Me) imagines that a massive horse chestnut tree, with leaves like "green stars," was a stalwart, loving observer of Anne Frank as she hid with her family for two years (the afterword notes that the tree is mentioned three...
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Peter McCarty, Author . Holt $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7713-1
Readers smitten with the soothing Caldecott Honor book Hondo and Fabian
, about a sedate yellow Lab and a gray-striped housecat, may get a frisson of alarm from this book's title. Not to worry—McCarty maintains an even keel in this wry...
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Peter McCarty, Author . Holt $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6934-1
Where Harold used his purple crayon to get out of scrapes, Jeremy's blue pen causes him problems after he designs a cantankerous, linebacker-sized monster who demands a long list of items before commanding, “Draw me a hat. I'm going...
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Peter McCarty, Author . HarperCollins/Balzer & Bray $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-114288-8
McCarty (Jeremy Draws a Monster
) keenly observes a schoolyard crush in this charmer. The cover pictures Henry, an openhearted boy cat, sitting at his desk alongside Chloe, a coquettish bunny. Chloe wears a mysterious grin and a flowered dress of...
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Peter McCarty, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator . Holt $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6352-3
An amiable showcase for McCarty's (Little Bunny on the Move) distinctive pencil art, this day-in-the-life tale centers on a dog and cat who live with a family, the only member of which readers see is a cherubic toddler referred to as "the...
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Peter McCarty, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator . Holt $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7259-4
This tale of a bunny's journey is "reassuring yet enigmatic," according to PW. "The compositions possess a quiet dignity." Ages 3-up. (Mar.)
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Peter McCarty, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator . Holt $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7404-8
McCarty, creator of Hondo and Fabian
, crafts an ominous T. rex tale, whose title refers to the word "dinosaur," meaning "terrible lizard." "I do not know why I am so terrible," confesses the hulking narrator, whose smooth...
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Peter McCarty, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator . Holt $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7943-2
McCarty's (Hondo and Fabian
) silvery-white pencil illustrations and unadorned sentences make for an evanescent airplane journey. A vintage twin-engine aircraft (the popular Douglas DC-3, introduced in 1935) soars into fluffy gray-and-white...
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Peter McCarty, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5953-3
Youngsters can observe, month by month, the first year of a little one's life in this tender tribute to babyhood, designed like a handsome family album. Based on the author's recollections of his own daughter, the soft, finely detailed pencil...
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Peter McCarty, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4620-5
""It was time for a little bunny/ to be on the move./ From here to there,/ a bunny goes where a bunny must,"" begins this reassuring yet enigmatic tale. An unseen narrator periodically asks questions of the charming title character--""Bunny, Bunny...
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Peter McCarty. Holt, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9030-7
One day when Jeremy is drawing alone in his apartment, the blue, spiky monster that he created in Jeremy Draws a Monster calls him from a telephone booth: “I’m coming back.... And I’m bored!” Thinking quickly, Jeremy arms his young neighbors with...
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Peter McCarty. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-114291-8
Chloe, the alluring grade-school bunny who charmed the hero of McCarty’s Henry in Love, gets her own story in a companion book about the pleasures of family and bubble wrap. Chloe is her family’s middle child, meaning she has “ten older brothers and
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Peter McCarty. Holt, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9253-0
Autumn beckons in this nostalgic ode to football season, which features an after-school scrimmage among nine grade-school children. In all, seven boys and two girls bounce home on their school bus, disembarking in a safe, tree-lined neighborhood. “Fo
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Peter McCarty. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-218996-7
Pedro makes a winter visit to his cousins, Sancho, Bella, Lola, Ava, and Maria. He’s never seen snow before. “I don’t think I will like it,” Pedro says. Neighbors come to play; when one girl, Abby, tells Pedro about snowflakes (“You can even catch...
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Peter McCarty. Holt, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9687-3
McCarty’s bunnies float like small balloons, and this visit to their world drifts lightly from thought to thought. “What do bunnies know?” he writes. “Bunnies know to eat their vegetables—although they do not know their names.” The bunnies are shown
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Peter McCarty. First Second, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-17062-0
Caldecott Honoree McCarty makes his graphic novel debut with an otherworldly feeling poem in comics form. Intricate crosshatching depicts five anthropomorphic wolves dressed in finery and sailing aboard a Viking-esque longboat. The pack, helmed by...
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