Philippe Dupasquier, Author . Andersen $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84270-015-0
In British author Dupasquier's (A Sunday with Grandpa) tidy little tale, young Vicki's family gets a new next-door neighbor, Mrs. Sparks. When the newcomer brings home a duck and places it in the small pond in her yard, narrator Vicki...
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Philippe Dupasquier, Author . Andersen $8.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-84270-112-6
A girl gets a new next-door neighbor who has a very loud pet duck. "Amiable cartoon art enhances the comic hyperbole of the story, which ends on a buoyant and predictably loud note," wrote PW. Ages 5-8. (Oct.)
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Philippe Dupasquier, Author Viking Children's Books $11.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-670-81971-3
In lively, action-filled scenes, the author of Jack at Sea and Dear Daddy wordlessly portrays the seasonal changes that take place in a landscape of hills, pastures, ponds, trees and a large house, center stage for the natural cycle from January to...
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Philippe Dupasquier, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $13.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-395-46806-7
When a prisoner slips out of jail through the front gate, he is pursued by several policeman down the streets of the city, across rooftops and through underground tunnels. The convict's escape takes him to the scene of a country wedding, into the...
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Philippe Dupasquier, Author Orchard Books (NY) $13.95 (34p) ISBN 978-0-531-05874-9
It is not only the winsome girl on the cover of this wordless picture book who can't sleep, but her father, brother, mother and cat as well. Insomniacs will sympathize with the illustrator father who sits wide awake and round-eyed in his dark...
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Philippe Dupasquier, Author, Philippe Dupasquier, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (20p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1797-4
A cumulative wordless tale of an animal chase builds in 123 Follow Me! by Philippe Dupasquier. Cleverly constructed, one chick (featured with the numeral and word ""one"") is chased by a hen (for ""two""), who are followed by a cat (""three"")...
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Philippe Dupasquier, Author, Philippe Dupasquier, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $6.99 (20p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2015-8
With die-cut pages that grow progressively larger, Philippe Dupasquier matches nine different colored pencils, one to a spread, with corresponding animals, including a cardinal, yellow butterflies and pink flamingoes in Red Blue Color Zoo. The ...
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Tony Bradman, Author, Philippe Dupasquier, Author, Philippe Dupasquier, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-82992-7
Told almost entirely in big, comic-strip-style pictures and format, this story emphasizes continuity in time through the example of a lost sandal. ``Yesterday,'' in 77 B.C., a girl, out for a walk with her brother and father, accidentally loses a...
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