Randy Cecil, Author . Holt $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6779-8
Funny-bone-tickling text and merry illustrations merge in this crackerjack picture book, featuring hilarious send-ups of classic fairy tales and a cast of slightly subversive kids. Maestro Von Haughty—dastardly in a top hat and sinuous...
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Randy Cecil. Holt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9300-1
Horsefly and Honeybee meet inauspiciously, when the petite yellow bee invades an orange daylily occupied by the larger fly. "They had a fight. It wasn't pretty. Horsefly lost a wing. Honeybee lost a wing, too." They march off in opposite directions,
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Randy Cecil, Author, Randy Cecil, Illustrator . Candlewick $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2952-6
Gator, who is a grinning green merry-go-round fixture and not an actual reptile, recalls a time when the amusement park was popular with children. Gradually, crowds stop coming, and the hurdy-gurdy days fade. Gator imagines the ride operating and
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Randy Cecil, Author, Randy Cecil, Illustrator . Candlewick $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3072-0
Like the star of Cecil's Gator
, Duck is a carousel creature who longs for a new spin on life—she yearns to fly like the flocks she sees flapping by. When a wayward duckling adopts Duck as a mentor and friend, Duck rises to the occasion,...
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Randy Cecil. Candlewick, $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6808-2
In Cecil’s (Evermore Dragon) town of Bloomville, people flock to vaudeville shows, apartment buildings have stoops, and the neighborhood butcher sports a handlebar moustache. Set over four acts, the story—which could either be considered a very long
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Randy Cecil. Candlewick, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2616-4
Exiting its spaceship, the itinerant spaceman of this picture book’s title immediately deems this latest stop on a soil-collection tour to be “a rather ordinary planet.” But as the being loses its spacecraft and the story unfolds, first-person...
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