Richard Michelson, Author, Neil Waldman, Illustrator , illus. by Neil Waldman. Charlesbridge/Talewinds $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88106-118-5
Michelson, best known for such witty collections of verse as Animals That Ought to Be,
returns to the intergenerational themes of his Grandpa's Gamble
for this nostalgic volume, handsomely illustrated by Waldman (The Golden City) in a sepia-ton
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Richard Michelson, illus. by Karla Gudeon. Charlesbridge, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58089-636-8
It isn’t easy being the child of a visionary. Ben-Zion’s father is Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, a man determined to revive Hebrew as a living, everyday language—even though most of his fellow Jews in 19th-century Jerusalem accuse him of sacrilege and are...
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Richard Michelson, Author, Mary Azarian, Illustrator , illus. by Mary Azarian. Putnam $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-24354-7
Michelson (Too Young for Yiddish
) and Caldecott Medalist Azarian (Snowflake Bentley
) salute 12 generations of Tuttles from Dover, N.H., operators of the longest continuously running family farm in the country (tourists may know its Red Barn farm...
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As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
Richard Michelson, Author, Raul Colon, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-83335-9
Michelson (Tuttle's Red Barn) deftly draws comparisons between Martin Luther King Jr. and the German-born rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel as he describes what led them to walk together in the famous 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
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Richard Michelson, Author, Adam McCauley, Illustrator , illus. by Adam McCauley. Harcourt $16 (44p) ISBN 978-0-15-205186-0
In Michelson's (Happy Feet
) prime example of the powers of suggestion, a boy consoles his timid sister before bed: "It's only wind./ Ignore that sound./ You're safe./ There are no ghosts around." She protests ("Oh no, not...
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Richard Michelson, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator Marshall Cavendish Children's Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5034-4
As their parents prepare for the Passover seder, sometime in the era of Babe Ruth, a boy and his sister have to keep quiet, because Grandpa Sam is busy davening (praying). The children are convinced that Grandpa is utterly boring until he begins to...
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Richard Michelson, illus. by Zachary Pullen. Sleeping Bear, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58536-465-7
Michelson and Pullen recreate a slice of immigrant life in mid–19th-century Brooklyn in their story of Jewish baseball player Lipman Pike, one of the first "professional" athletes. The son of a Dutch haberdasher, Pike discovered an early knack for...
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Richard Michelson, illus. by R.G. Roth, Knopf, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-83334-2
Michelson (As Good As Anybody) provides an immediate, child’s-eye view of court-ordered busing in the 1970s. First-grader Brewster and his older brother, Bryan, are bused to Central, “the white school,” an hour away. Brewster is heartened by his...
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Richard Michelson, Author, Leonard Baskin, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-766915-2
In this good-humored picture book, a parent pounces on a child's fear of the things that go bump in the night and transforms it into a game. The narrator, in verse, banteringly dismisses the existence of ghosts, then adds ``the werewolves' bay-- /...
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Richard Michelson, Author, Leonard Baskin, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-80635-3
Both imaginative and colorful, nonsensical and clever, this collection of poems nonetheless does not hit the high standard of this team's Did You Say Ghosts? Michelson's narrator loves real animals--dogs, cats, mice, ""chicks and geese and pigs and...
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Richard Michelson, Author, Leonard Baskin, Illustrator Marshall Cavendish Children's Books $18.95 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5050-4
With more than a touch of whimsy and humor, this eccentric collection of poems and facts about flies is wonderfully outr . Even more droll than Michelson and Baskin's previous collaborations (Animals that Ought to Be), this volume focuses on 13...
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Richard Michelson, Author, Leonard Baskin, Illustrator Marshall Cavendish Children's Books $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5070-2
Michelson and the recently deceased Baskin follow up A Book of Flies with an imaginative numbers book that picks up where most others leave off. Tackling the concept of multiplying by 10, the duo waltzes through a virtual bestiary of creatures who...
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Richard Michelson, illus. by Edel Rodriguez. Knopf, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-101-93330-5
Michelson (Twice as Good) takes advantage of his friendship and professional relationship with the late Nimoy, whose photographs he has displayed in his Massachusetts gallery, to craft a warm and moving picture book biography that reveals the impact
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Richard Michelson, illus. by Sarah Green. Calkins Creek, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-63592-531-9
Growing up in a poor family of Jewish immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side, Sydney Taylor, born Sarah Brenner (1904–1978), has a strong sense of self and purpose. Dropping the “shy and old-fashioned” name Sarah at 14 in favor of “modern” Sydney,
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Richard Michelson, illus. by E.B. Lewis. Crown and PJ Library, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5937-1158-3
Christmas and Easter celebrations have been White House mainstays for more than a century, but the first presidential Passover Seder didn’t occur until 2009. Michelson’s reportorial text, accompanied by Lewis’s realist watercolor vignettes, offer...
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Richard Michelson, illus. by Stacy Innerst. Calkins Creek, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6626-8063-2
Emphasizing what Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) “knows,” Michelson draws readers into this stirring biography of the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Jewish Justice. Brandeis’s knowledge begins at age five: “he knows his parents came to America in 1848”...
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Richard Michelson, illus. by Alyssa Russell. Rocky Pond, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 979-8-2170-0325-9
After young Fanny Goldstein (1895–1961) and her Jewish family flee antisemitic czarist Russia for Boston’s North End, teachers at a local settlement house, dismissive of the girl’s heritage, are adamant that she become “more American.” But avid...
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