Riki Levinson, Author Dutton Books $7.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-525-44309-4
Toddlers love to explore the world around them, and the irrepressible star of this picture book is no exception. Standing on an overturned stock pot, the impish child sets off a chain reaction by touching (pulling!) the cat's tail. ""Touch cat''the...
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Riki Levinson, Author Bradbury Press $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-757380-0
The author of Watch the Stars Come Out now relates a story from her Brooklyn beginnings, in the days when using the telephone was a rarity and when all siblings' names were sewn together as one. Yet was she, five-year-old Jennie, really one of them?
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Riki Levinson, Author, Julie Downing, Illustrator, Julie Downing, Photographer Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-05494-9
Anna can't wait for her little brothers to rejoin the family in New York. They've been apart for so long--it's already 1911, nearly a year since Anna, her older sister and brother and their parents left Kolbuszowa to forge a new life in America....
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Riki Levinson, Author, Kay Chorao, Illustrator Dutton Books $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-44957-7
Levinson ( Watch the Stars Come Out ) and Chorao ( The Baby's Bedtime Book ) are in impressive accord in this chronicle of a day in the life of a girl living in the country. Their focus is the dramatic performance nature gives from sunrise to sunset;
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Riki Levinson, Author, Diane Goode, Illustrator Puffin Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-055506-6
Grandma tells her granddaughter of her own Mama's voyage ``on a big boat to America.'' PW's starred review praised the ``superb paintings'' and the ``quiet understatement that magnifies [the text's] emotional effects.'' Ages 4-8. (Jan.)
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Riki Levinson, Author, Diane Goode, Illustrator Dutton Books $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44261-5
From the collaborators of last year's wonderful Watch the Stars Come Out comes this funny, realistic account of a family gathering at the turn of the century. Five little girls of roughly the same age describe the different ways their large and...
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Riki Levinson, Author, Diane Goode, Illustrator Puffin Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-44557-9
As depicted in Goode's historical paintings, various youngsters--and their parents--employ assorted colorful modes of transportation to converge on grandma's for a turn-of-the-century family reunion. Ages 2-6. (Mar.)
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Riki Levinson, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Dutton Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44693-4
In this rather bland new-baby story, a quartet of aunts and uncles arrives for a visit and a viewing. Toddler Danny gets a pat on the head and a tickle or two, but this is not the kind of attention he wants. Standing with his hands over his head,...
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Riki Levinson, Author, Dennis Luzak, Author, Dennis Luzak, Illustrator Dutton Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-44406-0
Reflective and light-filled as the sea at sunset, newcomer Luzak's painterly illustrations lend depth to Levinson's narrative about a young boy in Hong Kong who journeys home on his last day of school. Although his mother wishes him to be a...
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