Robert Kraus, Author Viking Children's Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-85630-5
Familiarity with Aesop's originals seems a prerequisite for tackling this off-kilter collection, which offers goofy but seldom hilarious twists on classic moral tales. In Kraus's (How Spider Saved Halloween) version, the hard-working ants labor...
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Robert Kraus, Author Viking Children's Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-85887-3
The wolf in sheep's clothing appeared in Kraus's Fables Aesop Never Wrote; in this topsy-turvy tale, he meets his alter ego, a sheep in wolf's clothing. Strudwick the lamb, concerned that his true identity makes him easy prey, rents a wolf costume...
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Robert Kraus, Author Scholastic $1.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-33743-4
. OriginalKraus's boldly colored pictures illustrate this homage to the February holiday. Rushing to insect school, Spider stops to buy tokens of affection and a bag of heart-shaped candy. In the classroom, he puts a valentine for Ladybug and one...
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Robert Kraus, Author Greenwillow Books $11.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-07987-1
Phil drives his parents crazy with his talent for ventriloquismhe makes it sound as if the oranges are screaming when his mother tries to squeeze juice from them and he has his father's favorite chair yell, ``Don't sit on me!'' The parents buy him a
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Robert Kraus, Author, Ariane Dewey, Illustrator, Jose Aruego, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-05837-1
Like last year's Where Are You Going, Little Mouse?, this well-designed book is in vivid color, with humorously detailed illustrations. On Monday, a wily cat says to Little Mouse, ""Come out and play.'' The mouse replies: ``I can't play today . . ....
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Robert Kraus, Author, Ariane Dewey, Illustrator, Jose Aruego, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16 (34p) ISBN 978-0-688-04294-3
The beloved Whose Mouse Are You? has a sequel! This newest work is in vivid color, with amusing and delightfully detailed paintings. ""Where are you going, little mouse?'' ``As far from home as I can go,'' he replies. He sets off on a quest as we...
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Robert Kraus, Author, Ariane Dewey, Illustrator, Jose Aruego, Illustrator Little Simon $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79250-3
Of this harmonious romp about a hippo virtuoso, PW lauded the ``complex repertoire of expressions'' of a ``wonderfully chunky, distinctive cast.'' Ages 3-6. (Aug.)
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Robert Kraus, Author, Ariane Dewey, Illustrator, Jose Aruego, Illustrator HarperTrophy $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443656-4
About this sequel to Leo the Late Bloomer, PW said, ""Little Louie's earnest attempts to learn are just as endearing as Leo's attempts to bloom were in the original incarnation."" Ages 4-8. (May)
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Robert Kraus, Author, Ariane Dewey, Illustrator, Jose Aruego, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30297-2
This fetching tale of mouse romance appealingly builds on the chronicles begun in Whose Mouse Are You? As the book opens, the mouse hero is playing ""she loves me, she loves me not."" Then, in the format familiar to series fans, an unseen...
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Robert Kraus, Author, Ariane Dewey, Illustrator, Jose Aruego, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-671-68681-9
The talented trio responsible for Leo the Late Bloomer and Boris Bad Enough here introduce Max, a bright blue hippo with prodigious musical talent. Max plays every variety of instrument, including the synthesizer; and though his parents make the...
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Robert Kraus, Author, Jose Aruego, Illustrator HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443348-8
Antic illustrations add a comic edge to a sweetly reassuring tale about a tiger cub who eventually catches up to his more accomplished animal friends. Ages 4-8. (Mar.)
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Robert Kraus, Author, Jose Aruego, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84052-4
Also celebrating an anniversary--its 30th--is Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus, illus. by Jose Aruego. Minimalist art and memorable text are more than the sum of its parts: ""Whose mouse are you?/ Nobody's mouse./ Where is your mother?/ Inside a
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Robert Kraus, Author, Jose Dewey, Illustrator, Ariane Dewey, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-08747-0
A resonant story about a mouse who runs away, and then realizes that perhaps home is best, after all. Ages 3-up. (Apr.)
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Robert Kraus, Author, Kevin O'Malley, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-09474-7
Big Squeak and Little Squeak, a sort of mouse version of Beavis and Butt-head, are finally overcome by the tedium of watching mouse cartoons on TV and eating cheese curls, and make an excursion to a local cheese shop. The good news: everything...
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