Ross Collins, Author . Scholastic/Levine $16.99 (134p) ISBN 978-0-439-90100-0
In the same family as this season's Pandora Gets Jealous
(Reviews, Jan. 21) but for a younger audience, this witty romp through Greek mythology pictures Medusa in childhood, persecuted by the popular crowd—Theseus, Perseus and “gorg
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Ross Collins. Albert Whitman, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-1683-6
Collins's (Dear Vampa) illustrative gifts are never in doubt as he romps through the tale of young Harvey, who discovers that on Doodleday, every creature he draws with his crayons comes to life. Collins's narration is stylish (" 'That's it,'...
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Ross Collins, Author, Laurence Anholt, Author . Bloomsbury $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-750-9
There's a back-up on the bedtime beltway in this humorous fantasy about the various visitors to children's slumberland. When Ben, a lad with a loose tooth, toddles off to sleep, a long line of nighttime guests begins showing up in his...
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Ross Collins, Author, Ross Collins, Illustrator . Scholastic/Levine $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-27260-5
Alvie won't eat a soupçon of anything but soup. As a baby, his first word is "Mulligatawny!" (a recipe is included). In the Polaroids that chart his formative years, he shuns solid food and snuggles his cheek against a can of...
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Ross Collins, Author, Ross Collins, Illustrator . Bloomsbury $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58234-926-8
"A pox on thee," goes the old saying. But what if the pox won't cooperate? Collins (What If?
) pursues this ingenious conceit with a sly text and mordantly comic watercolors. Pox, the hero, resembles one of Al Capp's Schmoos and is...
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Ross Collins, Author, Ross Collins, Illustrator . HarperCollins/Tegen $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-135534-9
Writing to his grandfather back in Transylvania, boy vampire Bram Pire pens a litany of Addams family–style complaints about the new neighbors, e.g., “The Wolfsons stay up all day long. We haven't had any sleep in weeks.” The...
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Ross Collins. Nosy Crow, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8942-1
A playful portrait of impotent rage, Collins’s (The Elephantom) rhyming story looks at what happens when a problem is just too big to tackle. A huge lunk of a polar bear has taken a liking to a mouse’s chair; it’s comically small for him, and he...
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Ross Collins. Nosy Crow, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0591-6
A straightforward question gets twisted into a silly resolution in this latest from Collins (Singing Dad and Other Stories). “I’m hungry,” announces a bushy-tailed, long-nosed anteater at the outset; the problem is that it doesn’t know what it’s...
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Ross Collins. Nosy Crow, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1200-6
A scruffy mutt disrupts the flow of a standard introductory animal book in this goofy story by Collins (What Does an Anteater Eat?). Hints of what’s to come appear on the cover, where a dog is featured, crayon in mouth, alongside a crossed-out title:
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