Sarah L. Thomson, Author Greenwillow Books $16.99 (296p) ISBN 978-0-06-087250-2
Thomson (The Dragon's Son) sets her suspenseful novel in 1592 during the height of religious persecution under Queen Elizabeth. After Rosalind and Robin Archer's wealthy merchant father is arrested for being Catholic, the two must find a way to...
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Sarah L. Thomson, Author Dutton Books $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-47413-5
Thompson (The Dragon's Son) introduces 16-year-old Justin Blakewell, who is spending the summer in the Hamptons taking care of a 4-year-old. He's a male nanny or, as he terms it, ""manny,"" with a mission: Not only does he want to meet girls, but...
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Sarah L. Thomson, illus. by Lita Judge. Boyds Mills, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62979-100-5
As a baby pygmy marmoset rides on her father’s back, he shows her how to “read” the jungle landscape for predators—the shadow of wings above, the sound of “soft footsteps” on the ground below—and to stay safe. “Hide here” Papa tells her. “Keep still.
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Sarah L. Thomson, illus. by Joe Cepeda. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-544-05739-5
“Mom was big and white and warm,” writes Thomson (Around the Neighborhood: A Counting Lullaby), and even though Cepeda paints the polar bear’s fur in buttery yellow, his thick, bold brushstrokes instantly convey the totality of a mother’s embrace: “I
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Sarah L. Thomson, illus. by Nicoletta Ceccoli. Amazon Children's Publishing, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7614-6170-8
In an introductory note, Thomson (Pirates, Ho!) explains that her version of this fairy tale is based primarily on that of Charles Perrault rather than on the Brothers Grimm adaptation. Accordingly, Ceccoli's (A Dignity of Dragons) digitally...
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Sarah L. Thomson, Author, Bob Dacey, Illustrator, Debra Bandelin, Illustrator , illus. by Bob Dacey and Debra Bandelin. HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-050416-8
In Thomson's (The Dragon's Son) first picture book, she unfolds a history of the American flag, with a September 11 tie-in. The narrative tends to state the obvious, e.g., "You can see the flag at schools and at post offices, in town...
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Fritz Leiber, Author, Sarah L. Thomson, Author, David Wiesner, Illustrator , illus. by David Wiesner, adapted by Sarah L. Thomson. ibooks/ Milk & Cookies $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-03591-3
As an art student, Caldecott medalist Wiesner (The Three Pigs
) created a visual version of Lieber's novelette about a craps game with Death: the "bones" here double as dice and the opponent's skeletal body. In this moody exercise in
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