Shelley Rotner. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3869-3
Rotner follows Hello Spring! with an uplifting ode to autumn’s arrival. Bright photographs show multiracial children surrounded by pumpkins and other harvest vegetables, gathering leaves, and dressed in Halloween costumes, all accompanied by Rotner’s
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Shelley Rotner, Author, Anne Woodhull, With Little Simon $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-80980-4
Picture this In the lift-the-flap book Colors Around Us by Shelley Rotner and Anne Woodhull, illus. by Rotner, brilliant photographs charge every page with a surge of color. The spread devoted to orange, for example, features a cluster of photos of...
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Shelley Rotner, Author, Shelley Rotner, Illustrator, Ken Kreisler, With Atheneum Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-777886-1
This photo essay will surely whet the appetites of winter-worn children longing for summer beaches. Rotner's crystalline, textured photos call to mind the rocky, grainy coast with its windswept patterns and bubbling foam and its exotic creatures--sta
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Shelley Rotner and Sheila M. Kelly, photos by Shelley Rotner. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2426-9
The team behind I’m Adopted and Shades of People present candid photographs of children preparing and enjoying food, as well as demonstrating their strength and energy. In a garden, a girl holds up a carrot that matches her ginger hair (“I picked a...
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Shelley Rotner and Sheila M. Kelly, photos by Rotner. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2294-4
Large, casual photographs of contemporary children, sometimes alone but mostly with their adoptive families, dominate this clear and reassuring introduction to the topic of adoption. Rotner and Kelly, who previously collaborated on Shades of People (
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Shelley Rotner, Author, Anne Love Woodhull, Author, Shelley Rotner, Photographer , photos by Rotner. Roaring Brook/Porter $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-136-2
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otner's and Woodhull's (Colors Around Us
) handsome photographic essay enfolds readers in the diversity of the four seasons. A simple layout (borderless, rectangular photos of assorted sizes against a white backdrop) shows off colorful...
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Shelley Rotner, Author, Lynn Viehl, Author, Shelley Rotner, Photographer Dial Books $12.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1891-3
Just in time for Mother's Day, this affectionate photo-essay pays tribute to kids' moms and the many things they do. Each spread introduces another aspect of modern momhood, as in ""Sometimes they're busy working,"" which shows doctor, truck driver,
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Shelley Rotner, Author, Deborah Carlin, Author, Shelley Rotner, Photographer , photographs by Rotner. Roaring Brook/Porter $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-362-5
Rotner (Every Season
) and newcomer Carlin's affirmations, paired with Rotner's b&w photographs and stylishly printed in red font, explore how love sustains children. “Love opens our heart. It makes us giggle and sometimes cry,
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Shelley Rotner. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3558-6
Rotner (Families) invites readers to identify animals—including a cat, owl, alligator, lobster, and dragonfly—by looking at close-up photographs of their eyes. After each animal’s identity is revealed, Rotner describes its visual acuity (“Bearded...
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Shelley Rotner, Author, Ken Kreisler, Author, Shelley Rotner, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-06837-3
Thoughtful compositions and uncommon settings mark this vibrant collection of megalopolitan photographs--here, the teeming streets of New York City provide the setting. A boy chats on one of three pay telephones above which images of the Simpsons...
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Diane DeGroat and Shelley Rotner. Scholastic/Orchard, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-33272-9
The team behind Dogs Don’t Brush Their Teeth returns with an even more outrageous canine adventure, illustrated with digitally enhanced photos to an almost comic book–like effect. On “one special night,” golden retriever Homer sneaks out to join his
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Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner, photographs by Shelley Rotner. Clarion, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-0632-4046-9
“We are kids!/ Girls, boys,/ neither,/ both,/ or just not sure,” begins this photographic celebration of kids “just being kids,” however they identify. Acknowledging that children can be “joyful,// strong,// loving and kind,” straightforward text...
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Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner, photographs by Shelley Rotner. Clarion, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-0633-0417-8
Brief quotes from displaced children speak to experiences of seeking asylum in this photojournalistic work by previous collaborators Agna and Rotner. Unembellished text opens: “Kids from all over the world have to leave their homes and countries....
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Shelley Rotner. Holiday House, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5191-3
Centering youths with varying abilities, body types, and skin tones enjoying activities, animals, and friendships, photo-filled pages and first-person accounts introduce kids who “play... learn... and... love in our own way.” Beginning with the...
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