Joanna Cole, Author, Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Ann Schweninger, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-18560-8
Veteran compiler Cole again teams up with Calmenson ( The Laugh Book ) to produce a lively and surprisingly inclusive treasury. Directed to the preschooler, the collection is varied enough to match the developing interests and abilities of children...
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Stephanie Calmenson and Joanna Cole, illus. by Heather Ross. Holt/Ottaviano, $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9645-3
Frequent collaborators Calmenson and Cole begin the Ready Set, Dogs! series with a peppy story that takes the notion of dog-loving kids to the extreme. Best friends Kate and Lucie are obsessed with dogs, but live in an apartment complex that...
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Stephanie Calmenson, illus. by Jana Christy, S&S/Little Simon, $7.99 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0720-6
Calmenson’s 1985 book Ten Items or Less gets a new lease on life with an interactive board book format and cheerful new artwork from Christy. A girl with dark frizzy hair helps her mother during a shopping trip, and readers can participate, too,...
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Stephanie Calmenson, illus. by Puy Pinillos. Bonner/Little Bee, $7.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4998-0115-6
Calmenson offers a rhyming overview of 18 types of flowers, delineating the individual characteristics of common varieties (roses, sunflowers, daisies) and rarer examples (bleeding hearts, corpse flowers) that readers may be encountering for the...
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator , illus. by Melissa Sweet. HarperCollins $16.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-688-17737-9
Calmenson (Dinner at the Panda Palace) here offers 24 rhymes celebrating the milestones of toddlerhood—from early mastery of letters, opposites and body parts to the dawning of decorum ("Do animals have good manners?/ No, I don't...
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator HarperCollins $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-688-17736-2
Created especially for the youngest set, Welcome, Baby! Baby Rhymes for Baby Times by Stephanie Calmenson, illus. by Melissa Sweet, presents more than 30 verses alongside Sweet's nursery-friendly paintings. Original works include a bathtime ...
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Elivia Savadier, Illustrator, Elivia, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-12479-9
This endearing tale of a steamy day's romp at the beach radiates with the warmth of summertime. Here, the young narrator and her grandmother sit on the stoop of their apartment building, fanning themselves. When the girl says she's ``hotter than a...
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Denise Brunkus, Illustrator Scholastic $13.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-590-41822-5
``Mr. Bundy is the principal of P.S. 88. He is also the sharpest dresser in town.'' So begins this marvelous update of Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes. The deliciously evil Moe and Ivy approach Mr. Bundy about a new suit made of cloth invisible
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Nadia B. Westcott, Illustrator, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator HarperCollins $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443408-9
PW noted the ``bouncy, rhyming verse'' and ``innovative cast of characters'' in this culinary counting tale. Ages 3-8. (Feb.)
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Amy Schwartz, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-716390-2
Film fans and musical comedy aficionados would recognize the plot immediately: a love-hungry boy and girl who cordially detest each other enter into lonely-hearts correspondence, only to find out that their epistolary soul-mate is the ``unsuitable''
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Dorothy Stott, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-12478-2
A number of families set off on journeys one morning, each via a different mode of transportation. ``Zip, whiz, zoom! / We're on our way! / We're going somewhere / special today.'' One family rides a bus, another scampers aboard an airplane, still...
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, S. Calmenson, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator HarperCollins $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-021010-6
When it's supper time at the Panda Palace, the hospitable Mr. Panda welcomes an array of amiable--and ravenous--animals to his restaurant. ``An elephant came first / With a trunk that was gray. / He'd been out on the road/ selling peanuts all day.''
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Denis Roche, Illustrator , illus. by Denis Roche. Scholastic $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-40069-5
In this knock-off of the classic folktale, a diminutive teacher and her even smaller students find a bone and are subsequently haunted by a mysterious voice. "The real triumph is Roche's rendering of the teeny tiny world inside and outside...
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Denis Roche, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-37123-0
Calmenson (The Principal's New Clothes) combines school and ghost story in this knock-off of the classic folktale. A diminutive teacher and her even more diminutive students find a mysterious bone and are subsequently haunted by a mysterious voice....
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Stephanie Calmenson, Author, Paul Meisel, Author, Paul Meisel, Illustrator Hyperion Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0155-8
Engine, Engine, Number Nine is rolling, rolling down the line, but where is it headed? In this version of the familiar rhyme, the destination is ultimately revealed to be the county fair-a gently comic premise that enables Calmenson (Dinner at the...
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