Stephen Wylie, Author, Stephen Wyllie, Author, Anni Axworthy, Illustrator Hambleton Hill Publishing $12.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-8249-8363-5
Tired of being cooped up in a burrow with assorted relations, the industrious Mr. Rabbit builds his family a house in the country, ``just big enough for three rabbits.'' At his wife's suggestion, the thoughtful rabbit adds a room for a possible...
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Stephen Wyllie, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-06-026630-1
Picture-taking has rarely been so complicated--or so much fun--as in this combination rebus and lift-the-flap story. Owl has invited his friends Mouse, Hedgehog, Snail and Rabbit to the carnival to help him try out his new camera, but something--or...
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Stephen Wyllie, Author, Julek Heller, Illustrator Dial Books $18.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1690-2
Like a movie carried by its special effects, this picture book may not offer much in the way of an original story line, but its visuals are positively compelling. When a pair of foolish rival wizards engage in a battle of spiteful tricks to put each
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Stephen Wyllie, Author, Ken Brown, Illustrator Dutton Books $14.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-525-45648-3
A stalwart but too trusting dog, guard of a henhouse, outwits a chicken-snatching fox in this tale of clever revenge. Polite dialogue fuels the narrative (""Please tell me."" ""I couldn't possibly."") as the hound is tricked into trying out a flea...
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Stephen Wyllie, Author, Jonathan Allen, Illustrator Dial Books $13.95 (22p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1840-1
Inventive paper engineering allows youngsters to drive over hills and across bridges with Bear in his new car, which will run when he says ``go,'' stop when he says ``halt'' and use carrots and potatoes as fuel. Or so says Wolf at Wolf Motors. But...
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Stephen Wyllie, Author, Brian Lee, Illustrator Dial Books $18 (2p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1163-1
Wyllie and Lee will enthrall even the most jaded reader with this macabre marriage of art and story. Headless Hector, the Gray Lady and the Silver Skeleton haunt Ravenswick Castle four hundred years ago and do their job so enthusiastically that...
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Stephen Wyllie, Author, Maureen Roffey, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-00224-5
A thin monkey opens a large hotel and gets three guests: a tall giraffe thatwill need a long, narrow bed; a turtle that will require a short, tiny bed; and a fat hippopotamus with a bulk and form for which only a strong, hard bed will do. When the...
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Anni Axworthy, Author, Stephen Wyllie, Author HarperCollins Children's Books $8.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-694-00126-2
Four animalsa rabbit, a bear, a dog and a frograce to a friend's picnic. That's almost all that's given. The details of the story are left to readers, who can punch out pictures with color-coded tabs and create their own rebuses and stories each...
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