Susan L. Roth, Author Dial Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2796-0
Susan L. Roth brings back her gorgeous and delicate paper collage artwork in My Love for You All Year Round, done in the style of My Love for You (1999). The book takes readers through each month of the year, describing the extent of the narrator'
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Susan L. Roth, Author Dial Books $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2031-2
This counting book, with soft and elaborate torn-paper illustrations and a wild-animal theme, describes a love ""bigger than 1 bear, taller than 2 giraffes, [and] larger than 3 blue whales."" A white mouse and a smaller brown mouse serve as the...
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Susan L. Roth, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-385-31072-7
In a lucid text and characteristically vivid cut-paper collages, Roth tells the story of Buddha, from his mother's dream of ``carrying a milky-white elephant in her swollen belly'' to the day he casts off his finery to become a holy man. She...
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Susan L. Roth, Author Hyperion Books $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-56282-465-5
The visually arresting elements of this glossy plum keep excellent company with an understated comic text. When her mother attempts to wake her for school, a sleepy child muses about what life might be like if she were a princess. The playfully...
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Susan L. Roth, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-32825-2
An unsuccessful hybrid of information and story, this long poem about a day in the life of a gypsy child reads like a series of untitled and disparate verses explaining gypsy life. The subject matter changes from page to page without transition, and
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Susan L. Roth, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-26495-2
For many children, Marco Polo means a water game. But the historical Polo was a fascinating man who, at 17, left his native Venice to embark on a series of journeys with his father and uncle in 1271, not to return for 24 years. This ``diary'' (an...
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Susan L. Roth, Author Yearling Books $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-40844-4
Exuberant cut-paper collages animate this retelling of a traditional Dahomean folktale. Ages 5-8. (June)
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Susan L. Roth, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-38258-2
``We'll ride elephants through Brooklyn when Grandpa gets better.'' All the unspoken anxiety and fear of loss when a beloved family member falls ill is in the background of this colorful and imaginative exercise in coping. A granddaughter with...
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Susan L. Roth, Author St. Martin's Press $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-312-01722-4
While the Kanahena (corn meal and water) cooks over the fire, an old woman tells a girl about a clever turtle. Possum is tossing persimmons down from a tree to Terrapin, but Bad Wolf blocks the way and takes the fruit for himself. Then Bad Wolf (than
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Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore, illus. by Susan L. Roth. Lee & Low, $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62014-245-5
Roth and Trumbore, the team behind Parrots Over Puerto Rico and The Mangrove Tree, adapt the song “And the Green Grass Grew All Around” in an inspiring environmental comeback story. Early spreads introduce the prairie dogs, owls, bison, and eagles...
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Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore, illus. by Susan L. Roth, Lee & Low, $19.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-60060-459-1
This moving depiction of ecological innovation centers on a project spearheaded by Dr. Gordon Sato to plant mangrove trees, which grow easily in salt water, in the village of Hargigo in the impoverished African nation of Eritrea. Graceful prose...
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Susan L. Roth and Karen Leggett Abouraya,
illus. by Susan L. Roth. Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3747-1
As she did in Listen to the Wind, the picture-book adaptation of Greg Mortensen’s Three Cups of Tea, Roth brings to the fore a hopeful story from a politically charged country. Roth and journalist Abouraya, in her first children’s book, transport...
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Susan L. Roth, Author, Susan L. Roth, Illustrator Barefoot Books $15.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-84148-001-5
In this unsettling volume, a mother and child explore their home. Peeking out windows and under beds, they list two dragons, three witches and more: ""Who can you see in the closet tonight?/ I can see eight ghosts in the pale moonlight."" Though a...
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Susan L. Roth, Author, Susan L. Roth, Illustrator National Geographic Society $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7922-7723-1
Roth's sumptuous, sophisticated collages fittingly chronicle this affecting tale of a Chinese-American retiree and his grandson. On his 70th birthday, Mr. Kang makes three wishes. ""I want to read The New York Times every day. I want to paint poems...
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Susan L. Roth, Author, Susan L. Roth, Illustrator . Bloomsbury $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-58234-946-6
Combine the aesthetics of accomplished collagist Roth (Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah
, reviewed Sept. 27) with a day-in-the-life tale of a female ironworker apprentice, and the result is a standout construction book. The dialogue-driven text follows Kristen
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Susan L. Roth, Author, Susan L. Roth, Illustrator Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2322-1
For Cinnamon the gerbil, an expedition outside the terrarium proves as thrilling as a safari. This adventure commences with the breathless reunion of Cinnamon and a companion, Snowball, who embrace in front of an exercise wheel. ""I've been OUT!""...
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Susan L. Roth, Author, Susan L. Roth, Illustrator . Dial $10.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2843-1
The familiar children's anthem of the Festival of Lights takes on a new glow thanks to Roth's (Happy Birthday Mr. Kang
) signature crazy-quilt collages, in which the lyrics and melody line appear on a final spread. A family of mice and their
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Susan L. Roth, Author, Susan L. Roth, Illustrator . Barefoot $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-84148-247-7
With this prolix tale Roth (Happy Birthday, Mr. Kang) delivers some of her most accomplished collages; unfortunately the writing is as muddled as the art is strong. As his sister tells it, Little Boy James refuses to get dressed for church ("Gran
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Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore, illus. by Susan L. Roth. Lee & Low, $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-62014-004-8
Parrots thrived in Puerto Rico long before the first human settlers arrived some 5,000 years ago; by 1975, only 13 of the birds were still living in the wild. Roth and Trumbore follow The Mangrove Tree with another story of ecological revitalization,
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Susan L. Roth, Author, Susan L. Roth, Illustrator, Angelo Mafucci, With , with Angelo Mafucci. Houghton $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-618-46572-9
A thousand years ago," Roth (Hard Hat Area
) begins, "if you heard a song and wanted to hear it again, you would have to remember it by heart. If you forgot the song, it could be lost forever." Italy's Guido d'Arezzo (990–ci
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Greg Mortenson, Author, Susan L. Roth, Author Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3058-8
In 1993, while climbing one of the world's most difficult peaks, Mortenson became lost and ill, and eventually found aid in the tiny Pakistani village of Korphe. He vowed to repay his generous hosts by building a school; his efforts have grown into...
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