Colin Jenkins, an earnest, gray-suited businessman, wakes up from a nap one day with a bird's nest on his head. His steadfast refusal to disturb a mother bird and her egg leads to a quiet urban martyrdom; he loses his job, his friends abandon...
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Tohby Riddle, Author Orchard Books (NY) $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-05917-3
Riddle's first book for children is a winsome ``What if?'' tale in which a boy exhibits an active--and far-reaching--imagination. When Eugene kicks his ball, readers know what happens until the story's end but, before that, they see where it ``could
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Tohby Riddle, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-32776-7
A quirky plot and monochromatic, olive-toned illustrations set a 1920s mood for this understated tale. When four unlikely companions--an elephant, a flamingo, an anteater and a turtle--escape from a zoo, they roam the city streets clothed in a...
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Tohby Riddle. Penguin/InkLit, $19.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-425-27091-2
Lovely and enigmatic, Australian artist/writer Riddle’s fantasy begins with expressionless angels resembling small children descending into a gloomy city whose skies are filled with zeppelins and a haze of factory smoke. The angels are invisible to...
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