Tom Lichtenheld, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-82625-2
Newcomer Lichtenheld's picture book spoof of a reference on all things piratical will shiver the timbers and tickle the funnybones of those salts, both young and old, with a penchant for silliness. Waltzing through a compendium of merry myths about...
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Tom Lichtenheld, Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8776-5
Lichtenheld, the illustrator of Shark vs. Train, turns in a quieter story about a small cloud and her search for a place to fit in (if the scenario recalls 2007's The Police Cloud, rest assured Cloudette stands on her own). It's not that she isn't...
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Tom Lichtenheld. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-328-49805-2
As a ponytailed child waits on the sidewalk in front of her home with her dog and cat, she imagines all the wonderful things she’ll do with her brother when he gets home from school. On the agenda: a backyard tea party, a “comic book convention” in...
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Tom Lichtenheld and Ezra Fields-Meyer. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8118-7898-2
Picture books often get by on a single comic device, but Lichtenheld (Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site) and his collaborator, 15-year-old Fields-Meyer, pack their alphabet book with jokes—it’s like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom on steroids. Imagine...
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Tom Lichtenheld, illus. by Julie Rowan-Zoch. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-328-49806-9
The title character is all talk and no action—and that makes him one endearing teddy bear. The problem, according to Louis, is that his life as a beloved stuffed toy has been something just short of a living nightmare: he’s been “x-rayed” (by...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Abrams, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4706-9
Moo proves an extremely malleable term of affection in text co-authored by the late Krouse Rosenthal, also written and illustrated by previous collaborator Lichtenheld (Duck! Rabbit!). “Moo-moo, I love you,” declares an exuberantly cartooned cow to...
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Tom Lichtenheld, Author, Tom Lichtenheld, Illustrator . S&S/Aladdin $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-86009-6
"This picture book spoof of a reference on all things piratical will shiver the timbers and tickle the funnybones of those salts, both young and old, with a penchant for silliness," according to PW. Ages 4-8. (May)
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Tom Lichtenheld, Author, Tom Lichtenheld, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84381-5
The Many-Mouthed Midnight Muncher and the Big Butted Bug Eyed Terrible Tongue Twister are among the horrible creatures pictured and explained in Everything I Know About Monsters by Tom Lichtenheld. Illustrated in campy cartoon style, the sequel ...
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Tom Lichtenheld, Author, Tom Lichtenheld, Illustrator, Lazear, Illustrator . Little, Brown $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-59236-9
In this light, playful caper, Lichtenheld (Everything I Know About Pirates) follows up the title's query with a series of others that pose possible causes for the characters' irritable affect. Each outlandish, humorously exaggerated...
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author, Tom Lichtenheld, Author , illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8118-6865-5
The team behind The OK Book
again plays with perspective and visual trickery, this time using a classic image that looks like either a rabbit (with long ears) or a duck (with a long bill). In a series of spreads that show the boldly outlined duck/ra
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Beth Ferry and Tom Lichtenheld, illus. by Tom Booth. HarperCollins, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-0632-1866-6
Brown bear brothers Pete and Tiny are top-notch movers: meticulous, caring, and seamless in their teamwork. Previous collaborators Ferry and Lichtenheld give them an inspiring motto—“Nothing was too small or too light to... treat just right”—and...
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