Tom Seidler, Author, Tor Seidler, Author, Fred Marcellino, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-46204-8
In a boxed review, PW noted that ``Seidler's fantasy never falters'' in this ``grand adventure'' of Montague Mad-Rat's escapades beneath the streets of New York. Ages 5-up. (Apr.)
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Tor Seidler, Author , illus. by Jon Agee. HarperTrophy $6.95 (, $6.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-06-441039-7
"Seidler chronicles with sensitivity, acumen and humor the adventures of a bratty toddler who eats her two adopted woodchuck parents out of house and home," wrote PW
in our Best Books citation. Ages 8-12. (Dec.)
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Tor Seidler, Author . HarperCollins/Geringer $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-029179-2
Seidler (Mean Margaret) injects an action story into this novel of sibling rivalry, with mixed results. Outshone by his younger (and taller) brother at everything from grades to sports to fence-building, seventh-grader Tim Tuttle takes frequent...
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Tor Seidler, Author Sunburst $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-47452-2
According to PW , ``This is a thoughtful, well-constructed novel of a boy leading a life of quiet desperation. He is empowered . . . by locating his own compassionate core that allows him, and those around him, to be human.'' Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Tor Seidler, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-052106-6
A 13-year-old who is extremely self-conscious about her stuttering problem and has trouble fitting into her new school crusades to save a flock of rare diving birds called Spillbills. "A highly imaginative novel that offers suspense and...
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Tor Seidler, Author . HarperCollins/Geringer $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-029181-5
In Seidler's (Mean Margaret
) diverting book, 12-year-old orphan Darryl Kirby, a video game prodigy, discovers a sprawling new online game at the shelter where he is dumped. In a matter of days, the game's inventor, Keith Masterly (an...
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Tor Seidler, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-06-205180-6
Featuring a flock of rare diving birds called Spillbills, Seidler's (Mean Margaret; The Wainscott Weasel) latest offering for animal lovers is constructed with mixed success. Readers will empathize with his tenderhearted bird-loving heroine, 13-year-
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Tor Seidler, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-27251-7
Seidler, author of four children's books ( The Dulcimer Boy ), combines playfulness with maturity in his utterly believable portrait of Paul Motley, who has been diddling around since college, writing poetry in Massachusetts. When his brother makes...
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Tor Seidler, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator , illus. by Brett Helquist. HarperTrophy $5.99 (231p) ISBN 978-0-06-050867-8
When an arsonist sets a fire in the home of Monty (the hero of A Rat's Tale
) and his fetching bride on their wedding night, Randal Reese-Rat is the prime suspect. Ages 8-12. (June)
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Tor Seidler, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator , illus. by Brett Helquist. FSG $16 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-36257-7
Fans of A Rat's Tale
may be disappointed in this sequel, which focuses less on Montague Mad-Rat and his eccentric family and more on his rival for Isabel Moberly-Rat's hand, Randal Reese-Rat. The story opens in Africa, where Aunt Elizabeth...
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Tor Seidler, Author, Brock Cole, Illustrator , illus. by Brock Cole. Scholastic/di Capua $16.95 (173p) ISBN 978-0-545-02506-5
Gulliver, an affable but snobbish Lhasa apso, lives at a fashionable Manhattan address, enjoys opera and looks forward to yearly trips to Paris where he reconnects with Chloe, a Maltese with “eyes as black as raisins,” while “his
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Tor Seidler, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator , illus. by Brian Selznick. HarperTrophy $6.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-441048-9
This reissue of the 1979 tale of two orphaned boys left on their uncle's doorstep is now accompanied by elegant half-tone illustrations by Selznick. PW
called it "a handsome presentation of this eloquent tale of finding one's place in...
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Tor Seidler, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator HarperCollins $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-623609-4
Fans of a host of favorite authors will be glad to see their books being reissued this spring and summer. Tor Seidler's The Dulcimer Boy, originally published in 1979, is back with elegant half-tone illustrations by Brian Selznick. Opposite the...
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Tor Seidler, Author, Jon Agee, Illustrator HarperCollins $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-205090-8
This witty novel about a cranky toddler and her adoptive parents slyly reverses the people-pets dynamic as it comments on modern relationships. The tale opens with the marriage of two loving but dissimilar woodchucks: patient Phoebe wants children,...
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Tor Seidler, Author, Eric Beddows, Illustrator , illus. by Eric Beddows. HarperCollins/Geringer $15.99 (164p) ISBN 978-0-06-054099-9
Intermittently striking joyous and sad notes, Seidler's (Mean Margaret
) somewhat unevenly paced, ultimately uplifting novel opens as three siblings arrive home from summer camp thrilled to find the four kittens that their beloved pet delivered...
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Tor Seidler, Author, Fred Marcellino, Illustrator HarperCollins $21.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-06-205032-8
The author and illustrator who collaborated on A Rat's Tale here present an equally imaginative story featuring the animal residents of Wainscott, a town on the South Fork of Long Island. At the plot's center is Bagley Brown Jr., whose late father...
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Tor Seidler, Author, Fred Marcellino, Illustrator Michael Di Capua Books $14.99 (194p) ISBN 978-0-06-205911-6
""A dry wit inspires [Seidler's] characterizations,"" said PW in a starred review of this story about an animal community on Long Island, adding that ""Marcellino enhances and even extends the beguiling ambiance with his exceptionally expressive art.
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Tor Seidler, Author, Fred Marcellino, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (185p) ISBN 978-0-374-36185-3
Set on the wharfs and in the sewers of New York City, this story features young &Montague Mad-Rat, a rat among rats in one of the most original, imaginative stories to appear this season. Montague, painfully shy, spends his days collecting feathers...
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Tor Seidler, Author, Fred Marcellino, Illustrator , illus. by Fred Marcellino. HarperTrophy $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-440779-3
"Beautifully told, Seidler's fantasy never falters; it's a love story, a coming of age tale and a grand adventure," praised PW
in a boxed review. Ages 8-12. (Dec.)
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Tor Seidler, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $5.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-06-443755-4
Terpin Taft tells a little white lie that he believes contributes to a tragedy, and thus he vows always to tell the truth. Ages 8-12. (Jan.)
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Tor Seidler, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator Laura Geringer Book $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-06-623607-0
The titular hero is forced to leave town after vowing to forever tell the truth in Terpin (1982) by Tor Seidler. (Mar.)
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Tor Seidler, Author, Peter McCarty, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $5.99 (137p) ISBN 978-0-06-440936-0
A seventh grader is outshone by his younger brother at everything until he finds an unrecognized talent, which his brother ruins—leading him to run away into the frigid Vermont countryside. Ages 8-12. (Feb.)
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Tor Seidler. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4814-1017-5
The designation “firstborn” applies to several characters in Seidler’s animal adventure—the effervescent narrator, Maggie the magpie; Blue Boy, a wolf who accepts Maggie as an unofficial pack member; and Lamar, Blue Boy’s eldest son, who wrestles...
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Tor Seidler, illus. by Gabriel Evans. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5344-2684-9
Phoenix the squirrel is used to being “the pick of the litter... the biggest of the bunch, with the most lustrous fur.” But after being snatched by a red-tailed hawk, haughty Phoenix finds himself battered and furless in Manhattan, far from his...
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