S. D. Schindler, Author, Tres Seymour, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-06881-6
A boy, his mother, and his aunt and uncle witness the excitement of the Demolition Derby at the county fair. Seymour (who previously teamed up with Schindler for I Love My Buzzard) delivers present-tense, action-packed narration, simulating the...
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Tres Seymour, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (90p) ISBN 978-0-531-05458-1
One day Rebecca notices that one of her classmates, a thin boy with haunting green eyes, seems a million miles away. Becoming friends with him, she discovers that Joseph, under extraordinary pressure from his parents, has retreated into his own...
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Tres Seymour, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-09509-6
In Mama Makes Up Her Mind, author Bailey White tells how she taught elementary-age children to read with a book about the Titanic-her classes loved the tragic tale. Perhaps Seymour (Hunting the White Cow) has the same mission in mind with this...
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Tres Seymour, Author Orchard Books (NY) $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-531-30109-8
Bruce's friends call him a saint because he is so upstanding--but that's before he rats them out. The story begins with Bruce and his Latin Club buddies and their distaste for organized sports and pep rallies (""Never have so few been so deafened by
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Tres Seymour, Author, Marsha Gray Carrington, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2563-8
Seymour (The Gulls of the Edmund Fitzgerald) has some fun with that old saw, ""stubborn as a mule"" in this leisurely paced picture book. Farmer Puckett plans to use the ""hu-mon-gous"" Jake Johnson to ""haul fireworks to the fairgrounds for the...
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Tres Seymour, Author, David Soman, Illustrator, David Soman, Photographer Orchard Books (NY) $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-05470-3
For his first picture book, the author of Life in the Desert offers an unusually poignant story about a dog abandoned near a telephone pole along the highway--``Old dog, old dog, / Left by the pole dog.'' Waiting for his owners to return, the...
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Tres Seymour, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator, Paul Nielsen, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-06819-9
For readers bored with such traditional pets as dogs, cats and hamsters, this promising but not wholly successful picture book introduces some weirder pets. A red-haired boy (a virtual twin of the main character Schindler drew for Great-aunt Ida and
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Tres Seymour, Author, Cat Bowman Smith, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1242-9
Going, going, gone! Readers of all ages will be sold on this entertaining picture-book trip to an old-fashioned country auction. When Aunt Lou reads about the county\x92s local auction in the paper, the stage is set for a lively family outing. And...
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Tres Seymour, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Photographer Scholastic $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-05496-3
Thanks to a deadpan delivery and a leisurely pace, this wry tale has all the markings of a good Southern yarn. ``Somewhere north of Priceville there's a white cow no one can catch,'' begins the narrator, who observes her father's (and various...
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Tres Seymour, Author, Paul Brett Johnson, Illustrator, Paul Brett Johnson, Photographer Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30052-7
In this rambunctious rhyming tale, four children learn that their grandmother shares their love of mayhem. At first, gray-haired Granny seems incapable of surprises; as the children fidget, she nods in her rocker, clad in a white cap, shawl, and...
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Tres Seymour, Author, Matas, Illustrator, Dan Andreasen, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30074-9
""We played marbles on our Papaw's farm,/ on the high dirt mounds of old Fort Craig/ left over from the Civil War,/ where hard, round Rebel bullets/ used to pass Union bullets in the air,"" says the narrator of this sophisticated anti-war book....
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Tres Seymour, Author, Walter Lynn Krudop, Author, Walter Lynn Krudop, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-30107-4
Seymour's (Hunting the White Cow) triumphant tale of Melville Murrell, who in 1876 built the first airplane, champions pioneers who dare to step outside familiar territory. The narrator is a boy in Murrell's Tennessee hometown whose obvious...
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