Vern Kousky. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5247-6467-8
Harold, a stumpy bear with light amber fur and quizzical eyebrows, wears his red-and-yellow hat everywhere, “even in the summertime... even when he takes his monthly bath.” The hat, Kousky (The Blue Songbird) explains, helps Harold know that he is...
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Vern Kousky. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-64665-5
Kousky (The Blue Songbird) takes an emotionally savvy look at a mother-child relationship that’s gone a little off the rails. None of the other animals wear clothes, including Lawrence’s mother. But “ever since Lawrence was a baby bunny, his mother...
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Vern Kousky. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-16440-8
Kousky’s picture-book debut champions poetry and one passionate aspiring poet, in particular, but his sleepy story seems unlikely to hook many readers on the form. While other owls roost in trees and hunt, Otto recites poetry in the moonlight, to...
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Vern Kousky. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-250-33475-6
A curmudgeonly yellow bird’s best efforts to avoid affection result in an opposite outcome in a friendship story that underscores love’s indomitable qualities. Oscar, who, inexplicably, has “always worried that one day love would find him,” tries...
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