Wendy Anderson Halperin, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-531-30089-3
A pastiche of elaborately bordered colored-pencil and watercolor illustrations packed with cozy details give Halperin's (illustrator of Homeplace) account of the business her children started (to save money for college) an old-world folktale touch....
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Wendy Anderson Halperin, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-09526-3
A patchwork of gentle watercolor images brings a French village to life in this gleeful retelling of a story by Guy de Maupassant. Each page features a series of variably sized panels, as many as a dozen. Like stills from a movie, they tell the...
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Wendy Anderson Halperin, Author, King James Bible, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82980-2
Adapting the apostle Paul's definitions of love in I Corinthians 13, Halperin (Hunting the White Cow) combines Paul's words with an intricate mosaic of watercolor-and-pencil vignettes to create a memorable, unusually thoughtful picture book. A...
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Wendy Anderson Halperin. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-82552-1
Halperin (Planting the Wild Garden) combines spreads that evoke stained glass with simple, aphoristic statements about how peace grows ("When there is peace in our hearts, there will be peace in our homes"). Watercolor-and-colored-pencil spreads,...
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