Sheila Macgill-Callahan, Author, Will Hillenbrand, Author, Will Hillenbrand, Illustrator Holiday House $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1425-3
Just in time for the March 17th holiday comes a legend of Ireland's most charming snake wrangler, St. Patrick. Centuries ago, Patrick (not yet a saint) proved that even the most patient of men can lose his temper when it comes to slimy reptiles. A...
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Will Hillenbrand, Author . Harcourt/Gulliver $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-201945-7
Hillenbrand (Counting Crocodiles) gives a new angle to a favorite farmyard folk song in this jaunty adaptation. The cumulative lyrics begin, "I had a cat. My cat pleased me. I fed my cat under yonder tree. My cat plays fiddle-i-fee."...
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Will Hillenbrand, Author . Harcourt/Voyager $6 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-216790-5
"This whimsical interpretation of a familiar song offers preschoolers a ticket to ride on an enjoyable excursion through a children's zoo," PW
wrote. Each new animal passenger adds to the cumulative refrain, "building up a...
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Will Hillenbrand, Author . Harcourt/Gulliver $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202032-3
Hillenbrand (Fiddle-I-Fee) turns the familiar playground song into a story of a shy pig's coming to terms with the first day of porcine kindergarten at Mulberry School. "Here is where we hang our hat,/ hang our hat,/ hang our hat./ I'm...
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Will Hillenbrand, Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1602-8
Hillenbrand's (Don't Slam the Door!) simple tale treads lightly on familiar picture book ground: a perkier species tries to rouse a bear from his long winter's nap. In this case, the chipper critter is Mole, who has awoken to smell the fresh spring...
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Will Hillenbrand, Marshall Cavendish, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5808-5
To market, to market comes a new collection of nursery rhymes—jazzed up by a rebus format. A large trim size gives Hillenbrand (Don't Slam the Door!) ample room to create cheerful scenes in which familiar characters cavort. But his playful tweaks in
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Will Hillenbrand. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1603-5
In 2011’s Spring Is Here! Mole worked to awaken Bear from his winter hibernation; both are up and at ’em in this sequel, in which a windy day has Bear rushing to find Mole so they can fly a kite together. Hillenbrand devotes several spreads to the...
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Will Hillenbrand. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2520-4
Mole is ready to lose the training wheels on his bicycle in his third outing with Bear. After a shaky start, he’s on his way—whether he likes it or not. “Bump. Bump. Bump,” writes Hillenbrand as Mole careens through a field of cattle. “Scramble....
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Will Hillenbrand. Amazon/Two Lions, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4778-4731-2
Fifteen years after his Down by the Station, Hillenbrand offers a cheerful companion book that transplants the familiar nursery rhyme to a rural setting. There’s still a train of sorts involved—it’s a tractor piloted by a farmer dog with a pair of...
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Will Hillenbrand. Amazon/Two Lions, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4778-4787-9
Although the tale of a snowman coming to life via a special hat is familiar, Hillenbrand (the Bear and Mole series) brings a freshness to the idea in this chipper wordless outing. Against a wintry blue-gray woodland background, delicately pixilated...
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Will Hillenbrand. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2946-2
It’s Market Day in Bear and Mole’s fourth adventure, and they are ready to sell their wares, along with a female friend, Skunk. But Mole’s “fresh hand caught worms” and Skunk’s “highly aromatic perfume” aren’t attracting buyers so much as wrinkled...
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Will Hillenbrand. Holiday House, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3760-3
Unlikely best friends Bear and Mole—childlike and adorably dressed in patchy overalls—climb to Camp Tiptop to “see the stars turn on.” Through their caring, clear communication, Hillenbrand conveys the distinctive dynamics of the pair’s relationship.
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Will Hillenbrand, Author, Hillenbran, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-201804-7
Hillenbrand's (The Golden Sandal) whimsical interpretation of a familiar song offers preschoolers a ticket to ride on an enjoyable excursion through a children's zoo. As an engineer makes repeated stops along the tracks, baby animals board a rainbow-
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Will Hillenbrand, Author, Will Hillenbrand, Illustrator . Holiday $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1824-4
Whooo better than a baby barn owl to deliver a bird's-eye-view of the Nativity? While the baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the animals sleep in the stable, Baby Owl and his mother are just waking up for their usual nighttime breakfast. As the...
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Will Hillenbrand, Author, Will Hillenbrand, Illustrator . Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202029-3
Like a child who finds the plain cardboard box far more interesting than what came packaged inside it, so an elephant and his frog friend imagine various answers to the opening spread's query, "What can I do with a box?"Much of...
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Olivier Dunrea, illus. by Will Hillenbrand. Philomel, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-16808-6
Dunrea (the Gossie & Friends series) and Hillenbrand (the Bear and Mole books) assemble a cast of eccentric animals in this cumulative counting story narrated by a binoculars-toting monkey. He and another monkey, Annie McPhee, live on a tiny island...
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Will Hillenbrand. Two Lions, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5420-4338-0
On Christmas Eve, Santa is ready to go, but his reindeer are off strutting their own alliterative stuff: “Dasher dashed,” “Prancer pranced,” “Vixen vexed,” “Blitzen boasted,” and “Cupid crooned” into a microphone (“It’ll be a kissin’ Christmas!”)....
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Will Hillenbrand. Holiday House, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3681-1
When a blizzard forces an early closing of his beloved “branch” library (it’s housed in a tree), young mouse protagonist Hubert Cumberbun, who believes “a good story was everything,” takes a shortcut home through the forbidding Hollow. Just as...
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Will Hillenbrand. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-33362-7
“Honk! Honk!/ Beep! Beep!” Little Red, a peppy pickup truck, and driver Katie, deliver true holiday spirit and a special gift to a small town’s residents in a celebratory early concept book with plotting reminiscent of Katy and the Big Snow. On a...
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