This droll follow-up to Company's Coming
opens as Shirley and Moe and their company from outer space bid farewell to other dinner guests: a cache of cousins Continue reading »
Visual slapstick humor abounds in this romping rhyming tribute to bees. Full-bleed, cartoon-like illustrations tell the story of a swarm of bees, waved off from the hive by the queen. While Continue reading »
Unlike the H.G. Wells original, Yorinks's (Homework) whimsical riff on the harassed Wells character is largely played for laughs. Kindly Sy Kravitz, a fruit seller, wakes up one morning to find Continue reading »
Louis, a man who has been pushed into the butcher business by his well-meaning parents, hates meat and loves fish. One day Louis wakes up and he's a salmona very happy salmon. In PW's words, Continue reading »
When a flying saucer lands in the yard, and two aliens emerge, Shirley promptly invites them in for dinner. Her husband, less sanguine, phones the FBI, and they call in the military. By the time the Continue reading »
``Beware of spacemen bearing blenders'' might well be the moral of this droll offering, in which aliens examine Suburbia, USA--and vice versa. Ages 3-7. Continue reading »
Following his profoundly political We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, Sendak applies his prodigious talents to this self-indulgent tale by Yorinks (Hey, Al), Sendak's partner in The Night Continue reading »
Yorinks (Hey, Al) mines the much-visited ""Calvin and Hobbes"" vein in this tale of a toy that comes to life, but with an intercontinental twist. Lulu is a grouchy blonde girl who begs her parents Continue reading »
If the Three Stooges had played the sons of Yiddish-speaking immigrants,they might have stepped into this slick shtick. The plot features feuding relatives who start a food fight on Hanukkah and Continue reading »
Readers familiar with Mad magazine will recognize Drucker's (Whitefish Will Rides Again! with Yorinks) caricature-studded cartoons, at once silly and sophisticated. The former rather than the latter Continue reading »
Traces of the inspired silliness found in Louis the Fish , It Happened in Pinsk and other works by the Caldecott-winning collaborators are also found in this story that describes the extraordinary Continue reading »
Washed ashore after a shipwreck, two brothers are left to fend for themselves in New York. The boys comfort one another in a way familiar to all brothers: ``You stink,'' says Milton; ``So do you,'' Continue reading »
Ugh , the title character of Yorinks' and Egielski's latest picture book, is a cave boy whose older siblings make him do all the cave work. In his spare time Ugh invents the bicycle and, in a Continue reading »
``Once there was a giant,'' begins the first book by these noted collaborators; black-and-white illustrations and a whimsical text continue the tale of his downfall at the hands of sly Sid. Ages 4-8. Continue reading »
When Santa sends his pants to the cleaners, he unwittingly sets in motion a sequence of events that delays that year's yuletide. For the cleaners misdirect the familiar red trousers (``Size 67--with Continue reading »
Yorinks, author of the Caldecott-winning Hey, Al , and veteran Mad magazine illustrator Drucker (who here makes his children's book debut) are just the right fellas to relate this rollicking tale set Continue reading »
Yorinks’s eccentric graphic novel opens as a couple that keeps bloodhounds finds a baby under a tree. They treat Mickey like one of their dogs, insisting that he learn to track like the hounds do. Continue reading »
MY TRAVELS WITH CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK BY GEORGE SHANNON
Kate McMullan
"Capt. Lewis noticed I already kept a journal.... I wrote in it faithfully so that Ma and the others back home might one day read of my adventure." Narrator George is just 16 years old Continue reading »
Arthur Yorinks, a playwright, director, and author of more than three dozen children's books, has launched Lost Marbles Books, an online digital publishing venture in Continue reading »
What Is Color? The Global and Sometimes Gross Story of Pigments, Paint, and the Wondrous World of Art
Steven Weinberg
Using an effusive cartoon version of himself as a guide, Weinberg (Washer and Dryer’s Big Job) joins forces with dog Waldo to lead readers along a delightfully meandering Continue reading »
Thirteen-year-old Tara Gimmel believes that she can do anything. But when she’s enrolled in a “special academic program to challenge high-performing students” and promoted Continue reading »
Khan (Drawing Deena) and Zerrougui team up to deliver a distinguished attestation to the power of sport. Upon moving from Tampa to Milwaukee, Pakistani and Indian American high Continue reading »
At risk of repeating sophomore year, anxious Black 16-year-old Niarah Holloway must spend the summer completing her capstone project and making up PE credits. A doomsday prepper Continue reading »