CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2009
"Watch for children stretching out the whole across a floor, and eagerly turning it over to see the dreams in the world at night. (Picture book. 5-10)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2008
"Between the rhyme and the ease of opening, this should prove popular with piratically minded preschoolers. (Pop-up/picture book. 3-6)"
Suitably rollicking verse describes the travails of a crew of pirates whose boat has sprung a leak.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 25, 2007
"Along with humor and suspense, she folds snippets of natural history into the tale—and it's worth noting that meerkats outdo even kittens for cuteness and personality. (Picture book. 6-8)"
A restless meerkat's wanderjahr lasts just six days, but that's long enough to visit as many members of his far-flung clan.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Dec. 1, 1998
"The whole is a bit too wobbly—a conceit that never flies. (Picture book. 5-8)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 1998
"The pages of the book are thick and coated, making them durable and easy for small fingers to turn. (Picture book. 4-8)"
Marshall (Look Once, Look Twice, 1995, etc.) uses die-cut illustrations as a tease, for objects glimpsed on the other side of a hole are not what they appear: Candy canes turn out to be the sails of sailboats, and salt-water taffy is transformed into the whorls of a turtle's shell.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 1993
"A cozy little story, distinguished by amiable illustrations and an entertaining foldout of the denouement, with a score of appealing creatures tugging, with varying effectiveness, on the long rope. (Picture book. 3-8)"
The picnic that Percy the park-keeper and his animal friends are enjoying is interrupted when a little rabbit falls into a deep, empty well.
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