CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2006
"A fine, deceptively simple-looking start. (Picture book. 5-8)"
Artfully using color more than faces to show feeling, Varon debuts with a wordless, very simply drawn tale of a New York City chicken finding a way to make a feline visitor from the country more at home.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2006
"Drawn with simple lines and bright colors, the art has plenty of eye appeal, and even very young children will have no trouble following this smiling, nearly imperturbable pooch from adventure to adventure—both here and on his inventively interactive website. (Picture book. 4-6)"
Clad in jacket and short pants, a dot-eyed, flop-eared spaniel sets out for a stroll that takes him from the bottom of the sea to an exotic planet, and many points between.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 10, 2011
"Rarely, perhaps never, has so steep an emotional arc been drawn with such utter, winning simplicity. (Picture book. 2-5)"
A little dog and her big ball map an inner life rich in heights of joy and depths of sorrow.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 27, 2012
"All's well that ends well, as this frolic does, with a sublime comeuppance for all the bullies, then and now. (Picture book. 4-8)"
Rogers' Boy (from
The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard, 2004, and
A Midsummer Knight, 2007) returns for another wordless metafictive adventure, this one centering on Dutch painting.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2009
"Way cool! (Picture book. 4-6)"
The enticing cover is a perfect example of an effective, visual page turn, as a black-and-white cat carrying a brown case pussyfoots toward the right edge.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2004
"Mesmerizing. (Picture book. 5-10)"
As she did in Window (1991), Baker offers an intriguing wordless observation of how a neighborhood changes over time through the vantage point of a double-paned window frame.
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