Brian Selznick didn't have to do it.
He didn't have to return to the groundbreaking pictures-and-text format that stunned the children's-book world in 2007 and won him an unlikely—though entirely deserved—Caldecott medal for The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Read full book review >
Fans of the first two Doll People stories will be thrilled with number three. Read full book review >
From Selznick's ever-generative mind comes a uniquely inventive story told in text, sequential art and period photographs and film. Read full book review >
Sixteen-year-old Ben has shut down because Marly, his girlfriend of three years, has died after a long illness. Read full book review >
Budding billionaire Greg Kenton has a knack for making money and a serious rival. Read full book review >
A visual and textual portrait of America's most revolutionary and celebrated poet. Read full book review >
In the further adventures of best friends Tiffany Funcraft and Annabelle Doll, the two are accidentally carried to a strange home in a school backpack. Read full book review >
Ryan and Selznick (Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride, 1999, etc.) reunite for another magical collaboration, this time presenting Marian Anderson to a young audience. Read full book review >
A world-class charmer, Clements (The Janitor's Boy, 2000, etc.) woos aspiring young authors—as well as grown up publishers, editors, agents, parents, teachers, and even reviewers—with this tongue-in-cheek tale of a 12-year-old novelist's triumphant debut. Read full book review >
This big-hearted, Depression-era, American fairy tale seems to come alive out of a former generation like a well-worn family yarn. Read full book review >
Selznick (Barnyard Prayers, p. 120, etc.) illustrates this beguiling tale of a monster-mad lad with a mix of lurid film stills and masterfully rendered, dramatically under-lit portraits in pencil. Read full book review >
Little girls are in for a marvelous treat in this delicious fantasy that captures many of the rituals, fancies, and habits of girlhood with sweetness and honesty, while imparting gentle lessons about risk, self-fulfillment, and dealing with difference. Read full book review >
A fictionalized account of the true story of Charlotte Parkhurst, opening with the death of her parents when she was two years old, and covering, subsequently, her life in an orphanage, her decision to run away dressed as a boy, and her career as a stagecoach driver. Read full book review >
`` `Who'll offer me a ride?/Who'll carry me far and wide?' '' A lad sets out, hoping for a lift, but after misadventures with a giant trout, a gull, and other creatures, decides that his own two feet are best. Read full book review >
Nicholas is a bright boy who likes to make trouble at school, creatively. Read full book review >
From the author of The Houdini Box (1991), a haunting, enigmatic tale of two lonely children who create something wonderful. Ezra, mute since his mother's death, compulsively collects small thingspebbles, bits of glass, clock parts, wires, keysthat older sister Lucy uses to craft mechanical toys. Read full book review >
If there is one thing Doll Face loves, it's a good party. Read full book review >
A fervent admirer of Houdini, ten-year-old Victor tries to emulate his feats, but to no avail: getting out of locked trunks and holding his breath for 5000 seconds are beyond his powers. Read full book review >
