The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation
The Odyssey
Hummingbird
Crazy Hair Day
Publisher Weekly Review: Stanley Birdbaum has committed perhaps the worst possible kid faux pas: he has worn a wacky hairstyle to school for Crazy Hair Day-on the wrong day. In fact, it's actually Class Picture Day. Granted, Stanley's 'do has been expertly executed by Stanley's mom: "She wrapped. She dipped. And to make his hair […]
I Am Too Absolutely Small For School
School Library Journal Review: PreS-Gr 2?The endearing siblings who first appeared in I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Candlewick, 2000) return with equally satisfying results. This time, little sister Lola has decided that while her parents think she is "nearly almost big enough to go to school," she is "absolutely not BIG." Charlie, […]
The Snail House
School Library Journal Review: K-Gr 3-Sitting on the steps of a country farmhouse after a full day of strawberry picking, Grandma weaves a tale of fantasy for Michael, Hannah, and the baby. "Once upon a long, long time ago there was a boy and his sister and their little baby brother who all of a […]
Willy's Pictures
Publisher Weekly Review: Glimpsed imagining himself as a painter in Willy the Dreamer, Browne's versatile chimp now takes up the palette in perhaps his most intriguing outing yet. Willy presents his versions of 16-plus familiar masterpieces, working his own imageDand a sophisticated, quirky humorDinto each. Refashioning Winslow Homer's rather somber The Herring Net as "The […]