The Mutiny On the Bounty
School Library Journal Review: Gr 3?6?In flowing text, illustrated with striking single- and double-page paintings and smaller panels, O'Brien retells the story of the Bounty's fateful voyage and William Bligh, the ship's brilliant but harsh, unyielding captain. The book includes a map showing the route of the voyage, a diagram of the vessel, and a […]
Skyscraper
School Library Journal Review: Gr 4?8?Dramatic paintings and lucid prose highlight this excellent history of skyscrapers. Nearly every spread features a full page of text opposite an impressive acrylic illustration. Thus, a page turn reveals another striking construction as the text proceeds chronologically. Precise lines and deft coloring convey the elegance and grandeur of the […]
Our Planet!
Mars!
Escape from Asylum
Pirates Don't Change Diapers
Publisher Weekly Review: Plucky young Jeremy Jacob is reunited with Captain Braid Beard and his crew of daft, dentally challenged buccaneers in a follow-up to the bestselling How I Became a Pirate. This time, Jeremy clearly has the upper hand: he won't let the pirates dig up the treasure they buried in his backyard at […]
A Good Day
School Library Journal Review: tarred Review. PreS-Gr 1?Employing the thick lines and uncluttered illustrations reminiscent of his work in Kitten's First Full Moon (Greenwillow, 2004), Henkes tells the story of four creatures who start out having a bad day. A bird loses his favorite feather, a dog gets her leash tangled in a fence, a […]
The Moon Might Be Milk
Rosie wonders what the moon is made of. Using milk, butter, sugar, and other ingredients, Gran shows Rosie how to bake moon-shaped cookies and captures a magical piece of the moon in her very own kitchen. Full color.
Little Moon Dog
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. The team behind The Tin Forest delivers another otherworldly tale with a magical bent and a moral. Mischievous fairies, paying their yearly visit to the moon to plunder its gardens and beaches for "sticky moon candy," entice Little Moon Dog away from the Man in the Moon, a bespectacled, long-haired, […]
Half a World Away
School Library Journal Review: K-Gr 2?Best friends Amy and Louie build pretend towers, see magical creatures in the clouds, and regularly climb through a hole in the fence into one another's yards. The special "Coo-ee Am-ee" or "Coo-ee Lou-ee" call is enough to bring one or the other running. But then Amy's family moves "to […]