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Another Important BookISBN 006443785X (0-06-443785-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Important Book'Book summary:The companion title to Goodnight Moon creator Margaret Wise Brown's 1949 classic, The Important Book, was published for the first time in 1999, with wonderful illustrations by Caldecott Honor recipient Chris Raschka of Yo! Yes? "Yo, yes!" we say. Just as Brown's first volume distills the essence of everyday entities, this splendid rhyming picture book zeroes in on the most important things about being one, two, three, four, five, and six years old.
The important thing about being Four/ is that you are bigger than you were before..../ You can blink and think/ as quick as a wink./ You can open your eyes/ to a world of surprise.
Children love the process of reaching each new year's landmark, and this whimsical equivalent of a wall-notch height chart will thoroughly delight them. It is difficult to imagine the book without Raschka's wriggling, singing, flinging babies, toddlers, and kids of all colors, exquisitely crafted with vivacious brushstrokes and vibrant watercolors. He has also cleverly woven numbers into his illustrations--a five-pointed star behind the five-year-old, a pinwheel of six circles behind the six-year-old. The splashy modern artwork rejuvenates Brown's half-a-century-old rhymes, plants them squarely in 1999, and guarantees a future classic. (Click to see a sample spread. Text copyright 1999 by Roberta Brown Rauch. Illustrations copyright 1999 by Chris Raschka. Permission of Joanna Cotler Books, HarperCollins Publishers.) (Baby to age 6) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Blushful HippopotamusISBN 0531088820 (0-531-08882-0)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Can't SleepISBN 0531087794 (0-531-08779-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Charlie Parker Played Be Bopby Chris RaschkaISBN 0531070956 (0-531-07095-6)
Softcover, Orchard Books
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- Charlie Parker Played Be Bop: ISBN 043957823X (0-439-57823-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic - Charlie Parker Played Be Bop: ISBN 0531059995 (0-531-05999-5)
Hardcover, Scholastic - Charlie Parker Played Be Bop: ISBN 0531085996 (0-531-08599-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic - Charlie Parker Played Be Bop: ISBN 0531070956 (0-531-07095-6)
Softcover, Orchard Books
- Charlie Parker Played Be Bop: ISBN 043957823X (0-439-57823-X)
Elizabeth Imagined an Icebergby Chris RaschkaISBN 053106817X (0-531-06817-X)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated
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Elizabeth Imagined an Icebergby Chris RaschkaISBN 0531086674 (0-531-08667-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Fishing in the Airby Chris RaschkaISBN 0060516062 (0-06-051606-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fishing in the Air'Book summary:"'We're going on a journey,' my father said. 'To a secret place. We'll catch the air! We'll catch the breeze!'" And indeed, one Saturday, a young boy and his father head off on a fishing trip while it's still early-morning blue-black outside. As they drive and drive, the dad points out that the street lamps glow like tiny moons--and then they are tiny moons--and that the trees look like tall green soldiers. At last the dreamy duo smells the river, and the fishing and the talking begin. The father tells of the house he lived in when he was a boy, and as he describes it, Caldecott Honor artist Chris Raschka's swirling strokes of color transport the boy in time and place. As his father continues his reverie, the boy, with his unhooked fishing line, catches a slice of sun, a white, white cloud... he catches it all, including the air and the breeze as first promised. This is Newbery Medal-winning author Sharon Creech's first picture book, but fans of her novels will recognize its power and poetry. Raschka's gorgeous illustrations, reminiscent of Russian lacquered boxes, manage to portray the world of imagination, where the similes and metaphors of memory are allowed to take shape quite literally. This is a beautiful book about storytelling and the mind's eye, but also simply about a little boy and his dad who go on a fishing trip with a can of worms and a sack of sandwiches. We're hoping this one works its way onto the shelf of classics. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Granny Torrelli Makes Soupby Chris RaschkaISBN 0064409600 (0-06-440960-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Granny Torrelli Makes Soup'Book summary:In this endearing story by Newberry Medal-winner Sharon Creech, a wise old Italian granny skillfully imparts life advice (and cooking lessons) to her winning but sometimes obstinate 12-year-old granddaughter.
Best known for Walk Two Moons and The Wanderer, Creech makes good use of another inventive format: Rosie's story unfolds first, over making and eating zuppa, and then Granny Torrelli tells parallel stories from her own childhood to help Rosie with her current predicament. Granny Torrelli's tales are laced with endearing, fun-to-say Italian: "I didn't like it, not one piccolino bit," as is her attempt to help Rosie mend her rift with her best friend Bailey ("That Bailey boy!"), for whom she's starting to feel more-than-friendship feelings.
The details of both Rosie's and Granny Torrelli's respective stories are often quite funny (from Braille jealousy to secret guide-dog training for the legally blind Bailey). But, as usual, what Creech does best is slyly proffer small, nourishing morsels of wisdom--not unlike the cavatelli, the "little dough canoes," that Rosie, Granny Torrelli, and that Bailey boy labor over in the book's sweet second half. Just be warned that you might find yourself starving by the end of the story. (Ages 9 to 12) --Paul Hughes [via]
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Movin'by Chris RaschkaISBN 0531071715 (0-531-07171-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Purple Balloonby Chris RaschkaISBN 0375841466 (0-375-84146-6)
Hardcover, Schwartz & Wade Books
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Yo ! Yesby Chris RaschkaISBN 0531071081 (0-531-07108-1)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yo ! Yes'Book summary:Chris Raschka's Caldecott Honor classic is a simple yet dramatic story about friendship. Available for the first time in a Scholastic Bookshelf paperback version.[via]
"An effective, unusual 34-word story of the beginnings of a friendship, accompanied by wild and wonderful illustrations. Against pastel backgrounds, in vibrant, colorful images, an African-American boy and a white boy meet on the street. [Their] one- and two-word exchanges on each spread lead to a tentative offer of friendship, sealed as both boys jump high in the air and yell "Yow!" With a beautifully balanced, economical style, the book illumines the peaks and pitfalls of getting acquainted, and puts in a good word for brotherhood as well." --School Library Journal, starred reviewMore editions of Yo ! Yes:
Yo! Yes?by Chris RaschkaISBN 0439921856 (0-439-92185-6)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yo! Yes?'Book summary:In a simple story that uses just nineteen words, two boys, who meet as strangers on a city street, strike up a conversation and form a special friendship. [via]
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