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Dear Mrs. LaRueby Mark TeagueISBN 0439206634 (0-439-20663-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dear Mrs. LaRue'Book summary:A clever book for a clever dog, Dear Mrs. LaRue collects a series of guilt-inducing letters sent home by the cat-chasing, chicken-pie-eating Ike to his "cruel" owner Mrs. LaRue, whom he hopes will come to her senses and spring him from obedience school.
Desperate to come home, Ike shows great enthusiasm for stretching the truth about his treatment at Brotweiler Canine Academy. Illustrator and author Mark Teague has developed a hilariously disdainful and dignified voice for the not-very-put-upon Ike, but Teague's most cunning innovation is the book's format: He splits each spread between what's really happening, done in color, and what Ike's imagining and exaggerating to Mrs. LaRue, in big thought bubbles using dramatic black and white. As Ike delivers his first letter, in his thought bubble we see Ike carted away in the Brotweiler Canine Academy paddy wagon ("We Aim to Tame"!), up a windy road to a scary-looking quasi-Transylvanian compound, complete with lightning and bats; in full-color reality, Brotweiler looks much more like the UCLA campus in spring bloom, with a sign pointing to the sauna (on the right) and the pool (on the left).
Ike's first carefully typed letter pleads, "How could you do this to me? This is a PRISON, not a school! You should see the other dogs. They are BAD DOGS, Mrs. LaRue! I do not fit in." Subsequent letters describe the staff ("The GUARDS here are all caught up in this 'good dog, bad dog' thing"), the "crimes" that landed him there ("I'd like to clear up some misconceptions about the Hibbins' cats. First, they are hardly the little angels Mrs. Hibbins makes them out to be. Second, how should I know what they were doing out on the fire escape in the middle of January? They were being a bit melodramatic, don't you think?"), and his eventual plans for escape ("I'm sorry it has come to this, since I am really a very good dog, but frankly you left me no choice"). Teague drew inspiration from a couple of sneaky dogs in his own life; kids and grownups reading Ike's tall tales might be reminded of loyal and misunderstood pooches of their own. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Flying Dragon Roomby Audrey Wood, Mark TeagueISBN 0439199921 (0-439-19992-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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How Do Dinosaurs ... Read and Play Setby Jane Yolen, Mark TeagueISBN 0007242190 (0-00-724219-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?by Jane Yolen, Mark TeagueISBN 0007251173 (0-00-725117-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?by Jane Yolen, Mark TeagueISBN 0007216092 (0-00-721609-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?by Jane Yolen, Mark TeagueISBN 0007172362 (0-00-717236-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?'Book summary:Following up their bestseller How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, Caldecott Medal winner Jane Yolen and illustrator Mark Teague have penned this instructive lesson on dinosaur health care. Each double-page spread features one enormous dinosaur looking wan and sniffly but mostly cranky, petulant, ornery, sullen, and disagreeable. The human moms and dads are visibly worried and/or frustrated by their sick dinos behaving badly. Witness the nice lady dragging her gigantic Styracosaurus out of the elevator and across the hall to the doctor's office: "What if a dinosaur goes to the doc? Does he drag all his feet till his mom is in shock?" The look on this mom's face will be familiar to anyone who's ever forcibly moved a child, who seems to have suddenly gained a million pounds, from one place to another. And of course, it turns out that dinosaurs don't misbehave when they're sick: "He drinks lots of juice, and he gets lots of rest. He's good at the doctor's, 'cause doctors know best."
The rhymes are somewhat forced, especially toward the end of the book, but Teague's marvelous paintings are bright and expressive throughout. Each dinosaur is cleverly labeled, and these aren't your run-of-the-mill dinos; dinosaur-obsessed little ones will crow over Parasaurolophus, Euoplocephalus, and Tuojiangosaurus. They'll also learn a little something about how to behave when they're sick. --Jennifer Lindsay [via]
How Do Dinosaurs Go To Schoolby Jane Yolen, Mark TeagueISBN 0007258178 (0-00-725817-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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How Do Dinosaurs Learn Colours and Numbers?by Jane Yolen, Mark TeagueISBN 0007244738 (0-00-724473-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?by Jane Yolen, Mark TeagueISBN 0007251114 (0-00-725111-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?by Jane Yolen, Mark TeagueISBN 0007224656 (0-00-722465-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? : Book and Plush Setby Jane Yolen, Mark TeagueISBN 0007137281 (0-00-713728-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Secret Shortcutby Mark TeagueISBN 0439110912 (0-439-11091-2)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Shortcut'Book summary:Wendell and Floyd become convinced that the shortcut over the fence will get them to school on time, but instead they begin a wild race through the jungle, trying to elude the crocodiles and avoid the quicksand. [via]
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