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Photo © Karen Hawkes
author spotlight
When I am asked how I chose to be an illustrator and then an author, I think back to my early childhood. I must have been four or five years old. My family lived in an old house in the middle of the French countryside. My parents loved books and read to us all the time. Sometimes we lit a fire in one of the old fireplaces, especially in the wintertime when it was bitter cold. My mother would read my brothers and I bedtime stories. Often these were Grimm’s fairy tales. Imagine hearing Grimm’s fairy tales by firelight in an... Read More
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And to Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2003
Price: $6.99
In rhyming verse that’s a deliberate homage to Dr. Seuss, poet and picture book author Mary Ann Hoberman takes on quarreling and its consequences, and shows how turning fighters into friends leads to greater peace. It all starts with a fighting brother and sister, who make up with the help of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2003
Price: $6.99
In rhyming verse that’s a deliberate homage to Dr. Seuss, poet and picture book author Mary Ann Hoberman takes on quarreling and its consequences, and shows how turning fighters into friends leads to greater peace. It all starts with a fighting brother and sister, who make up with the help of... Read more >
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My Little Sister Hugged an Ape
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $6.99
WILD ANIMALS DON’T SCARE Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from Ape to Zebra, whether they like it or not! A newt, an octopus, a porcupine . . . it’s a slimy, slippery, prickly situation. What will Little Sister hug next?... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $6.99
WILD ANIMALS DON’T SCARE Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from Ape to Zebra, whether they like it or not! A newt, an octopus, a porcupine . . . it’s a slimy, slippery, prickly situation. What will Little Sister hug next?... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
hardcover library binding.
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Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $16.99
IT'S HARD TO BE VELMA entering first grade. That's because everyone has marvelous memories of her two older sisters, who were practically perfect first graders, and no one even notices Velma. But all that changes on a class trip to the butterfly conservatory, a place neither of her sisters has been... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $16.99
IT'S HARD TO BE VELMA entering first grade. That's because everyone has marvelous memories of her two older sisters, who were practically perfect first graders, and no one even notices Velma. But all that changes on a class trip to the butterfly conservatory, a place neither of her sisters has been... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover library binding.
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The Wicked Big Toddlah
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $16.99
Absolutely nothing exciting happens in Maine . . . nothing, that is, except for the birth of one giant baby. "That's one wicked big toddlah you got there!" exclaims Uncle Bert . . . and so Toddie is named.
Toddie's a baby just like any other . . . sort of. The... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $16.99
Absolutely nothing exciting happens in Maine . . . nothing, that is, except for the birth of one giant baby. "That's one wicked big toddlah you got there!" exclaims Uncle Bert . . . and so Toddie is named.
Toddie's a baby just like any other . . . sort of. The... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
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I Was a Rat!
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $6.50
“I Was a Rat!” So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it’s true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A victim of “Rodent Delusion”? The hospital nurse says yes. A lucrative fairground freak? He is to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $6.50
“I Was a Rat!” So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it’s true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A victim of “Rodent Delusion”? The hospital nurse says yes. A lucrative fairground freak? He is to... Read more >
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My Little Sister Hugged an Ape
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $16.95
A B C D E F G
H I J K L M N O P
My sister’s on a hugging spree!
Hugging her way from A to Z.
Wild animals don’t scare Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from an Ape to a Zebra... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $16.95
A B C D E F G
H I J K L M N O P
My sister’s on a hugging spree!
Hugging her way from A to Z.
Wild animals don’t scare Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from an Ape to a Zebra... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
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The Road to Oz
Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $17.99
KATHLEEN KRULL’S LIVELY text traces the life of L. Frank Baum from his dreamy privileged childhood in mid-19th-century upstate New York through the many detours on his road to Oz. A failure as an actor, a breeder of prize chickens, a merchant in a wild west town, among other occupations, he... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $17.99
KATHLEEN KRULL’S LIVELY text traces the life of L. Frank Baum from his dreamy privileged childhood in mid-19th-century upstate New York through the many detours on his road to Oz. A failure as an actor, a breeder of prize chickens, a merchant in a wild west town, among other occupations, he... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover library binding.
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Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $19.99
IT'S HARD TO BE VELMA entering first grade. That's because everyone has marvelous memories of her two older sisters, who were practically perfect first graders, and no one even notices Velma. But all that changes on a class trip to the butterfly conservatory, a place neither of her sisters has been... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $19.99
IT'S HARD TO BE VELMA entering first grade. That's because everyone has marvelous memories of her two older sisters, who were practically perfect first graders, and no one even notices Velma. But all that changes on a class trip to the butterfly conservatory, a place neither of her sisters has been... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Wicked Big Toddlah
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $19.99
Absolutely nothing exciting happens in Maine . . . nothing, that is, except for the birth of one giant baby. "That's one wicked big toddlah you got there!" exclaims Uncle Bert . . . and so Toddie is named.
Toddie's a baby just like any other . . . sort of. The... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $19.99
Absolutely nothing exciting happens in Maine . . . nothing, that is, except for the birth of one giant baby. "That's one wicked big toddlah you got there!" exclaims Uncle Bert . . . and so Toddie is named.
Toddie's a baby just like any other . . . sort of. The... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Road to Oz
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 48 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $20.99
KATHLEEN KRULL’S LIVELY text traces the life of L. Frank Baum from his dreamy privileged childhood in mid-19th-century upstate New York through the many detours on his road to Oz. A failure as an actor, a breeder of prize chickens, a merchant in a wild west town, among other occupations, he... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 48 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $20.99
KATHLEEN KRULL’S LIVELY text traces the life of L. Frank Baum from his dreamy privileged childhood in mid-19th-century upstate New York through the many detours on his road to Oz. A failure as an actor, a breeder of prize chickens, a merchant in a wild west town, among other occupations, he... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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My Little Sister Hugged an Ape
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $18.99
A B C D E F G
H I J K L M N O P
My sister’s on a hugging spree!
Hugging her way from A to Z.
Wild animals don’t scare Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from an Ape to a Zebra... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $18.99
A B C D E F G
H I J K L M N O P
My sister’s on a hugging spree!
Hugging her way from A to Z.
Wild animals don’t scare Little Sister. And to show how much she likes them, she’s going to hug them all, from an Ape to a Zebra... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Necklace of Raindrops
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $5.50
Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There’s a flying apple pie, a cat that’s bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and ideas, all... Read more >
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $5.50
Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There’s a flying apple pie, a cat that’s bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and ideas, all... Read more >
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The Wicked Big Toddlah Goes To New York
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $16.99
Toddie and his parents are just your average Maine family taking a trip to New York City. Sure, things are a little different for Toddie:
He can pick up a train,
paddle over to the Statue of Liberty,
and climb the Empire State Building.
But when Toddie accidentally gets separated from his parents and... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $16.99
Toddie and his parents are just your average Maine family taking a trip to New York City. Sure, things are a little different for Toddie:
He can pick up a train,
paddle over to the Statue of Liberty,
and climb the Empire State Building.
But when Toddie accidentally gets separated from his parents and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover library binding.
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The Wicked Big Toddlah Goes To New York
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $19.99
Toddie and his parents are just your average Maine family taking a trip to New York City. Sure, things are a little different for Toddie:
He can pick up a train,
paddle over to the Statue of Liberty,
and climb the Empire State Building.
But when Toddie accidentally gets separated from his parents and... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $19.99
Toddie and his parents are just your average Maine family taking a trip to New York City. Sure, things are a little different for Toddie:
He can pick up a train,
paddle over to the Statue of Liberty,
and climb the Empire State Building.
But when Toddie accidentally gets separated from his parents and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Wicked Big Toddlah
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $7.99
Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $7.99
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
hardcover library binding.
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