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all books below are WORDLESS unless otherwise noted!

LITTLE RED AND THE CAT WHO LOVED CAKE book.  Little Red is being followed by a cake-seeking cat.

new!

☆Publishers Weekly: “hidden sheep to find, nursery rhyme characters to identify, and a nursery rhyme newspaper on the endpapers to read"


Booklist: “gentle humorous take on Little Red Riding Hood”


Kirkus: “a game of cat and mouse ensues in comic-book–style spreads and panels” 


LITTLE RED AND THE CAT WHO LOVED CAKE
THE RED BOOK jacket.  A child running with  a red book. A wordless picture book by Barbara Lehman

The Red Book

Caldecott Honor Book

ALA Notable Book

Junior Library Guild Selection

New York Times Bestseller

Premio Andersen - Italy


Booklist: "[a] wordless mind trip for tots"


Horn Book:  “will challenge young imaginations and intellects.” 


☆School Library Journal:  "captures magical possibility"

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Book jacket for RED AGAIN. A child with a bicycle, holding a red book.

Red Again

A Junior Library Guild Selection


☆Booklist:  “A twist ending that will blow many young minds”


☆Publishers Weekly:  “Möbius strip of a story.”


☆School Library Journal:  “magical…the end brings the story to a breathtaking circle.”


☆The Horn Book:  “opportunity to..ponder mystery”



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Book jacket for RAINSTORM.  A child looks out a window forlornly but hopefully during a stormy day.

Rainstorm

Kirkus Best Children's Books of 2007

ALA Notable Book

New York Public Library 100 Titles for reading and Sharing 2007

Junior Library Guild Selection


☆Kirkus: "Another surrealist triumph from a vigorous emerging talent."


☆Publishers Weekly: "a magical adventure"


☆School library Journal:  "will stir the imagination"



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TRAINSTOP book. A child is peering out of a train window just as the train enters a subway tunnel.

Trainstop

2008 Parents’ Choice Award

Junior Library Guild Premier Selection

A 2008 Parent’s Choice Gold Award

A Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year

 

Horn Book: "extraordinary”


Kirkus: "storytelling in (a) masterly fashion...mind-bending.”


☆Publishers Weekly:  “a playful challenge"



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Jacket for MUSEUM TRIP. A child is lifting the corner of the page, revealing a hidden maze.

Museum Trip

A CCBC Best-Book-of-the-Year

A 2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book


☆Booklist: "Another winning picture book that blurs real and imagined worlds."


☆Kirkus: " A playfully subtle celebration…. entirely worth several lengthy visits."


☆Publishers Weekly: "Young readers will find endless satisfaction"

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Jacket for THE SECRET BOX.  The top of a vintage candy box, with a photo of three children.

The secret b0x

Best Children's Book of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews

Junior Library Guild Selection


✫Kirkus:  "invites readers to feel the tenuous bonds of child life loosen. Wonderful!"


✫Publishers Weekly:  "A provocative example of the complexity that can be conveyed using only pictures."


Booklist: "an ingenious visual puzzle"

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A child standing atop a vintage plan, imaging to fly.  THE PLAN book jacket.
words by Alison Paul:

The plan

✫Kirkus: "Warmhearted and joyful." 


✫Booklist: "hearts will soar with the characters as they fly away in their lovingly restored plane."


✫Publishers Weekly: "This lovely story blends a sense of rootedness with the spirit of exploration—a rare combination." 



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