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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Maurice Sendak |
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Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it's been too long since you've attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder. The wild things--with their mismatched parts and giant eyes--manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they're downright hilarious. Sendak's defiantly run-on sentences--one of his trademarks--lend the perfect touch of stream of consciousness to the tale, which floats between the land of dreams and... |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Maurice Sendak |
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Book Review
Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it's been too long since you've attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder. The wild things--with their mismatched parts and giant eyes--manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they're downright hilarious. Sendak's defiantly run-on sentences--one of his trademarks--lend the perfect touch of stream of consciousness to the tale, which floats between the land of dreams and... |
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Nutshell Library |
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Maurice Sendak |
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"What more could anyone ask? These books are truly for all ages."
Book Description
This 4-volume boxed set contains an alphabet book, a book of rhymes about each month, a counting book, and a cautionary tale all written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Includes the titles Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, and Pierre.(Titles available separately in library and paperback editions.)
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Little Bear |
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Else Holmelund Minarik |
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0064440044 |
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This is the first I Can Read Book ever, and the first of five classic Little Bear books, expressly designed for beginning readers. Elsa Holmelund Minarik and Maurice Sendak teamed up to create these simple stories that are deeply comforting and lovingly playful. In one story, "Birthday Soup," Little Bear cannot find his mother and presumes she has forgotten his birthday. With the prospect of guests arriving and no cake in sight, he sets out to make birthday soup (all his friends like soup). Just as the gathering is sitting down for soup, Mother Bear shows up with a big, beautiful birthday cake. "I never did forget your birthday, and I never will," she says to her son as he hugs her leg. In "Little Bear Goes to the Moon," Little Bear declares that he will fly to the moon in his new space helmet.... |
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Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months |
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Maurice Sendak |
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'Each month is gay, each season nice, when eating chicken soup with rice.'
About the Author
Maurice Sendak received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. He also received the 1970 Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration, the only American ever awarded this international honor; the 1983 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association; and a 1996 National Medal of Arts. In 2003 Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an international prize for children's literature established by the Swedish government.
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A Kiss for Little Bear (I Can Read Book Series) |
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Else Holmelund Minarik |
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Grandmother likes Little Bear's picture so much she sends him a thank you kiss. "Will you take it to him, Hen?" she says. Hen passes the kiss to Frog who passes it to Cat who passes it to Little Skunk until Hen decides there is too much kissing -- and finally gives the kiss to the Little Bear.
About the Author
Else Holmelund Minarik is the author of the five original Little Bear books illustrated by Maurice Sendak, which launched the I Can Read series and have sold more than six million copies. She lives in Nottingham, New Hampshire.
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Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue |
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Maurice Sendak |
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Oh, that naughty boy! No matter what his parents say, Pierre just doesn't care. "What would you like to eat?"
"I don't care!"
"Some lovely cream of wheat?"
"I don't care!"
Don't sit backwards on your chair."
"I don't care!"
"Or pour syrup on your hair."
"I don't care!"
Even when a hungry lion comes to pay a call, Pierre won't snap out of his ennui. Every child has one of these days sometimes. Mix in a stubborn nature, a touch of apathy, and a haughty pout, and it can turn noxious. Parents may cajole, scold, bribe, threaten--all to no avail. When this mood strikes, the Pierres of the world will not budge, even for the carnivorous king of beasts. Created by one of the best-loved author-illustrators of children's books, Maurice Sendak, this 1962 cautionary tale is hardly a... |
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In the Night Kitchen |
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Maurice Sendak |
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Possibly the coolest coloring book I've ever seen, this is the complete In the Night Kitchen printed in black-and-white line art so that readers can add their own colors. Unlike many coloring books that contain pages of poorly rendered poster art, this offers beautiful lines to color within and a comic book-like story structure that's interesting enough to reread after it's been colored.
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Book Description
1971 Caldecott Honor Book
Notable Children's Books of 1940--1970 (ALA)
Best Books of 1970 (SLJ)
Outstanding Children's Books of 1970 (NYT)
Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1970 (NYT)
Children's Books of 1970 (Library of Congress)
Carey-Thomas Award 1971--Honor Citation
Brooklyn Art Books... |
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Little Bear's Friend |
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Else Holmelund Minarik |
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Little Bear meets Emily, a human girl, and her doll. 'Once again Little Bear proves himself to be as wistful and tender a little creature as exists in the child's library.' -- K.
Card catalog description
One summer Little Bear makes friends with Emily and her doll Lucy.
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Little Bear Boxed Set (I Can Read Book Series) |
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Else Holmelund Minarik |
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To celebrate Little Bear's thirty-fifth anniversary, three paperback editions in the series—Little Bear, Father Bear Comes Home, and Little Bear's Visit—have been slipcased in a boxed gift set for a whole new generation of children.
About the Author
Else Holmelund Minarik is the author of the five original Little Bear books illustrated by Maurice Sendak, which launched the I Can Read series and have sold more than six million copies. She lives in Nottingham, New Hampshire.
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The Jester Has Lost His Jingle |
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David Saltzman |
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From School Library Journal
Grade 2-4?A court jester wakes up one morning to find that despite his clowning, no one is laughing. He is banished from court and sets off to find out why the world has lost its sense of humor. After a long journey he arrives in a modern-day city where he questions a homeless man and a subway traveler about why people have stopped laughing and is told that the world is full of pain and tears. Finally, he asks a little girl in a hospital ward, "I wonder if you can tell me, how come laughter's not with you?" She explains that she has a tumor and just feels like crying. The jester goes to work with his routines, however, and soon has the child guffawing. With that "laughter leaped out of the window" and back into the world. The jester is soon restored to his palace position and everyone learns that "when... |
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In the Night Kitchen |
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Maurice Sendak |
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When asked, Maurice Sendak insisted that he was not a comics artist, but an illustrator. However, it's hard to not notice comics aspects in works like In the Night Kitchen. The child of the story is depicted floating from panel to panel as he drifts through the fantastic dream world of the bakers' kitchen. Sendak's use of multiple panels and integrated hand-lettered text is an interesting contrast to his more traditional children's books containing single-page illustrations such as his wildly popular Where the Wild Things Are.
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Donde viven los monstruos (Where the Wild Things Are) |
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Maurice Sendak |
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 3. A carefully translated version of the perennially popular 1964 Caldecott Medal winner. The playful and whimsical style of the original text is maintained from start to finish?from the night mischievous Max dons a wolf's suit to his landing in the place where the wild things roam, from his enthronement as King of these temperamental and pudgy beasts to his renunciation as leader for a steaming bowl of home cooking. Still an engaging fantasy after more than three decades, this extraordinary picture book strikes at the very essence of childhood urges for unlimited freedom without losing the security of home. A timeless beauty of a classic with the most imaginative of monster engravings. Perfect for reading aloud in this finely accomplished Spanish version.?Selene S. Vasquez, New York Public... |
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Maurice Sendak's Little Bear |
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Else Holmelund Minarik |
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Little Bear has a loose tooth that just won't fall out. Emily, Cat, Duck, and Owl each have a plan to make it fall out. Will Little Bear ever have something for the tooth fairy?
About the Author
Else Holmelund Minarik is the author of the five original Little Bear books illustrated by Maurice Sendak, which launched the I Can Read series and have sold more than six million copies. She lives in Nottingham, New Hampshire.
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