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Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art

Author: Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Publisher: Philomel

Book Description
In this remarkable and beautiful anthology featuring the likes of Maurice Sendak, Robert Sabuda, Rosemary Wells, and Eric Carle, twenty-three of the most honored and beloved artists in children’s literature talk informally to children—sharing secrets about their art and how they began their adventures into illustration. [...]

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Betty MacDonald
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has been wildly popular with children and adults for over 50 years. Children adore her because she understands them–and because her upside-down house is always filled with the smell of freshly baked cookies, and her backyard with buried treasure. Grownups love her because her magical common sense [...]

Is Your Mama A Llama?

Rating: (45 reviews)
Author: Deborah Guarino
Publisher: Scholastic Press
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The board book version of this popular recitation of animal characteristics is equally as delightful as other editions, with one key improvement: it’s inedible. This robust reissue follows lovable Lloyd the llama on his quest to find out what percentage of the baby animal population has llamas for [...]

The Twelve Gifts of Birth

Rating: (53 reviews)
Author: Charlene Costanzo
Publisher: Collins

Book Description
There is no more magical moment than when a newborn baby is laid in a mother’s arms. What was for many months a dream and a mystery is now a miraculous new person at the threshold of a life filled with possibilities.
Through a tender, inspiring tale, The Twelve [...]

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Rating: (294 reviews)
Author: E.L. Konigsburg
Publisher: Aladdin
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After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and her brother Jamie. They’re standing on the toilets, still, hiding until the museum closes and [...]