FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX (BYR)
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OCTOBER 2013 JUVENILE FICTION / HUMOROUS STORIES
JENNIFER HAMBURG, ILLUSTRATED BY SUE TRUESDELL
A Moose That Says Moo
A laugh-out-loud animal comedy from an award-winning duo From jump-roping skunks to book-reading sharks, the animals in this girl’s make-believe zoo will do whatever she wants. Messing with nature is fun at first, until we see how hilariously wrong things go. Oinking otters! Picketing ground hogs! Stage-crashing pigs! What could be next? With deadpan text and eye-popping art, this raucous picture book builds gleefully to a riot of craziness that brings the whole fantasy tumbling down—in a comedic warning against imaginary menageries that kids will find
OCTOBER
hilarious.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories On Sale 10/1/2013
Jennifer Hamburg has written for numerous television
Ages 2 to 4 Hardback / Picture book 32 pages 9.000 in W | 11.000 in H | 0.313 in T Carton Quantity: 30
shows on Disney Junior, PBS, and Nick Jr. She won two Emmy Awards as part of the writing team for Between The Lions. This is her first children’s book. She lives in Houston, Texas.
ISBN: 9780374350581 $16.99 / $18.99 Can.
Sue Truesdell has illustrated many children’s books over her two-decade career, including Betsy Byars’s I Can Read! series about the adventuresome Golly Sisters and Chicken Said, "Cluck!" by Judyann Ackerman Grant, winner of a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor in 2009.
Praise For... Jennifer Hamburg: Two-time Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Writing in a Children's Series as a part of the writing team for BetweenThe Lions Sue Truesdell: Illustrator of 2009 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book Chicken Said, “Cluck!” by Judyann Ackerman Grant The work of Sue Truesdell * “Amusing illustrations perfectly reflect the spirit of the story.” —Kirkus, starred review (on Chicken Said, “Cluck!” by Judyann Ackerman Grant) “Perfectly silly.” —Kirkus (on This Is A Hospital, Not A Zoo by Roberta Karim)
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