THE PROBLEM WITH PUMPKINS: A Hip & Hop Story
Barney Saltzberg
Hop, a white rabbit, intends to dress as a pumpkin for Halloween. He doesn't want Hip, a pink hippo, to steal his idea. Hip agrees to be a pirate instead of a pumpkin, but she sulks on the big Continue reading »
THE SOCCER MOM FROM OUTER SPACE
THE SOCCER MOM FROM OUTER SPACE
Barney Saltzberg
In a starred review, PW called this a "hyperbolic portrait of an uncommonly spirited soccer mom. This soccer sortie scores high in hilarity." Ages 5-8. Continue reading »
I Want a Dog!
I Want a Dog!
Barney Saltzberg
The earnest speaker in this fun story, based on the author’s song of the same title, pleads for a dog, promising that it “will never, ever make a mess” (via a pull tab, she Continue reading »
Kisses: A Pull, Touch, Lift, Squeak, and Smooch Book!
Kisses: A Pull, Touch, Lift, Squeak, and Smooch Book!
Barney Saltzberg
Get that soft, fuzzy feeling with this array of love-centric books.
Continue reading » Beautiful Oops!
Beautiful Oops!
Barney Saltzberg
A celebration of creative thinking, Saltzberg's small-format book encourages readers to view mistakes not as failures but opportunities. To wit, "A torn piece of paper..." (the cardboard page is Continue reading »
Baby Animal Kisses
Baby Animal Kisses
Barney Saltzberg
What would it feel like to kiss a fuzzy panda cub? Curious toddlers can find out in Barney Saltzberg's Baby Animal Kisses. Each brightly and simply illustrated page presents a baby animal, including Continue reading »
Peekaboo Kisses
Peekaboo Kisses
Barney Saltzberg
Summer Fun Little ones will enjoy the sturdy paper-over-board offering, Peekaboo Kisses by Barney Saltzberg. In the opening, a kitten covers its eyes (""Peekaboo! I see...""); readers lift the flap Continue reading »
Crazy Hair Day
Crazy Hair Day
Barney Saltzberg
Stanley Birdbaum has committed perhaps the worst possible kid faux pas: he has worn a wacky hairstyle to school for Crazy Hair Day-on the wrong day. In fact, it's actually Class Picture Day. Continue reading »
Cromwell
Cromwell
Barney Saltzberg
Cromwell is a puppy who wears clothes, reads aloud to his siblings, drinks milk from a cup and digs with a shovel. An unusual dog, and the artwork portrays him as such; the reader expects a great Continue reading »
Mrs. Morgan's Lawn
Mrs. Morgan's Lawn
Barney Saltzberg
Snazzy pictures in delectable springtime hues fortify an easily anticipated story line. Mrs. Morgan is the neighborhood crank: ``Every time a ball lands on her lawn, she keeps it,'' says the Continue reading »
Phoebe and the Spelling Bee
Phoebe and the Spelling Bee
Barney Saltzberg
Echoing on-going arguments about literacy, Saltzberg (This Is a Great Place for a Hot Dog Stand) contends that rote learning doesn't work for everyone. Phoebe has a week to prepare for a spelling Continue reading »
Two for Stew
Two for Stew
Barney Saltzberg, Laura Joffe Numeroff
When Chez Stew runs out of its specialty, a woman and her white poodle take off with their waiter in search of the desired dish. PW said, ""This stew has flavor enough to sate an appetite for a good Continue reading »
The Soccer Mom from Outer Space
The Soccer Mom from Outer Space
Barney Saltzberg
Readers will surely get a kick out of Saltzberg's (The Flying Garbanzos) hyperbolic portrait of an uncommonly spirited soccer mom. The night before Lena's first soccer game, her father announces that Continue reading »
Hip, Hip, Hooray Day!: A Hip & Hop Story
Barney Saltzberg
In Barney Saltzberg's Hip, Hip, Hooray Day!: A Hip & Hop Story, the follow-up to The Problem with Pumpkins: A Hip & Hop Story, the titular hippo hopes for a birthday trip to the roller rink. So Continue reading »
Where, Oh, Where's My Underwear?
Where, Oh, Where's My Underwear?
Barney Saltzberg
Jaunty verse and amusing paper engineering mark this affable if undistinguished effort. (The book's subtitle proves misleading, however: only one of the six spreads contains pop-ups, and those of a Continue reading »
Show and Tell
Show and Tell
Barney Saltzberg
In this mischievous picture book, Saltzberg ( Mrs. Morgan's Lawn ) reminds parents that not every child requires a helping hand even as he encourages young readers to trust their own imaginations. On Continue reading »
This is a Great Place for a Hot Dog Stand
This is a Great Place for a Hot Dog Stand
Barney Saltzberg
The only thing certain about Izzy-a pastel-blue, bipedal thingamajig with a light-yellow horn on his snout-is that he loves hot dogs. Quitting his factory job, he builds a hot dog cart and, after Continue reading »
The Flying Garbanzos
The Flying Garbanzos
Barney Saltzberg
When the Flying Garbanzos throw a birthday party for two-year-old Beanie, they don't need to rent a clown or circus animals. A trapeze already hangs from their kitchen ceiling, and an elephant, seal Continue reading »
Arlo Needs Glasses
Arlo Needs Glasses
Barney Saltzberg
In this chunky pop-up book, Arlo, a shaggy yellow dog, requires a trip to the optometrist after he has trouble playing catch with his bespectacled owner. Saltzberg introduces the process of getting Continue reading »
Andrew Drew and Drew
Andrew Drew and Drew
Barney Saltzberg
Wordplay of the title aside, Saltzberg’s ode to drawing is fairly earnest and straightforward in its prose. The magic comes from the accompanying artwork, which follows the eponymous boy and his Continue reading »
A Little Bit of Oomph!
A Little Bit of Oomph!
Barney Saltzberg
Saltzberg builds on the inspirational advice of Beautiful Oops! in a companion book that is encouraging without being cloying. A plain-Jane opening spread that reads “Make something ordinary” reveals Continue reading »
Tea with Grandpa
Tea with Grandpa
Barney Saltzberg
This deceptively simple story takes something classic—an afternoon tea party between a girl and her grandfather—and tweaks it for a generation raised on touch screens. Saltzberg’s (A Little Bit of Continue reading »
Chengdu Could Not, Would Not Fall Asleep
Chengdu Could Not, Would Not Fall Asleep
Barney Saltzberg
A small panda attempts to fall sleep in this humorous, subdued bedtime story. Chengdu is the only animal awake in his bamboo grove: “Chengdu turned and he tossed and he twitched,” writes Saltzberg Continue reading »
Inside This Book (Are Three Books)
Inside This Book (Are Three Books)
Barney Saltzberg
The covers of Saltzberg’s (Beautiful Oops!) book are imagined as a binding for three homemade books by fictional siblings Seymour, Fiona, and Wilbur. Sized according to birth order (Wilbur’s Continue reading »
Would You Rather Be a Princess or a Dragon?
Would You Rather Be a Princess or a Dragon?
Barney Saltzberg
Saltzberg (Inside This Book) uses the title question to upend stereotypes as he contrasts the proclivities of a young redheaded princess with those of a good-natured dragon. Photographic Continue reading »
Dog and Rabbit
Dog and Rabbit
Barney Saltzberg
Saltzberg (Crazy Hair Day) handily captures the difficulty of making a friend—even one that’s right around the corner—in this brief interlude. Though “Dog was fine being alone,” he sometimes Continue reading »
One of These Is Not Like the Others
One of These Is Not Like the Others
Barney Saltzberg
Saltzberg (Dog and Rabbit) puts a winsome spin on the spot-the-difference concept while sending, with humor, the missive that diversity and collaboration are to be unequivocally celebrated. Continue reading »
We’re All in the Same Boat
We’re All in the Same Boat
Barney Saltzberg
Saltzberg offers a comedic take on a fable-like situation: a goat, a pig, a cat, and a dog set off in a rowboat together. What follows is a series of questions in the first-person plural that present Continue reading »
What Do You See? A Conversation in Pictures
What Do You See? A Conversation in Pictures
Barney Saltzberg
Two friends mount an ongoing creativity challenge in this collaborative picture book. When “she” takes a photograph of something ordinary that seems ripe with imaginative possibilities, “he” adds Continue reading »
We Are Expecting You!
We Are Expecting You!
Barney Saltzberg
The waiting is the hardest part for a young elephant eagerly anticipating a new arrival in Saltzberg’s tender picture book. As brief text suggests things the siblings will lovingly do and share in Continue reading »
A Delicious Story
A Delicious Story
Barney Saltzberg
A small blue mouse walks onto an opening page of this picture book looking to find the volume’s story. Instead, it discovers a larger gray mouse wearing a blissful expression. When pressed, the Continue reading »
