Books with author Nicole Rubel

From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 3 The alligators are playing baseball when outfielder Alfie is distracted by a passing snack. Izzy's long ball beans him, knocking him cold. He awakens with amnesia, frightened by the toothy characters standing over him. He takes off with the gang racing after him, out of the swamp, into the suburbs, frightening joggers. He climbs through a window, where Marge, who's lost her glasses, mistakes Alfie for her husband and feeds him breakfast. And that's only the beginning. The comedy of errors roars on to a happy ending with Marge finding her glasses and accident-prone Alfie coming to his senses in a madcap motorcycle mishap. Rubel, author of Uncle Henry and Aunt Henrietta's Honeymoon (Dial, 1986) and illustrator of Gantos' Rotten Ralph (Houghton, 1976), one of the best primitive cartoonists to put pen and color marker to paper, surpasses herself. A romp that's large enough for small groups but best on laps because of the detail. It's also easy enough for beginning readers. Helen Gregory, Grosse Pointe Public Library, Mich. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

What can you do when everyone confuses you with your twin? Even though identical twins Anny and Allie are different in many ways, there is much confusion as to who’s who. Anny and Allie come to the rescue with humorous results. Young readers follow the twins as they dream up a series of imaginative and hilarious plans to help teachers, friends, and family tell them apart―and discover how lucky they are to have each other along the way! Children’s author, Nicole Rubel―an identical twin herself―knows a lot about being a twin. Anny and Allie explores the subject of treating twins as individuals in a humorous new way, creating twice the fun for twins and non-twins alike! Children and parents chuckle through this imaginative story that helps teachers, friends, and family tell twins apart.