Books published by publisher Handprint

It's a book...it's a doll...it's a toy...it's the perfect while-away-the-hours activity for little girls. All the fun of dress-up paper dolls and none of the work -- open the page, drop in the fabric, and shut the page: Presto-chango! A fully dressed wooden doll. The fabulously successful Woodkins® doll makes her first appearance in book form. This title makes for a terrific package at a take-me-home-now price: A real wooden doll, attachable by Velcro™ dots to three play scenes, 12 pages of art and text, a pull-out drawer containing 11 pieces of fabric—including metallic glitter pieces and belts, all printed on high-quality paperboard—with a handle in the spine to make this a great take-along activity. And of course, this title sports a satisfying story about Kelly, one of the most favorite Woodkins® characters. The original Woodkins® dolls have been accorded every major prize in the toy industry, including the Oppenheim Best Toy Award and the Parenting Magazine Toy of the Year and are certain to shine just as bright in this fun-filled format.

One of the smallest animals in the forest offers a prayer, moving in its simplicity, powerful in its message, beautiful in its visual and -- literally -- touchable art.As day breaks and the sun rises, the woodland night creatures prepare for sleep. The smallest among them, a tiny mouse, bows his head and recites a sweet and touching prayer:Bless all creatures North and South, Bless trees, and trunks, and roots, and boughs. Bless all creatures East and West. Bless Mama, bless Papa -- I love them best. In nature paintings of rare beauty, John Butler depicts the misty, early morning woodland setting with great delicacy, detailed realism, and reverence. The flocking throughout enhances not only the loveliness of the art, but the enjoyment of young readers who will love touching/petting the appealing little mouse and all the glories of nature that surround him.

Mysteriously arresting images and delightfully intriguing verse - compel readers to open the flap to reveal... an Animagical. Award-winning, best-selling poet Carol Diggory Shields matches talents with a young artist who casts a unique eye on the world, Svetlan Junakovic. The results are exuberantly witty, astonishingly unexpected, and always wonderful. Each title sports twelve spreads, twelve verses with an Ogden Nash-like whimsy, and twelve visual surprises. Deceptively simple and devilishly complex-these are books that everyone from toddlers to adults can crow about.

Tumble Me Tumbily, Handprint Books' highly successful Fall 2002 picture book, which delightfully depicts the three most important parts of a young toddler's day, has become three irresistible board books. Playing, eating, and sleeping cannot be improved upon when they are accompanied by friendly bears, small blue elephants, dancing vegetables, merry berry pies, soft pink bunnies, and butterfly kisses for Mommy.Each board book is one complete section of the original hardcover. In addition, there are opening and closing spreads overflowing with babies, bears, and great good humor!

Who but this author and artist could see a rhinoceros in a train locomotive or a kangaroo in a baby carriage? With perfect accord this creative team from very different parts of the world see the possibility of animals in stripes, spots, dots, and rows. With quirky energy and electric imagination, a gifted poet and a brilliant artist cast a sharp eye on design and transportation in a new pair of Animagicals titles. In each book, twelve poems pose riddles that are answered in twelve full-page, fold-out paintings of animals, each portrayed with humor, empathy, and sensitivity. Whether it's comparing a dragonfly with helicopter in the On the Go, or describing the titles on a turtle's shell in Patterns, Animagicals engage the mind and delight the eye of both children and adults.

The creator of the successful FLAPPY Bright and playful, these are the question-and-response games that toddlers demand to have read and re-read over and over again. Amanda Leslie's lift-the-flaps create scores of humorous and improbable situations-just the kind to which children will want to shout "Noooo!" and then supply the right answer. The format gently but effectively expands vocabulary and reinforces the association of adjectives with a host of animals. Very attractively priced, sporting sturdy hardcover bindings, and all-around friendly: this pair of titles is a keeper!

The originality, humor, and quick energy of the four previous Animagicals have been greeted with enthusiasm--witty paintings on pull-out pages compared and contrasted animals with transportation, patterns, music, and color, while lively verses expanded and elucidated the art. In these current volumes, the author and the artist, in their inimitable styles, have undertaken to explore the worlds of sports and homes: A tennis racquet turns into a beaver, a spiraled shell into a hermit crab. These unlikely combinations make enormous good sense if, like children, you have an open mind, an imaginative eye, and a belief in the power of Animagicals!

When the wind blows through Alligator Acres, in a far corner of Crawdad County, it is sure to carry a story with it. This is one of those stories -- the tale of Eloise, the gentle zebra. Eloise was just a bit too big to join in the jamming down at the juke joint, the one where Corndog Willie and the Slackjaws were playing up a storm. She's fortunate to have such good friends as gracious Cecil, the 'gator, and Woo, the considerate armadillo, who set matters right.Musician and philosopher Doug Anderson and artist Sara Anderson have collaborated in a lyrical ballad of community which celebrates friendship and loyalty, and echoes the energy, rhythm, and twang of a bayou Zydeco band. A strong sense of place is conveyed in the bold composition and spry language which meld with the deep greens and blues of the bayou.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic epic poem The Song of Hiawatha is revered for its environmental message and its moving plea for peace. It recalls life in close touch with the natural world, and it is, as well, an affecting love story. The Song of Hiawatha has never lost its freshness, revealing greater depths with the passing of time. Margaret Early's expressive paintings illuminate the formative moments of Hiawatha's life with grace and beauty. At the same time, these stunning paintings transport the young reader into the world of Native American legend in which man and nature lived in a balance that, however idealized, sets a standard for the planet. Exquisitely designed, gloriously illustrated, and presented in sensitively selected passages with bridging text that links Longfellow's words into a seamlessly satisfying story, this volume is one to be treasured.

This oversized board book traces a city across the span of a day -- filled with the people, traffic, parks, streets, stores, and buildings that make up the town. The breadth of the urban experience may all be found here: from the bicyclist lazily gliding through the park to the raucous swooshhhhh of traffic; from the clanging crash of construction work to the quiet of a sweeping streetscape as seen from a high-floor apartment building.Vibrant colors that zing with the heat rising from a steaming sidewalk are perfectly matched to a syncopated, sound-filled, chant-again-and-again text. Ingeniously die-cut pages reinforce the experience of the city skyline in a stylish book that represents a tour-de-force performance by Sara Anderson.

Brash and edgy, it's a downtown book for kids and parents with just a bit of attitude-and for everyone who's ready for some all-out ants-in-your-pants fun. Spiffy photo-manipulation and cutting-edge design team up with a nursery song every self-respecting child already knows and loves. And who can resist a menagerie of odd and endearing critters surrounded by hundreds of ants crawling up, down, on and off the board book pages? THE ANTS CAME MARCHING IN introduces a series of bold, up-to-the-second versions of classic children's songs and rhymes from Handprint.

Animal Incognitum reads the sign over Raoulino's cage at the Metropolitan Zoo. That means no one knows what kind of animal Raoulino is, least of all Raoulino. He does know that he wants to go home—home to the wonderful little island where he was captured. And his neighbors in the zoo, the cobra and the chuckwalla and the lizard in the next cage, dream of going back to their respective homes. Has any animal (to say nothing of four at one time) ever escaped from the Metropolitan Zoo? There are those who might say it couldn't be done, but where a touch of magic is involved, anything is possible! In a heart stopping, thrill-a-minute fantasy adventure, Raoulino and his friends discover that while who you are is important, it is what is in your heart that really counts.