Books published by publisher Baobab Press

Getting old is not for sissies. But as Brian Crane’s crotchety but endearing seniors Earl and Opal Pickles do it, it can be humorous and often touching. For over twenty-five years, Crane’s comic strip, Pickles, has been delighting readers around the world. This seventh collection continues the adventures of grandparents Earl and Opal; their precocious grandson, Nelson; quirky family members and friends; and the family’s dog and cat, who offer their own distinctive views of the goings-on. Crane’s view of the foibles of a long-married, often cantankerous couple and their extended family and friends is wry, honest, and always warm-hearted.

For over twenty-five years, Crane’s comic strip, Pickles, has been delighting readers around the world, and for the first time Brian Crane brings his beloved characters into a book intended specifically for children. Crane’s crotchety but endearing senior, Earl Pickles, can be humorous and often touching, and when his precocious grandson, Nelson, asks his gramps to tell him a story, Earl’s imagination takes over. The two embark on a journey filled with whales, hot dogs, and an intense but lovable ostrich in a raincoat. Written by acclaimed Canadian children’s author Dianne Young, this quirky tale is sure to entertain children, fans of the strip, and anybody who enjoys a rollicking adventure.

From the creators of Our Nevada: Baby Animals comes another bilingual foray into the cutest animals in the American west, Our Arizona: Baby Animals. This time Our Baby Animals will cover in both English and Spanish everything in the diverse ecosystems of Arizona, including bighorn sheep, chuckwalla lizards, raptors, javelinas, burrowing owls, coyotes, and much more.

· Cycling is booming. It’s free, healthy, environmentally friendly, sustainable and most of all its fun. But Where to Bike?· Where to Bike Washington DC has 97 fun and interesting rides to motivate and inspire· It contains 58 interesting rides for adults and 39 kids’ rides for toddlers and beginners.There’s also a section covering how to prepare and what to take with you.

Sleuth on the Goose, the final collection of poetry by Joe Crowley, author of Hats Off to the Cap, dons the cap of the sleuth, and investigates the deeper, wilder truths hidden among classic nursery rhymes. With the poet’s delightful syntax and coy turns of phrase, Crowley breathes new life into many recognizable stories and rhymes, replacing the simple morals with astute synthesis that asks the reader to reconsider what, up until now, have been known as the facts. With his powers of scrutiny and imagination, Crowley successfully flips the script on these old children’s rhymes to reveal that things may not always have occurred as reported by Mother Goose, and that, in fact, the events were often more devious and always more hilarious when considered through Crowley’s perspective. However, as puckish as the revised narratives may be, Crowley maintains a linguistic agility that reveals this sleuth as a master of a nimble cadence and astute observation. Emphasizing a congruity of form and function, the poems of Sleuth on the Goose challenge readers to reconsider what they might daily take for granted, and reassess the establishments with a healthy, sharp-witted skepticism and revisionist mentality in order to see the world afresh.Accompanied by the work-in-progress, “Jack Came Down, but What’s Up?”, an entertaining jaunt into the seedy underbelly of water pail fetching, and amazing hand-drawn illustrations by artist Paula Robison, Sleuth on the Goose captures the late authors wit, imagination and poetic abilities in a collection whose plots and lyricism will delight the poetry critic, entertain the lap infant, and spellbind everyone in between.