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Books in Neal Porter Books series

  • Ask Me

    Antje Damm

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, Jan. 16, 2003)
    Ask a question.Start a conversation.Stregthen a relationship.Here are more than 100 questions, accompanied by rich and varied images that are designed to stimulate converstation between parent and children. The questions are provocative, the images sometimes startling, sometimes beautiful, and always mesmerizing. This little book deserves a place on every family's bookshelf.
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  • The Rooftop Rocket Party

    Roland Chambers

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, March 4, 2003)
    A boy with a passion for rockets heads to New York and discovers--to his amazement and delight--that the water tanks adorning the city's rooftops are really rocket ships and that the Man-in-the-Moon is giving a birthday party. A quirky, delightful text and distinctive illustrations make this a notable picture book debut.
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  • Seven Stories

    Ed Briant

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, Oct. 1, 2005)
    In this unusual picture book, designed to resemble the seven-story apartment building in which it is set, a little girl's sleep is disrupted by her very rowdy neighbors. To her consternation, and to the reader's delight, those neighbors turn out to be characters from six well-known stories-- including Jack of beanstalk fame, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Cinderella. And the seventh? It turns out to be the heroine herself, who has a pea under her mattress.
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  • Achoo! Bang! Crash!: The Noisy Alphabet

    Ross MacDonald

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, Aug. 19, 2003)
    A for . . . Achoo?B for Bump, Bang, and Bop?C for Crackle, Clank, and Crunch?This is truly an alphabet with attitude, created by that master of raucous humor, Ross MacDonald. In this hilarious book you'll see clothes ripped off an intrepid game hunter by a ferocious lion (ROAR! RIP! RUN!); a little boy who manages to pin the tail on his father, rather than the donkey. (NO! OH! OOPS! OW!); and an exceedingly plump Santa being crammed down the chimney (JINGLE! JINGLE! JINGLE!).But wait! There's more! All the words in this book where set in 19th-century wood type and printed in blazing color on a handpress, creating extraordinary visual effects. An endnote accompanied by photographs describes the process and serves as a fascinating introduction to a disappearing craft
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  • Jack's Rabbit

    Yvonne Jagtenberg

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, Feb. 6, 2003)
    Jack is trying to draw his rabbit, but his pet will not cooperate. It bolts--out of the window, down the street, and on to the beach. Will the rabbit return? Here is another wry and touching look at preschool life from the author/illustrator of the "offbeat, humorously understated" (Horn Book) Jack the Wolf.
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  • I Am I

    Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, May 30, 2006)
    Two small boys in warrior garb peer at each other across a deserted landscape. Each is suspicious of the other; each is proud and boastful. And so, an argument breaks out that grows bigger and bigger, until it threatens to consume them and everything around them. In this unusual book words take flight, morph into birds, race down gullies and flood the page. I Am I is a memorable and stimulating mediation on the power of imagination and the power of words--and a visual tour de force by a gifted author and artist.
  • Pool Boy

    Michael Simmons

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, March 24, 2003)
    Fifteen-year-old Brett Gerson is the kind of kid you love to hate: smug, arrogant, and filthy rich. When his dad is jailed for insider trading, Brett loses the mansion, the Mercedes, and his beloved stereo--and is forced to take a summer job assisting the man who used to clean his family's swimming pool. Told in the first person and set in a fictional California town, Pool Boy marks the debut of a gifted writer for young adults--and an almost equally engaging and infuriating anti-hero.
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  • Jack's Kite

    Yvonne Jagtenberg

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, Sept. 1, 2004)
    This third picture book about the indomitable Jack finds him attempting to fly a kite with little success . . . until some new friends come along to help out.Jack, hero of Jack the Wolf and Jack's Rabbit, is spending the weekend at a campground, anxiously awaiting the arrival of his dad. He tries to fly his new kite but can't seem to get it up into the air. The family who own the campground agree to help out, with near disastrous results. Fortunately, his father comes along at just the right moment, and saves the day. Another charming story with sensational pictures by Yvonne Jagtenberg.
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