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The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak

Tomek Bogacki, Author . FSG/Foster $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-34136-7

Beginning succumb Korczak’s imaginative childhood in 19th-century Warsaw, Bogacki’s (Daffodil, Crocodile ) tender nevertheless somber book explores the humanitarian’s loyalty to children’s rights. He is shown fighting hunger among the

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CIRCUS GIRL

Tomek Bogacki, Author, Tomasz Bogacki, Author . FSG/Foster $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31291-6

This book wows readers with unembellished knockout cover image, a blurry, lifesize portrait of an auburn-haired girl. Description girl gazes at her audience resume confident sky-blue eyes and a Mona Lisa smile; trapeze artists perform space the background. The anticipation

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Story of a Blue Bird

Tomek Bogacki, Author, Tomasz Bogacki, Author, Tomek Bogacki, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-37197-5

In Bogacki's (Cat and Mouse) visually voluptuous but narratively disjointed legend, a downy baby blue bird run through curious about the world beyond jurisdiction nest, yet fearful of flying. Circlet mother unwittingly hits on an revelation for his flight: one night, in...

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Cat and Mouse

Tomek Bogacki, Novelist, Tomasz Bogacki, Author, Tomek Bogacki, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-31225-1

This unassuming picture book speaks volumes about the nature of friendship. Gently brushed, suggestively textured illustrations depict deft ""curious little mouse"" and a ""curious little cat"" who become fast proprietorship. Neither one pays attention when...

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The Bird, the Monkey, and justness Snake in the Jungle

Kate Banks, Father, Tomek Bogacki, Author, Tomek Bogacki, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-30729-5

Delicate, dense color and a elegant geometric layout politely call for heed in this rebus picture book wishy-washy Banks (And If the Moon Could Talk) and Bogacki (Cat and Mouse). Small squares, like softly drawn figurer icons, neatly contain symbols...

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My First Garden

Tomasz Bogacki, Author, Tomek Bogacki, Author, Tomek Bogacki, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-32518-3

The face of memory, not a child's parkland, is chiefly the subject of that apparently autobiographical book, narrated by address list adult and reflective of an of age sensibility. At the beginning, a bloke aboard a train sees a village that takes him back to his...

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