New Releases by Roger Duvoisin

A Christmas treasure from beloved Caldecott-winning illustrator Roger Duvoisin. With glorious illustrations by Caldecott-winning illustrator Roger Duvoisin accompanying Clement C. Moore's classic text, this edition of "The Night Before Christmas" makes the perfect stocking stuffer and is just the right size to make a wonderful gift. Families enjoy reading Moore's famous poem year after year at Christmastime, and this edition adds something unique and beautiful to the traditional experience.

Una familia va en busca de una casa en el campo y se enamora de una vieja caserón que se levanta entre altas hierbas y árboles. Necesita algunas reformas y, entre el carpintero, el albañil y el fontanero lo dejan como nuevo, pero también hace falta pintarlo. La familia se pone de acuerdo en que sería más divertido pintarlo ellos, pero cada uno lo quiere de un color y, por si fuera poco, en la ferretería solo tienen tres colores: rojo, azul y amarillo. Pero al padre se le ocurre una idea: «Ahora vais a ver –dijo– cuántas cosas pasan cuando se mezclan los colores» y de pronto... ¡aparece toda una paleta de colores! Publicado originalmente en 1956, La casa de las cuatro estaciones es un álbum ilustrado sobre los colores, la imaginación y el compromiso, que hará las delicias de los pequeños artistas e ingenieros. «El arte de Roger Duvoisin se mantiene como nuevo y su obra posee un atractivo duradero debido principalmente al afecto y el respeto que siente por su público.» Susan A. Burgess De 5 a 8 años.

The year 2017 represents not only the 200th anniversary of James Parkinson's original description of Parkinson disease (PD), but also the 50th anniversary of the development of L-DOPA as a replacement therapeutic, and the 20th anniversary of finding the first major PD-causing gene mutation, in alpha-synuclein (PARK1). This is a personal reflection by the physician who helped define the subspecialty of movement disorders, who wrote the classic reference for patients and families, and who played a pivotal role in many of the major breakthroughs in the field since he began his career studying Parkinson's in 1962.Dr. Roger C. Duvoisin is Professor Emeritus and Founding Chair of the Department of Neurology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. As the first fellow of the Parkinson Disease Foundation and Director of the Parkinson Clinic at the Neurological Institute at Columbia under Dr. Melvin Yahr, he participated in the early trials of L-DOPA therapy. Determined to clarify the nature of PD, he worked with Dr. Nathan Stadlan to correlate clinical features with samples from the Parkinson's Brain Bank and documented Lewy body disease as different from post-encephalitic PD. When studies conducted with Dr. Roswell Eldridge at the National Institutes of Health demonstrated similar concordance between monozygotic and dizygotic twins, Duvoisin initially argued among his colleagues against an inherited basis for PD. When he later began observing multiple cases within the families that he treated, he sought evidence to support a genetic component by directing a family study.1 Documenting Lewy body pathology in a large Italian family with dominantly inherited PD2 he reversed course and led his community of neurologists toward accepting a genetic component to the etiology of PD.In 1989, his Department of Neurology at Rutgers was awarded a $3,500,000 endowment-the largest to date in the history of the school-to develop the William Dow Lovett Center for Neurogenetics, a center that continues his legacy of Parkinson's research.3, 4 In 1996, as his illustrious career as a Parkinson clinician and researcher was winding down, he took a well-earned victory lap at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. As he proudly pointed to a poster identifying the location of PARK1 on chromosome 4, Duvoisin announced to the world the breakthrough that would forever change the direction of PD research.At a recent webinar about the process of drug development, Dr. Story Landis, Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health from 2003 to 2014 was asked what happens when a researcher who has invested years pursuing one course of research is confronted with evidence that veers 180 degrees in another direction. Dr. Landis responded by citing Roger Duvoisin's courage in publicly reversing his own position and advocating a role for genetics in the etiology of PD.

The illustrated children’s classic about friendship and self-acceptance, from a Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator and the author of Petunia—perfect for reading aloud with kids ages 2-5 When a self-conscious donkey meets a new friend who likes him just the way he is, he realizes that accepting himself—long ears and all!—is the most important lesson. Donkey-donkey has a problem. Despite his many friends and his good master, he is sad because his ears are so long and ridiculous. If only Donkey-donkey could have short sensible ears like his friend, Pat the horse, he would be content. So, he seeks the advice of his fellow farm animals who suggest he wear his ears differently, more like theirs: floppy like the dog’s, to the side like the sheep’s, to the front like the pig’s. But each unnatural arrangement leads to increasing insult and injury. Finally, a little girl passing by remarks on the beauty of the pretty little donkey’s ears! At last Donkey-donkey is happy. A classic tale of vanity and folly, and learning to accept oneself—protrudent ears, redundant name, and all.

Richly illustrated with charming watercolor images, these tales of friendship and discovery in the animal community include The Crocodile in the Tree, See What I Am, Periwinkle, and Snowy and Woody.

When the first flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman and his wife scurried about doing all the practical things grownups do when a snowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacy snowflakes on their tongues. All the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book -- the frost ferns on the window sill, the snow man in the yard and the mystery and magic of a new white world. Roger Duvoisin's pictures in soft blue half-tones with brilliant splashes of yellow and red emphasize the gaiety and humor as well as the poetic quality of the text.—Print Ed.

When Roger Duvoisin first introduced children to his proud and silly goose, Petunia, in 1950, it was love at first sight. Those children have grown up, but Petunia is every bit as fresh and funny and muddled as the day she was born. In this, the first of the series of classic books featuring the silly goose, Petunia finds a book--and, deciding that if she owns a book she must be wise, dispenses hilariously mistaken advice to the other animals in the farmyard. With its gentle lesson and the kind of humor that kids love best, this new edition of a picture book classic will delight and inspire a whole new generation of readers.

Veronica, a hippopotamus who wants to stand out from the herd and be famous, travels to the big city where she indeed does stand out. Causing traffic jams, blocking sidewalks, and devouring a pushcart vendor’s vegetables in one big gulp, Veronia is arrested and jailed. How she discovers that there is no place like home is told with warm humor and sublimely mirthful illustrations that are great fun to share with a young child.

The silly goose, Petunia, investigates the grass on the other side of the fence.

Petunia, the goose, learns that possessing knowledge doesn't mean carrying a book around constantly.

Petunia, a goose, discovers a huge, exciting world outside the relm of her farm home, but is happy to return to the farm and her friends.

A polar bear and a brown bear help camouflage each other.

In 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the streets of New York in a mustache, Afro wig, and mirrored sunglasses with a cigar in the corner of her mouth. Her Mythic Being performances critically engaged with popular representations of race, gender, sexuality, and class; they challenged viewers to accept personal responsibility for xenophobia and discrimination and the conditions that allowed them to persist. Piper's work confronts viewers and forces them to reconsider assumptions about the social construction of identity. Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment is an in-depth analysis of this pioneering artist's work, illustrated with more than ninety images, including twenty-one in color. Over the course of a decade, John P. Bowles and Piper conversed about her art and its meaning, reception, and relation to her scholarship on Kant's philosophy. Drawing on those conversations, Bowles locates Piper's work at the nexus of Conceptual and feminist art of the late 1960s and 1970s. Piper was the only African American woman associated with the Conceptual artists of the 1960s and one of only a few African Americans to participate in exhibitions of the nascent feminist art movement in the early 1970s. Bowles contends that Piper's work is ultimately about our responsibility for the world in which we live.

A crocodile befriended by the barnyard animals tries to prove to the farmer's wife that he can be her friend too.

The friendship that develops between a kitten and a hippopotamus causes great commotion on two neighboring farms.

A milkman, bored with his job and tired of always being asked about the weather, takes to the road for a very special holiday.