New Releases by Vladimir Radunsky

A New York Review Children’s Collection Original An ALPHABET book? An ALBUM of old photos? We named it ALPHABETABUM. Here celebrated artists and authors Vladimir Radunsky and Chris Raschka put a delightful new old-fashioned spin on the alphabet book. Radunsky has selected portraits of children from his spectacular collection of antique black and-white photographs. Raschka has given the children names and written deliciously teasing rhymes about them. The result is ALPHABETABUM, a book of letters and pictures to which readers will happily return again and again both to look and to learn.

For a charming girl and an endearing mutt, friendship is just around the . . . hedge. These two lonely souls sit just opposite each other: She pining after a parade of passing dogs, he pining after a parade of passing owners. Until--finally--the girl and the mutt spot each other. You? they ask. You! they shout.

Poor shunned Dude struggles to find his place in the world--and succeeds!

Publisher Description

When six, a pink aradillo with nine green siblings, brags that he is #1 in everything, his family expresses a different opinion.

Mr. and Mrs. Armadillo are very happy newlyweds who look forward to having a child, but get ten times the happiness they expected.

A little Belgian boy shows the world how silly it is to have wars.

Chester teaches his good friend Dudunya about napkins, "full-mouthed speaking accidents, " and other important aspects of proper mealtime behavior.