New Releases by Mary Ann Hoberman

Mr. and Mrs. Muddle, a horse couple, have to learn to compromise on the one thing they don''t agree on.

Verses relate a variety of foods, activities, smells, sounds, words, places, people, feeling, and other things perceived as being cozy.

Includes 58 poems on a variety of subjects.

Oliver Tolliver, who lives alone in his little house with just one of everything, discovers that it is more fun to have two of everything and share with a friend.

Brief poems speculating on the habits and behavior of familiar and exotic animals.

Relates in verse Ned''s search for his lost cat through the pages of this book--from one to twenty-eight.

Mary Ann Hoberman''s first book, a collaboration with her husband Norman. In bouncing verses and droll drawings, the world of shoes is explored and celebrated. Inspired by the couple''s children, the poems pay homage to sneakers and sandals, to slippers and snow boots and skates, finally ending with: "But no matter what I wear / It''s most fun when my feet are bare!"--Her website http://www.maryannhoberman.com.