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Books: Children's Books: Kurt Wiese
Freddy Goes Campingby Walter R. Brooks and Kurt Wiese Available from Amazon $7.99 On 7-23-2006 
See Item's Page The Washington Post Book World Welcome back, you paragon of porkers! Book Description Freddy the Pig is going undercover. When Mr. Camphor tells Freddy about an abandoned summer hotel and the unfriendly ghosts that live there, Freddy smells a rat-Simon the rat. Determined to find out just what his old enemy is up to, Freddy needs the perfect cover-up: camping! So Freddy packs up the sleeping bags, tents, and frying pans and heads out to the woods to expose Simon's scheme. But when the evil Mr. Eha starts skulking about, Freddy and his pals know that they'll have to do some serious detecting to get to the bottom of the mystery. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. |
Freddy and the Popinjayby Walter R. Brooks and Kurt Wiese List Price: $23.95 Available from Amazon $16.76 On 7-23-2006 
See Item's Page Card Catalog Description After Freddy, a perceptive and poetic pig, helps a nearsighted Robin get glasses and aids in planning an important wedding, he and the other Bean farm animals try to change a slingshot-wielding boy into a friend. |
Freddy and the Ignormousby Walter R. Brooks and Kurt Wiese Available from Amazon $6.99 On 7-23-2006
See Item's Page Book Description The trouble starts with the rumors about a strange creature called an Ignormus living in the Big Woods. Then the First Animal Bank is robbed and the rabbits and squirrels begin receiving letters demanding payment or the Ignormus will eat them up. With the animals too scared to do anything, it's up to Freddy the Pig to save the day, with a little help from his friends. But will they be able to stop the Ignormus in time? And what-or who-is the Ignormus, anyway? "Welcome back, Freddy, you paragon of porkers!" (The Washington Post Book World Card Catalog Description Freddy the pig must summon all of his courage and detective skills when the chief suspect of a series of robberies on the Bean farm is a legendary beast from the Big Woods. |
Bemelmans: The Life and Art of Madeline's Creatorby John Bemelmans Marciano and Ludwig Bemelmans Available from Amazon $40.00 On 7-23-2006
See Item's Page Product Review "We are writing for children but not for Idiots." Madeline's creator was a man of strong opinions, which always makes for a fascinating life. His legacy was Madeline; however, Ludwig Bemelmans was also a novelist, a muralist, a nonfiction writer, a screenwriter, an oil painter, and an all-around bon vivant. In this elegant account, Bemelmans's life story is told through paintings, sketches, letters, photographs, and excerpts from published and unpublished writings. Fans of the stories about the charmingly impetuous little orphan girl (Mad About Madeline) will be dazzled by the rest of Bemelmans's artistic body of work, as well as by his irrepressible spirit. Entertaining tidbits will amuse and amaze: once, on a trip to Germany, Bemelmans placed his cigar stub over his lip and launched into a Hitler impression near a crowd of Nazi supporters. Thinking nothing more about it, he and his wife returned to their hotel, where his wife, on a lark, painted the sleeping Bemelmans's toes pink. The next day he was arrested for his little prank. When his toenails were discovered, the police tossed him in the cell for homosexuals! John Bemelmans Marciano, grandson of Bemelmans, provides a running text to guide the readers through Bemelmans's own words and pictures, providing a shape to the life story that will leave admirers of Madeline and her creator thoroughly satisfied. --Emilie Coulter
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