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Allan Ahlberg
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"What do you do when you're having an ordinary day, only to discover there's a big gray elephant (named Nathaniel) under the table? Why, you get him to help you wash the car! And the kangaroo (named Abigail) that appears under that same table can help bring in groceries. But when there are penguins in the fridge, the forks and knives are running around, and the salt and ketchup are acting up, there is only one thing to do: pack everyone in the camper...
Author
Series
Gaskitt family volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003
Description
It is an exciting couple of days for the Gaskitt family and their community--with missing pets, an unusual substitute teacher, and a special addition to their household.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Picture books are such good fun and so is making them-- but who knew there were so many things that could go wrong? This is the story of a picture book doomed from the very start. Allan has a good idea for a book about a crocodile, but every time he sits down to write, he's interrupted. The manuscript gets soaked in coffee, nibbled by snails, and when Bruce gets started on the pictures, he gets overexcited and draws a hippo, not a crocodile, at which...
Author
Series
Gaskitt family volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Description
As Mr. Gaskitt takes a series of jobs and Mrs. Gaskitt keeps winning prizes, their nine-year-old twins, Gus and Gloria, follow a substitute teacher who seems too good to be true.
13) The pencil
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A lonely pencil timidly draws a boy, a dog, and other items but soon faces a problem as his creations begin demanding changes, and when he draws an eraser to make them happy, the real trouble begins.
Author
Series
Gaskitt family volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Mrs. Gaskitt the taxi driver, Mr. Gaskitt the heavily dressed man, and their twins, Gus and Gloria, foil a bank robbery.
Author
Series
Gaskitt family volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Description
All the Gaskitts have a bad day when the baby rolls away in a shopping cart, the twins' teacher acts peculiar, and a lost bird tries to hypnotize the cat.
19) Previously
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. Includes Goldilocks, Jack and the beanstalk, Jack and Jill, the frog prince, Cinderella, and the gingerbread man.
