Jon Klassen
Author
Series
Hat trilogy (Jon Klassen) volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase adventure.
Author
Series
Hat trilogy (Jon Klassen) volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.
Author
Series
Hat trilogy (Jon Klassen) volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Two turtles have found a hat. The hat looks good on both of them. But there are two turtles. And there is only one hat. . . . Evoking hilarity and sympathy, the shifting eyes tell the tale in this brilliantly paced story in three parts, highlighting Jon Klassen s visual comedy and deceptive simplicity. The delicious buildup takes an unexpected turn that is sure to please loyal fans and newcomers alike.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Here comes The Rock from the Sky, a hilarious meditation on the workings of friendship, fate, shared futuristic visions, and that funny feeling you get that there's something off somewhere, but you just can't put your finger on it. Merging broad visual suspense with wry wit, celebrated picture book creator Jon Klassen gives us a wholly original comedy for the ages.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Jon Klassen's signature wry humor takes a turn for the ghostly in this thrilling retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale. In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons. Her host, the skull, is afraid of something too, something that comes every night. Can brave...
7) Extra yarn
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Santa arrives at a child's house on Christmas Eve, does he go down the chimney feetfirst or headfirst? What if he gets stuck? What if there's no chimney? Maybe he slides under the door, as thin as a piece of paper? Or is it possible he pours himself through the faucet? What happens once he's inside? Whether it's shape-shifting or impromptu laundry use, Mac Barnett's iconic talent for earnest deadpan humor and Jon Klassen's irresistibly funny...
9) The dark
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Laszlo is afraid of the dark which lives in the same big, creaky house as him, until one night the dark pays him a visit.
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Series
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
11) Square
Author
Language
English
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Description
This book is about Square. Square spends every day taking blocks from a pile below the ground to a pile above the ground. This book is also about Square's friend Circle. Circle thinks Square is an artistic genius. But is he really? With the second story in a trilogy of tales about Triangle, Square, and Circle, Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen nudge readers toward a more well-rounded way of looking at things. Understated and striking in its simplicity,...
Author
Series
Pax volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It has been a year since newly orphaned Peter and his pet fox Pax, now a protective father, have seen each other, but their paths cross again when Pax's kit falls desperately ill forcing him to turn to the one human he knows he can trust.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This is a story about a duck and mouse who get swallowed by a wolf, and then decide to live in his belly. Early one morning a mouse met a wolf and was quickly gobbled up. When a woeful mouse is swallowed by a wolf, he quickly learns he is not alone: a duck has already set up digs, and, boy, has that duck got it figured out! Turns out it's pretty nice in there, with delicious food and elegant table settings, courtesy of the wolf's unchecked gluttony....
14) Triangle
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Language
English
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Description
A book about a triangle and his best friend square.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!
16) Skunk and Badger
Author
Series
Skunk and Badger volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The last thing Badger wants is a roommate, and certainly not Skunk, but since the house does not belong to him he does not have a choice; and soon everything in Badger's quiet and ordered life studying rocks is turned upside down (and where on earth did all the chickens come from)--but after he drives Skunk and his chickens away, Badger starts to miss his roommate and sets out to find him and make amends.
17) Circle
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle's friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a rule that Circle makes, and how she has to rescue Triangle when he breaks that rule. With their usual pitch-perfect pacing and subtle, sharp wit, Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen come full circle in the third and final chapter of their clever shapes trilogy.
18) The nest
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Language
English
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"When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means"--
19) Pax
Author
Series
Pax volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--