New Releases by Colin MCNAUGHTON

Winner of the 1991 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award.

A large green giant and a small boy meet in the middle of a forest where the giant relates the tale of his life to the boy. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

King Nonn liked nothing better than to be alone with his books, but his people wanted a king who could fight dragons and slay giants. So King Nonn and his horse Palfrey set out in search of adventure and gave the people a king to be proud of. The author''s previous books include The Great Zoo.

Includes vocabulary for young readers for actions, parts of animals, and going to bed. Suggested level: junior.

A collection of humorous poems about eccentric characters.

Simple text and illustrations demonstrate in brief vignettes such concepts as cause and effect, adding, parts of a whole, opposites, and the meaning of words.

Labelled pictures demonstrate meanings of open and shut and happy and sad in vignettes featuring aggressive monsters and a bear''s birthday party.

Labelled action pictures with a light story line introduce such concepts as cause and effect and opposites.

Brief text and illustrations portray some of the activities and characteristics of spring. On heavy board pages.

Brief text and illustrations portray some of the activities and characteristics of winter. On heavy board pages.

A young boy shows the difference between the following opposites: long and short; wet and dry; hot and cold; open and shut; asleep and awake; full and empty; light and dark.

Rhyming text and illustrations show what would happen if dogs, cats, frogs, chickens, and other sorts of animals were dinosaurs and lived during the time of man.

A boy no bigger than a tea cup eludes his rat captors and then returns to their pirate ship to free the kidnapped water rat princess.

When a tropical bird from a desert island is captured and taken away to a zoo, he is helped by his brave friends.

A very small boy imprisoned in the city of rats enters the rat race in hopes of becoming king for one day.