Best Selling Books by Roger Duvoisin

By the author of the bestselling picture book Petunia, The House of Four Seasons is a bright and lively family picture book about colors, imagination, and compromise When Father, Mother, Billy, and Suzy go house hunting in the country, they fall in love with a grand old house nestled among tall weeds and trees. It is in need of repair, and soon a carpenter, mason, and tinsmith come to set things straight, but it needs painting too. The family agrees it would be more fun to paint the house themselves, but no one can agree on the color, and to make matters worse, the hardware store only carries three colors: red, blue, and yellow. But Father has an idea. “You’ll see, he says, “colors can do many tricks when they get together,” and with a sudden flourish, a color wheel appears! Budding artists and engineers will love this surprising story, and adults would do well to note how Father arrives at a winning trifecta of negotiation, education, and thrift.

When Roger Duvoisin first introduced children to his proud and silly goose, Petunia, in 1950, it was love at first sight. Those children have grown up, but Petunia is every bit as fresh and funny and muddled as the day she was born. In this, the first of the series of classic books featuring the silly goose, Petunia finds a book--and, deciding that if she owns a book she must be wise, dispenses hilariously mistaken advice to the other animals in the farmyard. With its gentle lesson and the kind of humor that kids love best, this new edition of a picture book classic will delight and inspire a whole new generation of readers.

Veronica, a hippopotamus who wants to stand out from the herd and be famous, travels to the big city where she indeed does stand out. Causing traffic jams, blocking sidewalks, and devouring a pushcart vendor’s vegetables in one big gulp, Veronia is arrested and jailed. How she discovers that there is no place like home is told with warm humor and sublimely mirthful illustrations that are great fun to share with a young child.

Richly illustrated with charming watercolor images, these tales of friendship and discovery in the animal community include The Crocodile in the Tree, See What I Am, Periwinkle, and Snowy and Woody.

The silly goose, Petunia, investigates the grass on the other side of the fence.

The illustrated children’s classic about friendship and self-acceptance, from a Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator and the author of Petunia—perfect for reading aloud with kids ages 2-5 When a self-conscious donkey meets a new friend who likes him just the way he is, he realizes that accepting himself—long ears and all!—is the most important lesson. Donkey-donkey has a problem. Despite his many friends and his good master, he is sad because his ears are so long and ridiculous. If only Donkey-donkey could have short sensible ears like his friend, Pat the horse, he would be content. So, he seeks the advice of his fellow farm animals who suggest he wear his ears differently, more like theirs: floppy like the dog’s, to the side like the sheep’s, to the front like the pig’s. But each unnatural arrangement leads to increasing insult and injury. Finally, a little girl passing by remarks on the beauty of the pretty little donkey’s ears! At last Donkey-donkey is happy. A classic tale of vanity and folly, and learning to accept oneself—protrudent ears, redundant name, and all.

Celebrate the wonder and joy of Christmas Eve in this gorgeously illustrated picture book of the classic rhyme! With glorious illustrations by Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Roger Duvoisin, this edition of Clement C. Moore''s "The Night Before Christmas" is a perfect holiday read-aloud for families. And with a tall, narrow size, it''s also just right for tucking into a Christmas stocking, making it a wonderful holiday gift. Available for the first time in decades, this book is a true Christmas treasure!

The friendship that develops between a kitten and a hippopotamus causes great commotion on two neighboring farms.

A polar bear and a brown bear help camouflage each other.

In 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the streets of New York in a mustache, Afro wig, and mirrored sunglasses with a cigar in the corner of her mouth. Her Mythic Being performances critically engaged with popular representations of race, gender, sexuality, and class; they challenged viewers to accept personal responsibility for xenophobia and discrimination and the conditions that allowed them to persist. Piper''s work confronts viewers and forces them to reconsider assumptions about the social construction of identity. Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment is an in-depth analysis of this pioneering artist''s work, illustrated with more than ninety images, including twenty-one in color. Over the course of a decade, John P. Bowles and Piper conversed about her art and its meaning, reception, and relation to her scholarship on Kant''s philosophy. Drawing on those conversations, Bowles locates Piper''s work at the nexus of Conceptual and feminist art of the late 1960s and 1970s. Piper was the only African American woman associated with the Conceptual artists of the 1960s and one of only a few African Americans to participate in exhibitions of the nascent feminist art movement in the early 1970s. Bowles contends that Piper''s work is ultimately about our responsibility for the world in which we live.

Relates how Veronica the hippopotamus was brought to America, locked up in a partially constructed building, and was at last taken to live in the country.

A classic picture book about the special friendship between an owl and a dog, written and illustrated by a master of children''s literature. Day and Night is a classic Duvoisin tale about two unlikely friends with similar interests but impossibly different lives. Day is a dog and Night is an owl. While Day the dog plays and eats and barks, Night the owl sleeps. While Night flies and hunts and hoots, Day sleeps. Night lives alone in the forest and Day lives in a house with his family, the Pennyfeathers. Day and Night are determined to stay friends, even if they have to hoot and bark all day and night in order to communicate. But how can anyone get the sleep they need? Luckily little Bob Pennyfeathers has been watching and listening, and he has an idea that just might save the day, and the night!

Read and listen along as Veronica, a hippopotamus who wants to stand out from the herd and be famous, travels to the big city where she indeed does stand out. Causing traffic jams, blocking sidewalks, and devouring a pushcart vendor’s vegetables in one big gulp, Veronica is arrested and jailed. How she discovers that there is no place like home is told with warm humor and sublimely mirthful illustrations that are great fun to share with a young child. This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.

When the first flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman and his wife scurried about doing all the practical things grownups do when a snowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacy snowflakes on their tongues. All the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book -- the frost ferns on the window sill, the snow man in the yard and the mystery and magic of a new white world. Roger Duvoisin’s pictures in soft blue half-tones with brilliant splashes of yellow and red emphasize the gaiety and humor as well as the poetic quality of the text.—Print Ed.

SUMMARY: The Siamese cat changes the atmosphere, especially for a fat chipmunk, in the Jones''s happy garden.

When Jasmine the cow begins wearing a hat, the other barnyard animals criticize her for trying to be different.

Alphabet book based on the Biblical story of Noah and the Ark. Illustrated in color. Preschool - Grade 3.

Algunos hipopótamos llaman mucho la atención. Pero no es el caso de Verónica. Nadie se fija en ella porque vive con una gran familia de padres y madres, tíos y tías, hermanos y hermanas, primos y primas y ¡todos son hipopótamos! Un buen día Verónica decide marcharse a buscar un lugar en el que ser diferente e incluso llegar a... ¡hacerse famosa! Así inicia una aventura en la ciudad, donde, a diferencia de en su hogar, llamará muchísimo la atención. ¿Logrará hacer realidad su sueño de convertirse en una hipopótama famosa? Esta divertidísima y entrañable historia fue publicada originalmente en 1961 y se ha convertido en un clásico de la literatura infantil. De 5 a 8 años.

When Jasmine the cow begins wearing a hat, the other barnyard animals criticize her for trying to be different.

A raccoon tricks Petunia into walking in the forest with him, in hopes of a goose dinner, but his plans are foiled and they end up as true friends.

A lonely giraffe and frog must overcome their tendency to talk without listening before they can become friends.

Describes the steady growth of man''s knowledge of the extent of his world through the discoveries of merchants, warriors, and explorers.

Crocus the crocodile discovers his special talents when the Sweetpeas build a pond on their property