Word: buts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quiet defiance. Like father, like daughter. Self-possessed, imperturbable, smoothly articulate, Wattleton is often hard to read. But not to Trish Arredondo, the director of an Indiana Planned Parenthood affiliate. One day, after a speech at a fund raiser in Munster, Ind., Wattleton stretched out her legs in the back...
One winter morning, Will's mother and father inform him that his favorite fauna, the woolly mammoth, is extinct. But the boy knows better. Squinting his eyes, he manages to conjure up the prehistoric past, complete with saber- toothed tigers, early versions of horses, warthogs and, of course, the elephant...
Behemoths are not an exclusive of the dinosaur era. Some of them can still be spotted spouting in the oceans of the world. Seymour Simon's nonfiction * Whales (Crowell; $14.95) follows their astonishing life cycle as the babies drink 100 gal. of milk a day, breathe through a hole in...
Nancy Ekholm Burkert's luminous accompaniments to the stories of Hans Christian Andersen and Edward Lear are classics of the genre. The French legend of Valentine & Orson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95) further enhances her reputation. Twins are separated at birth; one is raised by a king in a court, the...
In this abbreviated version, A Christmas Carol (Viking Penguin; $14.95) is presented as "A Changing Picture and Lift-the-Flap Book." Thanks to Kareen Taylerson's ingenious designs, young readers can move a lever and create a banquet, make Jacob Marley materialize out of the air and, finally, reprieve Ebenezer...