Recommended for ages 3+

Local children's author, Jane Wattenberg joins us at The Bug to read and sign her new book The Duck and The Kangaroo.  Jane will also lead a special arts and crafts project after the story! 

Jane Wattenberg is the author/illustrator of many eye-popping photo-collage books for children.  The NY Times squawked, “Yowza!” for her hip-hop adaptation of HENNY-PENNY.  Her NEVER CRY WOOF! is howls of fun.  Her accordion novel for babies, MRS. MUSTARD’s BABY FACES is celebrating its 20th year in print. Jane lives with her husband Sam on a hill in San Francisco where she raises chickens and goats, ducks and bees.  The honey harvested is as sweet as sweet can be and the egg yolks, the color of the sun. Jane’s newly illustrated book is THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO by Edward Lear  (Greenwillow Harper/Collins Fall 2009). While traveling around Australia looking for the Johnny Depp of Kangaroos to star in her book, Jane met up with all sorts of odd critters along the way.  Photographing the ducks was another story altogether!  Edward Lear’s naturalist art, and that of others from the 18th and 19th C, is woven into the photo pages as well.  This is an interspecies romance, a love song, lush and roo-mantic.

The Duck and the Kangaroo (Hardcover)

By Edward Lear, Jane Wattenberg

$17.99

ISBN-13: 9780061366833
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Greenwillow Books, 10/2009

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Meet Duck. Duck has a yen for travel and adventure. Duck also has some very wet, cold feet and a gift for loyalty and compromise.

Meet Kangaroo. Kangaroo has been around the world and back, and is looking for a little bit of luck.

Or a duck.

When Duck and Kangaroo meet, it’s a match made in . . . heaven.  Ah, love—ain’t it grand?

And who so happy,—O who, As the Duck and the Kangaroo?

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Henny-Penny (Hardcover)

By Jane Wattenberg

$16.95

ISBN-13: 9780439078177
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Scholastic Press, 4/2000

"Chikabunga " The alarmist chicken and all her funny feathered friends are back Henna-Penny thinks the sky is falling when an acorn smacks her on her fine red comb. Come flock along as she and her barnyard pals take a side-splitting trip around the world to tell the king. Jane Wattenberg masterfully retells the classic tale, combining wit and ingenuity in a rhythmic text. The brilliantly conceived photo-compositions are filled with hilarious details, sure to make the imaginations of readers of all ages take flight.

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Mrs. Mustard's Baby Faces (Board Books)

By Jane Wattenberg

$6.95

ISBN-13: 9780811859677
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Chronicle Books, 11/2007

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Nothing is more enticing to a baby than another baby. Now in a bigger size and with brand-new vibrantly colored backgrounds, Chronicle's groundbreaking board book is better than ever! The 12 pictures of darling baby faces help infants and toddlers explore a complicated range of emotions by showing both happy, smiling babies and cranky, crying babies. The book opens accordion style, so it can stand up in a crib or on the floor to amuse even the youngest infant.

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