Rosemary Wells

Rosemary Wells grew up in a house filled with “books, She has written more
dogs, and nineteenth-century music.” After a brief tenure than 120 books that
at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she have received numerous
married and began a career as a book designer, then honors; My Very First
published her own first picture book in 1968. Mother Goose was
From the start, Rosemary Wells’s work has been named both a New York
recognized for its strong sense of humor and realism and Times Book Review Best
its gently rebellious approach to childhood. “I put into Illustrated Children’s
my books all of the things I remember,” she says. “I am Book of the Year and a
an accomplished eavesdropper in restaurants, on trains, Publishers Weekly Best
and at gatherings of any kind. These remembrances are Children’s Book of the Year. From simple board books to
jumbled up and changed, because fiction is always more charming picture books to works of middle-grade fiction,
palatable than truth. Memories become more true as Rosemary Wells creates stories for every age that are
they are honed and whittled into characters and stories.” truer than true.

MOTHER GOOSE
Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells bring the magic of Mother Goose
to children of all ages in these gorgeous collections.

My Very First Mother Goose Here Comes Mother Goose Mother Goose’s Little The Very Best Mother Goose
Twentieth Anniversary Edition HC: 978-0-7636-0683-1 • $22.99 Treasures Book Tower
HC: 978-0-7636-8891-2 • $24.99 HC: 978-0-7636-3655-5 • $17.99 BB: 978-0-7636-4983-8 • $9.99

Books and vibrant language are vitally important early learning tools.
With that in mind, selected poems from Iona Opie’s classic Mother Goose
nursery-rhyme compilations are gathered here in sturdy, baby-friendly
board books just right for lap time, nap time, or any time.

Humpty Dumpty Snuggle Up with One, Two, Three, On the Go with

and Other Rhymes Mother Goose Mother Goose Mother Goose
BB: 978-0-7636-1628-1 • $4.99 BB: 978-0-7636-7867-8 • $8.99 BB: 978-0-7636-8766-3 • $8.99 BB: 978-0-7636-9214-8 • $8.99
 BOAR D BOOK PICTUR E BOOKS

A Visit to Dr. Duck Stella’s Starliner Love Waves

Comforting and friendly, Dr. Duck Stella knows it’s not the size
reassures both patient and parent of the house that makes a
on a first visit to the doctor. happy home, but the love
BB: 978-0-7636-7229-4 • $7.99 found inside it.
HC: 978-0-7636-1495-9 • $15.99
This book offers an ingenious way to ease
the separation anxiety many children feel
when parents go to work or live in separate
homes, or whenever a loved one’s absence
calls for an extra dose of reassurance.
HC: 978-0-7636-4989-0 • $15.99
Midi HC: 978-0-7636-6224-0 • $8.99

FIRST CHAPTER BOOK FELIX AND FIONA

Following Grandfather Felix Stands Tall
In mid-century Boston, Jenny, a A quiet, sweet-natured
young mouse, grieves for her beloved guinea pig stands up to
grandfather. teasing with a tip from his
HC: 978-0-7636-5069-8 • $14.99 bold new friend.
Author’s note available at www.candlewick.com HC: 978-0-7636-6111-3 • $14.99
PB: 978-0-7636-9418-0 • $4.99
Fiona’s Little Lie
What if fibbing to save face
gets someone else in trouble?
Felix helps impulsive Fiona
make things right.
HC: 978-0-7636-7312-3 • $14.99
PB: 978-1-5362-0300-4 • $5.99
Fiona’s Little Accident
When excitement over
show-and-tell causes
Fiona to miss a bathroom
break, Felix reassures his
embarrassed friend.
HC: 978-0-7636-8982-7 • $14.99

MIDDLE-GR ADE HISTOR ICAL FICTION BIOGR APHY

Ivy Takes Care
This compassionately observed
and exquisitely distilled novel
set in mid-century Nevada
is about a heroine with the
exceptional gift of caring for
animals, a heart of gold, and a
budding dream for her future.
HC: 978-0-7636-5352-1 • $15.99
PB: 978-0-7636-7660-5 • $6.99
Also available as an e-book
On the Blue Comet
In 1929, trains and time
travel spur one boy’s
thrilling adventure as he
seeks to rejoin his father.
HC: 978-0-7636-3722-4 • $16.99
PB: 978-0-7636-5815-1 • $8.99
Also available as an e-book
Discussion guide available at
www.candlewick.com
Lincoln and His Boys My Havana: Memories
This intimate, moving of a Cuban Boyhood
portrait of Abraham In a poignant tale that will
Lincoln shows him as resonate with readers, a young
he’s rarely seen — through Cuban immigrant who grew
the eyes of his children. up to be an American architect
HC: 978-0-7636-3723-1 • $16.99 eases his homesickness by
PB: 978-0-7636-8069-5 • $8.99 re-creating the city of Havana.
Also available as an e-book
HC: 978-0-7636-4305-8 • $17.99
Teachers’ guide available at Teachers’ guide available at
www.candlewick.com www.candlewick.com