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Books by Petra Mathers
  | | Button Up!(Reprint) Wrinkled Rhymes by Alice Schertle, Petra Mathers Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 2013 by Hmh Books For Young Readers ISBN-13: 978-0-544-02269-0, ISBN: 0-544-02269-6 "I'm a hand-me-down sweatshirt with zipper and hood. I'm everyone's favorite and still looking good. Clothes take on a personality all their own in this "fashionable" poetry collection. A colorful array of outfits are brought to vivid life by Alice Schertle's wry poetry and Petra Mathers's exuberant cast of animal characters. From Joshua's cozy jammies to Emily's frilly undies, the duds on display in this perfectly stitched poetry coll ..." |
 | | Lottie's New Beach Towel(Reprint) (Lottie's World) by Petra Mathers Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2001 by Aladdin Picture Book ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84441-6, ISBN: 0-689-84441-7 "One beautiful summer day Lottie, a chicken, is squeezing lemons when a package arrives. It's a red-and-white polka-dotted beach towel from her Aunt Mattie with a note that says, "This might come in handy this summer." Boy, does it! Young readers will revel in the simple story of a day at the beach with absurd little twists. Lottie's friend Herbie is a duck, has a boat, and wears a hat labeled "Capitano." When he picks her up from the sh ..." |
 | | Tell Me a Season(1st Edition) by Mary Mckenna Siddals, Petra Mathers Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2001 by Hmh Books For Young Readers ISBN-13: 978-0-618-13058-0, ISBN: 0-618-13058-6 "“This small and simple concept book describes the colors in a spring morning, a summer day, a fall evening, and a winter night. Four specific scenes lead up to each panoramic double-page spread that features a farmhouse with a girl and a boy, a cat and a dog. Siddals’s appropriately straightforward and economical text is brought to life by Mather’s folksy watercolors. . . . It is well done without being overdone, and the size is just ri ..." |
 | | Borreguita and the Coyote(Reprint) by Verna Mathe Aardema, Petra Mathers, Howard True Wheeler, Paul Showers, Barbara E. Barber, Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Charles Micucci, Helen Lester, David A. Adler, Peggy Parish, Paul Fleischman, Arthur Dorros, Alice Mclerran, Michelle Edwards, Foresman And Company Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 1998 by Dragonfly Books ISBN-13: 978-0-679-88936-6, ISBN: 0-679-88936-1 "What's a little lamb to do about a fierce coyote that wants to eat her? Why, trick him, of course...and and trick him again...and trick him one more time! Here's a lively retelling of a Mexican folk tale by master story teller Verna Aardema, illustrated in bold, winning colors by Petra Mathers." |
 | | Strange Mr. Satie(Reprint) Composer of the Absurd by M.T. Anderson, Petra Mathers Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2016 by Candlewick ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-8775-5, ISBN: 0-7636-8775-8 "In a brilliant performance worthy of the composer, M. T. Anderson and Petra Mathers present a picture-book biography of the singular Erik Satie. "Throughout his life, Erik Satie wanted to make a new kind of music, a kind of music both very young and very old, very bold and very shy, that followed no rules but its own." At first glance, Erik Satie looked as normal as anyone else in Paris one hundred years ago. Beyond his shy smile, howev ..." |
 | | Pierre In Love(1st Edition) (Golden Kite Awards) by Sara Pennypacker, Petra Mathers Hardcover, 40 Pages, Published 2007 by Orchard Books ISBN-13: 978-0-439-51740-9, ISBN: 0-439-51740-0 "A charming story about finding the courage to tell someone special how you feel about them.Poor Pierre wishes he could tell Catherine how he feels about her, but Catherine is a graceful ballet teacher, and Pierre is merely a poor fisherman.By making a few silly mistakes and a few more brave decisions, Pierre soon learns that being a fisherman may not make him so hard to love after all.Pennypacker weaves a sweet story about finding the c ..." |
 | | Strange Mr. Satie(1st Edition) (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) by M.T. Anderson, Petra Mathers Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2003 by Viking Juvenile ISBN-13: 978-0-670-03637-0, ISBN: 0-670-03637-4 "HardCover. Pub Date: 2003 09 Pages: 32 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated In Paris at the turn of the twentieth century when Artists were Experimenting with new ways of seeing Things Erik Satie had something new to say about music. Most people didn't understand his pieces; critics called his music surreal. But Erik Satie didn't care. He wanted to make music that followed no rules but its own. Satie's life was strange and wonder ..." |
 | | McElderry Book of Mother Goose McElderry Book of Mother Goose (Mcelderry Books) by Petra Mathers Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Margaret K. Mcelderry Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-689-85605-1, ISBN: 0-689-85605-9 "Mother Goose gets a makeover in this vibrant new collection of childhood classics.This innovative Mother Goose collection combines family favorites with less well-known rhymes in a bright, new package. Here Little Miss Muffet and her tuffet meet Gregory Griggs and his twenty-seven wigs, and the cat and the fiddle are not the only music-makers—there’s also Terrence McDiddler the Three-Stringed Fiddler. From “Hickory, Dickory Dock” to ..." |
 | | Button Up!(1st Edition) Wrinkled Rhymes by Alice/ Mat Schertle, Petra Mathers Hardcover, 40 Pages, Published 2009 by Hmh Books For Young Readers Picture Book ISBN-13: 978-0-15-205050-4, ISBN: 0-15-205050-7 "Language:Chinese.Hardcover. Pub date: 2009 Pages: 40 Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books Did you Actually think shoes jackets and hats did not have personalitites Think again! The outfits in this book are Ought to Vivid life by Alice Schertle's WRY poetry and Petra Mathers's exuberant cast of young animal characters. From Joshua's cozy jammies to Emily's frilly undies. the duds on display in this perfectly stitched poetry collection are ..." |
 | | In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden(1st Edition) by Jack Prelutsky, Petra Mathers Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2007 by Greenwillow Books ISBN-13: 978-0-06-623868-5, ISBN: 0-06-623868-4 " So much to see! So much to do! Open this book, and you can . . . smell the tall flowers in Aunt Giraffe's garden, sip juice with a big blue goose, eat oodles of noodles with some poodles, chirp a cheery song with a little bluebird, fish in a frosty pond, and much, much more! With Jack Prelutsky's twenty-eight hilarious poems and Petra Mathers's brilliant, beautiful paintings, this classic collection for the youngest child is filled t ..." |
 | | The Miraculous Tale of the Two Maries(1st Edition) by Rosemary Wells, Petra Mathers Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2006 by Viking Juvenile ISBN-13: 978-0-670-05960-7, ISBN: 0-670-05960-9 "In the south of France there is a tiny town called Saintes Maries de la Mer. Inside the town church is a wooden boat . . . with two wooden ladiesâone in a rose dress and one in blue. Both are called Marie. Traveling in their modest wooden boat, the mysterious two Saint Maries are said to have performed forty miracles during the 19th century. But who were these two saints? Inspired by this question, Rosemary Wells crafts a vivid portra ..." |
 | | The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders(1st Edition) by Jack Prelutsky, Petra Mathers, Shana Corey Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2002 by Greenwillow Books ISBN-13: 978-0-688-16719-6, ISBN: 0-688-16719-5 "Playful poet Jack Prelutsky and the beloved Petra Mathers (Lottie's New Beach Towel) take youngsters from the heart of South Dakota to Monterey Bay in this extraordinary collection of poems and paintings that belongs on the shelf next to Ride a Purple Pelican and Beneath a Blue Umbrella. As ever, Prelutsky's meter is flawless, and you absolutely read his poems aloud, even if you're sitting in a room by yourself. This is not the g ..." |
 | | The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders(Reprint) by Jack Prelutsky, Petra Mathers Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2005 by Greenwillow Books ISBN-13: 978-0-06-073776-4, ISBN: 0-06-073776-X "Jack Prelutsky is the undisputed master of hilarious verse for the youngest child And Petra Mathers has no equal when it comes to bringing anything with fur or feathers uproariously to life Put the two of them together and you have a modern classic Here are poems about people and animals set in such far flung places as Minot Minneapolis Tuscaloosa Tucumcari and the Grand Canyon Impossible to read only once and memorized by the third rea ..." |
 | | Lottie's New Friend (Lottie's World) by Petra Mathers Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2002 by Aladdin ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84896-4, ISBN: 0-689-84896-X "As Herbie strolls over to his best friend Lottie's house, he's looking forward to some nice, warm cookies and a pleasant chat. But it appears Lottie has found someone else to share her cookies with--a certain "Dodo" from Germany, who once had a part in the movies. Poor Herbie feels left out, until Lottie leaves town, the exotic Dodo is caught in a precarious position, and Herbie is the only one who can help her. Gallantly, Herbie rescue ..." |
 | | Sophie and Lou(Reprint) by Petra Mathers Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 1993 by Trophy Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-06-443331-0, ISBN: 0-06-443331-5 "Shy Sophie, enticed by the dancing that she sees in the studio across the street, sets out to learn on her own." |
 | | Sophie and Lou by Petra Mathers Pasta Dura, 30 Pages, Published 1991 by Harpercollins Childrens Books ISBN-13: 978-0-06-024071-4, ISBN: 0-06-024071-7 "Retells ten traditional myths from various northwest coast Indian tribes." |
 | | The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders by Jack Prelutsky, Petra Mathers Paperback, 63 Pages, Published 2002 by Scholastic ISBN-13: 978-0-439-56058-0, ISBN: 0-439-56058-6 "A collection of poems about people and animals, set in such far-flung places as Minot, Minneapolis, Tuscaloosa, Tucumcari, and the Grand Canyon." |
 | | When Mommy Was Mad by Lynne Jonell, Petra Mathers Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2002 by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books For Young Readers ISBN-13: 978-0-399-23433-0, ISBN: 0-399-23433-0 "Something was wrong with Mommy. She burned the toast. She banged the pots and pans. And she didn't kiss Daddy good-bye. Robbie wonders if she is mad at him, but Christopher doesn't think so. The boys can't think of anything they've done wrong, and although Robbie tries and tries, he can't make Mommy smile again. Illustrated by Petra Mathers" |
 | | A Cake for Herbie(1st Edition) by Petra Mathers Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2000 by Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books ISBN-13: 978-0-689-83017-4, ISBN: 0-689-83017-3 "In Lottie's New Beach Towel and Lottie's New Friend, Petra Mathers evokes the spirit of James Marshall's hippos George and Martha, celebrating the quiet joys of the friendship between Lottie the chicken and Herbie the duck with a feather-light touch. In A Cake for Herbie, Herbie (the star of the third Herbie and Lottie book) decides to enter a poetry contest in which the winner literally takes the cake. Despite the fact that he stays u ..." |
 | | It's My Birthday, Too! by Lynne Jonell, Petra Mathers Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1999 by Penguin Putnam, Incorporated, New York, Ny, U.S.A. ISBN-13: 978-0-399-23323-4, ISBN: 0-399-23323-7 "Christopher would rather have a dog than a little brother who ruins his birthday parties, but when his brother begins to act like a puppy Christopher has a change of heart." |
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