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Phyllis Root

Born: 1949 in Forth Wayne, Indiana
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Lived in Chicago

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Children

Phyllis Root on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=phyllis+root


Selected Titles

Big belching bog
ISBN: 9780816633593 OCLC: 617508666

University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis : ©2010.

Introduces the inhabitants of Minnesota's peat bogs, explains methane gas production, and imagines what a bog's burp must sound like.

Creak! said the bed /
ISBN: 0763620041 OCLC: 419262556

Candlewick Press, Somerville, Mass. : 2010.

In the middle of a dark, stormy night, one child, then another, then a third wake their mother and ask to climb into the bed, but when the last member of the family arrives Papa declares there is no more room.

Flip, flap, fly! /
ISBN: 0763631094 OCLC: 314413457

Candlewick Press, Somerville, Mass. : 2009.

A baby bird, fish, snake, otter, duck, mouse, and child merrily meet at a pond after being helped by their mamas all morning.

Flip, flap, fly! :
ISBN: 9781406346824 OCLC: 820109031

Walker Books, London : 2013.

Kiss the cow /
ISBN: 0763620033 OCLC: 51986802

Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA : 2003, ©2000.

Annalisa, the most curious and stubborn of Mama May's children, disobeys her mother and upsets the family cow by refusing to kiss her in return for the milk she gives.

Lilly and the pirates
ISBN: 9781629795911 OCLC: 959830354

Ten-year-old Lilly, a worrier who greatly fears the sea, leaves the home of her librarian great-uncle and sets out with an old woman pirate to rescue her parents, who were shipwrecked while seeking the elusive frangipani fruit fly on an uncharted island.

Lilly and the pirates /
ISBN: 1590785835 OCLC: 435967527

Front Street, Honesdale, Pa. : 2010.

Ten-year-old Lilly, a worrier who greatly fears the sea, leaves the home of her librarian great-uncle and sets out with an old woman pirate to rescue her parents, who were shipwrecked while seeking the elusive frangipani fruit fly on an uncharted island.

Looking for a moose /
ISBN: 0763638854 OCLC: 191922621

Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Mass. : 2008, ©2006.

Four children set off into the woods to find a moose.

Lucia and the light
ISBN: 9780763622961 OCLC: 64688978

Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Mass. : 2006.

One winter in the Far North the sun disappears and Lucia, accompanied by her milk-white cat, braves the freezing cold and trolls who want to eat her, trying to find the sun and bring it back.

  One duck stuck
ISBN: 1894807588 OCLC: 61102550

[TumbleBooks], [Toronto, Ont.] : [2003]

In this counting book, increasingly larger groups of animals try to help a duck that is stuck in the sleepy, slimy marsh.

One duck stuck /
ISBN: 0763615668 OCLC: 37418333

Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Mass. : 1998.

In this counting book, increasingly larger groups of animals try to help a duck that is stuck in the sleepy, slimy marsh. One duck is stuck in the muck. Can two fish, tails going swish, help? What about three moose, munching on spruce? Will four crickets, chirping in the thickets, be able to pull the unlucky duck out of the muck? With bright, spirited illustrations by Jane Chapman, this counting tale by Phyllis Root is a feast of sounds and numbers that will have young listeners scrambling to join the slippy, sloppy fun.

  Rattletrap car
ISBN: 9780763641399 OCLC: 406318062

Candlewick Press, Cambridge MA : 2009.

Various disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem.

Rattletrap car /
ISBN: 0763620076 OCLC: 42980102

Candlewick Press, Cambridge MA : 2001.

Various disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem.

Thirsty Thursday
ISBN: 9780763636289 OCLC: 428981124

Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA : 2009.

One Thirsty Thursday on Bonnie Bumble's farm, everyone is dry and thirsty, especially the flowers. The black-eyed Susans are spoiling for a fight, and the clouds refuse to even drop by. But when a little cloud blows past at last, Bonnie comes up with a clever plan that calls for interspecies cooperation.

 

 

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