Dan Santat

Aug 30, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Brandon Sanderson |Jake Gyllenhaal |Dan Santat |Lisa Robinson

Sky-based pyrotechnics make for a fun if somewhat confusing telling. In this collaboration between sci-fi novelist Sanderson and Amulet creator Kibuishi, an unreliable narrator informs readers that here be no dragons. “A boy sat in a chair.” The book opens on a bespectacled, light-skinned child in old-fashioned attire. The narration continues, “That’s it. He just sat in a chair,” while on the opposite page, the boy’s chair has unexpectedly whisked him heavenward.

Jul 4, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Henry Winkler |Lin Oliver |Dan Santat |Andrea Beaty

Expanding her expertise, this detecting duck doesn’t disappoint, and neither does this entertaining sequel. In actor Winkler and author Oliver’s follow-up, Willow the duck’s sleuthing skills draw attention to another environmental threat at Dogwood Pond. Once more, Snout the weasel menaces prey, but rather than eating Franny the frog, he wants her to whip up her fried flies at her lily-pad cafe. It’s closed, though, because Franny has an emergency: Her child, Tad the tadpole, has gone missing.

Apr 30, 2024 | bookshop.org | Loyalty Bookstores |Dan Santat

(Author) (Illustrator) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Description Meet two friends who think they're building imaginative worlds with blocks but come to realize they've been building something far greater--a sturdy, solid friendship--in this picturebook by award-winning creators. Two kids build entire worlds out of blocks, cardboard, and imagination.

Jan 19, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Erika Lee |Dan Santat

Full of laughter and sentiment, this is a nudge for readers to dare to try new things. A 1989 summer trip to Europe changes Caldecott Medal winner Santat’s life in this graphic memoir. Young Dan hasn’t experienced much beyond the small Southern California town he grew up in. He stays out of trouble, helps his parents, and tries to go unnoticed in middle school. That plan gets thwarted when he is made to recite poetry at a school assembly and is humiliated by his peers.

Jan 10, 2024 | vancouversun.com | Kayla Miller |Lisa Yee |Dan Santat |Jenny Odell

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