Cindy Derby

• Oct-2025
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A collection of jaunty and mischievously unsettling poems for middle-grade readers from award-winning poet Shannon Bramer and artist Cindy Derby, who brought us Climbing Shadows (NCTE Notable Poetry Book and Verse Novel, shortlisted for the Rocky Mou...

• Apr-2025
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WALL-E meets THE RABBIT LISTENED in this tender picture book about a little wagon who learns to set his own boundaries, by Caldecott Honor-winning creator Cindy Derby.Wheetle just wants to help. He's a wagon after all, and that's what he's meant to d...

• Sep-2023
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Caldecott Honor winner Cindy Derby delivers an endearing picture book about an adorable (and ingenious!) panda bear who must find the grit within to climb--and overcome--a snowy, slippery mountain.Look! A butterfly! Up, up, and away it flutters, flyi...

• Dec-2022
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From Caldecott Honoree Cindy Derby comes an uproarious tale about an etiquette coach and the sentient paint blob that just might teach her proper manners. When etiquette coach Ms. Picklepop teeters off her stool and spills a bucket of paint, a creatu...

• Nov-2020
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From Cindy Derby, the creative mind behind How to Walk an Ant comes an irresistible story about the power of community, inclusion, and empathy in Two Many Birds......

• Mar-2019
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• Mar-2019
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There are nine steps to becoming an ant walker, and Amariyah, the expert ant walker, is here to show you how it's done. This irreverent and quirky picture book follows a young girl as she goes through the process of walking ants, from polite intro...