Shirley Neitzel

• Sep-2005
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At the last minute, a girl needs a costumefor a Halloween party.

She haslace-trimmed pantsa frilly jacketfancy sockssome foil paperand her cat

Who will she be?

The same ingredients add up to two different costumes and a surprise ...

• Jan-2002
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• Mar-2001
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Anyone who can turn pages can read this book.And what fun it is! If you're not felling well today, the prescription for felling better--quickly--is: A box of tissue A cat Cartoons on TV A bear And a whole bedful of other things guaranteed to make any...

• Mar-1999
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In cumulative verses using rebuses, a young boy describes his experiences as engineer on a train with a shiny black locomotive and a bright red caboose. By the creators of The Jacket I Wear in the Snow. ...

• May-1998
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"A familiar story of differing viewpoints between mother and child is presented in charmingly simple cumulative verse and rebuses. A young boy is packing for a trip to visit his grandmother. He fills a shopping bag with his mitt, cars, space ship, wo...

• Sep-1997
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• Mar-1997
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It's Mother's Day, and two children are preparing a breakfast feast for their unsuspecting mother -- to be served in bed, of course. Nothing comes out quite as intended, so it's Mother to the rescue in this extraordinary rebus book....

• Sep-1992
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If you are old enough to talk, you are old enough to read this book. Maybe not every word, but all the important ones. For integrated into the copy are pictures of the objects associated with what the little girl in the story will wear to the party. ...

• Aug-1989
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Rhyme follows rhyme as layer after layer of winter clothing ("bunchy and hot, wrinkled a lot, stiff in the knee, and too big for me ") is first put on and then taken off to the relief of the child bundled inside. Clever rebuses and jaunty illustra...