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Kathy Tucker

Born: in Washington State
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Tucker lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Biography: Tucker always wanted to live in a castle by the sea. Instead, she lives in Illinois, and is the author of such books as ''Do Pirates Take Baths?'' and ''Do Cowboys Ride Bikes?''


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Children

Email: ktucker@labertwhitman.com
Kathy Tucker on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kathy++tucker


Selected Titles

Do cowboys ride bikes?
ISBN: 0807516937 OCLC: 33969375

A. Whitman, Morton Grove, Ill. : 1997.

Humorous rhyming answers to fourteen questions about what it's like to be a cowboy.

Do cowboys ride bikes?.
ISBN: 0807516945 OCLC: 41925513

Albert Whitman ; [Place of publication not identified] : 1999.

Do knights take naps? /
ISBN: 1903012368 OCLC: 46984226

Cat's Whiskers, London : 2001.

Rhyming text explores what it means to be a knight, what he wears, and what he does for fun. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Do pirates take baths?
ISBN: 9781489638618 OCLC: 903473562

Humorous rhyming answers to thirteen questions about the life of pirates.

Do pirates take baths? /
ISBN: 080751697X OCLC: 29876823

A. Whitman, Morton Grove, Ill. : ©1994.

Humorous rhyming answers to eleven questions about the life of pirates.

The leprechaun in the basement /
ISBN: 0807544507 OCLC: 38239261

A. Whitman, Morton Grove, Ill. : 1999.

After encountering a leprechaun, Michael McKeever asks him to help with his family's money problems, but unable to part with his gold, the wee man finds another way to help. It's Saint Patrick's Day and Michael McKeever is about to get the surprise of his life. As he heads into the basement on an errand, he hears someone singing-someone who, unbeknownst to the McKeevers, has been living there for years. Its a leprechaun, complete with pot of gold. Surely the leprechaun can spare some of his treasure to help the McKeevers, but the leprechaun sees things differently.

  The seven Chinese sisters
ISBN: 9780736792929 OCLC: 813253864

Zaner-Bloser, Columbus, O.H. : [2013]

When a dragon snatches the youngest of seven talented Chinese sisters, the other six come to her rescue.

The seven Chinese sisters /
ISBN: 0807573094 OCLC: 50322843

A. Whitman, Morton Grove, Ill. : 2003.

When a dragon snatches the youngest of seven talented Chinese sisters, the other six come to her rescue.

 

 

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