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15,000 | 2 | Sarah Dillard was briefly a Brownie and a Junior Scout. She fondly remembers making macaroni necklaces and, less fondly, one horrible camping trip when she had to eat the worst oatmeal ever. On the brighter side, Sarah studied art at Wheaton College and illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. Some of her previous books include Perfectly Arugula and Extraordinary Warren. She lives in Waitsfield, Vermont, with her husband. Visit Sarah at sarahdillard.com.; Title: Mouse Scouts | [
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15,001 | 1 | "Moving and filled with hope.... Red retells the story of the strong-minded girl in the red riding hood as a quest for friendship and self-knowledge."Shelf Awarenessstarred review"Liesl Shurtliff has truly outmagicked herself. Red is the most wonder-filled fairy tale of them all." Chris Grabenstein, New York Times Bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library"Liesl Shurtliffs fairy tales are full of wit and wild imagination, with surprises at every bend in the path." Caroline Carlson, author of The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates"Red's narration is dry and sassy, her mishaps colorful, her quest eventful . . . and what is most heartening is how Red and Goldie grow and brave it all together. Fairy-tale fun with resonant depth." --Kirkus"Redtakes readers on a wild roam through story land, with plenty of magic and danger around every corner....This is pure fun for fans of classic stories cleverly retold."--School Library JournalFrom the Hardcover edition.Liesl Shurtliff grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has spent many magical days and nights in the woods. For better or worse, she has never come in contact with a wolf.Before she became a writer, Liesl graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in music, dance, and theater. Her first book,Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin,was named to over twenty state award lists and won an IRA Childrens Book Award, as well as earning a starred review fromKirkus,proclaiming it as good as gold. Her second book,Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk,was also a hit with both critics and kids. She lives in Chicago with her family, where she continues to spin fairy tales. Follow her on Twitter at @LieslShurtliff or visit her at LieslShurtliff.com.; Title: Red: The (Fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hood | [
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15,003 | 1 | R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling childrens author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented bestselling Goosebumps series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide media phenomenon.R.L. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition. He lives in New York, NY.10Dr. Smollets lab was in a three-story white stucco building. A barbed wire fence surrounded the place. I saw empty lots on both sides. No stores or houses on the block.He opened the gate with a key and led us to the white front door. I saw rows of tiny windows rising up to the flat red roof. All the windows were barred.As soon as we stepped inside, I heard the shrill cries.Animal cries. Shrieks and howls. Muffled behind a long row of closed doors.Dr. Smollet noticed my surprise. Dont pay any attention, he said. We do a lot of animal experiments here. The animals are all well cared for.We started down a long white hall. Even the carpet was white. The animal cries became fainter as we turned a corner that led into another white hall.Nicky and Tara glanced around nervously.Did our parents work here? Tara asked.37Dr. Smollet nodded. He led us into a big square room filled with computer equipment. The walls were solid white. Bright lights beamed down from the low ceiling.I saw rows of laptops on two long tables. Cables stretched above our heads. Large electronic machines beeped and hummed against one wall. Red and blue lights blinked.Flat-screen monitors filled another wall. The monitors flashed numbers and equations and formulas.Dr. Smollet pulled off his raincoat and suit jacket and tossed them on a chair. He tugged down the sleeves of his starched white shirt. I could still hear the animal shrieks in the distance. Sad, frightened cries. They made me feel frightened too.Had we made a big mistake?I swallowed hard. My mouth was suddenly very dry, and my hands felt as cold as ice. I jammed them into my jeans pocketsand felt the deck of trick cards.Will I get out of here in time to see Ballantine?The lab was neat and clean. The monitors blinked silently. The big electronic machines clicked and hummed. Dr. Smollet smiled as the three of us gazed around.This lab belonged to your parents, he told Nicky and Tara. This is where they worked. And I worked here alongside them.Wow, Nicky said, shaking his head. He walked up to a long table of laptops. I think I remember being here. Its a faint memory. But its coming back to me.Yes, I remember the computers, Tara said. And all those wires and cables on the ceiling.She tugged at her dangling plastic earrings.She always pulled them when she was thinking hard or trying to remember something.We were here, Nicky, she said. I know we were. Why cant I remember it better?Dr. Smollet leaned on the table with his hands.Thats what were here to find out, he said.He pointed to the machines against the wall.Your parents and I worked here, capturing evil ghosts. Your parents were on a mission. They believed that a lot of the evil in the world was caused by these spirits. Your parents found a way to capture them and keep them prisoner here.Dr. Smollet sighed. But one evil ghosta man named Phearsescaped. I tried to fight him off. But he was too powerful for me. He injured me. He knocked me out. When I came to, all the evil ghosts had escaped. Phears had freed them all.Weweve run into Phears, Nicky said.Dr. Smollets blue eyes grew wide. You and your sister were here in the lab on that awful day. Dont you remember? Dont you understand?Nicky and Tara froze. They stared at him. Speechless.We . . . didnt know, Tara said finally.You were visiting your parents here, Dr. Smollet said. When Phears escaped, he did something to your family. To all four of you.You were here, I said. Didnt you see what happened to them?Dr. Smollet shook his head. No. I didnt see anything. I was out cold.He took a deep breath and smoothed back his white hair. But I have someone here who saw everything, he said. I have a witness. I told you his name. Mr. Harvey.Where is he? Tara asked.Nicky strode up to Dr. Smollet. Can we talk to him? Is he here now?Dr. Smollet nodded. Mr. Harvey is the only one who saw everything that happened that day.He saw Phears escape. He saw Phears free the other ghosts. And he saw what Phears did to you and your parents.The scientist loosened his tie. It was cool in the lab, but beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.Mr. Harvey may know the secret. He may know how to bring your family back to life, he said, gazing intently at my two ghost friends. Pleasecan we see him? Tara cried. Can we talk to him now?Dr. Smollet cleared his throat. He tugged at his tie again. Well . . . theres a small problem. Ill show you.He swung away from the table and walked quickly out of the lab. The door closed behind him.Nicky and Tara stared at each other. Then they turned to me.I . . . I dont know what to say, Tara confessed.Im shaking!Me too, Nicky said, his voice cracking. He pumped his fists in the air. This is too good to be true. Do you think Mr. Harvey really can bring us back to life? And tell us what happened to us?The lab door swung open.Dr. Smollet stepped in, followed by another figure.This is Mr. Harvey, Dr. Smollet said.Taras mouth dropped open.Nicky gasped.I stared hard at Mr. Harvey. My brain felt as if it was spinning in my head. But . . . but . . . , I stammered. Mr. Harvey is a chimp!11Dr. Smollet led the chimp by the hand.Mr. Harvey loped into the room, bouncing as he walked. He kept shaking his head, his lips moving silently. Then he pulled back his lips and gave us a toothy grin.The chimp was about three feet tall. He wore bright red spandex bike shorts. He had a red baseball cap on his head. But as he crossed the room toward us, he pulled the cap off and tossed it across the lab.Hoo hoo hoo. He made chimp noises and bobbed up and down, his hands on his hairy knees.Tara stormed up to Dr. Smollet angrily. Is this some kind of stupid joke? she demanded.Nicky pulled Tara back. Lets go, he muttered.This is totally insane.No, wait the scientist said. He petted the back of the chimps head. Mr. Harvey flashed us another grin. I told you there was a problem, Dr. Smollet said.How could you do that to them? I cried.How could you get their hopes up like that? I felt as disappointed as Nicky and Tara.Please let me explain, Dr. Smollet said. He lifted Mr. Harvey onto a tall wooden lab stool at the counter. The chimp reached out and started to play with Dr. Smollets white hair.Dr. Smollet pulled the chimps hand away. Be a good boy, Mr. Harvey. This is a big day for you, he said.He turned to us. Yes, Mr. Harvey is a chimp. But he was here in the lab when Phears escaped. He saw what happened to you and your parents. He was the only witness.But he cant talk! Tara screamed.Hoo hoo hoo, Mr. Harvey said. He reached for Dr. Smollets hair again.Dr. Smollet raised a finger. But Ive found a way to make him talk, he said. Just listen to me.He motioned to the stools at the counter. The three of us took seats.Its simple, really, Dr. Smollet said. It sounds more frightening than it is.What are you talking about? Tara demanded. Theres only one way to learn what Mr. Harvey knows, Dr. Smollet said. We switch his brain with the brain of a live human.Nicky and Tara both turned to me. You mean Max?; Title: Freaks and Shrieks (Mostly Ghostly) | [
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15,004 | 2 | PreS-Gr 1Teachers and parents today know the importance of teaching young children resilience. This book explores common childhood frustrations, acknowledges the feelings, and helps point the way toward coping. The difficulties are everyday occurrences such as ice cream melting or legs getting scraped, not large-scale tragedies, so the tone remains optimistic throughout. Not every situation will resonate with every child, but the premise of looking for the positive has universal appeal. The book design and cheerful, exuberant pictures carry out the theme. A color-saturated full page describes the problem, along with a single page illustration. The "problem" spread leads to a two-page image celebrating a constructive outcome. For example, in the sandwich section, the text reads, "It's sad to drop your sandwich in the sandbut it will make some seagulls very happy." The illustration shows that another child split her own undropped sandwich and shared, helping children understand that sometimes they have to look further for a solution. Adults can forget how things that seem small to them can be significant in a child's world. The warm tone of this story is a reassuring reminder to children that a situation can be bad, but they will be okay. The simple design leaves room for exploration, writing, and discussion as children could think of something that happened to them and remember or imagine a way to handle it. VERDICT Most libraries will want to add this appealing title.Lucinda Snyder Whitehurst, St. Christopher's School, Richmond, VAJarrett J. Krosoczka is the author and illustrator of Punk Farm, Peanut Butter and Jellyfish, and Baghead, among numerous other picture books, as well as the popular Lunch Lady graphic novel series. He lives with his family and a pug named Ralph Macchio in Northampton, Massachusetts.; Title: It's Tough to Lose Your Balloon | [
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15,005 | 2 | PreS-Gr 1In Room For Bear (Knopf, 2015), Gavin introduced Bear into the duck family, where they are now all living quite happily. So happily, in fact, that Bear does not want to hibernate and miss all the fun the rest of his family will be having. Therefore, he decides to stay awake. He has his winter clothes all ready, and he's not the least bit sleepy. Despite his best efforts and those of his siblings, Bear begins to fall asleep at the most inconvenient timeswhile playing tennis, eating, boating, washing clothes, etc. Mama Duck finally explains that you can't fight who you are and sends Bear off to sleep with the promise that he won't miss a thing. When Bear awakes in the spring, she produces a photo album showing how he was included all winter long. Gavin's sweet and amusing illustrations of ducks and Bear are just as endearing in this story as in the first book. The warm watercolor and pencil depictions are matched with simple, uncluttered text. The end page shows charming "photos" of how Bear was included in the family all winter long. This is a good choice for storytime and individual sharing that pairs well with Monica Carnesi's Sleepover with Beatrice & Bear (Dial, 2014) and Michelle Meadows's Hibernation Station (S. & S., 2010). VERDICT A gentle story about being true to yourself and the love of family.Catherine Callegari, Gay-Kimball Library, Troy, NHCiara Gavin graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland. Her work appears in the National Museum of Decorative Arts and History there and has been exhibited at galleries throughout Ireland. She lives in Dublin with her son.; Title: Bear Is Not Tired | [
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15,006 | 2 | When JEANNE BIRDSALL was young, she promised herself she'd be a writer someday--so she could write books for children to read and enjoy, just as she did at her local library. She is now the author of the Penderwicks series: The Penderwicks, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, and The Penderwicks at Point Mouette. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband. You can find out more about Jeanne at JeanneBirdsall.com.; Title: The Penderwicks | [
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15,007 | 15 | Review, CM Magazine, October 15, 2010:"An imaginative and engaging introduction to the concept of composting."Review, Through the Looking Glass, June 1, 2010:"This wonderful rhyming picture book will show children how easy, and how fun, composting can be."Review, San Francisco Chronicle:"Bouncy rhymes and busy collage art zip along as everything from apple cores to zinnia heads gets tossed into a rich and rotting soil-bound mix. A potentially heavy-handed message is delivered with a light touch so that you want to start your own waste heap right away. Mission accomplished!"Review, Washington Post:"When it comes to promoting environmentalism, there's no harm in starting young....Ashley Wolff's collage-style illustrations, made from newspaper, tea bags and other recycled materials, echo writer Mary McKenna Siddals's message of reducing waste." Review, Booklist:"This title highlights a subject rarely covered in youth books and provides a lighthearted introduction to an earth- and kid-friendly activity. The brightly patterned collage artwork featuring a cast of multicultural kids working together will easily draw a young audience."Compost Stew is beautiful, poetic, evocativeand educational. It provides such vital, important information for children (and adults) to understand and embrace, and to put into practice! This book greatly respects its readers, and I hope it will become as widely read and popular as it deserves.Mollie Katzen, author of Moosewood Cookbook and Pretend SoupMARY McKENNA SIDDALS is the author of several picture books for the very young, including Millions of Snowflakes. In addition, she has written dozens of childrens stories, articles, poems, and activities appearing in a variety of magazines. A former teacher, she lives in British Columbia, Canada, where she enjoys tending to her own batch of Compost Stew.ASHLEY WOLFF is the author and/or illustrator of more than sixty childrens books, including Baby Beluga; I Love My Mommy Because; I Love My Daddy Because; Mamas Milk; Stella and Roy Go Camping; I Call My Grandma Nana; I Call My Grandpa Papa; When Lucy Goes Out Walking; and the beloved Miss Bindergarten series. Ashley wrangles thousands of red wriggler compost worms in her San Francisco backyard garden. She grows flowers, vegetables, and an amazingly prolific persimmon tree.; Title: Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth | [
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15,008 | 15 | MAXWELL EATON III grew up in Vermont, where he spent his childhood climbing trees, damming streams, and spying on unsuspecting cows. He now creates children's books in Tucson, Arizona, where the trees can't be climbed, and the streams run dry, but the cows are still relatively unsuspecting. He is the author and illustrator of The Adventures of Max and Pinky series, Two Dumb Ducks, and the Flying Beaver Brothers series.; Title: The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Hot Air Baboons | [
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15,009 | 0 | ROGER DUVOISIN was born in Genva, Switzerland, in 1900, and came to the United States in 1925. He wrote and illustrated 40 books, including those about Petunia the silly goose and Veronica the hippopotamus, and illustrated over 100 more by other authors. He received the Caldecott Medal in 1947 for White Snow, Bright Snow and a Caldecott Honor in 1966 for Hide and Seek Fog, both written by Alvin Tresselt. Roger Duvoisin died in 1980.CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE (1779-1863) was a professor of literature and theology, and the author of the famous poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas", which later became known as the famous "Twas the Night Before Christmas." The poem was first published anonymously, but later was attributed to Moore. Moore's text greatly contributed to the modern-day Santa Claus story.; Title: The Night Before Christmas | [
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15,010 | 2 | Praise for Punk Farm: A Child Magazine Best Book of the Year A Texas Library Association 2X2 Reading List Book Wisconsins WEMTA Golden Archer Award Abilene ISD Mockingbird Award A Junior Library Guild Selection Michigans Mitten Award Nominee Tennessees Volunteer State Book Award Nominee Recommended by NY1, the Boston Globe, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Wichita Eagle, and the Associated Press. Never have Old MacDonald and The Wheels on the Bus seemed so hip. NPR [set star] Laugh-out-loud funny. . . . Fans will definitely want a return engagement. Rock on! Kirkus, starred review Its a wild tale hipster kids will love. Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine The book is fearless in conception and execution, a jazzy comic bit of thievery and transformation. It does not look or sound or behave like your fathers old picture book. The Boston GlobeJarrett J. Krosoczka is the author and illustrator of Punk Farm, Peanut Butter and Jellyfish, and Baghead, among numerous other picture books, as well as the popular Lunch Lady graphic novel series. He lives with his family and a pug named Ralph Macchio in Northamption, Massachusetts. Find him online at studiojjk.com and @studiojjk.; Title: Naptastrophe! | [
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15,011 | 2 | Matthew Cody is the author of several popular books, including the Supers of Noble’s Green trilogy: Powerless, Super, and Villainous. He is also the author of Will in Scarlet and The Dead Gentleman, as well as one other book in the Secrets of the Pied Piper series, The Magician’s Key. Originally from the Midwest, he now lives with his wife and son in Manhattan. Learn more about Matthew and his books at matthewcody.com and @matthew_cody.From the Hardcover edition.Chapter OneOnce there was a girl called Max who had pink hair. According to the label on the dye bottle, the hair color was actually Rosa, which the nice lady at the pharmacy assured her translated to “Wild Magenta,” but in the end it turned out to be ordinary pink. The whole process was far messier than Max had expected, and though she’d read that she’d need a second person to really do the job right, she’d decided to tackle it by herself. There wasn’t anyone around to help her, anyway.She’d imagined trying out pink hair would be like trying out a new Max. The Max that came in the Wild Magenta bottle would be impulsive and free-spirited and exactly the kind of girl who dyed her hair pink one morning on a whim. But as she stared morosely at the bathroom sink and at all the places the dye had stained the porcelain, she didn’t feel any different at all. She was just . . . pinker.As she examined her new look in the bathroom mirror (she’d accidentally dyed the tip of her left ear, too), her brother, Carter, was banging on the bathroom door, telling her he had to go.“What could you possibly be doing in there that would take this long?” her brother complained from the other side of the door, and “If I have to break the door, we’ll both be sorry, especially me, because the door looks really, really sturdy.”Max turned the lock and yanked the door open in one quick motion. She was so fast that Carter was left banging on nothing at all for a second or two before he realized that the door wasn’t closed anymore.Carter had just turned ten, and Max was nearly thirteen, so Max had a good four inches on her younger brother, even when she slouched (which was something she did a lot). She stared down at her brother as she waited for the inevitable snarky quip. There was no way Carter would pass up an opportunity to make fun of her new pink hair. Maybe he’d say she looked like one of those troll dolls you get out of those fifty-cent machines (Max worried that she kind of did). But Carter kept quiet as he shimmied by her, a pained look of concentration on his face as he squeezed his knees together.As they passed each other, Max bumped into Carter and he stumbled on his bad leg, barely catching himself on the marble washbasin.“Oh! Carter, I’m sorry!” said Max, but her brother waved her away.“I’m fine,” he said. “But can I have some privacy, for Pete’s sake?”Max stepped out into the hallway as her brother slammed the door shut. The squeaking floorboards beneath her feet made Max think of chewing on tinfoil. The floorboards back at their apartment in the States didn’t creak like that. Their neighbor who smelled like mothballs let her alarm go off for hours in the morning, and you couldn’t sleep at night with the windows open because of the sounds of people spilling out of the bar across the street, but at least the floorboards stayed quiet.Carter called to her from behind the bathroom door. “You’ve turned your ear pink, you know,” he said.Little monster.When Max went down to the kitchen, she found half a carafe of cold coffee on the table and the lingering, apple-y smell of pipe tobacco--the signs of their father’s recent presence. Max peered into the sink and saw ashes and flakes of tobacco gathered around the drain. Their father never emptied his pipe into the trash can for fear of catching it on fire, so he always tapped it out in the sink. Back home, when their mother wasn’t scolding him for smoking, she was scolding him for forgetting to wash the ashes down the drain. For a few months, Max and Carter had even staged an intervention, hiding their father’s pipe whenever they could, but he always managed to produce a spare one, as if by magic.Earlier that morning, just after dawn, the sound of the squeaking floorboards had awakened Max, and she’d made it to the bedroom window in time to see their father’s gangly frame as he opened the front gate out onto the street. His glasses were perched askew atop his head as usual, and he was walking lopsidedly with his overstuffed briefcase beneath his arm. In the bed next to Max’s, Carter hadn’t even stirred.Now with the kitchen all her own, Max helped herself to what was left of the coffee and picked up one of the German-language newspapers off the table. She liked to play a little game as she flipped through the pages, to see how many English words she could find. She’d just spotted iPhone and Hollywood when the front doorbell buzzed. It was their housekeeper, Mrs. Amsel, waiting on the stoop with a bag of groceries. She was short and squat and had skin so ruddy and wrinkled it looked like leather. And the woman possessed a terrible habit of speaking her mind.“Mein Gott!” said Mrs. Amsel in her heavily accented English. “This was on purpose?” She poked one finger up at Max’s hair.“It’s just hair,” said Max, suddenly and stupidly self-conscious. Why was she embarrassed? Didn’t people dye their hair pink because they wanted other people to look at them? Wasn’t that the whole point?“Ah, such things you children do these days,” said Mrs. Amsel, shaking her head.“I didn’t think it was a big deal,” said Max, just like a carefree girl would. Care. Free.“Mm-hmm,” said Mrs. Amsel. “Well, at least the color makes your cheeks look rosy and plump. Very nice.”As the tiny housekeeper brushed past Max and into the house, Max surreptitiously felt her cheeks. “Plump” was certainly not what she was going for.Their father had hired Mrs. Amsel to tidy up the house they were renting and to cook meals. The woman also kept an eye on Max and her brother, more for their father’s peace of mind than anything else, Max suspected.Mrs. Amsel wiped her forehead with a kerchief. She always wore one over her hair and kept a second one for mopping her sweaty brow. “We’re in for a hot day today!” Then she set the brown paper bag on the kitchen table and began arranging plates of cold cuts and thick, whitish sausages. Next she took out a baguette and a hunk of yellow cheese.“Ah, meine liebe, could you bring me a nice sharp knife?”Max went through the various drawers until she found a long knife with a serrated edge sharp enough for sawing through the thick bread crust. She still didn’t know her way around this new kitchen.“Danke,” said Mrs. Amsel, and she began to saw off generous slices of bread. Max had never been able to guess Mrs. Amsel’s age. She bustled around with the energy of a young woman, but her hair showed white beneath the scarf, and the loose skin at her elbows wiggled as she sawed the baguette.“I brought you and your brother a traditional German breakfast. Mr. Weber’s children won’t starve under my care. And that nice man at the corner grocer gives me a good price on bratwurst.”Everyone Mrs. Amsel talked about was a nice person. The nice man who delivered the mail, the nice woman who made change at the bank. This nice person and that nice person. If Mrs. Amsel was to be believed, then this was the nicest town in all of Europe. But then Max remembered the nice lady at the pharmacy who’d sold her the hair dye. . . . Great, now Max was doing it, too.When Mrs. Amsel was done setting out the spread, it looked more like a lunch buffet than a breakfast. Cold cuts, sausages, bread and cheese. Max had explained to her several times that she was a vegetarian, but the housekeeper either hadn’t understood or was choosing to ignore her. “I’ll just have coffee to start, thanks,” said Max.But Mrs. Amsel snatched the coffee mug from Max’s hands and slid it to the opposite side of the table, far out of Max’s reach. “Coffee stunts your growth,” said Mrs. Amsel. “You want to end up small like me? There’s juice in the icebox.”As Max dragged herself over to the refrigerator, she wondered how much coffee the diminutive woman had to have drunk to stay that size. She didn’t feel like searching the kitchen for a glass, so Max took a long drink of chilled orange juice straight from the bottle. Mrs. Amsel arched her eyebrow at this lack of manners, but she didn’t comment on it.“Did you call your mother last night?”“We talked online.”“You should call your mother.”Max wanted to tell Mrs. Amsel, for the sixteenth time, that talking to her mother online was better than calling because they could actually see each other, but Mrs. Amsel was willfully ignorant about computers and, it seemed, the twenty-first century in general. No matter what Max said, in Mrs. Amsel’s mind, a phone call would always be more personal. Calling your parents when you were away was just the right thing to do.“Did you tell her about your hair?” asked Mrs. Amsel.“No,” said Max. “I only did it this morning. It was an impulse.”“Mm-hmm,” said Mrs. Amsel as she slid a plate piled high with sausages and lunch meat in front of Max’s nose.“And your father?” asked Mrs. Amsel. “What did he say?”Max tried not to stare at the meat mountain in front of her as she nibbled on a piece of plain bread. She had yet to find a toaster in this house. “Dad came home late and left early. We didn’t talk.”Mrs. Amsel didn’t answer at first, but poured herself a cup of coffee instead. “Well,” she said after she’d spooned enough sugar into her coffee to turn it into syrup. “Mr. Weber is an important man. And very busy. That’s why I’m here, meine liebe.”“If he’s so busy, why’d he drag us halfway across the world with him?” said Max. “I would’ve been happier with my mom back in New York, not stuck in this stupid place.”Max immediately regretted not that she’d said it, but how she’d said it. This stupid place was Mrs. Amsel’s home, after all. Max took another bite of bread, not wanting to look the housekeeper in the eye. Max’s father was ruining her life with this stupid trip of his, but that wasn’t Mrs. Amsel’s fault.But if the little woman had taken offense, she didn’t show it. “Where is your brother?” she asked as she pushed herself up from the table. “I promised your father I would show you Old Town today, if the walking is not too much for Carter. The boy’s breakfast is getting cold.”Max didn’t bother pointing out that the traditional German breakfast was mostly cold to begin with.Mrs. Amsel set off in search of Carter, and the floorboards complained as the little housekeeper hauled herself up the rickety steps. Then Max heard her knock on the bathroom door and her brother’s voice loudly respond, “But I just got in here!”With a quick glance toward the stairs, Max reached for her coffee and stole a sip. It was room temperature, and Max didn’t normally take it black, but she didn’t feel like searching for the milk, and she was pretty sure Mrs. Amsel had used up all the sugar.Outside the kitchen window, people were walking briskly along the street, laden with their briefcases and bags as they headed to work, just like back in New York. Cars sped by, and life went on as normally. As Mrs. Amsel had warned, it was turning out to be a hot day already, and Max was wondering if she could figure out how to work the old house’s air conditioner when she spotted something across the street. There was movement in the shade of the grocer’s awning, and at first she thought it must be a cat, but when it moved out into the sunlight, she recognized it for what it really was--a rat. More than one rat, actually, and they were scurrying about the grocer’s fruit stands. What’s more, there was a man standing there as well, and though his torso and head were hidden in the shade, Max could tell that he was very tall, and she could clearly see his muddy shoes and the bottom of his long, threadbare coat. Perhaps he was a street person. There were plenty of those back in New York City, but Max had yet to see one here in this tidy little town. Maybe he was the grocer, and he was content to just let rats play in his food. Max made a mental note to tell Mrs. Amsel not to shop there anymore.Max was leaning out of the open window to get a better look at the man when her view was suddenly obscured by a group of teenage boys strolling past--laughing and shoving each other as they shared some joke. One of them glanced up at Max, but before they could make eye contact, Max quickly retreated from the window. By the time she looked again, the boys had moved on, and the odd man in the black coat, and the rats, were gone as well.Max tugged at a pink lock of hair that had fallen in front of her face and examined it between her fingers. It was a soft pink, like baby pajamas. Nothing wild about it at all, really. Just baby-pajamas hair.“Hamelin stinks,” she muttered.Chapter TwoThe worst thing about Carter’s sister was that she hadn’t always been such a giant pain in the rear end. There was a time, not so long ago, when they’d been friends, not just brother and sister. Back then, coming to this new house their father had rented would have been an adventure. The two of them would have played explorers, searching for hidden rooms and passages. A house this old just had to have secrets.Now, however, Max spent most of her time alone, and when she was with the family, she was constantly staring at her phone or glaring at nothing at all. Carter had been left to explore on his own, and the house had thus far proved to be depressingly ordinary, though Carter held out hope for the cellar. Still, he would have had a better chance at finding something really interesting if Max had helped. They should have been playing detective and staying up well past his bedtime to tell ghost stories by flashlight. But Carter feared it was too late now for his sister, because the Crouch had gotten hold of her.; Title: The Secrets of the Pied Piper 1: The Peddler's Road | [
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15,012 | 2 | Grades 5-8--Grieving over the recent death of her 13-year-old brother from muscular dystrophy and the breakup of her parents' marriage that immediately followed, 12-year-old Dani runs away from home, intending to hike the Appalachian Trail, where her parents met 14 years earlier. Her mother tracks her down in the middle of her second night away, and Dani convinces her to accompany her-first for a few nights, then for a week, and finally for just over two months. Along with discoveries about the natural world, Dani also finds the capacity to hike and to heal emotionally. She improves her relationship with her mother and is able to return home with a changed attitude that will allow her to mend fractured friendships. This is a fairly standard coming-of-age novel with the added benefit of Dani's mother also growing and healing during their time together on the trail. Although they must return home and resume their normal lives, they vow to continue their hike in sections until they complete their goal, which ends the novel on a positive note and hints at a continued closeness between mother and daughter. The book's setting provides a unique backdrop to their mutual journeys of discovery, and an afterword supplies an abbreviated history of the 2163-mile Appalachian Trail.Ellen Fader, Multnomah County Library, Portland, ORCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Sometimes you have to go a long way to find out that home is what you need.From the Hardcover edition.; Title: Halfway to the Sky | [
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15,013 | 13 | Gr 24This intermediate chapter book showcases five very different neighborsHenry (a mouse), Emma (a squirrel), Wilbur (a cat), Violet (a chicken), and Fernando (a rabbit)all living in an apartment building. They help one another in simple ways, such as celebrating a special birthday, as well as with more complicated problems, such as moving a garden about to be demolished or repairing a drippy roof. The chapters are liberally sprinkled with adorable illustrations, and each story begins with a picture of the resident's apartment door, allowing readers to speculate about his or her habits and hobbies. Hand this title to fans of Cynthia Rylant or Patricia MacLachlan or to any reader who prefers a quieter book.Melisa Bailey, Harford County Library System, MDAnna Alter grew up with a great love for drawing, painting, and reading. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied illustration. Anna is the author and illustrator of Disappearing Desmond, A Photo for Greta, and Abigail Spells. Her books have been selected as a CCBC Choice, a Bank Street College Best Childrens Book of the Year, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and a Texas 2x2 Recommended Reading Selection, and have twice been included in the Society of Illustrators Original Art Show.; Title: Sprout Street Neighbors: Five Stories | [
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15,014 | 0 | This is a winner. School Library Journal Smart and witty. The detectives in training use quick thinking, book smarts, and social know-how to find a stolen gemstone. Comical narration and dialogue will charm readers thoroughly. Publishers Weekly An enjoyable plot, resourceful heroines and fun writing. Wall Street Journal Equal parts laughs and adventure, this lively mystery will keep you guessing till the end! Discovery Girls Smart and clever girls who think they know better than anyone else (and probably do) will enjoy this refreshing mystery and the start to whats sure to be an intriguing series. KidsReads A tale of two young girls facing down wicked plots and pernicious deeds.The Center for Fiction A must-read for fans of history, mystery, and witty young women, The Case of the Missing Moonstone is a charming first installment of what is sure to be a spectacular series. Middle Shelf Magazine Promises to be a classic for young modern sleuths.Portland Book ReviewJORDAN STRATFORD is a producer, author, and screenwriter. Stratford launched the idea for the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency series on Kickstarter, where the response was overwhelming enthusiasm. Mr. Stratford lives on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada, with his wife and children and is hard at work on the next book in the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency series.From the Hardcover edition.; Title: The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 1) | [
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15,015 | 1 | "Featuring a new interpretation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, this novel weaves other nursery rhyme characters throughout the story. Beautifully written with thought-provoking vocabulary, its best suited for strong readers who will also recognize the themes of social justice. Highly recommended."School Library Journal, starred reviewKatherine Coville is an artist, a sculptor, and a doll maker. She has also illustrated more than 30 books, many written by her husband, Bruce Coville. Katherine lives in Syracuse, New York, with Bruce and a varying assortment of pets. This is her first book for young readers.; Title: The Cottage in the Woods | [
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15,016 | 2 | Gr 47Julia Lancaster, 11, lives happily with her very proper grandmother and Aunt Constance in their family's historic home, Windy Ridge, in 1968. She knows that her mother has left her to become a hippie but doesn't have a clear picture of why or what being hippie really means. Julia's life changes drastically when her grandmother dies the next day. The girl's beloved home and all its contents are sold, and she and Aunt Constance leave New York's Hudson Valley to find Julia's mother. They set out in a station wagon jammed packed with the family's "essential" things for travel, including a silver tea set, candlestick, and an assortment of furs and other finery. These are the things, Aunt Constance tells her, that make them Lancasters. Their search takes them on an adventure around the country, and Julia's world broadens with each stop. She sees exactly what hippies are in Greenwich Village; in New Orleans they confer with a voodoo priestess who counsels them that they will see Julia's mother but not find her. In Texas, they enjoy the hospitality of a rancher with a staff of Chinese cowboys, and on through the southwest, where they meet the sheriff and only resident of a deserted gold-mining town. Each character is delightful and quirky, and readers will enjoy all of them. The story comes to a somewhat predictable conclusion, but it hardly matters. This book is filled with familial love and the joy of traveling, and readers will appreciate Julia's journey.Patricia Feriano, Montgomery County Public Schools, MDLesley M. M. Blume is an author and journalist. She lives in New York City, but is a nomad at heart. When she travels the world, she always takes with her a trunk filled with glistening practical-travel things. She has written five previous novels for Knopf, including Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, The Rising Star of Rusty Nail, and Tennyson, which the Chicago Tribune praised for its brilliant, unusual writing.; Title: Julia and the Art of Practical Travel | [] | Train |
15,017 | 0 | "A splendid achievement." School Library Journal (Starred Review)In Frederick, a mouse who is a poet from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail demonstrates that a seemingly purposeless life is indeed far from thatand that we need not live by bread alone!Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry CaterpillarWhen dreary winter comes, it is Frederick the poet-mouse who warms his friends and cheers them with his words. Wilson Library Bulletin LEO LIONNI wrote and illustrated more than 40 picture books, including four Caldecott Honor books; Inch by Inch, Swimmy, Frederick, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. He died in 1999 at the age of 89.; Title: Frederick (Step Into Reading, Step 3) | [
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15,018 | 0 | 1944. Wartime. A six-year-old boy goes to spend the summer with his grandmother Alida in a small town near the Canadian border. With the men all gone off to fight, the women are left to run the farms. Theres plenty for the boy to dotrying to help with the chores, getting to know the dog, and the horses, cows, pigs, and chickens. But when his cousin Kristina goes into labor, he cant do a thing. Instead, the house fills with women come to help and to wait, and to work on a quilt together. This is no common, everyday quilt, but one that contains all the stories of the boys family. The quilt tells the truth, past and future: of happiness, courage, and pain; of the greatest joy, and the greatest loss. And as they wait, the women share these memorable stories with the boy.From the Hardcover edition.Gary Paulsen is the author of more than 100 books, among them the bestselling Brian’s Winter, The River, Brian’s Return, and Brian’s Hunt. He divides his time between a ranch in New Mexico and his boat on the Pacific Ocean.From the Hardcover edition.; Title: The Quilt | [
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15,019 | 11 | Gr 46Sophie Brown is new to farm life, new to being one of the only "brown people" in town (the others being her mother and Gregory, the mailman), and definitely new to caring for chickensand these are some challenging chickens. To help herself adjust to life away from Los Angeles and her extended family, she writes letters to her great-uncle Jim and her beloved Abuelita, both recently deceased, and embarks on a correspondence course in poultry care with the mysterious Agnes of Redwood Farm Supply. Agnes's poorly typed responses assure Sophie that the chickens that keep turning up on the farm (including Henrietta, a small white hen with a permanent unibrow of fury) belonged to her great-uncle, from whom Sophie's father inherited the farm and who implores her to keep the chickens safeand to be careful. But how will she protect chickens that are capable of levitating their own coop, becoming invisible, and turning enemies to stone? And why does the town's resident chicken expert, Ms. Griegson, seem intent on stealing Sophie's brood? Told in letters, quizzes, newspaper clippings, and delicious ink drawings reminiscent of Quentin Blake, this middle grade epistolary novel has a little magic and a lot of warm family humor. Jones delivers a dynamic Latina protagonist in Sophie, who describes her experiences in satisfying detail: the discomfort of facing microaggressions based on her heritage (such as when the town librarian assumes that she and her family are migrant workers); love and concern for her parents, both struggling to find and keep work; and willingness to learn and grow despite typical tween self-consciousness. VERDICT Readers will cheer for Sophie and clamor for more of those amazing chickens. Exceptional, indeed.Amy Martin, Oakland Public Library, CA"A delightful protagonist, interesting fowl of various breeds and a cast of appealing second-string characters make this a top pick for young readers, poultry fanciers or not."Kirkus Reviews,starred review"Readers will cheer for Sophie and clamor for more of those amazing chickens. Exceptional, indeed."School Library Journal,starred review"Someone has finally written a real honest-to-goodness novel withchickens!This news will excite people who like novels, people who likechickens...and chickens.It is an unusual book!" --Daniel Pinkwater, author of The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, and pioneer of chicken-lit."The combination of real-life emotion and otherworldly farming makes for a comedic story with the right amount of pathos."--Booklist; Title: Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer | [
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15,020 | 2 | Gr 47Book 1 of Cody's trilogy introduced modern siblings Max and Carter and a posse of centuries-old children lured by the Pied Piper from Hamelin, Germany, to a magical island. The second volume finds Carter trekking through the fairy tale-infused Summer Isle with several New Hameliners, plus a feisty elf and a dim-witted kobold, alternately fleeing from and seeking out Slavic witches, human-size rats, and the villainous Piper himself. Sister Maxabruptly returned to the real world at the end of the first installmentteams up with an elfling and a trollson to defeat a nefarious magician and make it back to the Isle to rescue Carter and their parents. Like the earlier title, this novel juggles a convoluted cast of characters with shifting allegiances and often opaque motivations, who traverse vast distances both in the real and magical realms. With so many elements in play, the better-developed characters from The Peddler's Road receive less differentiation here, though Cody deserves credit for making new villain Vodnik a figure of grotesque cruelty but keeping him from being too terrifying. The narrative sprawl prevents readers from investing fully in any of the main characters, and the first book's touching sibling dynamicMax's protectiveness in tension with Carter's hard-won independencesuffers as the pair navigate separate worlds. In addition, some readers may be uneasy when the Piper magically "fixes" Carter's physical disability without consulting the boy. Still, derring-do abounds, fantastical creatures flourish, and (some) foes are vanquished. VERDICT Fans of The Peddler's Road will likely enjoy this somewhat ungainly second installment in this folktale adventure series.Robbin E. Friedman, Chappaqua Library, NY"The intersection of magic and modernity provides an interesting forum for the discussion of racial profiling, disenfranchised individuals, and the effects of evil in the world. Able writing and storytelling weave these themes into a story that won't disappoint.Depth and complexity are added to great effect in this second installment." -Kirkus Reviews; Title: The Secrets of the Pied Piper 2: The Magician's Key | [
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15,021 | 2 | PreS-Gr 1The family from Lobel's 10 Hungry Rabbits (Knopf, 2012) is back. When Mama gets sick, her little bunnies go out of their way to cheer her up while they wait for Papa to come home with the medicine. They bring her a fresh handkerchief, hot chocolate, a bright picture, a toy, a book (which just happens to be 10 Hungry Rabbits), and oodles of other odds and ends until their caring makes their mother feel better. Illustrated in Lobel's characteristic folk-art style, the mix of vignettes and spreads bursts with lively colors. Though small in size and length, this sweet and funny story does not lack for cozy charm and would be a wonderful book for little ones to share when comforting their own indisposed mamas (or papas).Yelena Alekseyeva-Popova, formerly at Chappaqua Library, NYLooking pale, Mama stays in bed one morning, while Papa goes out for medicine, and her 10 little rabbits try to help her feel better. Each finds something to comfort her or cheer her up. One by one, they bring their choices: a handkerchief, hot chocolate, a toy lamb, an apple, a cookie, a flower, a ribbon, a necklace, a crayoned picture, and a book. When Papa returns, Mama no longer needs medicine, as the little rabbits have made her feel better. In the bouyant acrylic-and-watercolor artwork, the helpers are intent on their tasks. Young children will be charmed by the notion that, when needed, the little rabbits become thoughtful caregivers for their mother. The text is short and the illustrations are long on color, lively patterns, and interesting details. Attentive viewers may notice Mamas large girth and, after the copyright information on the last page, a little painting of a basket with 10 tiny pink-and-blue-clad bunnies, but thats another story. Preschool-Kindergarten. --Carolyn Phelan; Title: Taking Care of Mama Rabbit | [
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15,022 | 0 | eat detective, and his dog, Sludge, are off to San Francisco! They're going to visit Nate's cousin Olivia Sharp. She's a detective, too, and a very busy one.Olivia isn't around to solve her case number 22. Her client, Duncan, has lost his joke book. He tells Nate that if the book isn't found--and soon--the world will come to an end. Nate takes the case. He and Sludge cruise up and down and around San Francisco in the limo, tracking down clues. Sticky, icky clues, big and small clues, all-around-the-town clues that take them to a pancake house, over the Golden Gate Bridge, and finally to a place that seems wrong but could be right. Can Nate the Great keep the world from coming to an end? Can he solve his first out-of-town case?Marjorie Weinman Sharmat has written every Nate the Great book. This is her first Nate the Great collaboration with Mitchell Sharmat.Martha Weston is a noted children's book illustrator.; Title: Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective | [
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15,023 | 13 | K-Gr 3This picture book biography introduces readers to Harriet Powers, an African American artist who grew up as a slave and was freed by the end of the Civil War. As a young girl on a Georgia plantation, she learned how to make cloth, dye it using natural colorings, and make quilts with appliqu designs stitched on fabric. Powers married and became a wife and mother of five, using her skills as a quilter to help support her family. The story is told in a folksy, conversational tone. Multiple text boxes provide additional information in a clear, direct style, supporting the main text. Upbeat and cheerful, the mixed-media illustrations (a combination of digital art and gouache) present Powers in a positive light and provide details of her daily life. The endpapers feature reproductions of Powers's two existing quilts, and back matter includes an author's note, a photograph of the artist, and an explanation of each of the story quilts. Overall, this is an illuminating introduction to a largely unknown artist. However, teachers and librarians should be aware that there is a considerable amount of fictionalized dialogue: no sources are provided for the quotes from the subject. VERDICT Despite some limitations, this is a much-needed introduction to the life of a little known African American artist, with many possible curriculum connections: artists, quilters, women's history, and the Civil War.Myra Zarnowski, City University of New York"A much-needed introduction to the life of a little known African American artist, with many possible curriculum connections: artists, quilters, womens history, and the Civil War."--School Library Journal"As a picture-book introduction to an unsung artist, it inspires. Harriet Powers: an artist worth knowing."--Kirkus Reviews; Title: Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist | [
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15,024 | 2 | PreS-Gr 1First published in 1957 but long out of print, this rediscovered title by the remarkable husband-and-wife creative team is available again, ready to be read by a new generation of childrenand their dolls (a mini book is included). Roger Duvoisin illustrated more than 100 books, many by his wife, Louise Fatio. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1947 for White Snow, Bright Snow and a Caldecott Honor in 1966 for Hide and Seek Fog, both written by Alvin Tresselt. Louise Fatio is probably best known for her "Happy Lion" books, all illustrated by her husband. In this story, a fancy, beautifully dressed doll sits on a shelf in an antique shop in Paris, surrounded by a Persian vase and a Chinese teapot, but longs for a different fate. "'This is no way for a doll to live,' she sighed. 'If only I had a little girl to play with.'" One girl, the mailman's daughter Marie, walks past on her way to school and regularly admires the doll, but could never afford such a pricey item. One day the doll is purchased by an old woman, but her home is not much different from the antique shop. However, once the old woman's pets get a hold of the newcomer, her fancy clothes and accessories are ruined and the doll is left in the gutter, only to be rescued by Marie and given the kind of home she's always longed for. The three-color artwork is appropriately old-fashioned, expressive, and as appealing as ever. A satisfying read for anyone who has ever had a special attachment to a toy.Louise Fatio was the author of several books, including the Happy Lion books, all illustrated by her artist husband, Roger Duvoisin. She was born in 1904 in Switzerland and died in 1993 in New Jersey. Roger Duvoisin wrote and illustrated forty books, including those about Petunia the silly goose and Veronica the hippopotamus, and illustrated over a hundred more by other authors, many with his wife, Louise. He received the Caldecott Medal in 1947 for White Snow, Bright Snow and a Caldecott Honor in 1966 for Hide and Seek Fog, both written by Alvin Tresselt. Roger Duvoisin died in 1980.; Title: A Doll For Marie | [
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15,025 | 2 | K-Gr 3Gus writes a report about his favorite pet(s): his family's 17 sheep. He begins with some basic facts about sheep but quickly slips into relating amusing details about his mischievous antics with the animals. Gus writes about his efforts to trade his little brother for a lamb, the time he dressed up a sheep in his teacher's borrowed scarf, and his attempts to teach the sheep to ride a skateboard and a bicycle. He includes brief references to his parents' reactions ("What were you thinking, Gus?"). But the last straw comes when the boy leads the sheep into the house, where they create quite a mess. "But we were only upstairs for a minute!" Gus's mother exclaims. Bliss's delightful illustrations take Birdsall's funny text to the next level by showing the extent of the trouble that Gus's grand ideas cause as well as the innocent-looking sheep. As fitting with an elementary school report, the text appears to be handwritten on notebook paper; Ms. Smolinski gives Gus a B+ and comments on his improved penmanship. VERDICT A thoroughly engaging book that children are bound to giggle through. A first purchase.Heidi Grange, Summit Elementary School, Smithfield, UT"...this fresh, clever package is asolid, refreshing primary-grade read-aloud."Bookliststarred review"A thoroughly engaging book that children are bound to giggle through."School Library Journal starred review; Title: My Favorite Pets: by Gus W. for Ms. Smolinski's Class | [
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15,026 | 13 | K-Gr 2In this lovely, circular story set in 19th-century Vienna, Oskar searches for the perfect gift for his mother, armed with a single coin. Each time he acquires a gift, starting with a perfect yellow rose, he meets someone who convinces him to trade it for something else. Finally, the day is over, and he is back where he started. In the concluding paragraph, Lodding states that most of the people Oskar meets are important figures from Viennese history-Gustav Klimt, Felix Salten, Johann Strauss II, and Empress Sisi-and that this is Vienna's story as well as Oskar's. The narrative is well written and satisfying to read aloud. Jay's crackle-glazed paintings are as dreamily beautiful as ever, masterfully composed, and full of interesting details. Unfortunately, in this case, the soft surrealism of her landscapes works against her revelation that the story is meant to be firmly rooted in the city's history. While the text and illustrations are wonderful in their own right, it is a shame that the historical connections really only exist in the author's note. Whether or not an opportunity was lost, this is a lovely and successful book about optimism, giving, and love. Purchase without hesitation.Anna Haase Krueger, Ramsey County Library, MNThe search for the perfect present is a tried-and-true storybook conceit, and it is given an enchanting twist in Loddings tale, as readers journey through old Vienna along with Oskar, meeting the artists, musicians, writers, and royalty who made the fin de sicle era unique. It all starts with the perfect present for Mamas birthday: a yellow rose that young Oskar is persuaded to trade for a paintbrush. More trades follow, each seemingly more interesting until finally Oskar seems to wind up empty-handed after handing a forlorn girl his final treasure, a box of candied violets given to him by the empress herself. But waittruly what goes around comes around when the little girl hands him the rose she was wearing in her hair. Jays illustrations feature the warmly aged, crackled surface of an ancient painting and the kindly ovoid bodies that have become her trademark. As an introduction to a special time and place, Loddings unique offering will prove a treat for sensitive, imaginative readers. Grades K-2. --Karen Cruze; Title: A Gift for Mama | [
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15,027 | 2 | Lurlene McDaniel began writing inspirational novels about teenagers facing life-altering situations when her son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. "I want kids to know that while people don't get to choose what life gives to them, they do get to choose how they respond."From the Paperback edition.1The motorcycle cut in front of Nathan Malone just as he was pulling into the high school parking lot. He slammed on the brakes and blasted the car's horn, but the rider on the back, dressed in black leather and a streamlined helmet, flashed him an obscene gesture as the cycle's driver sped off with a roar. Nathan took deep breaths. Another car snaked past him and a voice yelled, "Hey, buddy, park it someplace else! You're jamming traffic."Startled, Nathan put his foot on the gas and shot forward, almost running over three girls crossing the lot. They shouted at him. He stomped the brake and clamped the wheel, his palms clammy, and inched forward, searching for the parking space assigned to him in his Crestwater welcome packet. His friend Skeet had warned him that the first day was gridlock. Maybe Skeet was used to the bedlam, but Nathan wasn't. Years of homeschooling hadn't prepared him to spend his senior year in one of Atlanta's biggest public high schools, but here he was--ready or not. He shouldn't let the two idiots on the cycle determine his mood.He found the space, marked by a bright yellow painted number, and pulled in, careful to park between the lines. His car was new--well, not new new, but new to him. His parents had given him the keys just a few nights before, part of his seventeenth birthday gift, but also a way to make up for shoving him into a public school from the relative shelter of his homeschooling experience. Not that Nathan minded. He'd wanted to be a regular kid for a long time. And being regular meant attending public school. "A cesspool, my man," Skeet had always said. "Not for the faint of heart."Nathan shouldered his book bag and headed off for the entrance and the common area, where Skeet had sworn he'd be waiting for him. He'd better be! Nathan already felt tight as a string on his guitar, and that was before the incident with the cycle.The halls were packed and so noisy Nathan wanted to cover his ears. How did people think, much less study, in this decibel purgatory? One good thing about his home classroom--it was quiet. Or it had been quiet until the twins, Abby and Audrey, were born in July and his mother realized in a panic that she couldn't juggle two babies and teach Nathan's senior class load. Not with college looming. At first he'd felt euphoric, like he'd been let out of a cage, but now, in the teeming hallways, he felt dwarfed and lost. What every other kid in the school knew as normal, he saw as extraordinary."Nate!" Skeet's voice cut through the noise. "Over here!"Nathan worked his way over to Skeet, who was sitting on a short wall. The wall surrounded a monolith of concrete and brass: Crestwater's mascot, a rising dolphin balancing on its tail. "Hey, man.""Find your space?""Yeah. But not before a cycle almost plowed me down. Aren't they illegal on school property?""Not so." His brow puckered. "Who was driving?""How should I know? There were two of them. The rider on the back gave me the finger when I honked."Skeet grinned. "Odds are it was Lisa Lindstrom.""A girl?" Most of the girls Nathan knew were homeschooled like him, younger, all giggly and silly, and they didn't ride cycles and flash rude hand gestures."Was the cycle black and silver with a big red heart painted on the tank?""I didn't take that close a look. It almost creamed me. I was just trying to get out of the way.""Not a guy in the school who wouldn't give up his car speakers to get a tumble from Lisa. She's a knockout--transferred in as a junior last January. Keeps to herself, though. I call her 'a heartache on a Harley.' " Skeet pressed his hand over his heart."She sounds like a conceited pain.""No . . . she just doesn't give a damn. I know, hard to believe, but she seems to be totally unimpressed by Crestwater's movers and shakers. She's my hero." Skeet leaned closer. "She's the one who stood up Rod Stewart for the junior-senior last year."Nathan put the pieces together. Rod "Roddy" Stewart, no relation to the rocker, was a football legend at Crestwater and on track for a full ride to Georgia and the Bulldogs after he graduated. Skeet had told Nathan all about the big dump the day after last year's prom because it was all over the school and because Skeet didn't like Roddy. "That was the girl?""Way the story goes, Rod went to pick her up and she was long gone--off to a frat party, according to her mother, who said, 'Gee, you're the second boy tonight who showed up to take her to the prom.' " Skeet cackled gleefully. "Seems she jilted some other poor punk too. We never did know who. Man, Roddy was steamed. I mean, who stands up Mr. 'I'm Too Sexy for My Shorts' and lives to tell about it?""Well, she still doesn't sound like the kind of girl a guy gets all warm and fuzzy over.""You got that right. She's--" He searched for words. "The stuff legends are made of."Nathan laughed. "You sound like you're in love with her."Skeet looked self-conscious. "I'm not in her league. Besides, you haven't seen the biker dude up close who sometimes rides with her. He could squash your head with his bare hands.""Okay, okay. Let's move on." He dug out his class schedule. He was in all AP classes, nothing with Skeet. "Meet me here at the end of the day and I'll drive us home.""Football rally after school on the field. We've got to go and drool over the cheerleaders.""Oh." Nathan disliked that he was so out of sync with high school life that he didn't know the basics. "I thought you hated football.""I hate Rod. There's a difference. Come to the rally with me, then we'll head home.""I'll have to call Mom. You know how she freaks when I'm late."Suddenly Skeet's eyes widened. "Here she comes," he said under his breath.Nathan turned to see a tall girl with long chestnut-colored hair striding past. She wore black leather pants, cowboy boots, and a trendy top. She carried a black leather jacket over her shoulder. "The diva?" he asked out of the side of his mouth."In the flesh," Skeet said reverently.Nathan eyed her. Skeet had been right about her being pretty. Yet everything about her body language said Stay away. A group of girls stepped aside when Lisa passed. 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15,028 | 7 | Maxs life wasnt going so well even before two ghosts moved into his closet. But when Nicky and Tara show up, claiming that they used to live in his room, everything changes for Max! Soon theyre following him to school, using their invisibility to embarrass him in front of the girl of his dreams. And to make matters worse, theres some other totally evil spirit named Phears following him around turning animals inside out!From the Hardcover edition.R.L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling childrens author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. R.L. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEAs Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.From the Hardcover edition.; Title: Who Let the Ghosts Out? (Mostly Ghostly) | [
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15,029 | 2 | Sarah Dillard was briefly a Brownie and a Junior Scout. She fondly remembers making macaroni necklaces and, less fondly, one horrible camping trip when she had to eat the worst oatmeal ever. On the brighter side, Sarah studied art at Wheaton College and illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. Some of her previous books include Perfectly Arugula and Extraordinary Warren. She lives in Waitsfield, Vermont, with her husband. Visit Sarah at sarahdillard.com.; Title: Mouse Scouts | [
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15,030 | 2 | PreS-Gr 2A girl yearns for a puppy. After much anticipation, her birthday present doesn't turn out to be what she expected. With dreams dashed, she eyes her tortoise warily. Assessing the abilities of her "new lump of a pet," the feisty child discovers that he's not good at fetch, won't "beg for baloney," and doesn't "get excited when you come through the door." The pair do eventually bond over toenail-painting parties and skateboard-enabled walks. When her tortoise goes missing, the girl realizes how much she loves that "rascally guy with the waggly tail." Campbell's quirky colored-pencil and watercolor illustrations are the perfect match for the hilarious, spirited narration. Wearing a paw-print T-shirt, the sassy, pigtailed girl shows her initial displeasure by crinkling her eyes and making her "mad face." In a touching scene, the child appears in the nighttime shadows, wistfully looking out her window for her lost friend. VERDICT Irresistibly idiosyncratic and full of charm, this pet tale is a keeper. An adorable addition to any pet-themed storytime.Linda Ludke, London Public Library, Ont., Canada"A sweet read-aloud for first-time tortoise owners."Kirkus Reviewstarred review"The narrators initialpetulance, revealed in the frank narrative and soft pictures done in watercolor andcolored pencils, is both entertaining and realistic. Sensitive readers may developfeelings for the innocent tortoise long before she does, which makes for a satisfyingending."The Horn Book Magazinestarred review; Title: Who Wants a Tortoise? | [
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15,031 | 0 | Grade 6-9This companion novel to The Seer and the Sword (2000) and The Healer's Keep (2002, both Holiday House) stands very well on its own. Bryn, a poor stonecutter's daughter, is recruited to become a handmaiden in the Temple of the Oracle. There she will be tutored in the ways of prophecy and might possibly be chosen as a priestess. Entering the Temple at the same time is Clea, a spoiled rich girl who becomes Bryn's nemesis. Kiran, a horse trainer who can communicate with animals and is a priesthood candidate, is immediately attracted to Bryn. To be a priest or priestess, one must first be chosen by a bird. Clea is "bird chosen" by a vulture, which gives her the power to cast curses. Bryn, however, is chosen, not by a bird, but by the wind, which means that her powers of prophecy are great. Intrigue and treachery abound within the Temple grounds. Characters are fully good or evil; the bad guys are mean and hateful just because they can be. In the landscape of this kingdom, there is an extensive pantheon of gods that ally themselves with the mortals and intervene in earthly events. Dreams and visions symbolically reveal the complex inner workings of the characters' minds. When an exiled priestess finally unravels the evil plotting of the Master Priest and his henchmen, the story builds to an exciting climax. This is a fast-paced, well-written fantasy in which adventure and suspense take center stage, with just a touch of romance for good measure.Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Victoria Hanley is the author of The Seer and the Sword and The Healers Keep. She lives in Colorado with her husband and two children.; Title: The Light of the Oracle | [
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15,032 | 10 | "Liesl Shurtliff has the uncanny ability to make magical worlds feel utterly real, and the best part is: you don't even need a beanstalk to visit them." Tim Federle, author of Better Nate Than Ever"Shurtliffs second fairy-tale endeavor, following Rump (2013), soars into the sky and is a delightful story of family, perseverance, and courage." Booklist"With a healthy dose of honor and integrity to accompany his wisecracking ways, Jack is a winning hero, and his adventuresboth unexpected and recognizablewill please those readers with rollicking spirits or a yen for tales retold." The BulletinLiesl Shurtliff was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Just like Jack, she was made to do lots of yard work, pulling weeds and growing green stuff she did not want to eat. These days, she dearly loves her local farmers market and always makes her kids eat the green stuff. Before she became a writer, Liesl graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in music, dance, and theater. Her first three books,Rump, JackandRedare allNew York Timesbestsellers andRumpwas named to over two dozen state award lists and won an ILA Childrens Book Award.She lives in Chicago with her family, where she continues to spin fairy tales.Visit her at lieslshurtliff.com; Title: Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk | [
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15,033 | 0 | Sarah Dillard was briefly a Brownie and a Junior Scout. She fondly remembers making macaroni necklaces and, less fondly, one horrible camping trip when she had to eat the worst oatmeal ever. On the brighter side, Sarah studied art at Wheaton College and illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to the Mouse Scout series, she is the creator of picture books such as Perfectly Arugula and Extraordinary Warren. She lives in Waitsfield, Vermont, with her husband. Visit Sarah at sarahdillard.com.; Title: Mouse Scouts: Camp Out | [
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15,034 | 2 | Fantasy and reality merge in this aquatic coming-of-age adventure with a compelling ecological message. . . To Velmans's credit, the improbable seems probable through the eyes and voice of her down-to-earth heroine. Watch out Little Mermaid, here comes Isabel."Kirkus ReviewsFrom the Hardcover edition.Eleven-year-old Isabel is a plain old girl living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who believes that she is destined to accomplish something special. When her fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: Dozens of different species of whales surround the boat, bumping the deck and sending Isabel flying into the ocean. Isabel is shocked to hear the whales speaking to hershe is a mermaid, they tell her, a Chosen One who has the ability to turn from a human into a whale and back again. She is destined to live among the whales long enough to learn their ways, and teach them about the human world. Living among her pod is fun, at first, but Isabel has an important mission. She will change the whales future forever, and learn a lot about herself in the process.From the Hardcover edition.; Title: Isabel of the Whales | [
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15,035 | 14 | PreSchool-Grade 1Lily and Blue Kangaroo are getting ready to celebrate the toy's first Christmas. In fact, the youngster is absolutely convinced that the entire holiday is being organized primarily in honor of her friend. Blue is confused by all the fuss, and more than a little concerned when he realizes that he doesn't have anything to give Lily. Never fear. Father Christmas appears in the fireplace and has just the right gift in his bag. Any child who has ever been overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of the holiday season will relate to Blue's dilemma. Attractive scenes of various holiday activities enjoyed by Lily's loving and creative family abound in this tale of friendship touched by a little bit of magic.M. A. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Emma Chichester Clark has written and illustrated numerous acclaimed childrens books, including I Love You, Blue Kangaroo!; Where Are You, Blue Kangaroo?; No More Kissing!; and Up in Heaven. She lives in West London, England.; Title: Merry Christmas to You, Blue Kangaroo! | [] | Validation |
15,036 | 0 | JORDAN STRATFORD is a producer, author, and screenwriter. Stratford first launched the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency series on Kickstarter and in under a month had gained nearly 3,000 backers--clearly there was an eager audience. You can find him on the Web at JordanStratford.com and on Twitter @JordanStratford. KELLY MURPHY is an accomplished picture-book and chapter-book author and artist. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where she now serves on the faculty. Kelly lives with her husband in New England. You can read more about her work at kelmurphy.com.; Title: The Case of the Counterfeit Criminals (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 3) | [
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15,037 | 13 | Gr 8 UpEthan Andrezejczak is a junior at a Minnesota arts school that is hosting a competitive "reality" television show starring its students. Ethan strikes just the right note of teenage hesitancy and the shrug of paralyzed inaction so common to many stalled in the years leading to adulthood. Ethan tells the story about how he wound up attending the school, with his limited talent at drawing and music. His friends consist of the truly talented writer Luke, brainy Jackson, and stylishly dreadlocked Elizabeth. When their inspiring English teacher introduces them to Ezra Pound's Cantos, Luke composes a long poem that voices his outcry against the corrupting influence of the sleazy TV people capitalizing on their school's art and integrity. He pulls his friends into clandestine raids on the school's printing press and distributes his protest poem to the student body. Being a part of the reality show rebellion energizes Ethan, even though his crush, ballerina Maura, is one of the leading contestants. The group discovers just how deeply the school administration is in league with the show's producers, and a surprising betrayal leaves Ethan bewildered with little solace beyond the distractions of his zany preschool triplet sisters and a sickly gerbil that does tricks. With a quirky cast of characters set against a reality television invasion, the ample humor and realistic angst make this an enjoyable story.Suzanne Gordon, Lanier High School, Sugar Hill, GA*Starred Review* When the reality show For Arts Sake begins filming at the local high school for the arts, a group of juniors rebels against the prostitution of their talent and forms an underground poetry movement called The Contrecantos. Taking cues from Ezra Pounds work, their poetic protest goes viral and becomes the most-read publication at school. But after one of its number defects, the group must reassess its purpose and decide how to use the evidence of corruption it has found regarding the shows production. Amid the drama and intrigue, narrator Ethan Andrezejczak must do a great deal of soul-searching and maturing to see where he fits into the equation. In this place of immense talent, Ethan is immensely relatable as the voice of the average (that is, socially awkward) teen. Hattemer writes with a refreshing narrative style, crafting both believable characters and a cohesive, well-plotted story. Romance, while in the air, takes a sideline to friendship, which proves to be the books heart and soul. Relying on the passion and ideals that drive adolescence, this has a vibrancy and authenticity that will resonate with anyone who has fought for their beliefsor who has loved a hamster. (Youll see.) Grades 8-11. --Julia Smith; Title: The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy | [
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15,038 | 2 | "Beautifully crafted, both in descriptions and characterizations, this makes for a fitting end to a much-praised series."Booklist,starred review"Please don't go, Penderwicks; it's too soon to say goodbye." Kirkus ReviewsJeanne Birdsallis the National Book Awardwinning author of the children's bookThe Penderwicks and its sequel, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, both of which were also New York Times bestsellers. Shegrew up in the suburbs west of Philadelphia, where she attended wonderful public schools. Although Birdsall first decided to become a writer when she was 10 years old, it took her until she was 41 to get started. In the years in between, Birdsall had many strange jobs to support herself while working hard as a photographer. Birdsall's photographs are included in the permanent collections of museums, including the Smithsonian and the Philadelphia Art Museum. Shelives with her husband in Northampton, Massachusetts. Their house is old and comfortable, full of unruly animals, and surrounded by gardens.; Title: The Penderwicks at Last | [
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15,039 | 2 | K-Gr 2Billy (a boy) and Goat (a goat) are great friends and enjoy spending time together, though they do things very differently. The boy is content to read about adventure but Goat wants to live it. Billy likes the fragrance of flowers but Goat likes the taste. They both get excited about attending the upcoming state fair where Billy can enter his pal in the "Best-Goat Competition." On the big day, Goat finds the noise and the crowd thrilling but Billy is a bit overwhelmed by it all. While the goat takes full advantage of all there is to see and do at the fair, Billy spends most of his time trying to find his friend, until he realizes that he's actually enjoying himself. The competition doesn't end the way they would have liked, but they both have a great day and the boy has more confidence after his experiences. The artwork, created with brush and ink and Adobe Photoshop, contains bright, bold colors and varies from vignettes to spreads. VERDICT A fine introduction to state or county fairs for young children.Maryann H. Owen, Children's Literature Specialist, Mt. Pleasant, WIDAN YACCARINO is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator with more than 30 books to his credit. Dan is also the creator of the animated TV series Oswald and Willas Wild Life, and he designed the characters for The Backyardigans.; Title: Billy and Goat at the State Fair | [
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15,040 | 2 | Sarah Dillard was briefly a Brownie and a Junior Scout. She fondly remembersmaking macaroni necklaces, and, less fondly, one horrible camping trip when she had to eat the Worst Oatmeal Ever. On the brighter side, Sarah studied art at Wheaton College and illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. Sarah lives in Waitsfield, Vermont, with her husband. Visit her at sarahdillard.comCHAPTER 1 The Make Friends Badge One day, Violet and Tigerlily were walking to their Mouse Scout meeting. Well, Violet was walking. Tigerlily jumped up into the hedge next to the sidewalk and began swinging from branch to branch.Violet didnt pay much attention. Tigerlily never walked if there was a more challenging route to take. I wonder what badge well be working on next, Violet said. I hope its flower fashions! The night before, Violet had thought of a way to make a tutu out of dandelion petals. She couldnt wait to try it. She did a little pirouette as she imagined how the dandelion petals would Tigerlily gave a final swing from a branch and let go. She soared through the air and landed right in front of Violet. Maybe it will be something fun, like building canoes, Tigerlily said. Whatever badge it is, I hope we have a good snack today! Violet said. Im in the mood-a for some Gouda! Tigerlily said. Be a smarty. Eat Havarti! Violet said. They giggled together the rest of their walk. Violet and Tigerlily were the last Scouts to arrive at the meeting. They quickly joined the other girls in a circle on the floor. Soon they heard the shrill tweet of an emergency whistle. Miss Poppy had arrived. QUIET, EVERYONE! she bellowed. Then she looked at the Scouts and smiled. Today we are going to talk about friendship! What could be more special than having agood friend? Someone to share your feelings with. Someone to laugh with, someone to cry with, some- one to talk to when you are lonely. That is what friendship is. Violet looked around the room and felt a warm glow for her fellow Acorn Scouts. She admired Junebugs intelligence and Crickets kind heart. Petunia could always make her laugh, and even Hyacinth was nice when she wasnt so busy being perfect. And of course, she couldnt forget Tigerlily! There was no better friend in the world. Miss Poppy became dreamy-eyed. Why, I remember MY best friend and all the escapades wehadwhenWE were Scouts. In fact, there was this one time she chuckled, then stopped herself. Well, we were young and silly. But the important thing is, we were good Scouts. That is all that matters. The Mouse Scouts looked at their leader in awe. Miss Poppyyoung? And the thought of her having a friend? It seemed impossible! Petunia narrowed her eyes. How come weve never heard of this friend? she asked. Miss Poppy smoothed her skirt and squaredher shoulders. That was another time and place, she said. Now, then. If you havent guessed, today we will start work on your Make Friends badge! Violet felt a quick stab of disappointment. She had her heart set on making a dandelion tutu. Oh well, she thought. I can always make it on my own. Tigerlily didnt mind. She knew all about friendship already, so she would have plenty of time left over to do some- thing fun. This will be the easiest badge ever! she said. Just then Miss Poppy leaned forward, and her expression became serious. Remember: Friendship isnt all sunshine and giggles. It takes understanding, compassion, and respect. Sometimes you will have to think of your friend before you think of yourself. Sometimes you will disagree. Sometimes you might wonder why you were ever friends in the first place. Some friendships last forever, while others dont stand the test of time. To have a good friend, you have to be a good friend. And that can be hard work! Miss Poppy stopped and looked around the room. The Scouts looked at eachother. Then Tigerlily laughed. Dontworry about us, Miss Poppy. We are going to be friends forever! I hope so, said Miss Poppy. For the next few weeks, we will work on our Make Friends badges. Every dayyou will strive not only to be a good friend to those you know, but also to be friendly to someone you do not know. During this time, you will keep a friendship journal in which you will record your thoughts on friends and your efforts to be friendly. We will start today by making friendship bracelets, and at the end of the month, we will have a Celebration ofFriendship. The Scouts were beaming. Tigerlily was right; this badge was going to be a piece of cake! Then Miss Poppy cleared her throat. Oh, there is one more thing I forgot to mention, Miss Poppy said. We will not be working on this badge on our own. The Maple Scouts are also working on their Make Friends badges. They will be joining us at our next meeting to begin planning our Celebration of Friendship event . . . which well be doing together. The MapleScouts? Violet gasped. But theyre boys! ; Title: Mouse Scouts: Make Friends | [
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15,041 | 0 | Gr 46In this historical mystery series, the young ladies of the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency have been hired for their second case, which may or may not involve a mysterious twin sister, a fianc with nefarious intentions, and a potential ghost. The series is a fictionalized reimagining of real-life 19th-century characters, such as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Ada Lovelace Byron. However, with the multitude of characters recast into different time frames and rearranged relationships, the historical inaccuracies are likely to confuse rather than engage readers. With a marriage engagement as the central focus of the mystery in this second installment, it's difficult to imagine this story resonating with its intended audience. Nancy Springer's "Enola Holmes" mysteries (Penguin) fit the genre better. VERDICT Not as strong as the previous volume; purchase only where the first book in the series is popular.Jessica Marie, Salem Public Library, ORJORDAN STRATFORD is a producer, author, and screenwriter. Stratford first launched the Wollstonecraft series on Kickstarter and in under a month he'd gained nearly 3,000 backers--clearly there is a hungry audience! You can find him on the Web at JordanStratford.com and on Twitter @JordanStratford. KELLY MURPHY is an accomplished picture-book and chapter-book author and artist. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where she now serves on the faculty. Kelly lives with her husband in New England. You can read more about her work at kelmurphy.com.; Title: The Case of the Girl in Grey (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 2) | [
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15,042 | 2 | JOHN BOYNE was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of six novels for adults. His first novel for children, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, won two Irish Book Awards, was shortlisted for the British Book Award and has been made into a film. His novels are published in over 30 languages. He lives in Dublin. Visit him on the Web at JohnBoyne.com.OLIVER JEFFERS is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator. His first picture book, How to Catch a Star (HarperCollins) was published in 2004 and since then he has created a further five picture books to much critical acclaim. He has won the Irish Book Award (where he first met John Boyne), the Blue Peter Book of the Year and the Nestl Children's Book Prize as well as a host of shortlistings including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. His books have been translated into 19 languages. To learn more about him and his work, please visit OliverJeffers.com.From the Hardcover edition.Noah Barleywater left home in the early morning, before the sun rose, before the dogs woke, before the dew stopped falling on the fields. He climbed out of bed and shuffled into the clothes hed laid out the night before, holding his breath as he crept quietly downstairs. Three of the steps had a loud creak in them where the wood didnt knit together correctly so he walked very softly on each one, desperate to make as little noise as possible. In the hallway he took his coat off the hook but didnt put his shoes on until he had already left the house. He walked down the laneway, opened the gate, went through and closed it again, treading as lightly as he could in case his parents heard the sound of the gravel crunching beneath his feet and came downstairs to investigate. It was still dark at this hour and Noah had to squint to make out the road that twisted and turned up ahead. The growing light would allow him to sense any danger that might be lurking in the shadows. When he got to the end of the first quarter-mile, at just that point where he could turn round one last time and still make out his home in the distance, he stared at the smoke rising from the chimney that stretched upwards from the kitchen fireplace and thought of his family inside, all safely tucked up in their beds, unaware that he was leaving them for ever. And despite himself, he felt a little sad. Am I doing the right thing? he wondered, a great blanket of happy memories trying to break through and smother the fresher, sadder ones. But he had no choice. He couldnt bear to stay any longer. No one could blame him for that, surely. Anyway, it was probably best that he went out to make his own way in the world. After all, he was already eight years old and the truth was, he hadnt really done anything with his life so far. A boy in his class, Charlie Charlton, had appeared in the local newspaper when he was only seven, because the Queen had come to open a day centre for all the grannies and granddads in the village, and he had been chosen to hand her a bunch of flowers and say, Were SO delighted you could make the journey, maam. A photograph had been taken where Charlie was grinning like the Cheshire cat as he presented the bouquet, and the Queen wore an expression that suggested she had smelled something funny but was far too well-brought-up to comment on it; hed seen that expression on the Queens face before and it always made him giggle. The photo had been placed on the school notice board the following day and had remained there until someone not Noah had drawn a moustache on Her Majestys face and written some rude words in a speech bubble coming out of her mouth that nearly gave the headmaster, Mr Tushingham, a stroke. The whole thing had caused a terrible scandal, but at least Charlie Charlton had got his face in the papers and been the toast of the schoolyard for a few days. What had Noah ever done with his life to compare with that? Nothing. Why, only a few days before hed tried to make a list of all his achievements, and this is what hed come up with: 1. I have read fourteen books from cover to cover. 2. I won the bronze medal in the 500 metres at Sports Day last year and would have won silver if Breiffni ONeill hadnt jumped the gun and got a head start. 3. I know the capital of Portugal. (Its Lisbon.) 4. I may be small for my age but Im the seventh cleverest boy in my class. 5. I am an excellent speller. Five achievements at eight years of age, he thought at the time, shaking his head and pressing the tip of his pencil to his tongue even though his teacher, Miss Bright, screamed whenever anyone did that and said they would get lead poisoning. Thats one achievement for every . . . He thought about it and did a series of quick calculations on a bit of scrap paper. One achievement for every one year, seven months and six days. Not very impressive at all. He tried to tell himself that this was the reason he was leaving home, because it seemed a lot more adventurous than the real reason, which was something he didnt want to think about. Not this early in the morning, anyway. And so here he was, out on his own, a young soldier on his way to battle. He turned round, thinking to himself, Thats it! Ill never see that house again now! and continued on his way, strolling along with the air of a man who knows that, come the next election, theres every chance he will be elected mayor. It was important to look confident he realized that very early on. After all, there was a terrible tendency among adults to look at children travelling alone as if they were planning a crime of some sort. None of them ever thought that it might just be a young chap on his way to see the world and have a great adventure. They were so small-minded, grown-ups. That was one of their many problems.From the Hardcover edition.; Title: Noah Barleywater Runs Away | [
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15,043 | 2 | Gr 10 UpIn Every Day (Knopf, 2012), Levithan presented the story of A, a teenager who wakes up daily in other teens' bodies. During one of those "hops," A meets Rhiannon, the beautiful but insecure girlfriend of a boy who treats her as nothing more than an object for his needs. This companion novel gives readers the story from Rhiannon's point of view and her growing affection for A (who she is most attracted to when inhabiting a male body, despite the character not identifying as male or female). Rhiannon's character development is solid: she goes from a needy doormat who thinks that because Justin does not hit her or cheat on her that he is a good boyfriend into a person who goes after what she wants. Things do not go smoothly along the way, as she finds ways to meet A, which destroys her relationship with Justin and impacts her reputation. Still, she and A fall for each other, and though the story ends with a resolution that A thinks is best for her, in this volume's conclusion we see that she may not accept that decision so readily. Although much of the novel is a repeat of the first work, readers who have not read Every Day will be lost. The action moves at a leisurely pace but not so much that the narrative becomes boring. Frequent episodes of underage drinking and sex makes this title more suitable for older teens. VERDICT Purchase where A's original story is popular.Suanne B. Roush, formerly at Osceola High School, Seminole, FLa richly developed story that takes readers deep into its co-protagonists beings. Though Levithan considers this to be the earlier novels twin, it has a separate, deeply satisfying identity and can be read on its own. Bookliststarred review; Title: Another Day | [
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15,044 | 7 | Grade 1-5The creators of The Edge Chronicles (Random) are back with an auspicious beginning for a new series. When a mysterious flying box, complete with wings, arrives at Fergus Crane's window with a message from his long-lost Uncle Theo, the boy learns that he is in danger and that his uncle is sending help. Help is what he needs when the clipper ship Betty-Jeanne that serves as his school disappears with all of the students but Fergus still aboard. The headmaster and his staff are more than just vaguely reminiscent of pirates, and Fergus will need Uncle Theo's technology, and his own bravery, to rescue them. What make this book especially appealing are Riddell's pen-and-ink drawings that appear on almost every page; they capture the tone of the story as well as the personalities of the characters. They also add a great deal of variety to the design of the book, ranging from traditional full-page illustrations to portraits of the main characters to smaller drawings spread over the pages. The combination of witty art and compelling text make this a perfect choice for early chapter-book readers.Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Gr. 3-5. Stewart and Riddell, creators of the Edge Chronicles, begin a new series for younger readers, the Far-Flung Adventures. Nine-year-old Fergus Crane is a poor but likable lad who lives with his mother in a seaside town and attends school aboard the Betty-Jeanne, a clipper ship manned by a motley crew of teachers who bear a strong resemblance to pirates. One morning, he finds that the ship has left port with his fellow students still aboard. A mysterious ally gives Fergus the means to rescue his friends and restore his family's happiness. With a simple plot, a few hints of mystery, and many intriguing details, this story will quickly hook readers. Riddell's expressive ink drawings make the fantastic elements more believable and add enormously to the book's appeal. Readers looking for adventure with a smidgen of inventive fantasy will find this one just the ticket. Carolyn PhelanCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved; Title: Far-Flung Adventures: Fergus Crane | [
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15,045 | 2 | "Suspenseful and well-dramatized sports action scenes...Solidly drawn, both on and off the court." - Kirkus ReviewsThe realistic social situations are interspersed with sports strategy, practices, and plenty of action. Fans will cheer for more of Alexs story as he inches closer to spring and the dugout. Booklist JOHN FEINSTEIN is the author of many bestselling books, including A Season on the Brink and A Good Walk Spoiled. His books for young readers offer a winning combination of sports, action, and intrigue, with Last Shot receiving the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best young adult mystery of the year. He lives in Potomac, Maryland, and on Shelter Island, New York, with his family.; Title: The Sixth Man (The Triple Threat, 2) | [
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15,046 | 2 | PreS-Gr 1Na's books cover topics of great interest to young children: babies, bedtime, seasons. Here, he explores the conundrum surrounding homewhether to select the stimulation of the new or the comfort of familiarity. As the story opens, Bear is bored with "the same green forest under the same blue sky." His subsequent globetrotting provides viewers with glimpses at the variety of animal habitats. But Bird's nest is too high, and Mole's tunnels are too stuffy. While this plot is familiar to adults, even they will want to revisit these pages. Na combines handmade and digital processes to create exciting layers of color, texture, and pattern. His polar bear is not white but a subtle building of unexpected hues and designs. Contrast adds interest, as when the blistering yellow of the desert sands (under the pink camel!) yields to the refreshing blue-greens of the rainforest. The artist plays with perspectiveshowing the dizzying vertical drop from Goat's cliffside homeand effect, as the ink from the surprised octopus spreads through the underwater world to cover Bear's face. Even the text is in motion, following the curve of the tree or descent of the raindrops. The discomfort on Bear's face is comical as he experiences each new indignity, but as the shadows lengthen, he "[knows] just where he [wants]to be." Respecting his audience, Na allows readers to name that place and draw their own conclusions. VERDICT While successfully capturing the comforts of home, this story's pleasing visuals feed the wanderlust impulse as well.Wendy Lukehart, District of Columbia Public Library“Listeners can't help but sympathize with Bear in his frustration and rejoice when he finds the place that's ‘just where he wanted to be.’”—Kirkus Reviews starred review; Title: Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal Habitats | [
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15,047 | 2 | Gr 24Six episodic chapters follow the residents of 24 Sprout Street as they welcome a new neighbor from Hawaii. Each neighbor relates a small adventure like sharing breakfast with a friend, voting on a new house paint color, or navigating snowy day grocery shopping. With small black-and-white illustrations on nearly every page, these sweet adventures are perfect for fans of Arnold Lobel's "Frog & Toad" series or Cynthia Rylant's "Poppleton" series who are ready for longer chapter books.Anna Alter has lived in many apartment buildings and come across a variety of interesting characters along the way. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the author and illustrator of many treasured books, including Sprout Street Neighbors: Five Stories, A Photo for Greta, Disappearing Desmond, and Abigail Spells.; Title: Sprout Street Neighbors: A New Arrival | [
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15,048 | 2 | The Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2014:A present-day fairy tale that practically sparkles with its own icy menace...[a] memorable and ultimately moving novel for young readers.The Christian Science Monitor, January 31, 2014:"Foxlee's novel will be read and loved by youngsters who've grown up on fairy tales, graduated to Harry Potter, and appreciate gorgeous writing and complex storytelling. In this story of friendship and yes, even bravery, Ophelia shines as one of the first true heroines of the 2014 crop of fabulous middle-grade novels."Starred Review, Kirkus, November 1, 2013:"A well-wrought, poignant and original reworking of Andersens 'The Snow Queen.'"Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, November 11, 2013:"Foxlee's writing is elegant and accessible, with a pervading melancholy... this story shines."Starred Review,Booklist, December 15, 2013: "This clever story-within-a-story reads easily yet offers deep lessons about trust, responsibility, and friendship.Starred Review, The Bulletin, February 1, 2014:"Foxlee inventively weaves familiar folkloric elementsan evil snow queen, a magic sword, a quest, a chosen oneinto her modern setting, all the while evoking a mood of dreamlike foreboding."Starred Review, School Library Journal, March 1, 2014:The writing sparkles . . . Foxlees fresh and imaginative take on this classic tale will be snapped up by fantasy and adventure lovers alike.The Horn Book, January/February 2014:"Foxlees deftness with characterization and setting...makes this a satisfying fantasy."From the Hardcover edition.KAREN FOXLEE is the author of two young adult novels, The Anatomy of Wings and The Midnight Dress. She lives in Gympie, Australia, with her daughter.About the IllustratorYOKO TANAKA has illustrated children's books by Kate DiCamillo, Sara Pennypacker, R.L. LaFevers, Laura Godwin, and Keith McGowan.; Title: Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy | [
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15,049 | 11 | MAGALY MORALES is known for the bright colors and infectious sense of play in her illustrations. She was born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.CARMEN TAFOLLA is a poet whose stories for children and adults have appeared in more than two hundred poetry anthologies. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, children, mother, and many pets.; Title: What Can You Do with a Paleta / Qu Puedes Hacer con una Paleta? | [
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15,050 | 0 | YA?In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII, following the advice of astronomer Christopher Clavius, decided to drop 10 days from the calendar that was currently in use throughout the world. Hence, Thursday, October 4, 1582 (Julian), would be followed by Friday, October 15, 1582 (Gregorian). Shimony charmingly describes these events through the eyes of Tibaldo Bondi, a student at the prestigious St. Joseph-in-the-Corner school in Bologna. Since he is about to lose his 12th birthday in the reorganization of the calendar, the determined and astute young man sets about finding a solution to his dilemma. Weaving fictitious characters and events into actual occurrences, the author vividly brings 16th-century Italy to life. Readers learn about the tribulations of school children during this era (try multiplying 488 by 877 in Roman numerals) as well as the scientific understandings of Clavius and Copernicus. The book is illustrated with drawings that reflect the art of the period. The tale is followed by two readable astronomy lectures, one about the seasons and the other about the appearance of stars from various locations on Earth, which will have particular appeal to readers whose scientific curiosity has been piqued by Tibaldo's story.?Carol DeAngelo, Garcia Consulting Inc., EPA Headquarters, Washington, Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.This delightful tale of a lucky boy is an introduction to the time and place that gave rise to modern science: the 16th-century city-states of Italy. The hero Tibaldo was born into a large and happy family in Bologna on October 10, 1570, a lively, good-hearted kid, bright, adventuresome, even a little quirky. Tibaldo was going on 12 when the hole appeared in the calendar. Pope Gregory had grasped a few years earlier that the old Julian calendar of Rome adopted by the Church in the fourth century was now badly in error. It had used The leap year to manage the approximation of the year at 365.25 days on average, by skipping the correction in three out of four years and taking the full slippage all in one day. But the year is in fact longer than that by almost 12 minutes. That bothers no one, less than one day in a long lifetime. But in the 12 centuries since the early Church had adopted the rules for calculating the date of Easter by the position of the sun among the stars, the day count had run slow by 11 full days compared with the sun's way around its yearly circle. The spring equinox was early: Easter would in time be celebrated in midwinter cold, and no one wanted so full a break with the ancient harmony between spring and the Resurrection. The calendar change was proclaimed in late February 1582 by the learned Pope Gregory: the year 1582 would have the day following October 4 designated as October 15. For Tibaldo, it meant his birthday would be missing that year, fallen into an unprecedented hole in the calendar! Surely Tibaldo knew this was but a change in name; no days were lost, only their names. But the people rioted more than once asking for a return of their 10 days, and Tibaldo, too, was obsessed by his sense of personal loss. He managed to be made one of the students who would display their Latin fluency to the pope on his forthcoming visit to Tibaldo's school and found the chance to describe his loss, adding wisely that many people would lose anniversaries and name days, and the saints' days, too, would go unremarked. Pope Gregory was moved and amused; he at once added a paragraph saying all festivals, personal or public, should be observed according to both the new and the old dates. Each of the 10 days would do double duty just this once; no one would lose, and many would gain from the double celebration. Tibaldo was a hero! Verily, this book is a delicious, instructive fiction. The pope and the calendar change are quite real, however, although Pope Gregory did not revise his reform message. The pope had power over all Catholic lands, but other countries kept the Julian form for some time. Britain and its American colonies changed over in 1752, Russia only in 1919, when the hole had grown to 13 days. History is less reasonable and less sweet than ingenious physicist-philosopher Abner Shimony. His artist son (really) provided dozens of enlivening drawings done in sepia in a persuasive period style.; Title: Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar | [
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15,051 | 0 | Nobel Peace laureate Mandela understandably gets top billing here, but this collection of short fables compiles writings and translations by numerous authors and features illustrations by a diverse collection of artists. Together, the tales and their accompanying artwork create a patchwork of legends drawn from all over the African continent, from Morocco to Kenya to Swaziland. Snakes with seven heads and Zulu tricksters are found here, as well as various creation myths and a Kenyan lion (with the familiar name of Simba) who teaches a cunning hyena a lesson. The colorful birds, giant elephants and mischievous children populating the volume teach sometimes cryptic lessons about obedience, perseverance, cooperation and the simple strangeness of life. In one story, the children of an East African village must destroy a beautiful and enchanting bird that has brought bad luck to the surrounding countryside. In another, a courageous girl frees a prince from the spell that made him a python. In tales such as these, the dream-like, unpredictable symbology and sometimes cruel morality of myths resonate, and, in Mandela's words, the "gritty essence of Africa" shines through in stories with universal themes. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Grade 1-5-Mandela states in the foreword, "It is my wish that the voice of the storyteller will never die in Africa-.," and he has chosen 32 traditional tales for this handsome oversized volume. While nearly half the selections have their origins in South Africa, the rest represent some of the continent's most cherished tales and come from Botswana, Swaziland, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and other sub-Saharan countries as well as a single selection from Morocco. Each story is introduced with a short provenance or source note, and a frontispiece map matches each tale with its geographical area. Told by a variety of storytellers and folklorists, or gleaned from previously published sources, the tellings vary from literary to contemporary. The book also provides a showcase for 18 illustrators, mostly from South Africa, who contributed one full-page illustration per story. This is a rich collection that would provide depth and breadth to any classroom study alongside the many single-tale picture-book editions readily found on library shelves.Susan Hepler, Burgundy Farm Country Day School, Alexandria, VACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales (Aesop Accolades (Awards)) | [
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15,052 | 11 | Reading this book is like sipping hot cider in front of a crackling potbellied stove. Every page is suffused with wit and charm and glowing with warmth.NewsweekA lovely book. . . . Honest, moving, homely in the warm and simple sense of the word. . . . It is small, accepting and loving and it succeeds perfectly.Boston GlobeYoull find yourself caught up in the novels emotion from the very opening scene. . . . Love suffuses every page.The New York Times"With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of any age."--School Library Journal. From the Paperback edition.e American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood.In the daily round of his thirteenth year, as the seasons turn and the farm is tended, the boy -- whose time is the only-yesterday of Calvin Coolidge, whose people are the Plain People living without "frills" in the Shaker Way -- becomes a man.That is all, and it is everything. The boy is mauled by Apron, the neighbor's ailing cow whom he helps, alone, to give birth. The grateful farmer brings him a gift -- a newborn pig. His father at first demurs ("We thank you, Brother Tanner," said Papa, "but it's not the Shaker Way to take frills for being neighborly. All that Robert done was what any farmer would do for another") but is persuaded. Rob keeps the pig, names her, and gives her his devoti; Title: A Day No Pigs Would Die | [
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15,053 | 5 | The 111 tales chosen by translator and poet Ramanujan illustrate the heterogeneity of Indian society and its oral folktale tradition. Ranging in length from a few paragraphs to 10 pages, the short narratives fall into seven basic categories: male-, female- or family-centered; concerning either fate or the supernatural; humorous; animal tales; and metafiction. The stories are arranged in "cycles or sessions"--11 groupings containing at least one example of each of the seven themes. Additionally, the associative nature of the tales within each cycle further reinforces the storyteller illusion. Unlike myths, folktales are profane rather than sacred. Thus there are tales wherein humans outwit either gods or fate itself, and where the poor mock the rich (and the caste system). Two recurring characters are the jesters Tenali Rama and Ghopal Bhar, tricksters akin to the Western harlequin. According to Ramanujan, entertainment rather than education is the primary purpose of the folktale, a goal achieved by these stories even when they are also didactic. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.YA-- This selection of oral tales from 21 Indian languages captures the rich variety of human emotions as revealed in the lives of people in that subcontinent. The charm of these tales is increased by Ramanujan's insightful introduction that enhances readers' understanding of the talking beasts, demons, heroes, strong-minded women, rogues, and gurus who populate these pages. Excellent for storytelling collections.Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc.; Title: Folktales From India: a Selection of Oral Tales From Twenty-Two Languages | [
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15,054 | 2 | When Brother Bear gets a brand-new bike, he's all set to ride it-that is, after Papa Bear shows him the rules of the road.Stan and Jan Berenstain were both born in 1923 in Philadelphia.They didn't know each other as children, but met later at school, at the Philadelphia College of Art.They liked each other right away, and found out that the both enjoyed the same kinds of books, plays, music and art.During World War II, Stan was a medical assistant in the Army, and Jan worked in an airplane factory.When the war was over, they got married and began to work together as artists and writers, primarily drawing cartoons for popular magazines.After having their two sons Leo and Michael, the Berenstains decided to write some funny children's books that their children and other children could read and enjoy.Their first published children's book was called The Big Honey Hunt.It was about a family of bears, who later became known as the "Berenstain Bears." Stan and Jan planned all of their books together. They both wrote the stories and created the pictures. They continued to live outside of Philadelphia in the country. There are now over 300 Berenstain Bears books.; Title: The Bike Lesson | [
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15,055 | 0 | "Amusing story and the illustrations add greatly to the humor."--School Library Journal.  lor. An allergy to roses causes this city horse many problems until, one time, his sneezes save the day.; Title: Robert the Rose Horse | [
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15,056 | 0 | Illus. in full color. A dog who has to learn how to dig doesn't stop until he has dug up the whole town.Al Perkinswas the author of several Bright and Early Books andBeginner Books, among themHand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb;andThe Ear Book.Perkins passed away in 1975.Eric Gurney (19101992)was a well-known artist, cartoonist, andillustrator. Born in Canada, he later came to work for WaltDisney Studios in 1938, where he collaborated onBambi and Pinocchio, among other films. He received a National Cartoonist Society Award for his work twice. He books includeThe Digging-est Dog, and Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.; Title: The Digging-Est Dog (Beginner Books(R)) | [
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15,057 | 0 | Illus. in color. "Comic pictures show how the fish rapidly outgrows its bowl, a vase, a cook pot, a bathtub."--"The New York Times.HELEN PALMER was a children's book author and editor who—along with her husband, Theordor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)—founded Beginner Books, a division of Random House that specialized in books aimed at Beginning Readers, like The Cat in the Hat.P. D. EASTMAN, a self-described "writer-visualizer," wrote and illustrated many popular children's books, among them Are You My Mother? and Go, Dog. Go! ; Title: A Fish Out of Water (Beginner Books) | [
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15,058 | 0 | THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL—aka Dr. Seuss—is one of the most beloved children’s book authors of all time. From The Cat in the Hat to Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, his iconic characters, stories, and art style have been a lasting influence on generations of children and adults. The books he wrote and illustrated under the name Dr. Seuss (and others that he wrote but did not illustrate, including some under the pseudonyms Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone) have been translated into thirty languages. Hundreds of millions of copies have found their way into homes and hearts around the world. Dr. Seuss’s long list of awards includes Caldecott Honors for McElligot’s Pool, If I Ran the Zoo, and Bartholomew and the Oobleck, the Pulitzer Prize, and eight honorary doctorates. Works based on his original stories have won three Oscars, three Emmys, three Grammys, and a Peabody.; Title: The Cat in the Hat in English and French (Le Chat Au Chapeau) | [
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15,059 | 0 | Illus. in color. The story of an incredible twosome that "provides interest, suspense and word repetition. Illustrations excellent. Recommended."--(starred) "School Library Journal.P. D. Eastman was one of the stars of the Beginner Books line with beloved classics like Are You My Mother?; Go, Dog. Go!; The Best Nest; and more!From the Non-traditional book edition.; Title: Sam and the Firefly | [
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15,060 | 2 | Illus. in full color. Every afternoon King Birtram raced around the palace on a pair of old red stilts, until they were stolen. An uproarious tale.A Chunky Book with an added surprise--a punch-out piece to play wEveryone loves Dr. Seuss! A true original, he wrote and illustrated over 50classic children's books with total sales of more than 100 million copies. Forchildren of all ages.; Title: The King's Stilts (Classic Seuss) | [
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15,061 | 2 | "Funny."--School Library Journal.Illus. in full color. Mr. and Mrs. Bird's search for a "better" nest leads them to some peculiar spots.; Title: The Best Nest | [
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15,062 | 0 | Illus. in color. "Joyful verse relates the many ways to enjoy snow. First graders will love it."--"Chicago Tribune.P. D. Eastman was an author-illustrator who created many children’s books, including Are You My Mother?, Go, Dog. Go!, and The Best Nest. Trained at the National Academy of Design, he enlisted in the army in 1943 and was assigned to the Signal Corps Film Unit—which was headed by Theodor Geisel, who would eventually become known to the world as Dr. Seuss. After Geisel later approached him to write for his new Beginner Book series at Random House, Eastman published his first book, Sam and the Firefly. Since then, Random House has sold more than 30 million books by P. D. Eastman, and he has become one of the most beloved children’s book authors in the world.; Title: Snow (I Can Read It All By Myself) | [
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15,063 | 0 | Bartholomew and the Oobleck easily qualifies as a Seuss classic, first told way back in 1949. And its message--the importance of owning up to your mistakes and saying that you're sorry--is as timeless now as it was then.Bartholomew Cubbins serves thanklessly as pageboy to King Derwin of Didd, a headstrong man who's decided he isn't satisfied with mere sun, fog, rain, and snow. ("Humph! The things that come down from my sky!") He wants something else, something uniquely his own, so he calls in his royal magicians ("Shuffle, duffle, muzzle, muff. Fista, wista, mista-cuff. We are men of groans and howls, mystic men who eat boiled owls"). Happy to oblige, the magicians tell the king they can make "oobleck" fall from the sky, only nobody--not even the magicians--knows just what oobleck is. But after a night of arcane incantations, everyone in the kingdom gets a taste of the stuff (in the case of the Captain of the Guard, literally!), as the green, gluey goo gums up everything in sight.Of course, Bartholomew tries to help, but it's up to the king to save the day, as he learns to utter not magic words but simple words with magic in them: "I'm sorry." (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul HughesIllus. in color by the author. An ooey-gooey, green oobleck was not exactly what the king had in mind when he ordered something extra-special from his royal magicians.; Title: Bartholomew and the Oobleck: (Caldecott Honor Book) (Classic Seuss) | [
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15,064 | 2 | "Seven-year-old Juan lives in Guatemala, a place of stunning beauty and grim economic reality. Abandoned by his mother, Juan lives with his grandmother and shines shoes. He passionately wants to attend school, but fears Grandmother will say no. Finally gathering his courage, he is surprised when she not only agrees to send him to school but also chides him about the importance of standing up for himself. Juan tells this bittersweet story, which reads smoothly and powerfully on several levels, with warmth and dignity."--"Booklist.Ann Cameron says she writes books to "capture the positive energy of life," a statement fully supported by The Most Beautiful Place in the World. She is the best-selling author of many popular books for children, including The Stories Julian Tells, More Stories Julian Tells, The Stories Huey Tells, and More Stories Huey Tells.Ms. Cameron lives in Guatemala.; Title: The Most Beautiful Place in the World | [
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15,065 | 2 | Brother and Sister Bear want everything in sight, and they throw tantrums when they don't get what they want. Wisely Mama and Papa deal with this childhood malady by teaching the cubs about the family budget and the importance of appreciating all that they have already.Stan and Jan Berenstain were both born in 1923 in Philadelphia.They didn't know each other as children, but met later at school, at the Philadelphia College of Art.They liked each other right away, and found out that the both enjoyed the same kinds of books, plays, music and art.During World War II, Stan was a medical assistant in the Army, and Jan worked in an airplane factory.When the war was over, they got married and began to work together as artists and writers, primarily drawing cartoons for popular magazines.After having their two sons Leo and Michael, the Berenstains decided to write some funny children's books that their children and other children could read and enjoy.Their first published children's book was called The Big Honey Hunt.It was about a family of bears, who later became known as the "Berenstain Bears." Stan and Jan planned all of their books together. They both wrote the stories and created the pictures. They continued to live outside of Philadelphia in the country. There are now over 300 Berenstain Bears books.; Title: The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies | [
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15,066 | 1 | ll color. The adventures of Dr. Dolittle, the veterinarian who can talk to his patients, have been charming children the world over since 1920. This edition offers the only text especially adapted for beginning readers.; Title: Travels of Doctor Dolittle | [
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15,068 | 0 | Illus. in color. "Riotous humor in picture and verse as an enterprising Seuss creature hunts uncommon eggs for a super deluxe dish."--"Child Study Assn.A Chunky Book with an added surprise--a punch-out piece to play wEveryone loves Dr. Seuss! A true original, he wrote and illustrated over 50classic children's books with total sales of more than 100 million copies. Forchildren of all ages.; Title: Scrambled Eggs Super! (Classic Seuss) | [
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15,069 | 1 | Theres a whole lot to learn one Christmas morning in Bear Country when Papa Bear teaches his son a thing or two about skiing, skating, and sledding.; Title: The Bears' Christmas | [
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15,070 | 2 | One of Jean de Brunhoff's five original Babar stories, Babar and His Children tells how the royal elephant and Queen Celeste await the birth of their first child... and discover to their surprise that they have three! The loyal townsfolk bring gifts, and the babies are named before being weighed by wise Dr. Capoulosse (he of the stern expression and pince-nez). Then it's time for young Flora, Pom, and Alexander to get into a series of scrapes and be saved by the bravery and good sense of either their parents or other animals. Brunhoff's charming, faintly Edwardian illustrations never cease to capture the imagination, and this particular story has something in it for every member of a young family--even if some members of your family are merely human. (Ages 2 to 6) --Richard FarrText: English (translation) Original Language: French; Title: Babar and His Children | [
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15,071 | 1 | ll color. "Big Bird, Ernie, and Bert explore the ever-changing zoo with Willie, a new friend whose mother works there. Bert has already visited the zoo, but Willie shows him that one can always find something different to enjoy there. In her introduction to the text, the Bronx Zoo's curator of education lists ways to recognize changes at the zoo. The excellent illustrations are realistic and detailed enough to reinforce a story that children will enjoy."--Science and Children.; Title: A Visit to the Sesame Street Zoo | [
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15,072 | 16 | As the gradually increasing number of bears on wheels adds up through all kinds of combinations and permutations, beginning readers are offered a unique counting book, courtesy of the Berenstains.Stan and Jan Berenstain were both born in 1923 in Philadelphia.They didn't know each other as children, but met later at school, at the Philadelphia College of Art.They liked each other right away, and found out that the both enjoyed the same kinds of books, plays, music and art.During World War II, Stan was a medical assistant in the Army, and Jan worked in an airplane factory.When the war was over, they got married and began to work together as artists and writers, primarily drawing cartoons for popular magazines.After having their two sons Leo and Michael, the Berenstains decided to write some funny children's books that their children and other children could read and enjoy.Their first published children's book was called The Big Honey Hunt .It was about a family of bears, who later became known as the "Berenstain Bears".Over 50 children's books later, Stan and Jan still plan all of their books together -- both write the stories, and both write the pictures.They live outside of Philadelphia in the country.; Title: Bears on Wheels | [
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15,073 | 1 | Text: English (translation) Original Language: FrenchThis third title about Babar and his family follows the elephants as they build a magnificent city: Celesteville. Life is peaceful and contented, everyone has a job to do, and celebrations are frequent. But one fateful day a snake bites the Old Lady and Babar fears that he may lose his oldest friend. Illus. in full color by the author.; Title: Babar the King (Babar Series) | [
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15,074 | 0 | A decades-old dictionary that you can still use today (and know that children will love it) is an amazing testament to the genius of the Seuss stable. The roughly 12-per-page colored drawings are dated, of course--the humans far more than the animals, funnily enough--but they've aged in a way that adds to their charm rather than detracting from it. (Phonograph may take some explaining; ditto typewriter, which we recently heard described as "like a computer, only with paper instead of a screen.") The 1,350 words are well balanced between the obvious stuff--common nouns and verbs--and more abstract language, from about to yet. Each word is accompanied by a drawing and an illustrative sentence. Along the way, naturally, we meet a wacky menagerie of humans and animals: "Aaron the alligator making more machines," "Aunt Ada standing on her head," etc. (Ages 4 to 8) --Richard FarrIllus. in full color. "The picture carries the meaning in this dictionary of over a thousand elementary words from 'Aaron' the alligator to a nest full of 'zyxuzpf' birds. The book gets a large 'A' for its commonsense-through-nonsense approach to reading." "The New York Times.; Title: The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) | [
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15,075 | 0 | A thoroughly Seussian tweak of the alphabet-book tradition, On Beyond Zebra is about all the letters that most people ignore--the ones that come after Z. Our hero (instantly recognizable to most Seuss fans as the boy who captured Thing One and Thing Two in The Cat in the Hat) takes his young friend, Conrad Cornelius O'Donald O'Dell, on a guided tour of all the weird creatures that begin with letters such as Yuzz, Wumbus, and Glikk. "And Nuh is the letter I use to spell Nutches, Who live in small caves, known as Nitches, for hutches." The message is pretty simple: the alphabet pins down boring old "reality," but if you explore further afield there are more interesting worlds to discover. "So, on beyond Z! It's high time you were shown, / That you really don't know all there is to be known." Explorers in need of guidance will even find a table of useful new letters (a beyondabet? a WumbaGlikk?) in the back. (Ages 4 to 8) --Richard Farr"Children will be intrigued and delighted with the nonsensical alphabet that begins after Z."--Booklist.; Title: On Beyond Zebra! (Classic Seuss) | [
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15,076 | 1 | fantastical of the classic Babar stories, we follow Zephir, Babars monkey friend, home on school holiday. The monkey princess, Isabelle, has been kidnapped by the horned monster Polomoche, and everyone is very worried. But Zephir, with the help of a tiny mermaid named Eleanore, is certain that he can save the princess himself.; Title: Babar and Zephir (The Babar Books) | [
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15,077 | 2 | Photographs and simple, thoughtful narrations create sensitive portraits of children who have undergone family crises. All ages. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc."Jill Krementz's book uses two important techniques for uncovering the issues for children of divorce -- her soul-searching pictures of the children and her sensitive interviews. Since 58 percent of children in the United States will live in single-parent families, their feelings should be a critical, burning issue for all of us. The issues as they see them are poignant and devastatingly incisive in the telling. That they all pay a price -- of having to assume the responsibility for family breakup, of having to wonder whether family relationships are even a good idea -- comes through loud and clear. That the price can be balanced in some ways by parents who do not use the child as a "football," but maintain good relationships with each other, is demonstrated as well. I feel that parents can certainly benefit, as can children, from learning about how to live with the losses of a divorce. The voices of these children are strong and vital. Their stories show how achingly responsive they are to such a caring, sensitive person as Ms. Krementz. This is a beautiful book and one we should all read."-- Dr. T. Berry Brazelton"Krementz has captured the painful and resilient humanity of these families both in her photographs and in the words she has selected. This is truly an important book."-- Edward H. Garcia, Dallas Morning News"These are poignant and honest pictures and stories of children of divorce, told in their own words. They should give valuable insights to all divorced and divorcing parents -- and to their children too. They are more revealing than the books written by the professionals."-- Dr. Benjamin Spock; Title: How It Feels When Parents Divorce | [
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15,078 | 0 | Illus. in full color. A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers.Al Perkinswas the author of several Bright and Early Books andBeginner Books, among themHand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb;andThe Ear Book.Perkins passed away in 1975.Eric Gurney (19101992)was a well-known artist, cartoonist, andillustrator. Born in Canada, he later came to work for WaltDisney Studios in 1938, where he collaborated onBambi and Pinocchio, among other films. He received a National Cartoonist Society Award for his work twice. He books includeThe Digging-est Dog, and Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.; Title: Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb (Bright & Early Books) | [
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15,079 | 2 | Kate and her family have arrived in St. Joseph, Mo., to join a wagon train heading for Oregon. Kate finds a cat and is determined to keep it. She smuggles the animal aboard the family wagon and enlists the help of her irrepressible new friend Rosie. The action-packed, highly readable tale includes such hazards as a buffalo stampede, a perilous river crossing and a dangerous encounter with Indians. Throughout Kate and Rosie struggle to keep Snuggs a secret. When Snuggs is finally discovered, there is a surprising twist, and the story ends with the wagon train's arrival in Oregon. Readers of this well-paced, first-person narrative will want to know more about the three adventurers in this story; Kate, Rosie and Snuggs are memorable travelers of the Oregon trail. Ages 8-10. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.Nine-year-old Kate Purdy is traveling from Missouri to Oregon by wagon train, and she's worried about Snuggs--the pretty little cat who took a shine to her and decided to come along for the ride even though there are no pets allowed on the wagon train. No matter what happens, Snuggs the cat has to stay a secret!"An action-packed, highly readable tale."--"Publishers WeeklyWilliam H. Hooks has written over 40 other books for children, including "The Legend of the Christmas Rose and "The Mighty Sante Fe.; Title: Pioneer Cat (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) | [
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15,080 | 0 | Illus. in full color. "Out shopping, the Bears look at frilly and silly hats, bumpy and lumpy ones. Offers slapstick humor and simple concepts of sizes and shape."--"School Library Journal.Stan and Jan Berenstain were both born in 1923 in Philadelphia.They didn't know each other as children, but met later at school, at the Philadelphia College of Art.They liked each other right away, and found out that the both enjoyed the same kinds of books, plays, music and art.During World War II, Stan was a medical assistant in the Army, and Jan worked in an airplane factory.When the war was over, they got married and began to work together as artists and writers, primarily drawing cartoons for popular magazines.After having their two sons Leo and Michael, the Berenstains decided to write some funny children's books that their children and other children could read and enjoy.Their first published children's book was called The Big Honey Hunt.It was about a family of bears, who later became known as the "Berenstain Bears." Stan and Jan planned all of their books together. They both wrote the stories and created the pictures. They continued to live outside of Philadelphia in the country. There are now over 300 Berenstain Bears books.; Title: Old Hat New Hat | [
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15,081 | 0 | ll color. A bear explores a carton on a truck and gets carried away. By the time he has returned, the reader will be exposed to the concepts of "inside, outside, upside down."The story is brief and funny. The words are few and easy, and have a happy, catchy rhythm. The pictures are clear and colorful clues to the text. An offspring of the world-famous Beginner Books, this Bright and Early Book is designed for an even lower age group. No matter how young your children are, Bright and Early Books will encourage their interest and delight in reading. After a little help from you, they'll soon be saying, 'I can read it all by myself!'; Title: Inside Outside Upside Down (Bright & Early Books) | [
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15,082 | 16 | The Alphabet Tree, by Leo Lionni, is tops on the list of picture books that teach as well as amuse." TimeHandsomely illustrated . . . an amusing and informative word game." The Chicago Sun-TimesThe wordbug teaches the letters on the alphabet tree, torn and tossed by a windstorm, how to become stronger by banding together to form words. Then a clever purple caterpillar teaches the letters to become even stronger by forming sentences with a message of peace. Available in hardcover for the first time in many years, The Alphabet Tree is Leo Lionnis gentle parable about the power of the written word in a democratic society.; Title: The Alphabet Tree | [
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15,083 | 2 | A lovely, satisfying parable of beauty and generosity . . . richly evocative of Far Eastern Art. The New York TimesThe beauty of this book lies . . . in its luxury, its aesthetic, its gorgeous densely colored patterns of trees and ushes, and the birds themselves. The Boston GlobeChildren will take the hopes and wishes of the little bird born without wings to their hearts. . . . A lovely book, and one that cannot but leave a lasting impression. The Saturday ReviewTruly a beautiful book. McCallsFrom the Trade Paperback edition.Leo Lionni, an internationally known designer, illustrator, and graphic artist, was born in Holland and lived in Italy until he came to the United States in 1939. He was the recipient of the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal and was honored posthumously in 2007 with the Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award. His picture books are distinguished by their enduring moral themes, graphic simplicity and brilliant use of collage, and include four Caldecott Honor Books: Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. Hailed as a master of the simple fable by the Chicago Tribune, he died in 1999 at the age of 89.From the Trade Paperback edition.; Title: Tico and the Golden Wings | [
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15,084 | 0 | "Carried along by rhyme and rhythm, enlivened by humorous, colorful illustrations."--Chicago Tribune. According to Papa Bear, a bear must use his "smarts" to search for honey. When he brings Brother Bear along on a hunt for honey, it takes more than a few missteps to outsmart the Bears.; Title: The Big Honey Hunt, 50th Anniversary Edition (The Berenstain Bears) | [
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15,085 | 0 | Guttelle details one outstanding accomplishment of five different major-league baseball Hall of Famers: Babe Ruth's often disputed "called" home run, Joe Dimaggio's record 56 consecutive game hitting streak, Jackie Robinson's breaking the major league baseball "color barrier," Robert Clemente's 300th hit and tragic death, and Henry Aaron's 715 home runs that broke Ruth's seemingly invincible record. Each is described in less than ten pages, allowing for little background information about either the feat or the ballplayer. Undistinguished illustrations and stock black-and-white photographs accompany the text. No table of contents or appendices are included. While the book is factually accurate, there is some fictionalizing of thought and dialogue, and the writing style is quite dry despite the inclusion of an occasional exclamatory sentence. Strictly for voracious young baseball fans. --Tom S. Hurlburt, Rio Rancho Public Library, NMCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.Illus. in full color & photos. "Using a you-are-there approach, Gutelle tells about five special moments in the careers of baseball Hall-of-Famers Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, and Hank Aaron. The present-tense gambit brings immediacy to the narratives, and the drama of the moment will grab young fans. Solid reading for third-graders."--"Booklist.; Title: Baseball's Best: Five True Stories (Step into Reading) | [
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15,086 | 1 | in full color. From the laundry room to the attic, a playful kitten and puppyplay hide-and-seek all over the house.Kids can play along, and they'll giggle when they spot the kitten posing as a kitty canister on the kitchen counter!; Title: Puppy Peek-A-boo (Peek-A-Board Books) | [
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15,087 | 0 | Prelutsky introduces this volume of humorous poems with a verse of his own: "If you have got a funnybone, / and I've no doubt you do, / then this completely silly book / is sure to tickle you." The poems are silly, full of high jinksstet spelling per Web. and clever nonsense. Although the author and title indexes at the end of the book are useful, a table of contents would have clarified the book's loose organization. A verse about Bella's new umbrella is followed by one about ghouls' ghoul-oshes. Poems about nuts, noodles and bananas fill one double-page spread while verses about rattlesnake meat, jellyfish stew and eating eels occupy another. Priceman's ( Friend or Frog ; Rachel Fister's Blister ) slapdash watercolor illustrations are full of energy and high spirits, perfectly suited to this eclectic collection that includes work by such favorites as Nash, Lobel, Kennedy, Kuskin, Yolen and Raskin. Ages 7-12. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.Grade 1-5-- Familiar funny folks who know how to tickle children's funnybones with silly rhymes are well represented in this high-spirited collection. Prelutsky, who gathered the verses, is here, as are Silverstein, Nash, Viorst, Ciardi, and an array of others, including songster Barry Polisar. Priceman's pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations are whimsical, multiethnic, and humorous, adding significantly to the collection's appeal. Title and author indexes are helpful additions. Loosely arranged by subjects, the short poems take a kid's-eye view of everything from monsters and table manners (or the lack of) to food and parents. A happy book for all collections. --Lee Bock, Brown County Public Libraries, Green Bay, WICopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: For Laughing Out Loud: Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone | [
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15,088 | 2 | Are You My Mother? is a classic for beginning readers. A baby bird has hatched while its mother was away. Fallen from his nest, he sets out to find her and asks everyone he meets--a dog, a cow, a plane and more--"Are you my mother?" Children adore the little bird and are thrilled with the happy ending.--------Un pequeo pajarito ha salido del huevo mientras su madre no est. Se cae del nido y sale a buscarla, preguntando a todo al que se encuentra--a un perro, una vaca, un aeroplano y a algunos ms. --"Eres mi madre?" Los nios adoran al pajarito y disfrutan enormemente el final feliz. Eres mi madre? Es un clsico para los que comienzan a leer.P. D. Eastman was one of the stars of the Beginner Books line with beloved classics like Are You My Mother?; Go, Dog. Go!; The Best Nest; and more!From the Non-traditional book edition.; Title: Are You My Mother? (Beginner Books(R)) (Spanish Edition) | [
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15,089 | 12 | Full-color photos. "Historical facts and lore about flags, crests, and pennants used at sporting events, displayed on naval vessels, or brandished in revolutionary movements, as well as national flags, pepper this fascinating account. Another excellent book in this series."--Childhood Education.  ; Title: Flag (Eyewitness Books) | [
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15,090 | 1 | Babar and Queen Celeste have just been married in this early story from the most famous of elephantine chronicles. They depart for their honeymoon in a hot-air balloon, and at first all seems wonderful as they glide over a charming coastal town that might be St. Tropez before the advent of tourism. Alas, a storm takes them out to sea and then dumps them on a desert island. The fierce, spear-carrying "savages" who subsequently attack them will remind you that this book was written and illustrated in 1934: they are as far from politically correct as you can get. And the war between the elephants and the rhinoceroses, which ends the story, is also problematic for a modern audience. But the travels and adventures in between show all the excitement and charm that has made the Babar series an enduring hit. (Ages 2 to 6) --Richard FarrText: English, French (translation); Title: The Travels of Babar (Babar Series) | [
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15,091 | 2 | Grade 1-3-- When Granny Bird becomes ill with a cold, Big Bird goes to help her. The soup he makes is cold (Granny gets up to heat it up and make him a birdseed sandwich); he goes to the seashore to get salty water for her to gargle and tracks in sand (which Granny gets up to sweep from the floor); and he spills rice all over the floor when he attempts to make supper (Granny gets up to sweep it up). Big Bird begins to cry and is comforted by Granny who says, "Big Bird, you did help! Just seeing you makes me feel better." The book ends with a hug. The illustrations are typical of those in the multitude of other books featuring Sesame Street characters, realistically drawn and in full color. The main attraction of this book will be its ties to the popular television show and the hundreds of commercial products featuring these characters. It does, however, have a passable plot and a readable text that will provide readers with an enjoyable story while helping them increase their fluency in the reading process. --Sharron McElmeel, Cedar Rapids Community Schools, IACopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: GET WELL,GRANNY BIRD (Sesame Street Start-To-Read Books) | [
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15,092 | 1 | "It is morning, and everything is waking up. / Birds are waking up the way birds wake up. / Pigs are waking up the way pigs wake up. / And children are waking up too." A black girl in a farmhouse has breakfast and gets dressed before helping her parents feed and care for the lambs, puppies and kittens that have also just begun their day. While the baby animals are eating lunch, the girl eats, too. And in the evening, everyone--baby animals and child--must go to sleep. Brown's story, first published in 1941, has the same comforting repetition found in Good night Moon , although this text is much longer. Jeffers's watercolor illustrations, with detailed work in ink, let readers join the reassuring world where animals and children are loved and cared for. The juxtaposition of pictures and white space to text, and the use of soft, spring-like colors, give the design a spacious, welcoming look. Ages 3-6. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.PreSchool-- Originally published in 1941, Baby Animals is written in the same lulling style as many of Brown's familiar, quiet picture books. It tells of a typical day for each animal--lamb, pig, puppy, kitten, horse, bird--on a small farm. This new, larger version has been edited and modernized. The original included some wild creatures (a flounder and some bear cubs) that have been omitted from the new edition. The text has been updated (i.e., the child's heavy lunch of meat, potatoes, juice, vegetables, and dessert has been changed to a light lunch of soup, milk, and dessert; sexist allusions--"it is nighttime, and the fathers are coming home"--are gone). Mary Cameron's outdated pictures for the original edition have been replaced by Jeffers' familiar, colorful watercolor and pen-and-ink paintings which capture, in true picture-book style, a modern black family's farm day. Paintings and text are interspersed on each page, creating a lovely whole. Illustrations range from full-page and double-page spreads to several smaller ones on a page surrounded by crisp white space. Young children will delight in the lilting, often repetitive, question-and-answer format of the text. Despite several flaws (size relationships are not always correct; far too many sentences begin with and and but ), this new edition of Brown's long out-of-print title will find a ready audience in those same young readers who enjoy her other books. --Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OhioCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Baby Animals | [
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15,093 | 1 | Full-color photos. "Arthur showcases varieties of shelled mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, turtles, tortoises, and terrapins, illustrating how shells and pearls form and comparing species that inhabit such different environments as freshwater bodies and coral reefs. Stunning close-up photos and detailed captions will attract browsers and researchers looking for information on this popular subject."--(starred) Booklist.; Title: Shell (Eyewitness Books) | [
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15,094 | 1 | While taking a walk in the snow, the pet goose Petunia meets Charles, a most charming and handsome gander. Handsome, yesand hefty, because poor Charles is being fattened for Christmas dinner by the farmer next door. Will the gander of Petunias dreams be served up roasted, with applesauce on the side?Petunias determination to save Charles, even if it means posing as Santa Claus, results in one of the simplest, funniest, and most original of Christmas stories, wrote the Chicago Tribune when this book was originally published in 1952. A yuletide classic by a Caldecott Medal winner, Petunias Christmas is still making children laugh as it shows the true spirit of Christmas.ROGER DUVOISIN was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1904 and came to the United States in 1925. He wrote and illustrated 40 booksincluding five books about Petuniaand illustrated more than 100 written by other authors, including The Happy Lion by his wife, Louise Fatio. He received the Caldecott Medal in 1948 for White Snow, Bright Snow and a Caldecott Honor in 1966 for Hide and Seek Fog, both written by Alvin Tresselt. He was also a distinguished magazine illustrator and an important New Yorker cover artist starting in 1935. Roger Duvoisin died in 1980.; Title: Petunia's Christmas | [
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15,095 | 0 | Grade 2-4-- A more indicative title for this book might be The Story of All-Black Baseball and Jackie Robinson, as only two of the six chapters deal with the life of Jackie Robinson, the first black to play major league baseball. The writing style is consistent with the other books in this series: choppy and unimaginative. Unremarkable color illustrations and standard black-and-white photographs are sprinkled liberally throughout the book. David Adler's Jackie Robinson: He Was the First (Holiday, 1989) is a more interesting biography aimed at the same reading level. That book also includes a table of contents, a list of important dates, an index, and biographical information about the author and illustrator--features not included in O'Connor's book. The front inside cover of O'Connor's book does have an area where the reader is encouraged to write his or her name and the date after he has finished reading the book. --Tom S. Hurlburt, Minneapolis Public LibraryCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.Illus. in full color with black-and-white photos. "Covers not only the story of Robinson's prowess and his problems as the first black man to play in the major leagues, but also the story of the rise and fall of black baseball and some of its star players and managers. Nicely geared by vocabulary, sentence length, and print size to the primary grades audience."--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.; Title: Jackie Robinson and the Story of All Black Baseball (Step into Reading) | [
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15,096 | 2 | Oh, why won't Marvin K. Mooney just please go now? In this 1972 classic for "beginning beginners," Dr. Seuss devotes his rhymes to budging the reluctant young Marvin K.: "The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. GO! I don't care how." But despite his impatience, our narrator certainly isn't short of ideas on how Marvin could make an exit. "You can go on stilts. You can go by fish. You can go in a Crunk-Car if you wish." Seuss's ever wacky illustrations accompany each new mode of transport, from balloon to broomstick to Bumble-Boat. And if those who are just learning find a word they don't know, chances are Seuss has simply made it up to fill out this ear-pleasing, easy-to-read text. This book is yet another fun and euphonious entry from the good doctor, a silly primer for budding rhymers and readers. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul HughesIllus. in full color. In merry verse and illustrations, Marvin is asked to leave by every conceivable means of transportation.; Title: Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (Bright and Early Books for Beginning Beginners) | [
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15,097 | 0 | For those who have always wanted to say things like "Mi madre es una gallina" ("My mother is a hen") or "Los zorrillos huelen mal" ("Skunks smell bad"), this book is the answer to your dreams! After all, who wouldn't want to learn Spanish from the Cat in the Hat? From "The cat runs AHEAD--El gato corre ADELANTE" to "Galloping ZEBRAS--CEBRAS galopando," simple (and occasionally silly) English words and phrases are translated into Spanish, accompanied by the familiar Dr. Seussesque full-color cartoon drawings. For each letter there are several pages of illustrated terms, each separated into a box with a word in English, a picture, a sentence in English with the featured word in uppercase letters, and a translation of the sentence in Spanish, similarly highlighted. An easy pronunciation guide follows the A-through-Z dictionary for anyone who wants to go further and learn to speak as well as read Spanish. This is a tremendously fun and surprisingly useful glimpse into another language that can be used by parents and teachers introducing Spanish to English-speaking children or introducing English to Spanish-speaking children. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie CoulterIllus. in full color. Trans. by Dr. Robert Nardelli.; Title: The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary in Spanish (Beginner Books(R)) (Spanish Edition) | [
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15,098 | 0 | Full-color photos. "From cover to cover, this openly invites the reader to discover the delights of dinosaurs. The visual appeal is impressive. The text is informative. Fossilization, skeleton reconstruction, and a superb time scale round out a stunning and compelling book. Complete, authoritative, exact, and imaginative, it is sure to survive when other dinosaur books become extinct."--(starred) Science Books & Films.; Title: Dinosaur (Eyewitness) | [
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15,099 | 2 | "Julian, his younger brother, and their friend Gloria read the wanted posters in the post office and decide to search their town for criminals. The plot is well-developed, and the characters are aptly drawn. A quick and interesting read--and one that will surely draw in less-able readers."--School Library Journal. From rescuing a dog stuck in a hot car to saving a toddler from drowning, secret agents Julian, Huey, and Gloria have done a nice bit of crimebusting. But what they really want is to nab a real-live bank robber and earn the $25,000 reward. Just when it looks as if they might get their man, the police chief steps in, and the supersleuths find that they're the ones who are in trouble, with a capital T!Ann Cameron is the bestselling author of many popular books for children, including The Stories Julian Tells, More Stories Julian Tells, The Stories Huey Tells, and More Stories Huey Tells.; Title: Julian, Secret Agent (Julian's World) | [
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