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PreSchool-K-This lyrical paean to the moon describes lovely moments that the creatures of the Earth enjoy under moonlit skies. Soothing, dreamlike verse relates how a diverse group of humans from dancers to astronomers relate to lunar magic. The moon also casts a spell over a lunar moth, an alley cat, a herd of sea tur...
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Kindergarten-Grade 5-Beginning with the endpapers (replicas of 1784 advertisements for a hot-air-balloon exhibition and the newspaper account of its success), Van Leeuwen sets the stage for this tale told through the eyes of 13-year-old Edward Warren, the first person in America to ascend in a balloon. An author's note...
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Join In the Fun!A rooster's roar sparks a cacophony of unexpected sounds in The Giraffe Who Cock-a-Doodle-Doo'd: A Pop-Up Book by Keith Faulkner, illus. by Jonathan Lambert. Colorful, oversize creatures burst forth from each spread, including a lion that squeaks and an elephant that hisses. Copyright 2002 Cahners Busin...
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Grade 1-3-Jennifer's halmoni (grandmother) arrives from South Korea the day before Grandparents' Day at school. She speaks no English and wears traditional Korean garb, and Jennifer wonders what her classmates will think of her. The softly colored illustrations in oils show a woman so attractive in her silk gown, so qu...
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PreSchool-Grade 2Mortimer is one careful koala. He will not eat cauliflower because he always has bad luck the following day. When he is invited to supper at his friend Sadies house, he says no to her delicious stew because the vegetable is one of the ingredients. Then, after she coaxes him into trying it, the inevitab...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3Adhering closely to the original story, Sneed has streamlined the prose while keeping the sense and emotion of the tale, including the allusion to Andersen having heard it from a swallow nesting outside his window. The fanciful watercolor illustrations are full of decorative flowers, and the lanky T...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3This peppy new rendition bears little resemblance to the original legend. The story focuses on Peterkin, a happy elf who stumbles upon a gloomy retired witch named Elbavol. His attempts to cheer her fail, but she sends him off with a magic pipe, which plays the sound of letters. Spelling a word call...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3--This is a jazzy story about an African-American girl who loves music. From the time she was a baby banging out rhythms with her rattle or a two-year-old making a horn to toot on or a kindergartner looking for other kids with the same passion, Violet played and sang, and hummed and thought about mu...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2Katie has always wanted a pony, and she is about to get her wish. She has earned it by helping in the barn and taking riding lessons. However, the search for the perfect pony takes longer than she expected. One is too spirited, another too stubborn, and still another is too young. Then she and her m...
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Bruce Coville lives in Syracuse, New York.LeUyen Pham lives in San Francisco, California.; Title: William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
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Grade 2-4-After a long winter stuck inside the toy department at Macy's, Marvin needs to get out, so he enlists his friends Fats and Raymond to go exploring. The three mice catch a ride in a shopping bag full of stuffed rabbits and, to their delight, end up in Central Park. Marvin is captivated by Rollerbladers, but Ra...
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Grade 13Artell and Harris's earlier Cajun retellings were celebrated for the clever regional twist they gave to familiar folktales. While Jacques and de Beanstalk uses that same voice, the story itself retains its original structure; there are no roles filled by alligators and no villains defeated with hot sauce. As su...
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This striking work is an ideal way to introduce a classic story to a new generation of readers. -- School Library JournalBruce Coville lives in Syracuse, New York.Laurel Long lives in southern California.; Title: Hans Brinker
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Kindergarten-Grade 2Oliver and Amanda Pig return in another irresistible adventure, told in four fast-paced chapters. After an unsuccessful attempt at building the best fort ever, Oliver enlists the assistance of his two porcine buddies and they create a wonderful structure. Amanda asks to help, but is told, No girls a...
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Beautiful crackle-varnished pictures (like an old, old world globe) set this playful and informative collection of travel verses apart. Author J. Patrick Lewis explores the world through unconventional poems and riddles, accompanied by illustrator Alison Jay's oil paintings, seen behind a delicate web of wiggly lines i...
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Starred Review. PreS–Benny gets his very own little sister, but realizes pretty quickly that shes not much fun. She cries all the time and takes up his space in the family, plus, as he confesses to his toy elephant, Shes not beautiful. I dont even like her. When he tries some of his best tricks for the visiting r...
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In this worthy companion to her other works about religious figures, Mayer (Young Jesus of Nazareth) uses several brief stories to introduce the fourth-century orphan boy turned miracle-working bishop who inspired the modern holiday image of Santa Claus/Father Christmas. Masterpieces from European museums and churches ...
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Kindergarten-Grade 4In jaunty rhyme, an unnamed narrator relates how his older cousin constantly teases him by telling him frightening lies: Please don't eat that piece of pie;/That piece of pie could make you die!/It's full of poison, through and through/It might just be the end of you! The younger boy doesn't know wh...
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Adolescent outsiders are the subject of On the Fringe, a collection of 11 short stories by well-known YA authors, edited by Donald R. Gallo. Joan Bauer describes confronting the "jock flock" who have a bonding ritual called, "Get the Geeks" and M.E. Kerr demonstrates the determination of Brian, nicknamed "Mousey," to s...
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Grade 5-7-"i don't remember the sun. i don't remember the sun or how my sister, monk, says it warms you up-." So begins Lila's unusual, gentle, almost ethereal narration. She has lived in a reverse world for all of her almost nine years, unable to go out in daylight because of a condition called xeroderma pigmentosum, ...
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A touch of girl power imbues Hoffman's (Amazing Grace) magical tale of three women from vastly different lands and cultures who find themselves united by the glorious event of Jesus' birth. Each compelled to follow the intense light of a special star, the three wise women reach Bethlehem not bearing extravagant materia...
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PreSchool-Grade 2--Oliver gets a "real genuine Mighty Pig cape" for his birthday and, suddenly, he is unstoppable. With his extra-strong muscles and super powers, he rescues his toy cars, his stuffed animals, and even his sister from imaginary dangers. When his mother asks him to clean his room and set the table, he is...
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PreSchool-Grade 4 Important lessons of work ethics, initiative, and natural consequence are delivered in the latest addition to what might be considered the Pinkney classic bookshelf a lush, light-filled rendition of a folktale staple. The colorful, feather-full frontispiece features a full-page portrait of the heroine...
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PreSchool-Grade 1Touted to be a "warm and giggly look at life's daily possibilities," this book confuses more than illuminates. Each spread features a different activity in a child's day (such as eating, drinking, getting dressed, and sharing) and then shows two little monkeys demonstrating an appropriate, inappropriat...
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Kindergarten-Grade 4A solid retelling of an Abenaki legend. Long ago, Azban the Raccoon was a gifted athlete, but years of terrible sportsmanship have left him almost completely friendless. Having run out of animals to annoy, he finally challenges a large boulder situated atop a hill to a race. To his surprise, the bou...
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PreSchool-Grade 1This book explores the moods and activities of five ethnically diverse pairs of brothers, including play, feelings, and sharing. Curtis's bright, colorfully photographed spreads evoke unforgettable moments; the rhyming text is punctuated by colored fonts and rebus-style symbols selected for key words. ...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3With a small kingdom of well-behaved farmers and their sheep, Queen Sophie is bored, so she enrolls in a correspondence course from the Royal College of Beauty. Because each of the 12 lessons must be practiced on 50 different people, the queen orders everyone to the castle daily for haircuts, curls,...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3Readers who get the jokes in this zany tale will enjoy Ahlberg's quirky wit. "Once upon a topsy-turvy time in the middle of a long hot winter," an elaborately dressed couple visits Nurse Doodle's shop to obtain a baby. Eschewing the many different types of little ones availablea flowerpot-throwing b...
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PreSchool-Grade 2 - Splendid watercolor art illustrates this ho-hum story. George has an unusual friend, a dragon, whom he aided in The Egg (Putnam, 2001). In this episode, he is inside a chicken coop collecting eggs when the dragon appears, lifts up the structure in its claws, and flies with it to a faraway land. They...
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Grade 2-4--A romantic retelling of the Grimm tale more commonly known as "The Singing, Soaring Lark" (also, "The Lilting, Leaping Lark"). With its themes of love transformed and questing heroine, the story has much in common with "Beauty and the Beast" and "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" (which Long and Ogburn note...
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PreSchool-Grade 1-The big white mouse and a little brown mouse from My Love for You (Dial, 1997) are back, this time expressing their affection for one another throughout the months of the year. They share sunny days, boxes of chocolates, fireworks, and much more. The text is simple ("My love for you is warmer than a s...
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Grade 1-3A poignant story about loss. Stevies teacher finds ways to make him feel at home during his first day at a new school. Her fondest wish, she says, is that they have lunch together, evoking for him the sense of speaking with a fairy-tale princess. The young narrator soon discovers that Miss Perry has a new fond...
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PreSchool-Grade 1A family piles into the car in the early morning for a two-day drive to Grandma's house. The parents and children engage in the usual road-trip activitiesplaying games, eating at a truck stop, singing, getting on each other's nerves, being bored, taking in the tourist sites, and staying in a moteluntil...
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PreSchool-Grade 2-In a preface, Rankin invites readers to tour the Maine coast, her home. From sea roses to sandpipers and lobsters, she provides 20 countable plants and animals that almost come to life. A large, legible white numeral is placed at the bottom of each picture; the only text is a word on the border identi...
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PreSThis book, like Dawdle Duckling (Dial, 2003), sports inviting pastels and a vigorous text in an easy-to-read font. Its ingenuous plot doesn't meanderalthough its main character does. When Mama Duck plays hide-and-seek with her four youngsters, three zip off to find effective hideouts. Dawdle, the easily distracted ...
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Kindergarten-Grade 1-Sweet Briar, a small and slightly odiferous female skunk, is new to Miss Chickory's class and is shunned by the other students. However, the school faces bigger problems since a local wolf has been spotted in the nearby woods. When he snatches one of the youngsters during recess, Sweet Briar bravel...
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Desperate for the attention of his baby-distracted human family, Truelove, a rather chunky, bug-eyed, spotted, eminently lovable dog, shares gifts (a dead mouse), performances (swinging from the chandelier behind his oblivious audience), and a love song (for which he is ousted from the house for making Baby cry). Crush...
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PreSchool-Grade 2--This witty picture book stars a dairy cow who will soon inherit the position of "Bell Cow," the leader of the herd. Unfortunately, Lily's inability to stop "prancing and dancing" casts doubt on her leadership abilities. Discouraged, Lily sets off on a globe-trotting journey to find her true place in ...
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Grade 9 Up -A powerful story, told in free verse from the perspective of a teenage murder victim. Cassie's body lies hidden in a crevice, where she tries to figure out what happens next. She meets the ghost of Birdie, another murdered girl who was hidden in the same crevice years earlier. But while people are desperate...
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Starred Review. Grade 1-4Fourteen artists present their mostly visual answers to the age-old question in two-page illustrations done in various mediums and styles. Words are at a minimum; the pictures speak for themselves. Marla Frazee's solution is simple, showing a brown hen hurrying from a plain wooden coop pelted b...
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* “There’s a charmingly nostalgic feel both to the story and to the illustrations, which convey a sense of time and place and are very appealing.” — School Library Journal, starred review“Readers looking for a feel-good holiday story will find one here.” — Horn Book“Mixed...
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Grade 5-8--Coville's knack for making Shakespeare's tales accessible reaches new heights in this prose retelling of the Bard's best-known play. Not only is the text incredibly faithful to the original, but the language that surrounds the quoted dialogue is also amazingly rich. As the author's note explains, all of the ...
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Grade 13Spinelli fashions a plot that goes to the core of storytelling: writing from the heart. Motivated by the Red Brick Library's contest to "write the best story" and the added attraction of "a ride on the Sooper Dooper Looper roller coaster" with her favorite author, this pigtailed, blond (unnamed) heroine sets ou...
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PreSchool-Grade 1–A child and her cat dress for the outdoors. At first the sun is shining, so she dons pants and a shirt. No sooner does she step outside than the clouds roll in, so she adds a sweater. Each time she is ready to go, the weather changes–the wind picks up, it begins to rain, and then it snows&...
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PreSchool-Grade 1Four crocodile pals are bored with being cooped up inside, so they outfit themselves for the inclement weather and set off. They spy a pirate ship, whale, and monster in the distance, but when the fog lifts, they find that "this scary place" is actually a mini-golf park and they decide to play. The act...
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Kindergarten-Grade 1-Nash's gouache-and-pencil illustrations are the star here as they depict elements of a day at the beach shared by four animal friends (they could be crocodiles or alligators). These creatively clad cohorts cavort through bright orange pages, leaving readers with no doubt as to the meaning of beach,...
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In Past Perfect, Present Tense, Newbery award winning author Richard Peck ruminates on the finer points of short story writing in concise but curmudgeonly prose. Peck provides introductory notes for each of four sections; "The First" explores his well-known early work "Priscilla and the Wimps;" "The Past" includes Peck...
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It's a beautiful sunny day, the water glimmers with blues and greens, and a downy little fellow thinks he has better things to do than keep pace with Mama Duck and his three siblings. "No! Quack! Quack! I won't catch up!" says the duckling, and with each request from his mother he finds new ways to tarry. At first, he ...
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PreSchool-Grade 2An appealing story about paternal guidance and support. Papa is giving Little Loon diving lessons but the youngster is having a hard time learning this new skill. While his father is beneath the water, he escapes. As he swims along the shore, he is startled by a moose, a brown bear, and a tree that has...
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Grade 4–7—Agnes Parker knows that she wants to fly under the radar during her first year at Horace Mann Middle School—at least until she knows what the rules are. Her best friend, Prejean, prefers to make a statement. She announces that she's going to run for class president in order to do something a...
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K-Gr 2After a vision screening at school, Wagner learns that he needs glasses. Although he is apprehensive about his classmates' reaction to his new look, Pearl puts a decidedly positive spin on his perceived misfortunes. She says that with glasses, he can look like a rock star, a scientist, or an actor. The added bonu...
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From Viking Press In regards to the 60 Minutes episode that aired April 17, 2011: "Greg Mortensons work as a humanitarian in Afghanistan and Pakistan has provided tens of thousands of children with an education. 60 Minutes is a serious news organization and in the wake of their report, Viking plans to carefully review ...
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Charlie and Lola have already won the hearts of readers in three winning books, including I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed. And now theyre quickly gathering more fans as an animated series on the Disney Channel.Adorably true-to-childhood and laugh-out-loud funny, Charlie and Lola chronicles the day-to-day momen...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3Papa's "wandering feet" have taken Rebecca's family many places, from Pennsylvania, where she was born, to Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri. Now he is moving them west again to Oregon: "I hear tell land out there is the finest a man could want." Although Rebecca longs to stay put, Mama explains that this...
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Published in association with UNICEF, this book presents 14 of the 54 principles adopted at the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and pairs each with illustrations by an international cast of all-stars. On the first spread, text beginning with "Whoever we are, wherever we live, these rights belong to all ch...
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Grade 2-3Young Sly forms her own detective agency to solve mysteries in the neighborhood. However, she only takes on cases that will also interest her cat, Taxi. The three cases presented here involve a variety of pets. Sly observes as well as she listens, and when she mixes in some creative problem solving, voila! Mai...
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Dianna Hutts Aston divides her time between San Miguel de Allendes, Mexico, and central Texas.Julie Maren lives in Boulder, Colorado.; Title: An Orange in January
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The husband-and-wife team behind the best-selling Snowmen at Night and Snowmen at Christmas, Carolyn and Mark Buehner are also the creators of the award-winning Fanny’s Dream. Upcoming collaborations include an original fairy tale about a lonely princess who decides to become a hairdresser. They live in Utah with...
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PreSchool-Grade 2Nate decides he wants to dance after attending a recital, but his older brother tells him that boys cant be ballerinas. Even though the childs parents tell him otherwise, Bens words worry the would-be performer. Nate loves his ballet class, but he wonders why he is the only boy. His troubles disappear ...
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PreSGrandpa, a bespectacled wrinkly raisin, and his grandson, a plump round grape, share a day at the park. Similar to the authors The Day the Dog Dressed Like Dad (Bloomsbury, 2004), this title makes short observations on each page, such as Grandpa teaches me about lifes ups and downs; the accompanying graphic shows t...
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PreSSprout is the precocious big sister in a family that includes little sister Bea and an extremely patient and cheerful hipster mother. Sprout helps out around the house by brushing everyone's teeth (including using her mother's toothbrush on the dog), doing her own hair (by taking scissors to her bangs), and feeding...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2Arnold characterizes the good and bad twin princes and their like-minded horses in this featherbrained tale in which Old King Chanticleer decides that his successor will be determined by a horse race and a riddle. Verbal puns"You crossed the road to help me" and "Last one back is a rotten egg"gain s...
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Starred Review. Grade 3-6As the story opens, the Old African is watching a boy being whipped on a plantation in Georgia. He is putting a picture into the minds of his comradesa picture of water as soft and cool as a lullabyand the picture stops the boy's pain. The Old African doesn't speakhe hasn't since he was brought...
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Grade 47Strickland continues to add to Lewis Barnavelt's adventures, originally created by John Bellairs. School's out and it's the beginning of summer in 1950s New Zebedee, MI. Uncle Jonathan has given a party, complete with a spectacular magic show, for Lewis and his friends. Then Lewis sees a ghostly figure dressed ...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3The adventures of young bookworm George and his dragon, whom readers first met in The Egg (Putnam, 2001), are continued in this frothy fantasy. The story, which centers on the boy's attempt to foil a crotchety wizard who has been stealing dragon eggs, is lightweight. The motives of the wizard are ne...
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PreSchool-KAlthough his mother says it's time to take a nap, Little Spotted Cat prefers to play outside. He drops the flowerpot, tangles the yarn, spills water from a bowl, and gets sopping wet with the garden hose. But soon he is all tired out and falls fast asleep atop a mound of pillows. The colorful artwork with a ...
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* "Readers are in for a very funny encounter with a memorable personality. Catrow doesn't let a single spread go to waste." Publishers Weekly, starred review"Catrow's colorfully frenetic artwork and Beaumont's flawlessly rhyming text will have children chanting along . . . . By the end, readers will definitely know how...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2—Mayer's Terrible Troll (Dial, 1968; o.p.) has been redone in full color, which gives the story new life and vitality. A little boy wishes he lived a thousand years ago so that he could be a squire to the bravest knight and encounter kings, queens, knights, dragons, and trolls. Funny details a...
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Hoffman (Amazing Grace) adapts eight parables for children in this intimate, thought-provoking picture book. By their nature, the story-lessons, or parables, attributed to Jesus have traditionally been among the most accessible parts of the Bible. But Hoffman steps beyond mere retellings, taking great care to explain o...
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Grade 13The 21 poems in this collection chronicle a boy's school year. The book begins with "School Fever," when he claims that he has to stay home due to a computer virus ("I was on a school computer/And it played a dirty trick,/It zapped me with a virus/And I feel a little sick"). The last poem shows the start of sum...
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In the Bruchacs take on a traditional Iroquois tale, we meet Rabbit. An impatient fellow (with a long, luxurious tail), Rabbit wants things when he wants them. And right now he wants snowthe fact that its summer notwithstanding. Fortunately (for him), Rabbit knows a magical chant that will bring the flakes. And no matt...
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K-Gr 4When President George Washington visits the home of the prominent painter Gilbert Stuart to have his portrait painted, Stuart's children, Charlotte, James, and baby John, try really hard to be good. But, try as they will, it's one disaster after another. President Washington is none too pleased and sends the chil...
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Starred Review. Griffin makes a striking debut with this gritty, dialogue-heavy novel about two homeless boys. Ray and José, 14 and 15, have survived foster care and juvenile detention together, and now hide out from their parole officers in a burned-out stationhouse in New York City's Ten Mile River park. They ...
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Starred Review. Grade 59Having successfully completed their first mission in STORM: The Infinity Code (Dial, 2008), the 14-year-old members of STORM (Science and Technology to Over-Rule Misery) continue to cultivate their unique skills. Will, the group's genius inventor, has been interning with a unit in Britain's M16;...
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Grade 47In this adventure set in the 1950s, 11-year-old Lewis Barnavelt and his friend Rose Rita discover a peculiar-looking, empty house nestled in the woods near their hometown of New Zebedee, MI. Eerie sounds emanate from it, and Lewis is sure that he sees an army of ghosts marching nearby. His Uncle Jonathan explai...
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Sherry's (I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean) giant squid with the outsize ego is back, this time asserting his peerless artistic talents. Having shown his skill at drawing both abstractly and from life, the squid declares, I'm making my masterpiece! The book itself, however, packs less of a punch. Although the charact...
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The husband-and-wife team behind the best-selling Snowmen at Night and Snowmen at Christmas, Carolyn and Mark Buehner are also the creators of the award-winning Fanny’s Dream. Upcoming collaborations include an original fairy tale about a lonely princess who decides to become a hairdresser. They live in Utah with...
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In the fashion of Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? (2006),14 children's-book artists (only Chris Raschka appears in both books) illustrate a different groan-inducing knock-knock joke in signature style. Saxton Freymann uses photos of lettuce ("Lettuce who?" "Lettuce in!") made to look like pigs. Tomie de Paolacreate...
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This story, straightforward and sweet, is nonetheless heart-wrenching. Marcus' mother does not want to be in this year's family photograph; she has lost her beautiful long, braided hair to chemotherapy treatments. When Marcus goes to get his face trimmed for the picture, he asks the barber to cut all his hair off so he...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3Sara is visiting her grandparents at their lakeside cottage. When she hears Granddad getting up early in the morning, she jumps up, too, and inquires where he's going. Fishing with his buddy, he says, and Sara convinces him to take her along. As they row across the lake, Sara keeps looking for the b...
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Crimis lively, read-aloud-friendly text has a contemporary, lighthearted flair while Munsingers typically expressive animal characters will delight children. BooklistWhen a friends in need, sometimes it does come down to 'Just do it,' as one little mole learns. Thats the big-hearted, selfless message in Crimis tale of ...
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PreSchool-Grade 2In this book, adapted from a script from the television show Charlie and Lola, the siblings prepare for the arrival of the school guinea pig, Bert. Despite the fact that Lola knows less about guinea pigs and their care then her friends do, she is picked to take the animal home. She has determined that ...
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Lauren Child lives in London, England.; Title: Charlie and Lola: We Are Extremely Very Good Recyclers
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Grade 59Summer in London has begun to seem routine following the stimulating events of Christmas in St. Petersburg in The Infinity Code and Easter in Venice in The Ghost Machine (both Dial, 2008). STORM's three genius 14-year-olds are occupying themselves with their "normal" day-to-day activities such as working with t...
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"[the] humorous illustrations...are bright, colorful, and peppered with playful details that will delight young children." --School Library Journal; Title: Camping Day!
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K-Gr 2-A young girl tells of her special teacher who could have taught at a school "across town, where the sun always shines," or retired years ago. Instead, she fills the days sharing joy and inspiring young minds with lessons of reading, research, writing, compassion, families, drawing, jazz, swing dancing, and much ...
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PreSchool-Grade 2–Charlie and Lola return in another engaging story that perfectly captures a child's anticipation of the first snow of winter. Big brother Charlie takes his sister out to frolic in a world that has all gone extremely white! Lola and their friends make snow angels, go sledding, and build a snowman...
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Joseph Bruchac is a highly acclaimed children's book author, poet, novelist and storyteller, as well as a scholar of Native American culture. Coauthor with Michael Caduto of the bestselling Keepers of the Earth series, Bruchac's poems, articles and stories have appeared in hundreds of publications, from Akwesasne Notes...
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The colorful cartoon-style gouache illustrations are charming and detailed... --School Library Journal; Title: Mabel One and Only
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Starred Review. Grade 4 UpNelson's syncopated poetry jives perfectly with Pinkney's layered watercolors in this look at the famous all-girl African-American swing band that toured the U.S., breaking attendance records, from 1937 to 1946. Nelson speaks in the voices of the band's instruments, reminiscing about their glo...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3A girl remembers the summer of 1969 and the first moon landing in this lushly illustrated, 40th-anniversary tribute. From her small town of Star, Mae and her family pray for the astronauts, she and her cousins build a homemade "rocket ship," and they all watch the historic moment on television. Pink...
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Grade 68After an awesome summer at Wilderness Discovery Camp, eighth-grader Katya dreads going to public school, which she finds "stupefying." She convinces her parents to homeschool her so she can enjoy her newfound interests in science and nature. Their idea of homeschooling is very different from hers. She spends mo...
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PreS—Tag is a good and gentle dog, but baby Elisa likes him more as a handy object to squeeze, tackle, and pull on his tale. Despite the constant monitoring and cautions by her parents, babe and pup are continually at odds—and Tag is miserable. When Elisa confiscates his special bone-shaped toy, the conflic...
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PreSchool-Grade 1The bear from Nyeu's Wonder Bear (Dial, 2008) returns in three simple stories. In each tale, six white bunnies are lounging around when Mr. or Mrs. Goat comes by and disrupts them. Bear comes to the rescue and repairs the damage. Each story ends with, "Everyone is happy." Although they may be satisfied...
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When Dad stops telling jokes and Mom laughs less than usual, grade-schooler Diana worries. Then comes the good news: My parents / are not / getting / a / divorce. The bad news? Dad has lost his job, and the family must move. Told in free-verse, this quiet, polished novella shows Diana's struggle to accept her situation...
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PreSchool-KBased on the authors song Im Five, this story is disjointed, likely stemming from the attempt to adapt the lyrics to a broader audience. A young boy boasts of his bravery and new skills. At first, his claims are realistic (he can dress himself and wrestle his older cousin to the ground), but they quickly bec...
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Carolyn Crimi (www.carolyncrimi.com) lives in Evanston, Illinois. Stephanie Buscema (www.stephaniebuscema.com) lives in Huntington, New York.; Title: Pugs in a Bug
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Sherry does a great job establishing the bats boastful, mischievous, and (to his peers) annoying personality. Publishers WeeklyMr. Sherrys silly story will please young readers, who also will enjoy the bright colors and simple lines of the illustrations. Pittsburg Post-GazetteEven the youngest booklovers will enjoy the...
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PreSchool-Grade 1A dream fantasy in which a boy and a girl plant a "hat seed." Overnight, the seed bears magical fruit: a large white bear with a blue hat. From this hat, the bear proceeds to extract monkeys and porpoises as well as sea and firmament into which he carries the drowsing children. Finally cuddling them an...
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Grade 5-7This amusing anthology of 10 short stories, by authors such as Avi, Angela Johnson, David Lubar, and Rachel Vail, will resonate with students everywhere. Sarah Weeks's "Experts, Incorporated," explores how a name can lead to horrific nicknames, like that of the protagonist: Curtain, Rod. Readers will cringe at...
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