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A fun, flighty caper. Slyly sprinkled with borrowings from superhero tales and packed with kid-pleasing yucks, this copiously and comically illustrated tale is sufficiently full of baloney to fly. Publishers Weekly on Melvin BeedermanTrine's fast-paced, humorous new series will capture the hearts of bright new readers....
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PreSToddlers can move along with the playful illustrations and simple poses introduced in this book. Each colorful spread shows a child in a yoga pose on one side, while the opposing page pictures the animal the position is supposed to reflect. For example, the first spread shows, Yoga Baby in the flying eagle pose, an...
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PreSchool-Grade 2–In this pleasant rhyming book, a father and son are shown using the implements in their trusty toolboxes. Each verse describes two items and jobs they can do, with particular attention paid to the accompanying sounds: With hammers and nails,/they bang and tap…/steps that squeak,/stools th...
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Grade 23Muktar, a Somali orphan in Kenya, misses the nomadic life of his people. His friend Ismail is determined to learn the "new ways" at their orphanage school, but Muktar daydreams of camels and the important place they have in his culture. When a trio of camels visits his school bearing a traveling library, Muktar...
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Grade 3-5Most giants in Groil disregard the fairy tale about the tiny thief who once climbed a plant up to their land, but young Jumbeelia is sure that the pocket-sized iggly plops must exist. She drops a mysterious seed over the cloud edge, and, sure enough, a bimplestonk grows in the night. She climbs down to the min...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3Calpurnia has a Block Mess Monster in her room that doesn't want to be put away. Her mom who, oddly enough, can't see it, encourages her to clean up. And that's the little girl's problem. "Just say POOF!" advises Mom. But no amount of poofing makes Block Mess disappear. And no amount of cajoling on ...
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Edward cant fall asleep, and like most children, he has a million questions burning to be answered even though its way past his bedtime.In this funny picture book about the all-familiar bedtime negotiations between child and parent, Edward and his mother talk about everything from yellow dogs to corn on the cob. Most c...
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Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 2At the Greenstalk Farm, it's no problem if the sheep get lost, the farmer drops his watch down the well, the dog eats young Jeffrey's book report, the cow gets stuck in a tree, the duck steals the truck, or Mrs. Greenstalk is too tired to cook. It's Chickens to the rescue! Unless it's S...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3Maximiliano lives with his family on a farm in Chile. His father works in a vineyard that produces grapes for worldwide distribution. One day Max slips a note with his name, address, and a request for a pen pal into a box of the fruit. Amazingly, he receives a reply from 10-year-old Maggie, who live...
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PreSchool-Grade 1In celebration of the United Nations International Day of Peace on September 21, the author of The Colors of Us (Holt, 1999) delivers another delightful foray into diversity. One side of each spread features a lively scene from a particular country (Meena lives in India), while opposite, a close-up por...
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Gr 1-3–When the Clearwaters start their journey west in a covered wagon, a mishap separates Granny and her grandson Little Critter from the others. They travel across the scorching-hot prairie in an effort to find their missing family members. When they grow thirsty, Granny performs a rain dance "taught to her by...
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Fred talks about why he loves preschool, and Rockwells bright artwork shows what fun he has there, from the first moments, when he puts his backpack and vest in his cubby with his name and the teacher says, Good morning. He plays at the water table, tells a story in circle time about how a raccoon tipped over the garba...
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PreSFirst published in 1979 as The Supermarket, this book has an updated text and new artwork. A boy and his mother go to the grocery store, but this is not just any shopping trip. They buy fruits, vegetables, meat, toilet paper, eggs, and bread, but they are also getting the ingredients for his birthday cake. "Uh-oh! ...
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Grade 14Twins Matt and Bibi follow up Mummy Math (Holt, 2005) with a new archaeology/math adventure. This time they accompany their scientist parents to Peru. By interpreting patterns woven into an Inca shawl, the youngsters follow clues to the Lost City of Quwi, whose location has eluded explorers for centuries. While...
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Clever twists. BooklistGREG TRINE is the author of the Melvin Beederman, Superhero books. He is also the author of the young adult book, The Second Base Club. He lives with his family in his Southern California hideout.RHODE MONTIJO is Superhero Greg's sidekick. He enjoys creating art from his topsecret headquarters in...
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K-Gr 2An informational picture book dedicated to the icky, sticky, and disgusting world of germs. The work is narrated by Sam the Salmonella, an anthropomorphized strain of the bacteria, and is thematically divided into two sections: the evolution of human understanding of germs, and the positive and negative aspects o...
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PreSchool-Grade 2A little boy whose imagination is bigger than his bath-time ritual has a sailing adventure on the high seas without ever leaving his home. Every night, Captain Gulliver Snip takes a trip "in his wonderful clipper ship/that his mother called the bathtub." This catchy phrase becomes a refrain for the rhy...
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Just as she did in Hands of the Maya: Villagers at Work and Play (2002), Crandell effectively introduces a people contemporary American kids may not (yet) know well. This photo-essay about indigenous people living in neighboring Panama provides a fascinating window into an ancient culture. An introduction and colorful ...
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Gr 24This engaging book provides facts about 14 well-known species, including hippos, kangaroos, vultures, tarantulas, jellyfish, and hummingbirds. Each animal is given a colorful spread with photographs and several factoids. There's a lot of fascinating information here. A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 time...
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With its bright acrylic spreads and simple text, this gentle story is a pleasant addition to picture-book collections. School Library Journal[a] endearing ode to an object of childhood fascination BooklistAn upbeat, affectionate book that will delight firefighter aficionados and big (and little) brothers . . . School L...
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PreSchool-Grade 3This sequel to Buster (Holt, 2003) surpasses that book. When Brown Shoes takes a weekend trip, his dog is sent to Cowboy Camp at Sagebrush Kennels. Grieving over his separation from all that is familiar, Buster is surprised and thrilled to learn that cowboy camp is dog heaven. The pups are too busy to ...
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Weatherford's evocative poem traces Coltrane's influences simply and stunningly. Qualls's muted palette of rich hues suggests the smoky jazz moods he would create. School Library JournalEven children who are unfamiliar with jazz in general and John Coltrane in particular may find their interest piqued. Horn BookWill ec...
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Starred Review. Beneath its handsome William Morrislike cover art, this inspired retelling blends many versions of Cinderella into a single, extraordinary tale. As Newbery Medalist Fleischman's (Joyful Noise) strong storytelling voice incorporates sometimes small details from different traditions, text and illustration...
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In creamy colors, the cheery paints depict sturdy firefighters and proud engines.... this pint-sized career guide will kindle young imaginations. Kirkus ReviewsZimmerman and Clemesha present a warm, friendly story.... Bright, cheerful pictures will engage young readers. Children's LiteratureFans of ... transportation s...
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Grade 34The canine members of the WOOF (Words of Our Friends) Society gather together to hear stories that have been collected from dogs all over the world throughout history. The goal: to prove that dogs are accomplished storytellers who have larger vocabularies than merely "sit" and "fetch." The 11 tales that follow ...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2This exercise in vocabulary expansion through synonyms and one-upmanship is innovative despite a few missteps. On the first page the hippo says, "I'm big. I'm large. I'm huge. I'm jumbo." On the facing page the killer whale says, "I'm bigger. I'm gigantic. I'm immense. I'm enormous." The following s...
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A fun, flighty caper. Slyly sprinkled with borrowings from superhero tales and packed with kid-pleasing yucks, this copiously and comically illustrated tale is sufficiently full of baloney to fly. Publishers WeeklyTrine's fast-paced, humorous new series will capture the hearts of bright new readers. Jody Fickes Shapiro...
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Grade 35A vast, yet endangered, ecosystem flourishes in this slim, elegant pictorial book. Spirin's dramatic, realistic illustrations spill over the pages, compressing Guiberson's lyrical text into bamboo-toned columns on the side. Exploding with the sounds of the boreal forest (in spring, a Tennessee warbler sings "ti...
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PreSchool-K This is a wonderful picture book about trucks, from power shovels to street sweepers and more. On every other spread, a girl and a boy take turns driving each of the vehicles. The trucks are described in rhyming couplets those that the boy operates feature onomatopoeia, making this book a must for storytime...
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Grade 1-3This charming early chapter book tells the story of a girl who finds a dinosaur when she goes outside to play. Boo insists that she needs a particular book from the library to read to it, and then that she and her older brother, Sammy, must jump on her bed so that the dinosaur can see them through the window. ...
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Starred Review. PreSchool-KThis gentle bedtime story begins when a small boy sees a prop plane in the sky and imagines riding in itfirst gliding over a car, then soaring past a train. His flight of imagination takes him beyond the ocean and into outer space, where he lands on the moon, takes a few steps on its surface,...
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Gr 2-4-Preus introduces 14 trees famous in history or legend. Some are renowned for their age, height, girth, or other physical characteristics. For example, Methuselah, a bristlecone pine in California, is more than 4000 years old, while the Tule Tree in Mexico measures 177 feet around. Others are associated with hist...
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Grade 24Living at the Peabody home, sprightly Maybelle, a cockroach, abides by three rules: "When it's light, stay out of sight; if you're spied, better hide; and never meet with human feet." However, these rules go right out the window once she becomes aware of the Chocolate Surprise Cookies to be served at Mrs. Peabo...
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A fun, flighty caper. Slyly sprinkled with borrowings from superhero tales and packed with kid-pleasing yucks, this copiously and comically illustrated tale is sufficiently full of baloney to fly. Publishers Weekly on Melvin BeedermanTrine's fast-paced, humorous new series will capture the hearts of bright new readers....
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Kindergarten-Grade 2In this eighth book in the series, Vera goes trick-or-treating with her older sisters. She is dressed as a mummy, bedecked in toilet paper with a couple of red splotches added. Mom suggests a winter coat, but mummies don't wear snowsuits. The streets are full of trick-or-treaters, with grown-ups in ...
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Starred Review. Grade 36Spare, engaging text paired with striking gouache illustrations make this book a perfect choice for aspiring young artists. Born in Germany in the late 19th century, Albers "watched his father paint doors as if they were artists' canvases." He came to America in 1933 to head the art department a...
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The black-and-white cartoons lend action and humor to the already rollicking text.... These delightfully entertaining adventure stories are a must-have. School Library JournalGREG TRINE is the author of the Melvin Beederman, Superhero books. He is also the author of the young adult book, The Second Base Club. He lives ...
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Grade 1–4—Children sometimes get teased when they begin to wear eyeglasses, but Jenny Sue has an additional problem: strabismus, described in an author's note as a condition when one eye (or both eyes) "misaligns and turns in, out, up, or down." While the youngster views her travelin' eye as a means for see...
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Delightful details will make adults giggle right along with new readers. Maybelle is one cockroach who will be welcome back any day. Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewKATIE SPECK grew up in New Orleans and now lives in Kansas City with a husband, a daughter, an assortment of pets, and a bug or two. Maybelle in the Soup is ...
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PreSchool-Grade 2Warm, expressive paintings make this picture book a joyful experience. A human mother (Mama Inside) elaborates on the days that she spends awaiting the arrival of her baby, while a bluebird (Mama Outside) awaits her little ones. The author relates the similar experiences of the two expectant mothersand...
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Perdomos witty, passionate account of the beloved Puerto Rican baseball pioneer takes an unusual approach. The child narrator, whose father is president of the Roberto Clemente fan club, was named in honor of the great player, and little Clemente can tell you just about everything there is to know about the man, from h...
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K-Gr 2Bernard receives a formal invitation to dine with the affluent Highbrows, so his mom drills him in etiquette. Surprises begin when instead of eating at their home, the Highbrows take him in their limousine to an Italian restaurant. They grab utensils, offer an inane blessing, reach across the table, burp, and dro...
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Grade 6–9—In this collection of gruesome ghost stories, Compestine takes readers through China's history, from the building of the Great Wall to the modern day. Organized like a traditional Chinese banquet, with each story as a dish, the tales revolve around the spirits of those who died unfairly and premat...
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As in My First Kwanzaa (2003), Katz uses a small child's viewpoint to explain the essentials of a traditional holiday. With his father, a young boy reads in the Qur'an about Ramadan, the most sacred time of year for Muslims all over the world. He learns about the prophet Muhammad and what he taught his followers. Clear...
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PreSchool-Grade 1"Eeny, meeny, miney, moe!/Who ate all the cookie dough?" a kangaroo asks various animal friends as she searches for the culprit. Each creature denies the theft and joins Kanga in the hunt. Monkey seems the likely suspect until the critters lead Kanga and readers to a lift-up flap that reveals her pouch...
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Gr 7 Up-In 1978, Kyle, a rebellious kid in a new town, gets in over his head trying to impress his friends by shoplifting. Decades earlier, young Ken Himitsu is angry about being incarcerated in Manzanar, an internment camp where thousands of Japanese Americans were forced to relocate during World War II. The two plots...
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The collaborators of the well-received Rosa (2005) come together again, but disappointingly this time. The setting here is an 1865 inaugural reception at the White House, where Frederick Douglass is an invited guest. Douglass is sent to a rear door but refuses that entrance. Did any of this actually happen? Who knows? ...
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A fun, flighty caper. Slyly sprinkled with borrowings from superhero tales and packed with kid-pleasing yucks, this copiously and comically illustrated tale is sufficiently full of baloney to fly. Publishers WeeklyTrine's fast-paced, humorous new series will capture the hearts of bright new readers. Jody Fickes Shapiro...
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Starred Review. Grade 48The very first page hints at the loss of Milagros de la Torre's wonderful childhood home, Las Brisas, an island in the Caribbean. The child loses the tastes, smells, sounds, and warmth of the loving community as she barely escapes from the harsh and deadly attack of neighbors from a different is...
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Gr 57A familiar patriotic song culminates in a hymn to "Great God Our King," having long ago originated as a tribute to England's King George II. Through two centuries, many different texts were used by groups for whom freedom didn't ring. Murphy's subtitle introduces this collection of variants. The chronological stri...
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Grade 25Goldstone builds on the topics introduced in Great Estimations (Holt, 2006) and also discusses how to estimate length, weight, area, and volume. He does an exceptional job of breaking down the process of so that even early elementary students can comprehend it. The author also effectively introduces different m...
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear fans will rejoice. Publishers WeeklyBill Martin, Jr. (1916-2004) was an elementary-school principal, teacher, writer, and poet. His more than 300 books, among them the bestselling classics Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?; Panda Bear, Panda Bear,...
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Gr 47The year is 1948, and Tate P. Ellerbee is writing to her favorite singer, Hank Williams, as part of a pen pal assignment at school. Although her letter writing is one-sided, Tate continues to send Hank details of her life. She tells Hank about her actress mother and famous photographer father. Tate lives with her ...
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A fun, flighty caper. Slyly sprinkled with borrowings from superhero tales and packed with kid-pleasing yucks, this copiously and comically illustrated tale is sufficiently full of baloney to fly. Publishers Weekly on Melvin BeedermanTrine's fast-paced, humorous new series will capture the hearts of bright new readers....
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Grade 5-7Whitney thinks of home as a place where other people belong. She's heading to Foster Home #12 in Forest Glen, CA. Knowing that no one will want to keep a superfunny, hyper, loudmouthed kid, she reminds herself that the situation will be temporary. When she meets her foster family, she soon realizes that the Mc...
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The forest outside Dean Tollridge's new home is filled with traps, ambush sites, and enemy outposts that are ideal for 11-year-old Dean to launch war campaigns with his friends. In school Dean ignores his teacher in favor of planning war strategies. Using expressive panels in the green and brown tones of camouflage, wr...
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Another standout from the creators of a line of perennial favorites. Publishers Weekly, starred reviewEven after more than 35 years, [Carle's] style still radiates the same remarkable elemental beauty. The New York Times Book Review Carle's trademark paint and cut-out style and Martin's rhythmic and repetitive text ful...
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PreS-K-A little blue elephant and his dad spend Saturday morning running errands and preparing for a barbecue. They shop, assemble a grill, and cook together in their matching aprons. After lunch, they play in the yard, and then nap on a hammock. The mother makes several appearances throughout the day, but this title i...
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The sharp-edged bright blue chassis, lemon-yellow dumper and smiling grill of this hard-working construction vehicle with his cohort of fuel trucks, vans, buses, pickups on heavy stock paper would have made this title a winner in my book. Wait and that's not all! The text that can be sung to the nursery favorite, "I'm ...
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PreSchool-KFive adorable ducks spend a day at the beach. They are always on the go, and Berry uses one or two short snappy sentences per page to describe the action to reinforce the frenetic movement. "Ducks hit the shoreline. Ducks dive in./Five little ducklings bob and spin." The fun is everywhere as these diminutive...
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Grade 36McDonough has captured the essence of Alcott's fascinating life story in this picture book. Her narrative is anecdotal, focusing on events that influenced the writer's life and work. For example, she explains that Alcott was once saved from drowning by a "kind black boy" and how that experience motivated her ab...
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Recycling becomes lots offun in this sprightly activity book. Alter offers 13 projects, and unlike some craft books, green or not, the finished projects are usually items kids will want to use. Each chapter begins with the question What can you do with . . . ? From one flip-flop to a ripped shower curtain, from used wr...
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Grade 13Twins Matt and Bibi return in another math-and-travel adventure. This time they trek with their family, and the dog, to Paris, where they visit the pastry academy Les Jumelles Coccinelle. (Oddly, no English translation of the name is woven into the story, and its clever double entendre will be lost on most read...
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Her witty prose has the right balance of nostalgia and self-deprecation. School Library JournalIn these light and funny pages, grownup Ann looks back with unmerciful self-deprecation on herself as she was in the early 1960s, and the result is a book that children ages 8-14 can enjoy as a kind of genial historical artif...
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Cat lovers will be instantly smitten, and even those who aren't as immediately enthusiastic may well be won over by this slinky, strong-minded, creature. Kirkus Reviews on A Cat Like ThatThe dynamic artwork and playful prose make this an appealing book to share individually with a prospective cat owner or in a cat-them...
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Grade 58A modernized version of Hansel and Gretel, with a few creepy, cannibalistic references. Sol, 11, and Connie, 8, move to Schoneberg with the man they believe is their father (he is their father's twin) and their stepmother. The children soon discover that the neighbor's pet dog has a habit of digging up human bo...
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PreSchool-Grade 1One might expect a book with this title to be a rhyming text or counting story, but this offering is neither. Instead, it tells of a group of firefighters who receive a call just as they are sitting down to dinner. They dutifully grab their gear, climb onto the truck, and speed through traffic to reach...
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Seymour Snail hopes to be a great artist someday, but he feels shy about showing his work. He is thrilled to get a job in an art gallery, but he is bullied by his new boss, Mr. Stink Bug. At last, though, Seymours slimy glitter art is recognized by Mr. Stink Bugs client, Lady CocoLaRoche, and the snail becomes a star. ...
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ABBY COCOVINI is an author/illustrator living in England. This is her first book, developed when she was pregnant with her second child.; Title: What's Inside Your Tummy, Mommy?
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Grade 24MEOW, or Memories Expressed in Our Writing, has gathered cats from all over the world for a night of storytelling. What follows are 11 tales from the diaries of various felines, some going back as far as 2000 B.C.E. (Miu, the Great Cat of Egypt, who must contend with Abu, the Royal Dog). The book has a few stan...
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Grade 15Crisp color photographs and diagrams show how to construct various vehicles with Lego blocks, including pocket-size cars and variations on an SUV. Some of the diagrams are confusing, but children with plenty of experience working with Legos should be able to follow the steps. Unfortunately, readers must scan th...
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A fun, flighty caper. Slyly sprinkled with borrowings from superhero tales and packed with kid-pleasing yucks, this copiously and comically illustrated tale is sufficiently full of baloney to fly. Publishers WeeklyTrine's fast-paced, humorous new series will capture the hearts of bright new readers. Jody Fickes Shapiro...
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...the dramatic and immediate images and the realistic setting make this an intriguing new "Jack" for storytimes as well as a fresh offering for fairy-tale units. BCCBImages of a huge beanstalk superimposed on a brick apartment building; stylized blackbirds flying around the giant's castle; small Jack on hands and knee...
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The five little ducks from Duck Skates (2005) and Duck Dunks (2008) pitch tents for a backyard camping trip. They go fishing together and toast marshmallows over a campfire as night falls. Startled by the hooting of an owl, the ducklings dive into their individual tents and zip them shut, but they soon decide that ther...
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"Any young child could enjoy this attractive picture book, with its here-and-now text and its sunny artwork, created with acrylics, collage, and digital elements. But the books most enthusiastic audience will be those preschoolers who study the illustrations to learn about hand tools in all their varied forms. A real f...
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Grade 36Gaud was born in Spain in 1852. He rejected the popular Gothic style and embraced the modern curves of Art Nouveau. Short sentences tell of the architect's boyhood in Catalonia, his love of nature, and his early influences and inspiration. Gouache illustrations playfully re-create Casa Batll, Casa Mil, and othe...
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Kindergarten-Grade 5After finding only "nasty, scary, and greedy" wolves in his entire collection of books about these animals, Wolf sits down to write a story about a "NICE wolf." Mr. Nice Wolf wants nothing more than to be friends with the creature whose footprints in the snow he follows into the forest. However, the...
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PreSchool-Grade 1This contagiously playful collaboration is filled with sly textual and visual jokes. Songwriter Covert's photo takes center stage on the title page and persists in a hide-and-seek game on the spreads that follow. His face peeks out of a springy kangaroo's pouch, stares between bat wings, flits by in a ...
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PreS Fleming's pulp papermaking technique, with its soft edges, warm colors, and highly textured look, gives this book just the right tone. The repetition of sleepy, oh so sleepy pairs well with the repeated question, Where's my sleepy baby? as various animals are introduced. From the familiar panda and penguin to the ...
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Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 2Based on the true story of a remarkable self-made man whose love for animals won him fame and fortune, this book is sure to grab young readers. Bill "Doc" Key was born a slave and had a special way with animals even as a youngster. Following the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclam...
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PreSchool-Grade 2Jack and his action figure, Guy, return for another adventure. Real-life brothers Jack and Gus, who appeared in Below (Holt, 2006), again pose for photographs that Crews uses as the basis for photo-collage illustrations. Little brother Gus has a more prominent role this time around, as the boys must wo...
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PreSchool-Grade 2This simple yet effective book looks at a village garage through the seasons and its workers' many jobs. In spring, it's clean-up time, as the men and women gather sticks from winter storms, sand from snowplows, and leftover leaves. When summer comes, it's time to patch the potholes and rebuild a bridg...
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Grade 35Juliet is a worrier. She worries about her parents arguing, her irritating younger sister, her grandmother's health, her friends, and the school bully. After a fight with her sister, her parents decide that she needs her own room. Juliet's new bedroom, her father's former junk room, is revealed to have been her...
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PreSchool-Grade 3Like the first three titles in this series, this holiday version features nonstop action as Santa goes from one comic mishap to another. Although the formula no longer feels fresh, kids will enjoy chanting &Oh, that's good! No, that's bad! The real strength of this book is in the expressive, humoro...
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PreS-KThis beautifully illustrated story by Fleming, using her signature pulp painting technique, is an amusing tale about young Michael's creative attempt to get dressed for the day with the help of his dog Maggie. First, he finds yellow socks. But Maggie runs away with one. When it is returned, the socks end up on Ma...
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PreS-Gr 3A northern flicker, a yellow-bellied sapsucker, and other woodpeckers of the eastern deciduous forests "chip," "chop," and "wham" their way through the seasons through crisp verses and paper collages in this informational picture book. There are quiet moments as well: woodpeckers "pluck and feed" at the cherry...
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Students will likely be fascinated with the details School Library JournalSean Kenney, author of Cool Robots and Cool Cars and Trucks, likes to prove you can build anything with LEGO bricks. He makes sculptures and models out of LEGO at his studio in New York City, and his work has inspired kids to create great things ...
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This great coming-of-age tale promotes nonconformity as well as responsibility (and young love, too, but to a lesser extent). It's the summer break, and lacking friends or funds, teenager Kit is hanging around the house too much. Wandering aimlessly through his low-income neighborhood in Brooklyn, Kit takes pity on the...
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PreSchool-Grade 1Spotting what looks to be a fire at Number One House Row, brave Chief Rhino is determined to save the day. The crewa moose, giraffe, zebra, and lionquickly suits up, dashes to the house in their fire engine, and deploys a ladder. Chief Rhino climbs up to Great-Granny Wrinkle's second-floor home with hi...
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K-Gr 3–Redheaded, round-eyed Birdy and her dog, French Fry, take readers through the many reasons to smile. There's not much here in the way of plot or even keen observations: "Smiles make people happy! I try to smile at everyone I see. And most of the time they smile back!" One comment follows another, in no dis...
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Convincing family relationships enhance Boo's experiences; child-centered dialogue abets the taut pacing. Engaging double-page drawings extend the text with humor and warmth. Brooks's illustrations vary shading to depict the fully realized characters. The dinosaur's dynamic expressions provide a warm immediacy to the e...
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Zoe landed the lead role of Cinder Rabbit in her classrooms spring play, which will be performed in less than a week. She is very excited until she learns that for the finale, she will have to lead the entire class in the bunny hop. Poor Zoecant bunny hop, a terrible thing for a young rabbit not to know, and she is ter...
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The illustrations, collagework with oil painted over photo-transfer, have the soft smudginess of oil pastels and the sturdy vigor of charcoal, with haunting urban backgrounds BCCB...Christensen's informal prose and heavily textured oil paintings, composed over photo collages, depict a man constantly absorbing everythin...
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PreSchool-Grade 1—The author-illustrator of Mr. Pusskins (S & S, 2006) embarks on the first of several upcoming books set in Whoops-a-Daisy World in this story of a feline doctor, a canine ambulance driver, and one particularly silly emergency at Kiss-it-Better Hospital. With thick, curved, sometimes broken o...
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The succinct and simply written narrative will appeal to reluctant and younger-grade readers while the full-page black-and-white pen-and-ink sketches provide the visual time and epoch setting of the story. School Library JournalA genuine young hero learns the meaning of friendship, loyalty and freedom in this suspensef...
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Gr 46The Barker brothers and Delilah are back on Superstition Mountain for one last secret climb, determined to solve its mysteries and get back into the gold mine that was covered by the avalanche in book two. A satisfying end to a fun and creepy series.* Broach builds on the daring escapades and eerie tension . . . i...
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Full-page paintings reminiscent of Hopper originals accompany the straightforward text of this picture-book biography from the team behind Night Flight (2011). Burleigh introduces the introspective and determined artist in gentle paragraphs detailing Hoppers life, beginning with his childhood dream to become an artist,...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3Bridget loves to draw, but she needs her black artist's beret as her muse. One day as she is outdoors working, it flies off into the wind, and she believes that her inspiration has flown with it. Other hats don't help and she stops drawing. But when her little sister begs her to make a sign for a le...
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Perfectly pitched for Halloween read-alouds. Booklist on Welcome to Monster TownHis ghastly good sense of color--especially his use of sickly green and blood red--evokes classic horror movie posters. Publishers Weekly on Welcome to Monster TownHeshka has a lot of fun with each scene and provides plenty to look at. Kirk...
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*Starred Review* In 1867, three women who achieved great success were born: writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, and scientist Marie Curie. All three had complicated relationships with their daughters, relationships that Atkins explores in this unusual volume of poetry. Each section follows one...
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