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Interrupting Chicken By David Ezra Stein Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763641689 $16.99 Grades K-2 In Stores *Best New Books* It seems like the term “meta” is thrown around quite a bit these days. When something is self-referential, it is meta. The song Formed a Band by Art Brut is meta. This t-shirt is meta: In books, […]
Spork By Kyo Maclear Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault Kids Can Press ISBN: 9781553377368 $16.95 Grades K-2 In Stores *Best New Books* (Click to enlarge panels) Review copy from publisher. Find this book at your local library with WorldCat.
Knuffle Bunny Free By Mo Willems Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins) ISBN: 978006192957 $17.99 Grades PreK-2 In Stores Sept. 28, 2010 *Best New Books* Few picture books enjoy the sort of universal affection that Knuffle Bunny and sequel Knuffle Bunny Too command. This love has been earned. Aside from a storyline that both kids and adults […]
The Unsinkable Walker Bean By Aaron Renier First Second ISBN: 9781596434530 $13.99 Grades 5-8 In Stores August 17, 2010 *Best New Books* You gotta admire an author who goes for broke. Aaron Renier does just that in his mythical, supernatural, swashbuckling (I could go on) graphic novel adventure The Unsinkable Walker Bean. At turns exciting, […]
How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships By Steve Jenkins & Robin Page Houghton Mifflin ISBN: 9780547245157 $16.00 Grades K-3 In Stores *Best New Books* If you’re like me (and you should hope you’re not – my chocolate milk habit is out of hand), you sometimes become oblivious to greatness. Certain […]
Mirror, Mirror By Marilyn Singer Illustrated by Jose Masse Dutton Children’s Books (Penguin) ISBN: 9780525479017 $16.99 Grades 1-6 In Stores *Best New Books* Click on poems to enlarge. Review copy from publisher (via Bookends). Click here to check out the Nonfiction Monday roundup at Bookends. Also reviewed by Bookends, A Year of Reading, Kids Lit. […]
One Crazy Summer By Rita Williams-Garcia Amistad (HarperCollins) ISBN: 9780060760892 $15.99 Grades 4-7 In Stores *Best New Books* Review copy from library. Also reviewed by Kids Lit, A Chair, A Fireplace, A Tea Cozy, Educating Alice (in the New York Times), A Fuse #8 Production. Find this book at your local library with WorldCat.
What If? By Laura Vaccaro Seeger Roaring Brook Press ISBN: 9781596433984 $15.99 Grades PreK-1 In Stores April 27, 2010 *Best New Books* Six words. While the overall count is higher, Laura Vaccaro Seeger (First the Egg) uses only six individual words to create What If? How much can you do with six words? Apparently, plenty. […]
Shark Vs. Train By Chris Barton Illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld Little, Brown ISBN: 978031699007627 $16.99 Grades K-2 In Stores *Best New Books* This just in: lots of kids like to talk trash. Now, I don’t mean that in a “the youth is out of hand!†kind of way. No, this trash talk usually comes into […]
My Garden By Kevin Henkes Greenwillow (HarperCollins) ISBN: 9780061715181 $17.99 Grades PreK-2 In Stores *Best New Books* Tone. It’s a tricky thing. If an author slips up in this area, a book can come across as confusing, or worse, condescending. Kevin Henkes knows tone well, and My Garden is the proof. It doesn’t scream. It […]
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