Children's Bookwatch articles from August 2007

Children's Bookwatch archives from August 2007

My First Ballet Book.(My First Ballet Book: From Barres And Ballet Shoes To Plies And Performances)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... My First Ballet Book Kate Castle Kingfisher c/o Houghton Mifflin Company 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116 9780753460269, $9.95 www.hmco.com 1-800-225-3362 Expertly written by former Royal Ballet dancer Kate...

I Love Our Earth.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... I Love Our Earth Bill Martin Jr., Michael Sampson, Don Lipow Charlesbridge Publishing 85 Main Street, Watertown, MA 02472 1580891063, $14.95 www.charlesbridge.com 1-800-225-3214 Dan Lipow's visually impressive photography...

Mommy and Daddy Are Always Supposed to Say Yes ... Aren't They?(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Mommy And Daddy Are Always Supposed To Say Yes... Aren't They? B. Annye Rothenberg & Marion Eldridge Perfecting Parenting Press 3943 Jefferson Avenue, Redwood City, CA 94062 9780979042003, $9.95...

Wild West Trail Ride Maze.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Wild West Trail Ride Maze Roxie Munro Bright Sky Press 340 South Second Street, Albany, TX 76430 193172167X, $16.95 www.brightskypress.com 1-866-933-6133 A superbly written 36-page activity book that is impressively...

Birdcage Press.(books on animals)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Birdcage Press 853 Alma Street, Palo Alto, Ca 94301 Kids Stuff Public Relations 9504 Union Valley Road, Black Earth, WI 53515 www.birdcagepress.com 1-800-345-2980 Birdcage Press produces an impressive variety of learning...

Voices.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Voices Smart Apple Media c/o Black Rabbit Books PO Box 3263, Mankato, MN 56002 List $156.75; Library $109.75; brabbit@hickorytech.net A new five volume series for students in grades 8 through 12 from Smart Apple Media,...

Chelsea House Publishers.(Modern World Leaders)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Chelsea House Publishers c/o Facts On File, Inc. 132 West 31st Street, 17th floor, New York, NY 10001-2006 www.factsonfile.com 1-800-322-8755 "Modern World Leaders" (9780791096628, Library $331.50; List $390.00) is a new...

What Kind Of Animal is It?(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... What Kind Of Animal is It? Crabtree Publishing Company 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3308, New York, NY 10118 www.crabtreebooks.com 1-800-387-7650 'What Kind of Animal Is It?' is a new four volume series of books from the Crabtree...

Know Your Colors.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Know Your Colors Picture Window Books 5115 Excelsior Blvd., Suite 232, Minneapolis, MN 55416 www.picturewindowbooks.com 1-877-371-1536 9781404835184, List $143.58; Library $107.70 Featuring a lyrical, 'kid friendly' text...

This Land Is Your Land.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... This Land Is Your Land Ann Heinrichs Compass Point Books 151 Good Counsel Drive, Minneapolis, MN 56002-0669 www.compasspointbooks.com 1-877-371-1536 978075650475TK, List $1244.36; Library $933.40 Specifically and...

Phonics Friends.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Phonics Friends Celia Minden & Joanne Meire The Child's World, Inc. 1980 Lookout Drive, Mankato, MN 56003 www.childsworth.com 1-800-599-7323 1592965393, List $213.00; Library $149.50 Education in general, and the...

Keystone Books.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Keystone Books Stone Arch Books PO Box 669, Mankato, MN 56002-0669 www.stonearchbooks.com 1-800-421-7731 1598890891, List $418.53; Library $313.95 'Keystone Books' is a series of twenty-one 'high interest/low vocabulary'...

Rain Forests Today.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Rain Forests Today Ted O'Hare Rourke Publishing Group PO Box 3328, Vero Beach, FL 32964 www.rourkepublishing.com 1-800-394-7055 1595151508, List $123.86; Library $580.70 A specialist in writing non-fiction curriculum...

The Greeblies.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)(Children's review)
August 1, 2007... The Greeblies Robert Greenberg Bolinda Publishing, Inc. 48 Oxford Woods, Falmouth, ME 04105-3401 9781740939829, $24.00 www.bolinda.com 1-888-235-2019 "The Greeblies" by Robert Greenberg is a delightfully funny story about...

Tortured Noble.(Noble: The Story Of Leo Tolstoy)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Tortured Noble Neil Heims Morgan Reynolds, Inc. 620 South Elm Street, Suite 223, Greensboro, NC 27406 9781599350660, $27.95 www.morganreynolds.com 1-800-535-1504 Count Leo Tolstoy was the most famous Russian writer of his...

The Little Drummer Boy.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2007... The Little Drummer Boy Katherine Davis, et al. Weston Woods Studios/Scholastic 143 Main Street, Norwalk, CT 06851 NMPV124VCC, $49.95 www.scholastic.com/westonwoods The collaborative work of Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati...

I Heard A Little Baa.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... I Heard A Little Baa Elizabeth MacLeod & Louise Phillips Kids Can Press 29 Birch Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4V 1E2 Raab Associates (publicity) 345 Millwood Road, Chappaqua, NY 10514 9781554531790, $.95...

The Friskative Dog.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Friskative Dog Susan Straight Knopf Delacorte Dell c/o Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 9780375837777, $14.99 www.randomhouse.com/kids A young girl must learn to accept that families...

Candlewick Press.(Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise and Mostly Monty)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Candlewick Press 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140 www.candlewick.com Kate DiCamillo's MERCY WATSON: PRINCESS IN DISGUISE (97807630140, $12.99) is the fourth pig tale in the best-selling series: this centered around...

Mokie & Bik.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Mokie & Bik Wendy Orr Henry Holt & Company 175--5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 0805079793, $15.95 www.henryholtchildrensbooks.com Mokie and Bik live on a boat called BULLFROG: they live on it and around it and are twins...

Fred and Ted Like to Fly.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Fred and Ted Like to Fly Peter Eastman Random House c/o Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, 10-1, New York, NY 10019 9780375840647, $8.99 www.randomhouse.com 1-800-726-0600 Fred and Ted are canine stars of...

Miki Falls: Summer.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Miki Falls: Summer Mark Crilley Harper Teen c/o HarperCollins 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 9780060846176, $7.99 www.harperteen.com Award-winning author and illustrator Mark Crilley presents Miki Falls:...

A Guide to Wizards of the World.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... A Guide to Wizards of the World Dugald A. Steer and A. J. Wood, editors Candlewick Press 2067 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140 9780763637101, $14.99 www.candlewick.com A Guide to Wizards of the World: Being a True...

Educated Kid.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)(Children's review)
August 1, 2007... Educated Kid The Hipwaders Hip Kid Music c/o Waldmania! 130 Maywood Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 CD, $11.97 www.hpwaders.net The Hipwaders is a kids' music group comprised of two paramedic partners and a high...

Kimbo Educational.(music CDs for kids)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)(Children's review)
August 1, 2007... Kimbo Educational PO Box 477T, Long Branch, NJ 07740-0477 www.kimboed.com 1-800-631-2187 Kimbo Educational offers lively, educational, entertaining, and thoroughly 'kid friendly' music CDs that are perfect for helping young...

Where Trouble Leads.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Where Trouble Leads Brenda Chapman Napoleon Publishing 178 Willowdale Avenue, Suite 201, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M2N 4Y8 9781894917445, $8.95 www.napoleonpublishing.com 1-877-730-9052 When Jennifer Bannon, age 15, agrees...

Random House/Knopf/Delacorte.(books for young adults)(Young adult review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Random House/Knopf/Delacorte c/o Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 www.randomhuse.com/kids Erica Verrillo's ELISSA'S QUEST (9780375839467, $16.99) tells of a girl who leads a lonely solitary life,...

Scholastic/Orchard Books.(Enter Three Witches)(Does My Head Look Big in This?)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Scholastic/Orchard Books 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 www.scholastic.com Caroline Cooney's ENTER THREE WITCHES (0439711568, $16.99) tells of teen Lady Mary, a ward of the Macbeths whose life is changed when her father betrays...

Before, After, and Somebody in Between.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Before, After, and Somebody in Between Jeannine Garsee Bloomsbury 175--5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 159990022X, $16.95 www.bloomsburyusa.com An hour into her first day of tenth grade, Martha knows she's in trouble: the...

Harper Children's Books.(Summer Intern)(Girl at Sea)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Harper Children's Books 1350 Avenue of Americas, New York NY 10019 www.harperteen.com Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman's SUMMER INTERN (9780061153754, $16.99) tells of a 'fashion junkie' slated to work as an intern at Skirt, a...

Evil Genius.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Evil Genius Catherine Jinks Harcourt Children's Books 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495 9780152059880, $17.00 www.harcourtbooks.com Gadel is a genius fascinated by systems and computers: he's fourteen and...

Eggs.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Eggs Jerry Spinelli Little, Brown 1271 Avenue of Americas, New York NY 10020 0316166464, $15.99 www.lb-kids.com David and Primrose are from broken homes, and fragile and lonely when they meet. Despite their differences...

Not Like You.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Not Like You Deborah Davis Clarion Books 215 Park Avenue South, New York NY 10003 0618720936, $16.00 www.clarionbooks.com Kayla's mother has moved them five times in the past two years due to her drinking and...

The Royal Woods.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Royal Woods Matt Duggan Key Porter Books Six Adelaide Street East, 10th Floor, Toronto Ontario M5C 1H6 Canada 155263826X, $12.95 www.keyporter.com Twelve-year-old Sydney and her nine-year-old brother Turk find...

Farseed.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Farseed Pamela Sargent TOR Books 175--5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 0765314274, $17.95 www.tor.com This fine sequel of EARTHSEED requires no prior familiarity to prove enthralling for newcomers to Sargent's fantasy world....

Daemon Hall.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Daemon Hall Andrew Nance Henry Holt and Company 175 Fifth Avenue, 10th floor, New York, NY 10010 0805081712, $16.95 www.henryholt.com 1-888-330-8477 Horror writer Ian Tremblin holds a short story writing contest with an...

Second Fiddle.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Second Fiddle Siobhan Parkinson Roaring Brook Press 143 West Street, New Milford. CT 06776 1596431229, $16.95 www.roaringbrookpress.com Mags has moved with her mother to a new area after the death of her father and is...

St. Martin's Press.(Every Crooked Pot and Kiss & Blog)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... St. Martin's Press 175--5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.stmartins.com Nina knows beauty is only skin deep but she's always wanted to be beautiful; especially since she was born with a birthmark over her eye. Convinced this...

Fire Dancer.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Fire Dancer Colleen Coble Westbow c/o Thomas Nelson PO Box 141000, Nashville, TN 37124 159554139X, $14.99 www.westbowpress.com A decade ago Tess's parents died in a barn fire; now she's one of the best smoke jumpers...

Berkeley Publishing Company.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Berkeley Publishing Company 375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014 www.penguin.com Maryrose Wood's WHY I LET MY HAIR GROW OUT (9780425213803, $9.99) is the fun story of a girl who cuts off her hair and dyes the stubble orange when...

Sundancer.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Sundancer Shelley Peterson Key Porter Books 6 Adelaide Street East, 10th Floor, Toronto Ontario M5C 1H6 Canada 1552638421, $9.95 www.keyporter.com Thirteen-year-old Bird is fascinated by the regal Sundancer horse, even...

Simon & Schuster.(books for young adult)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of Americas, New York NY 10020 www.simonsaysTeen.com Soon-to-be princess Ella finds her proposed new life difficult, what with a boring prince, a crush on a non-royalty member of the household, and...

Delacorte/Dell/Random House.(books for teens)(Young adult review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Delacorte/Dell/Random House c/o Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, 10-1, New York, NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com 1-800-726-0600 Patricia Reilly Giff's WILLOW RUN (9780440238010, $5.99) tells of Margaret, whose life is...

Farrar, Straus, Giroux.(A Wrinkle in Time)(Tell Me Everything)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Farrar, Straus, Giroux 175--5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.fsgbooks.com A strange visitor comes to the Murry house and spirits Meg, her genius younger brother Charles Wallace and friend Calvin on a dangerous inter-dimensional...

The Highest Tide.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Highest Tide Jim Lynch Bloomsbury 175--5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 1599901161, $7.95 www.bloomsburyusa.com When pre-teen Miles's exploration of the night tidal flats of Puget Sounds uncovers a rare sea creature, he...

Snowfall.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Snowfall K.M. Peyton Graphia c/o Houghton Mifflin 215 Park Avenue South, New York NY 10003 0618737421, $7.99 www.graphiabooks.com Teen Charlotte knows little about the world outside her vicarage childhood, and her...

Holding Up the Earth.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Holding Up the Earth Dianne E. Gray Houghton Mifflin 215 Park Avenue South, New York NY 10003 0618737472, $6.95 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com Five teen girls are separated by decades but united by their love of a Nebraska...

Ten Old Men and a Mouse.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Ten Old Men And A Mouse Cary Fagan & Gary Clement Tundra Books 75 Sherbourne Street, 5th floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5A 2P9 9780887767166, $18.95 www.tundrabooks.com 1-800-788-1074 Only ten old men come to pray at...

Agate.(Agate: What Good Is A Moose)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Agate Joy Morgan Dey & Nikki Johnson Lake Superior Port Cities, Inc. PO Box 16417, Duluth, MN 55816-0417 9780942235739, $17.95 www.lakesuperior.com 1-888-244-5253 Agate is a likeable moose who has low self-esteem issues....

The Rainforest Grew All Around.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Rainforest Grew All Around Susan K. Mitchell & Connie McLennan Sylvan Dell Publishing 976 Houston Northcutt Blvd., Suite 3, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 9780976882367, $15.95 www.sylvandellpublishing.com 1-877-958-2600 ...

Samantha Jane's Missing Smile.(Samantha Jane's Missing Smile: A Story About Coping With The Loss Of A Parent)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Samantha Jane's Missing Smile Julie Kaplow, Donna Pincus, Beth Spiegel Magination Press PO Box 92984, Washington, DC 20090-2984 9781591478089, $14.95 www.maginationpress.com 1-800-374-2721 When her father died, young...

Harry Abrams.(picturebooks)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Harry Abrams 115 West 18th Street, New York NY 10011 www.abramsyoungreaders.com Daniel Kirk's LIBRARY MOUSE (0810993465, $15.95) is the fun story of one Sam, whose home is a little hole in the wall behind the children's reference...

The Cheese.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Cheese Margie Palatini HarperCollins Publishers 1350 Avenue of Americas, New York NY 01019 9780060520366, $16.99 www.harpercollinschildrens.com Just why does the 'cheese stand alone' in the famous picturebook rhyme?...

Romina's Rangoli.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Romina's Rangoli Malathi Michelle Iyengar Shen's Books 1547 Palos Verdes Mall #291, Walnut Creek, CA 94597 1885008325, $16.95 www.shens.com Romina's class is learning about immigrants and she must make a project that...

Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie Laura Rankin Bloomsbury 175--5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 1599900108, $15.95 www.bloomsburyusa.com Ruthie loves little things, so when she finds a tiny toy on the school playground,...

Random/Knopf.(picturebooks)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Random/Knopf c/o Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, 10-1, New York, NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com 1-800-726-0600 "How many seeds in a pumpkin?" Mr. Tiffin asks his class? and so begins an inquiry involving bets...