Children's Bookwatch articles from December 2006

Children's Bookwatch archives from December 2006

Marvel Super Hero Fact Book.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Marvel Super Hero Fact Book Brighter Minds Media, Inc. 600 Lakeview Plaza Blvd., Suite D, Worthington, OH 43085 1577912985, $9.95 www.brightermindsmedia.com Featuring five large fold-out poster pages, the "Marvel Super Hero...

Children of Alcatraz.(Children of Alcatraz: Growing up on the Rock)(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
December 1, 2006... Children of Alcatraz Claire Rudolf Murphy Walker & Company 104--5th Avenue, New York NY 10011 0802795773 $17.95 www.walkeryoungreaders.com CHILDREN OF ALCATRAZ: GROWING UP ON THE ROCK doesn't focus on the usual prison...

Pumpkins.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Pumpkins Ken Robbins Roaring Brook Press 143 West Street, New Milford, CT 06776 1596431849 $14.95 www.roaringbrookpress.com An eye-catching cover photo of an odd-sized wagon overflowing with bright orange pumpkins...

Shaolin.(Shaolin: Legends of Zen And King Fu)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Shaolin Liow Kah Joon Silk Road Networks Inc. 50 Blvd. Taschereau, Pl La Citiere, La Prarie, Quebec, Canada, J5R 5H4 0973349239, $26.95 www.living-chinese-symbols.com Enhanced with an accompanying 3D animation DVD,...

What Are My Rights?(What Are My Rights? 95 Questions and Answers about Teens and the Law)(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
December 1, 2006... What Are My Rights? Judge Tom Jacobs Free Spirit Publishing 217 Fifth Avenue North, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55401-1299 1575420287 $14.95 www.freespirit.com Now in an updated edition, What Are My Rights? 95 Questions and...

Scholastic Press.(Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Scholastic Press 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 www.scholastic.com While OWEN & MZEE: THE TRUE STORY OF A REMARKABLE FRIENDSHIP (0439829739, $16.99) by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu could be featured in...

The Twelve Days of Christmas.(The Twelve Days of Christmas: Unwrapping the Gifts)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The Twelve Days Of Christmas Curtis G. Almquist Cowley Publications 4 Brattle Street, Suite 309, Cambridge, MA 02138 1561012939, $13.95 www.cowley.org 1-800-225-1534 The traditional twelve days of Christmas run from...

The Night Before Christmas.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The Night Before Christmas Gennady Spirin, Illustrator Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591 0761452982 $16.99 www.marshallcavendish.com Ages 4-8 will relish a new spin on Clement Clarke Moore's...

Scholastic Inc.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Scholastic Inc. 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 www.scholastic.com Cornelia Funke's WHEN SANTA FELL TO EARTH (043978204X, $15.99) provides a lovely holiday story by the author of Inkspell and others. Here Niklas is the last true...

The Soldiers' Night before Christmas.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The Soldiers' Night Before Christmas Trish Holland & Christine Ford Golden Books c/o Random House 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 0375836957 $8.99 www.randomhouse.com/kids One Christmas eve in the desert a group of...

The First Christmas Stocking.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The First Christmas Stocking Elizabeth Winthrop Delacorte Press 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 0385328044 $15.95 www.randomhouse.com/kids A long time ago a poor girl named Claire learns to knit by her mother's side--and...

Chiodo Bros. Alien Xmas.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Chiodo Bros. Alien Xmas Stephen Chiodo & Jim Strain, authors Charles Chiodo, illustrator Baby Tattoo Books c/o Publicity PR Media PO Box 2664, Windermere, FL 34786 0972938842, $17.95 www.babytattoo.com Nothing...

The Magic Sceptre: The Legend of Blue Santa Claus.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The Magic Sceptre: The Legend Of Blue Santa Claus Joan Klatil creamer Silver Snowflake Publishing PO Box 1256, East Greenwich, RI, 02818 0977847632, $16.95 www.TheMagicSceptre.com Cleverly written and colorfully...

Gigi, God's Little Princess: The Perfect Christmas Gift.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Gigi, God's Little Princess: The Perfect Christmas Gift Sheila Walsh & Meredith Johnson Tommy Nelson PO Box 141000, Nashville, TN 37214 1400308011, $12.99 www.tommynelson.com 1-800-251-4000 Princess Gigi is a little girl...

An Ornaments' Tale.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... An Ornaments' Tale Chet Spiewak CWS Studios, Inc. 5414 West Barry Avenue, Chicago, IL 60641 0978582705, $16.95 www.cws-studios.com 1-800-462-6420 Author and illustrator Chet Spiewak uses film quality computer-generated 3D...

The Night Henry Ford Met Santa.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The Night Henry Ford Met Santa Carol Hagen & Matt Faulkner Sleeping Bear Press c/o Thomson Gale 15822 Bernardo Center Drive, Suite C, San Diego, CA 92127-2320 1585361321, $17.95 www.thomson.com 1-800-231-5163 Just...

The Christmas Bus.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The Christmas Bus Robert Inman & Lyle Baskin Novello Festival press 310 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 0976096366, $19.95 www.novellopress.org 1-800-222-9796 Lyle Baskin's full color artwork wonderfully...

Taxi.(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2006... Taxi David Weinstone Music for Aardvarks and Other Mammals c/o Waldmania! 130 Maywood Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 MFATAXI, $14.98 www.musicforaardvarks.com David Weinstone is a talented, multi-faceted, independent...

Play.(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2006... Play Lisa Mathews, et al. Milkshake Music c/o Waldmania! 130 Maywood Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 CD $14.99 www.milkshakemusic.com Lisa Mathews is the lead singer and Mikel Gehl is the lead guitarist of the popular...

Mr. Stinky Feet's Christmas.(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2006... Mr. Stinky Feet's Christmas Jim Cosgrove Jack Records/Warner Bros. Records c/o Andrea Blain Public Relations 9750 Crawford Avenue, Skokie, IL 60076 CD $9.98 www.jimcosgrove.com www.wbrnashville.com Featuring the...

Lovely Baby Music Presents: The Famous Composer Series.(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2006... Lovely Baby Music Presents: The Famous Composer Series Raimond Lap Lovely Baby Music PO Box 1374, Bellmore, NY 11710-0992 LBCD-9100, $31.98 www.lovelybabycd.com Beautifully produced and flawlessly recorded, "Lovely Baby...

California Squisine.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... California Squisine Malcolm Kushner Robert D. Reed Publishers PO Box 1992, Bandon, OR 97411 1931741670 $11.95 www.rdrpublishers.com "America's Favorite Humor Consultant" Malcolm Kushner presents California Squisine, a...

Kids Cook 1-2-3.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Kids Cook 1-2-3 Rozanne Gold Bloomsbury Children's Books 175--5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 1582347352 $17.95 www.bloomsburyusa.com There are other simpler books on kids' cooking on the market, but this may be the first...

Eddie Has Allergies.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Eddie Has Allergies Judd Lear Silverman Ernest Silliman Books 834 President Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 1847287115 $12.96 www.lulu.com/ernestsilliman.com The debut chapter book for children and young adults by playwright,...

Abdo Publishing Company.(services)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Abdo Publishing Company 4940 Viking Drive, Suite 622, Edina, MN 55435 www.abdopub.com These series titles are top recommended picks for elementary-level readers: they provide 32 pages of biographical sketches which include an...

The Child's World, Inc.(Inside the NFL)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The Child's World, Inc. PO Box 326, Chanhassen, MN 55317-0326 www.childsworth.com 1-800-599-7323 "Inside the NFL" is an eight volume series of football sports team histories deftly written at a third grade reading level and very...

Marshall Cavendish.(services)
December 1, 2006... Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591 www.marshallcavendish.us Marshall Cavendish's titles are fine additions to elementary-level collections: they offer curriculum-based sets of reference books appropriate...

Lerner Publications.(services)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Lerner Publications 241 First Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55401 $27.93 Each www.lernerbooks.com Each book in this series offers up nearly 60 pages of facts, blending history, culture, and political insights to cover early to...

Lerner Publications.(Presidential Leaders)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Lerner Publications 241 First Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55401 $29.27/Each www.lernerbooks.com Various authors have contributed individual volumes to the extensive and in-depth 'Presidential Leaders' titles for elementary...

OTTN Publishing.(Daniel Morgan: Fighting Frontiersman)(Francis Marion: Swamp Fox of South Carolina)(Henry Knox: Washington's Artilleryman)(John Stark: Live Free or Die)(Nathanael Greene: The General Who Saved the Revolution)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... OTTN Publishing 16 Risler Street, Stockton, NJ 08559 www.ottnpublishing.com 'Forgotten Heroes of the American Revolution' is a new five volume series from OTTN Publishing that highlights and showcases the life and contributions of...

Morgan Reynolds, Inc.(Rosalind Franklin and the Structure of Life)(Savage Satire: The Story of Jonathan Swift)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Morgan Reynolds, Inc. 620 South Elm Street, Suite 223, Greensboro, NC 27406 www.morganreynolds.com 1-800-535-1504 Two new biographies for young readers from Morgan Reynolds are perfect additions to school and community library...

The Creative Company.(Natural Wonders of the World)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The Creative Company c/o Black Rabbit Books 123 South Broad Street, Mankato, MN 56001 1-800-445-6209 "Natural Wonders of the World" is an outstanding series of six books expertly written and illustrated for young readers...

Crabtree Publishing Company.(In the Footsteps of Explorers)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Crabtree Publishing Company 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3308, New York, NY 10118 www.crabtreebooks.com 1-800-387-7650 Available in both hardcover and paperback editions, 'In The Footsteps Of Explorers' is an outstanding series of...

Traditional Religious Tales.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Traditional Religious Tales Picture Window Books 151 Good Counsel Drive, Minneapolis, MN 556001 www.picturewindowbooks.com 1-877-371-1536 140481717-PI $151.56 List/$113.70 Schools/Libraries "Traditional Religious Tales" is...

Knuffle Bunny.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Knuffle Bunny Mo Willems Weston Woods Studios/Scholastic 143 Main Street, Norwalk, CT 06851 NDVD685, $59.95 www.scholastic.com 1-800-290-7531 When Trixie, Daddy and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood...

Money & Making Change.(Brief article)(Audiovisual review)
December 1, 2006... Money & Making Change Rock 'N Learn PO Box 3595, Conroe, TX 77305-3595 RL928 $19.99 www.rocknlearn.com 1-800-348-8445 The animated characters of Penny and Bill will show children ages 6 through 8 just how they can count money...

The Canterbury Tales.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
December 1, 2006... The Canterbury Tales Schlessinger Media 7 East Wynnewood Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096-0580 DVD, 3 volumes, $39.95 each, www.schlessinger.com 1-800-843-3620 A true classic of medieval English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's...

CK: Cooking for Kids.(Video recording review)
December 1, 2006... CK: Cooking For Kids Desiree Dorwart Title Set 1618 Central Avenue, NE, Suite 22, Minneapolis, MN 55413 411 Video Information (publicity) PO Box 1223, Pebble Beach, CA 93953 0972694587, $39.95 www.amazon.com With...

The Happy Cricket.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
December 1, 2006... The Happy Cricket Clever Image Studios 311 Fairview Avenue, Fairview, NJ 07022 Andrea Blain Public Relations (publicity) 9750 Crawford Avenue, Skokie, IL 60076 NTSC, $19.95 www.cleverimage.com "The Happy Cricket" is a...

Young Person's Guide to Getting and Keeping a Good Job.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Young Person's Guide to Getting and Keeping a Good Job Michaela Farr & Marie A. Pavlicko, Ed.D Jist Works 8902 Otis Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46216-1033 1593570856 $12.95 www.jist.com Career development experts Michaela...

In the Days of Sand and Stars.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... In the Days of Sand and Stars Marlee Pinsker Tundra Books P.O. Box 1030, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 0887767249 $26.99 www.tundrabooks.com Francois Thisdale adds lovely drawings to these Biblical Midrashic stories of famous...

365 Bible Stories for Young Hearts.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... 365 Bible Stories for Young Hearts Crossway Books 1300 Crescent Street, Wheaton, IL 60187 158134807X, $17.99 www.crossway.com 1-800-323-3890 As told in biblical scripture, God's great story of creation and the human race...

Creatures Great and Small.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Creatures Great and Small Karen Patkau Tundra Books P.O. Box 1030, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 9780887767548 $17.95 www.tundrabooks.com Kids ages 6-9 will find this a gentle, fun story which pairs an illustrator's talents with...

Frog Heaven.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Frog Heaven Doug Wechsler Boyds Mills Press 815 Church Street, Honesdale, PA 18431 9781590782538 $17.95 www.boydsmillspress.com FROG HEAVEN: ECOLOGY OF A VERNAL POOL offers a fine pairing of photos and text by author Doug...

Birds.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Birds Maria Angeles Julivert Enchanted Lion Books 45 Main Street, Suite 519, Brooklyn, NY 11201 1592700586 $16.95 www.enchantedlionbooks Color photos, drawings, and a 'handwritten notebook' approach turn BIRDS into...

Houghton Mifflin.(Journeys for Freedom: A New Look at America's Story)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Houghton Mifflin 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116 $17.00 Each www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com Two fine 'A New Look At America's Story' titles by Susan Buckley & Elspeth Leacock pack in hundreds of visual and verbal facts to...

Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Gregor Mendel Cheryl Bardoe Abrams Publishers 115 W. 18th Street, New York NY 10011 0810954753 $18.95 www.abramsyoungreaders.com GREGOR MENDEL: THE FRIAR WHO GREW PEAS tells of the world's first geneticist--and it's...

Alfred Knopf/Random House.(10 Trick or Treaters)(A Christmas Memory)(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
December 1, 2006... Alfred Knopf/Random House 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/kids It's a shame Janet Schulman's 10 Trick-or-Treaters (0375832254 $8.95) arrived too late for more timely October Halloween mention: all we can say...

Bardin the Superrealist.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Bardin the Superrealist Maxx Fantagraphics Books 7563 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 1560977590 $19.95 www.fantagraphics.com The Bardin strips--presented here in full color throughout--are unique, presenting a...

The Life of Pope John Paul II in Comics.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The Life of Pope John Paul II in Comics Alessandro Mainardi Papercutz/Holzbrinck, Distributors 40 Exchange Place Suite 1308, New York NY 10005 1597070394 $16.95 www.papercutz.com John Paul II was one of the most beloved...

Smart Feller Fart Smeller: And Other Spoonerisms.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Smart Feller Fart Smeller, And Other Spoonerisms Jon Agee Hyperion Books 078683692X $14.95 www.hyperionbooks.com Black and white drawings throughout accompany a zany collection of 'spoonerisms'--words that happen by accident...

Goosebumps: Creepy Creatures.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Goosebumps: Creepy Creatures R.L. Stine Scholastic 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 0439841240 $16.99 www.scholastic.com Three comic artists adapt the R.L. Stine 'Goosebumps' stories to graphic novel format for young...

Stella Brite and the Dark Matter Mystery.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Stella Brite And The Dark Matter Mystery Sara Latta & Meredith Johnson Charlesbridge Publishing 85 Main Street, Watertown, MA 02472 1570918848, $6.95 www.charlesbridge.com 1-800-225-3214 Stella Brite is a young and curious...

An Angry Drum Echoed.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... An Angry Drum Echoed Pamela Bauer Mueller Pinata Publishing 12 Dunbarton Drive, St. Simons Island, GA 31522 Integrated Book Marketing (publicity) PO Box 321, Kings Park, NY 17754 0968509777 $18.95 ww.pinatapub.com ...

Marin and the Dragon's Golden Treasure.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Marin And The Dragon's Golden Treasure E. W. Bonadio iUniverse, Inc. 2021 Pine Lake Road, #100, Lincoln, NE 68512 1415 North Vicent Circle, Mesa, AZ 85207 (author) 0595396569, $8.95 www.ebonadio.com www.iuniverse.com ...

Random/Knopf/Delacorte.(Random House Inc. Random House Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf Inc.)
December 1, 2006... Random/Knopf/Delacorte 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com Jeanne DuPrau's THE PROPHET OF YONWOOD (0375875263, $15.95) represents the third 'Book of Ember', and familiarity with the others is recommended for...

Candlewick Press.(A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama)(Journey to the Blue Moon)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Candlewick Press 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140 www.candlewick.com Ginny is certain the new girl in her second-grade class will be her best friend--they're both Chinese--but finds her new companion is very...

A Very Fine Line.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... A Very Fine Line Julie Johnston Tundra Books Box 1030, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 088776746X $18.95 www.tundrabooks.com Rosalind is the youngest in a family of sisters and lives in a small Ontario town. She's artistic and...

Bloomsbury Press.(Larklight)(Ophelia)(Wind Tamer)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Bloomsbury Press 175-5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.bloomsburyusa.com Art and his annoying sister live in a huge house, Larklight, which is traveling through space on an orbit beyond the moon--so they rarely have visitors in...

Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs Karen Karbo Bloomsbury Press 175-5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 158234678X $16.95 www.bloomsburyusa.com When Minerva was almost electrocuted by her older brother her insecurities fled and...

Walker & Company.(It's a Mall World)(Skinny )(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Walker & Company 104-5th Avenue, New York NY 10011 www.walkeryoungreaders.com Holly's older sister is fighting anorexia and Holly herself is trying to cope with her sister's deterioration and change from a top medical student and...

What the Moon Saw.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... What the Moon Saw Laura Resau Delacorte Press 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 0385733437 $15.95 www.randomhouse.com/kids One Mexican American family decides to cross the border, leaving behind friends and family in the...

Houghton Mifflin.(Horns and Wrinkles)(The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl)(The Quest of the Fair Unknown)(Brief article)(Book review)(Young adult review)
December 1, 2006... Houghton Mifflin 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com Charlotte is a Yankee, Maggie Irish: their 1850s friendship will rock their worlds as politics create an anti-Irish atmosphere and upsets their...

Farrar, Straus, Giroux.(Alabama Moon)(Firestorm)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Farrar, Straus, Giroux 19 Union Square West, New York NY 10003 www.fsgkidsbooks.com Watt Key's ALABAMA MOON (0374301840, $16.00) tells of a ten-year-old whose father dies: unlike other kids in such a situation, he and his father...

Bread and Roses, Too.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Bread and Roses, Too Katherine Paterson Clarion Books 215 Park Avenue South, New York NY 10003 0618654798 $16.00 www.clarionbooks.com Rosa's mother seems happy again after recording from the mining death of Rosa's...

Marshall Cavendish Children's Books.(The Deep Cut)(Returnable Girl)(Avielle of Rhia)(Rebound)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Marshall Cavendish Children's Books 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591 www.marshallcavendish.com Bob Krech's REBOUND (0761453199, $16.99) tells of basketball dreams, a Polish boy's determination to fight prejudice to make...

The Forest in the Hallway.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The Forest in the Hallway Gordon Smith Clarion Books 215 Park Avenue South, New York NY 10003 0618688471 $16.00 www.clarionbooks.com Fourteen-year-old Beatriz comes home from school to find her parents have vanished, and...

Margaret McElderry /Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.(sequels of Peter Pan introduced)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Margaret McElderry /Atheneum/Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of Americas, New York NY 10020 www.simonsayskids.com In 1929 Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie gave his book's copyright to the Special Trustees of Great Ormond street Children's...

Scholastic Inc.
December 1, 2006... Scholastic Inc. 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 www.scholastic.com The eighth Captain Underpants novel by Dav Pilkey is out, CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS AND THE PREPOSTEROUS PLIGHT OF THE PURPLE POTTY PEOPLE, and it returns George, Harold...

Harcourt.(Harcourt General Inc.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Harcourt 525 'B' Street Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495 www.harcourtbooks.com Grace's parents say she's out of control and her old friends don't like her--but Grace thinks she's a whole new chic person and is happy with her...

Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Home and Other Big, Fat Lies Jill Wolfson Henry Holt 175-5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 0805076700 $16.95 www.henryholtchildrensbooks.com Whitney has been in so many foster homes she considers herself an expert on their...

Roaring Brook Press.(Powers)(Drawing the Ocean)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Roaring Brook Press 143 West Street, New Milford, CT 06776 www.roaringbrookpress.com Deborah Lynn Jacobs' POWERS (1596431121, $16.95) tells of a girl who has [psychic dreams and a boy who reads her mind: the two are drawn together...

Tomorrow, The River.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Tomorrow, The River Dianne E. Gray Houghton Mifflin Company 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116 0618563296 $16.00 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com Teen Megan is bound for the Mississippi River via train--and headed for an...

Porch Lies.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Porch Lies Patricia McKissack Schwartz & Wade Books c/o Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, 10-1, New York, NY 10019 0375836195 $18.95 www.randomhouse.com/kids Parents and teachers interested in read-alouds...

Quincy the Hobby Photographer.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Quincy the Hobby Photographer J. Otto Seibold Harcourt 15 E. 26th Street, New York NY 10010 0151014949 $14.95 www.harcourtbooks.com A wide grade range, from 4-7 and perhaps beyond, will find much to delight in the...

Mitt, the Michigan Mouse.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Mitt, the Michigan Mouse Kathy-jo Wargin & Karen Busch Holman Mitten Press 2500 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 1587263033 $14.95 877-722-2264 www.mittenpress.com Written by Kathy-jo Wargin and illustrated by Karen...

Tam and Cam.(Tam and Came: The Ancient Vietnamese Cinderella Story)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Tam And Cam Minh Quoc & Mai Long East West Discovery Press 818 West 144th Street, Gardena, CA 90247 978-0-970165442, $16.95 www.eastwestdiscovery.com "Tam And Came: The Ancient Vietnamese Cinderella Story" is a bilingual...

Chicabee.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Chicabee Andrew Lueck Lueck Studios 8353-11th Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98117 0977454703, $16.95 www.lueckstudios.com Chicabee is a very special word that Andrew Lueck coined for his daughter and means 'to be a girl". It...

Winter's First Snowflake.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Winter's First Snowflake Cheri L. Hallwood & Patricia M. Rose Forever Young Publishers PO Box 216, Niles, MI 49120 0977442209, $15.99 www.foreveryoungpublishers.com The simple but elegant text for "Winter's First...

Dooby Dooby Moo.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Dooby Dooby Moo Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin Atheneum Publishers 0689945073 $16.95 www.simonsayskids.com Fans of COWS THAT TYPE will find an equally engaging story in this new tale of Duck and his farm friends, here pooling...

The 39 Apartments of Ludwig van Beethoven.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven Jonah Winter & Barry Blitt Schwartz Wade/Random House 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 9780375836022 $15.95 www.randomhouse.com/kids It's hard to easily categorize this: based on a...

It's a Bad Day.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... It's a Bad Day Mary Ellen Friday Rising Moon Books P.O. Box 1389, Flagstaff, AZ 86002-1389 0873589041 $15.95 www.risingmoonbooks.com It's a bad day when the tree eats your airplane, snowmen melt, and gum gets stuck in...

Atheneum/McElderry/Simon & Schuster.(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Atheneum/McElderry/Simon & Schuster www.simonsayskids.com It's Mouse's first fall season in Lauren Thompson's MOUSE'S FIRST FALL (068985837X, $12.95), and Mouse is pleased: falling leaves are different colors, fun to play in, and...

Houghton Mifflin Company.(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Houghton Mifflin Company 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com John and Ann Hassett's CAN'T CATCH ME (0618704906, $16.00) offers up a funny spoof on the classic gingerbread boy runaway: here a mother...