Children's Bookwatch articles from January 2006

Children's Bookwatch archives from January 2006

Willa and the Wind.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Willa And The Wind Janice M. Del Negro Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown NY 10591 www.marshallcavendish.us 076145232X $16.95 1-800-831-9881 Willa is bold and clever--so she's going to ask Old Windy, the...

Charlesbridge Publishing.("Equal Shmequal: A Math Adventure")("The World That We Want")("Tildes, Eye Guess")(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Charlesbridge Publishing 85 Main Street, Watertown, MA 02472 1-800-225-3214 www.charlesbridge.com Three new books for young readers from Charlesbridge Publishing are ideal for family, school, and community library collections....

That's What Leprechauns Do.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... That's What Leprechauns Do Eve Bunting Clarion Books 215 Park Avenue South, New York NY 10003 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com 0618354107 $16.00 Three leprechauns have an important job: they must dig up the pot of gold...

Gargoyles, Girders and Glass Houses.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Gargoyles, Girders & Glass Houses Bo Zaunders Dutton 345 Hudson, New York NY 10004 0525472843 $17.99 penguin.com From Florence to Turkey, every civilization holds great building projects and creators, and Bo Zaunders and...

Philomel/Viking.("The Redwall Cookbook")("Vile Verses")(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Philomel/Viking 345 Hudson, New York NY 10014 www.penguin.com/youngreaders These excellent titles should reach a wide age range from elementary into middle school levels, even lending to parental read-alouds. Brian Jacques' The...

The Kids' Guide to Writing Great Thank You Notes.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Kids' Guide To Writing Great Thank You Notes Jean Summers The Writer's Collective c/o Gulotta Communications 341 Lexington Street, Newton, MA 02466 1594111251 $9.95 www.amazon.com Sometimes it seems as if in this...

Enslow Publishers.('Independence National Park')("American Civil War: Weapons and Strategies of the Civil War")("Slavery and the Underground Railroad: Bound for Freedom")(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Enslow Publishers PO Box 398, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 www.enslow.com Live too far away to partake of a historical site? Use Karen Clemens Warrick 's 'virtual field trip' title Independence National Park (0766052249 $25.26) to...

Dial/Penguin/Puffin.("I, Coriander")("The Roald Dahl Gift Set ")(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Dial/Penguin/Puffin 346 Hudson St., New York NY 10014 www.penguin.com/youngreaders Coriander Hobie tells her story by candlelight in a seven-night time span which tells of her dreams of another childhood past, a strange treasure...

Simon & Schuster.(Thanks and Giving All Year Long)(Eloise)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of Americas, NY NY 10020 www.simonandschuster.com Marlo Thomas & Friends' Thanks & Giving All Year Long (1416915869 $17.95) arrived too late for more timely holiday mention but promises enjoyment for...

Crabtree Publishing.(Reptiles of All Kinds)(Animals Called Mammals)(Many Kinds of Animals)(Animals Called Fish)(Birds of All Kinds)(Frogs and Other Amphibians)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Crabtree Publishing 350--5th Avenue, #3308, NY, NY 10118 $23.92 Each www.crabtreebooks.com Bobbie Kalman's latest series of 32-page early introductions to animals each holds bright, appealing covers to accompany eye-catching...

Cool Stuff and How It Works.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Cool Stuff And How It Works Chris Woodward, et.al. DK Publishing 375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014 0756614651 $24.99 www.dk.com From iPods to medicine, washing machines to motorized wheelchairs, and scanners to flash...

Lerner Publications.("Cool Science")("Cryobiology")(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Lerner Publications 24 First Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN 55401 www.lernerbooks.com Kids in grades 4-6 will relish the 'Cool Science' series: each book holds 48 pages of facts, vivid cover art, and contemporary topics usually not...

Hubble and the Big Bang.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Hubble And The Big Bang Paul Kupperberg Rosen Publishing Group 29 E. 21st St., New York NY 10010 1404203079 $21.95 rosenpublishing.com Rosen's 'Primary sources of Revolutionary Scientific Discoveries and Theories' set...

Assassin.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Assassin Anna Myers Walker & Company 104--5th Avenue, New York NY 10011 www.walkeryoungreaders.com 0802789897 $16.95 www.amazon.com Bella is an assistant seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln, and her involvement with one...

Elsewhere.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin Farrar Straus Giroux 19 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003 0374320918 $16.00 fsgkidsbooks.com The premise of Elsewhere is interesting: it's where teen Liz ends up after she has died--a place very...

No Sisters Sisters Club.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... No Sisters Sisters Club Linda Salisbury Tabby House PO Box 544, Mineral, VA 23117 1881539407, $8.95 1-540-894-8868 Because her mother travels, 11-year-old Bailey stays with her grandmother in central Virginia. The...

Scholastic Inc.(Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)(The Fire Within)(Absolutely, Positively Not)(Plastic Angel)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Scholastic Inc. 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 www.scholastic.com Scholastic's latest leisure choices are strong recommendations as basics for any collection seeking lasting lending interest. You can't go wrong with the latest...

The Aquanauts.(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
January 1, 2006... The Aquanauts John Lunn Tundra Books PO Box 1030, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 0887767273 $12.99 tundrabooks.com If you only pick up a few paperbacks each season for your collection, The Aquanauts is one you just have to have:...

Delacorte Press.("Boys Rock!")("All-of-a-Kind-Family")("The Power of One")("The King Of Mulberry Street")(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Delacorte Press 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/kids It's summer vacation and Wally dreams of days away from school and his neighbor nemesis Caroline--but he gets roped into helping his brothers on a summer...

The Red Judge.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Red Judge Pauline Fish Bloomsbury USA 175--5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.bloomsburyusa.com 1582349428 $16.95 www.amazon.com Zed's never fit in with his step family; but when he's blamed for a terrible...

Harcourt.("Thor's Wedding Day")("Marie, Dancing")(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Harcourt 525 'B' St. #1900 San Diego, CA 92101-4495 www.harcourtbooks.com Kids ages 8-12 will find intriguing the story of Thailfi the Goat Boy who has a vested interest in making the god of thunder wear a wedding gown, in...

Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.("Inexcusable")("The Drowning")(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Atheneum/Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of Americas, NY, NY 10020 www.SimonSaysKids.com Keir is a devoted son and brother, a loyal friend, and reliable--but Gigi, Keir's lifelong love, thinks he is also something else- something...

What I Like About Me.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... What I Like About Me Allia Zobel-Nolan Reader's Digest Children's Books Reader's Digest Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570-7000 0794407633 $14.99 www.rd.com The kids presented in What I Like About Me are all entirely...

Haunted House.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Haunted House Jan Pienkowski Candlewick Press 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140 0763628182 $14.99 candlewick.com Ages 3 and older will relish this scary pop-up title which is recommended for parent...

A Good Night Walk.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... A Good Night Walk Elisha Cooper Orchard Books 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 0439687837 $16.99 www.scholastic.com A child and parent take a walk down their street, enjoying the sights and smells of the evening, which is...

My First Farm Book Boxed Set.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... My First Farm Book Boxed Set Russell Julian Trafalgar Square Publishing PO Box 257, N. Pomfret, VT 05053 www.trafalgarsquarebooks.com 1405216670 $12.50 www.amazon.com Ages 1-3 will find this collection appealing and...

Ready, Set, Preschool!(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Ready, Set, Preschool! Anna Jane Hays Knopf/Random House 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/kids 0375825193 $16.95 www.amazon.com Stories, poems and picture games illustrated by True Kelley...

A History of the Romani People.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... A History Of The Romani People Hristo Kyuchukov & Ian Hancock Boyds Mills Press 815 Church Street, Honesdale, PA 18431 1563979624 $19.95 boydsmillspress.com A thousand years ago a group of people, the Romani, were driven...

Little Red Wagon.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Sound recording review)
January 1, 2006... Little Red Wagon Timmy Abell Upstream Records Waldmania! (publicity) PO Box 8843, Asheville, NC 28814 www.timmyabell.com UP251 $16.00 1-888-253-7225 Timmy Abell is a seasoned, crowd pleasing performer who has...

Morgan Reynolds.(Company overview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Morgan Reynolds 620 S. Elm Street, #223 Greensboro, NC 27406 $26.95 each, www.morganreynolds.com Ynes Mexia was fifty years old and stuck in an unhappy marriage on a ranch in Mexico when she suffered a nervous breakdown, was...

Tropical Rainforests.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Tropical Rainforests Robert Snedden Smart Apple Media/Creative Company 2140 Howard Drive West, N. Mankato, MN 56003 1583403825 $27.10 www.amazon.com Adding to the lovely 'Habitats' series is Tropical Rainforests, a...

Toulouse-Lautrec.(Toulouse-Lautrec: The Moulin Rouge And The City Of Light)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Toulouse-Lautrec Robert Burleigh Abrams 115 W. 18th St., New York NY 10011 0810958678 $17.95 abramsbooks.com Deserving of ongoing recommendation for any elementary-level library strong in art book holdings is...

The Forbidden Schoolhouse.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Forbidden Schoolhouse Suzanne Jurmain Houghton Mifflin 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com 0618473025 $18.00 www.amazon.com Protestors broke school windows, put manure in the school...

Wild About Books.(Children's review)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2006... Wild About Books Judy Sierra, author Marc Brown, illustrator Scholastic, Inc. 557 Broadway, NY, NY 10012-3999 www.scholasticlibrary.com 0439804833 $TBA 1-800-242-7737 Wild About Books is the animated, DVD version...

My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas.(Children's review)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2006... My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas Paramount Home Entertainment c/o Foundry Communications 135 W. 50th St., #2305, NY, NY 10020 www.paramount.com/homeentertainment 1415711321 $16.99 www.amazon.com My Little Pony:...

The Baby Society.( )(Children's review)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2006... The Baby Society The Baby Society, LLC c/o Andrea Blain Public Relations, Inc. 9750 Crawford Avenue, Skokie, IL 60076 1-877-886-4900 www.thebabysociety.com Created by a pediatric speech-language pathologist to both...

No More Diapers.(Children's review)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2006... No More Diapers Consumer Vision, Inc. c/o Andrea Blain Public Relations, Inc. 9750 Crawford Avenue, Skokie, IL 60076 800-756-8792 consumervisionsonline.com No More Diapers is an animated DVD for children designed to help...

Schlessinger Media.(Company overview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Schlessinger Media 7 East Wynnewood Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096-0580 schlessinger.com libraryvideo.com $39.95 each, 1-800-843-3620 Schlessinger Media's new "Life in the Middle Age"s series is a set of eight educational and...

Peep and His Pals.(Children's review)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2006... Peep And His Pals WGBH Boston Video c/o SSA Public Relations 148 Madison Avenue, 16th floor PH-1, New York, NY 10016 www.shop.wgbh.org 1593754892 $29.95 1-800-949-8670 Peep And His Pals is a three-DVD set of the...

Stargazer Books.(Company overview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Stargazer Books c/o The Creative Company 123 South Broad St., Mankato, MN 56001 1-800-445-6209 www.amazon.com "Resources" is a superbly illustrated, eight volume series of books on specific substances and their relationship to...

Gareth Stevens.(Company overview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Gareth Stevens 330 West Olive Street, #100, Milwaukee, WI 53212 $19.50 each www.garethstevens.com Each book in the "Welcome to My Country" series packs in color photos of elementary-grade kids to accompany books which are 48 pages...

World Almanac Library.
January 1, 2006... World Almanac Library 330 West Olive Street, #100, Milwaukee, WI 53212 www.worldalmanaclibrary.com The series titles offered by World Almanac Library will enhance a reference collection greatly, promising lasting lending value and...

Thomson/Gale.(Company overview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Thomson/Gale 27500 Drake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3536 www.gale.com Thomson's excellent series titles are fine basic picks for discriminating library collections. The Giants of Science series ($24.95 each) expands with two...

Kidhaven/Thomson-Gale/Blackbirch.(Company overview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Kidhaven/Thomson-Gale/Blackbirch 27500 Drake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535 www.gale.com If you only wish one coverage of the Loch Ness monster in your collection, it should be Peggy J. Parks' The Loch Ness Monster...

Marshall Cavendish.(Company overview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown NY 10591 www.marshallcavendish.us Upper elementary through middle school grade levels will find the 'Habitats of the World' set (0761475230, $329.95) a specialty acquisition...

The Warlord's Messengers.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Warlord's Messengers Virginia Walton Pilegard Pelican Publishing 1000 Burmaster St., Gretna, LA 70053 1589802713 $15.95 pelicanpub.com Kids ages 5-8 will relish The Warlord's Messengers, the sixth in the 'warlord's...

Hyperion Books.(Company overview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Hyperion Books 114-5th Ave., New York NY 10011 www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com Pamela Duncan Edward's Ms. Bitsy Bat's Kindergarten (0786806699, $15.99) is a lovely, recommended pick for ages beyond the kindergarten range. Henry...

Groundhog Gets a Say.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Groundhog Gets A Say Pamela Curtis Swallow, author Denise Brunkus, illustrator Putnam 345 Hudson St., New York NY 10014 www.penguin.com/youngreaders 039923876X $15.99 www.amazon.com It's February 3rd and...

Henry Holt.(Company overview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Henry Holt 15 W. 18th St., New York NY 10011 www.henryholt.com Shirley Mozelle's The Bear Upstairs (08-05068201, $16.95) tells of a very noisy new neighbor who impacts the peace and quiet of the Bear Downstairs. A decision to...

Catching the Moon.(Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Catching The Moon Crystal Hubbard & Randy DuBurke Lee & Low Books 95 Madison Ave, #1205, NY, NY 10016 1584302437 $16.95 www.leeandlow.com In the early 1930s, Marcenia Lyle was a young girl who loved baseball and could...

The Prince's Diary.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Prince's Diary Renee Ting, author Elizabeth Dulemba, illustrator Shen's Books 40951 Fremont Boulevard, Fremont, CA 94538 1885008279 $16.95 www.shens.com Ages 4-8 will relish this new take on the Cinderella story,...

Yummy Yarns: Knits For Kids.(Yummy Yarns Knits for Kids: 20 Easy-to-Knit Designs for Ages 2 to 8 Featuring Fun Novelty Yarns)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Yummy Yarns: Knits For Kids Kathleen Greco & Nick Greco Watson-Guptill 770 Broadway, New York NY 10003 0823059863 $19.95 www.wgpub.com There are plenty of children's knitting books on the market already: books that tell...