Children's Bookwatch articles from March 2009

Children's Bookwatch archives from March 2009

Mia and Her Kitten Sophie.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Mia and Her Kitten Sophie Faye V. Redd, author Linette Garrahan, illustrator AuthorHouse 1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200, Bloomington, IN 47403 9781434398352, $11.49, www.authorhouse.com Children learn to bond with...

Newton's Apples.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Newton's Apples Briarpatch 150 Essex Street, Suite 301, Millburn, NJ 07041 Kid Stuff Public Relations (publicity) 9504 Union Valley Road, Black Earth, WI 53515 Game, $24.99, www.briarpatch.com Often a game is an...

The New Testament.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The New Testament Envoy House Envoy House, Publishers c/o B&B Media Group tmccarter@tbbmedia.com 189468530X, $15.52, www.themostimportantstory.com The second testament of the Bible is the most important to understand...

I Love Purim!(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... I Love Purim! Mama Doni Mama Doni Productions c/o Waldmania! 130 Maywood Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 CD, $4.00, CDBaby.com, www.mamadoni.com Unique, lively, and solid entertainment for children, "I Love Purim!" is...

Kid's Country Song & Dance.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Kid's Country Song & Dance The Learning Station PO Box 1316, Melbourne, FL 32902 $15.95 www.learningstationmusic.com 1-800-789-9990 Kid's Country Song & Dance: Action, Sing-Along, Hoe-Down Fun! is a music CD with included...

Madam President.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2009... Madam President Lane Smith, author Anna Chiodo, narrator Weston Woods Studios 143 Main Street, Norwalk, CT 06851 0545106443, $59.95 www.scholastic.com/westonwoods Bringing the picturebook of Lane Smith to life, Madam...

Holly Hobbie & Friends: Marvelous Makeover.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2009... Holly Hobbie & Friends: Marvelous Makeover Sony Pictures c/o Erin O'Brien, Erin_Obrien@spe.sony.com Jane Ayer Public Relations (publicity) c/o Irene Dean, irene@janeayerpr.com 1435928113, $12.99 www.SonyWonder.com ...

MarshMedia.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2009... MarshMedia PO Box 8082, Shawnee Mission, KS 66208 www.marshmedia.com, 1-800-821-3303 MarshMedia is a premier adapter of outstanding children's literature to a narrated DVD format. Four of their newest and enthusiastically...

Schlessinger Media.(Greatest Speeches Of The 20th Century)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2009... Schlessinger Media 7 East Wynnewood Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096-0580 www.schlessinger.com, 1-800-843-3620 The 20th Century saw some of the most stirring and event changing speeches every recorded in the annals of human history....

Barack Obama: An American Story.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Barack Obama: An American Story Bob Carlton & Ariele Gentiles Zondervan Publishing House 5300 Patterson Avenue, S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49530 9780310670032, $9.99 www.zondervan.com 1-800-727-1309 Barack Obama: An American...

Jesse James.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Jesse James Carl R. Green and William R. Sanford Enslow Publishers Box 398, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922-0398 0766031721, $23.93 www.enslow.com The revised edition of JESSE JAMES joins others volumes in the 'Outlaws and...

Morgan Reynolds Publishing.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Morgan Reynolds Publishing 620 South Elm Street, Suite 223, Greensboro, NC 27406 $28.95 each www.morganreynolds.com Two fine young adult nonfiction books are top picks for libraries seeking biographies of over 100 pages each....

Someone Walks By.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Someone Walks By Polly Carlson-Voiles Raven Productions, Inc. PO Box 188, Ely, MN 55731 9780980104554, $18.95, www.ravenwords.com How wild animals can survive throughout the winter months is always a fascinating subject...

The Longest Feather.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Longest Feather Denis Trom Sapphire Press 2153 N. Sapphire Place, Meridan, ID 83646 9780982190609, $17.95 People grieve in many different ways. "The Longest Feather" is about young Mickey. His father dead from...

Dragon Wishes.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Dragon Wishes Stacy Nyikos, author Regan Johnson, illustrator Blooming Tree Press PO Box 140934, Austin, TX 78714 978093383114, $16.95, www.bloomingtreepress.com A series of huge changes all at once can wreak havoc...

Adirondack Gold II: A Summer of Strangers.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Adirondack Gold II: A Summer of Strangers Persis Granger Beaver Meadow Publishing 11 Clarence Russell Road, Warrenburg, NY 12885 9780974208510, $11.95, www.persisgranger.com A person is the sum of those around them....

Graveyard of the Sea.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Graveyard of the Sea Penny Draper Coteau Books 2517 Victoria Ave., Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4P OT2 9781550503975, $8.95 The weight of many lives are not what's typically thrown on the shoulders of a young girl....

The Addiction Monster and the Square Cat.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Addiction Monster and the Square Cat Sheryl Letzgus McGinnis Oak Tree Press 140 E. Palmer Taylorville, IL 62568 9781892343543, $12.95, www.oaktreebooks.com Addiction changes people. You don't need to be human to see...

Trouble at Turtle.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Trouble at Turtle Peggy Dymond Leavey Napoleon 178 Willowdale Avenue, Ste. 201, Toronto, ON Canada M2N 4Y8 9781894917711, $9.95, www.napoleonandcompany.com Being homeless is not something a thirteen-year-old aspires to....

Scholastic.(Stargazer and Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Scholastic 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 www.scholastic.com Patrick Carman's STARGAZER (0439899516, $11.99) adds to the Land of Elyon with the 4th adventure in the series. Here Alexa Daley has defeated a threat to her home and...

The Great Wide Sea.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Great Wide Sea M.H. Herlong Viking c/o Penguin Publishing Group 345 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014 9780670063307, $16.99 www.penguin.com Ben doesn't want to spend a year on a sailing trip with his father and...

Simon & Schuster.(My Brother Abe and Amelia's Science Fair Disaster)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of Americas, New York NY 10020 www.simonsays.com Sally Lincoln tells the story of life in the Lincoln family which changes when her mother dies and a demanding father's new wife leaves Sally in charge...

Delacorte Books.(Girk: Operation Tortoise and Secret Keeper)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Delacorte Books c/o Bantam Dell Publishing Group 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 www.randomhouse.com/kids Joshua Doder's GIRK: OPERATION TORTOISE (9780385733625, $15.99) tells of one Tim, vacationing with his parents and Grk...

The Stowaway.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Stowaway R.A. Salvatore & Geno Salvatore Wizards of the Coast Inc. Box 606, Renton, WA 98057-0707 9780786950942, $17.95 www.wizards.com Maimun is marked for death even tho he's not yet a teenager, guarding a secret...

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw Jeff Kinney Harry Abrams Inc, 115 West 18th Street, New York NY 10011 9780810970687, $12.95 www.amuletbooks.com This sequel to Roderick Rules and the Do-It-Yourself Book tells of the...

Dende Maro: The Golden Prince.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Dende Maro: The Golden Prince Sally Mallam Hoopoe Books PO Box 176, Los Altos, CA 94023 9781933779485, $17.99 www.hoopoekids.com Dende Maro: The Golden Prince is a wondrous picturebook for children ages 5 and up, inspired...

The One and Only Marigold.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The One and Only Marigold Florence Parry Heide and Jill McElmurry Schwarz and Wade c/o Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, 10-1, New York, NY 10019 9780375840319, $16.99 www.randomhouse.com/kids Marigold...

Gobble It Up!(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Gobble It Up! Jim Arnosky Scholastic Inc. 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 0439903629, $16.99 www.scholastic.com GOBBLE IT UP! A FUN SONG ABOUT EATING! tells of suppertime in the wild, when hungry animals engage in eating....

Never Talk to Strangers.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Never Talk to Strangers Irma Joyce Golden Books c/o Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, 10-1, New York, NY 10019 9780373849640, $9.99 www.randomhouse.com/kids First published in 1967, NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS...

Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Waking Up?(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Waking Up? Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591 9780761454380, $14.99 www.marshallcavendish.us/kids Kitty Cat should be getting...

Amulet Books.(Budgie and Boo and The Twelve Days of Springtime: A School Counting Book)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Amulet Books c/o Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 115 West 18th Street, New York NY 10011 www.amuletbooks.com David McPhail's BUDGIE & BOO (9780810983243, $15.95) tells of best friends who work in their gardens and help each other out,...

EDC Publishing.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... EDC Publishing PO Box 470663, Tulsa, OK 74146-6515 www.edcpub.com, 1-800-475-4522 Full color picture books are perennial favorites for young readers and their parents. This is especially true for enduring literary classics that...

Profiles in Black.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Profiles in Black Marvin A. McMickle Judson Press PO Box 851, Valley Forge, PA 19482-0851 9780817015084, $22.00, www.judsonpress.com Black Americans have been a vital part of American history since the country's...

Traveling the Freedom Road.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Traveling the Freedom Road Linda Barrett Osborne Harry Abrams 115 West 18th Street, New York NY 10011 9780810983380, $24.95 www.amuletbooks.com Illustrations, original documents and first-person narratives blend in a fine...

Live Oak Media.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Audiobook review)
March 1, 2009... Live Oak Media PO Box 652, Pine Plains, NY 12567-0652 www.liveoakmedia.com, 1-800-788-1121 A premier publisher of audio book adaptations of children's picturebooks, Live Oak Media has produced audio editions of two outstanding...

Comic Books and Manga.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Comic Books and Manga Eddie Robson Crabtree Publishers 350-5th Avenue #3308, New York NY 10118 9780778738138, $26.60 www.crabtreebooks.com From the creation of the world's first superhero comic book, to famous writers and...

Fashion Kitty and the Unlikely Hero.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Fashion Kitty and the Unlikely Hero Charise Mericle Harper Disney c/o Hyperion Books for Children 114 Fifth Avenue, 14th floor, New York, NY 10011 www.hyperionchildrensbooks.com 9780786837274, $8.99 1-800-759-0190 ...

Classical Comics Limited.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Classical Comics Limited c/o Peter Handel plhandel@pacbell.net $16.95 each, www.classicalcomics.com In the 1950s and 60's, comic books serving as a forum and format for great works of English literature experienced a 'Golden...

Random House Children's Books.(Pirate Palooza and Big Mambo)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, 10-1, New York, NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com, 1-800-726-0600 $5.99 each www.randomhouse.com/kids Two new 'Stone Rabbit' graphic novels by Eric Craddock provide zany plots and...

Crabtree Publishers.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Crabtree Publishers 350-5th Avenue #3308, New York NY 10118 $29.27 each, www.crabtreebooks.com Six new titles in the 'Graphic America' series provide 32 pages each of all-color American history in graphic novel format, certain to...

Rowan of the Wood.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Rowan of the Wood Christine & Ethan Rose Windlass Young Adult Line c/o Dalton Publishing PO Box 242, Austin, TX 78767 9780981744315, $14.95, www.daltonpublishing.com Fantasy is fine and all until it becomes reality....

Duckey and the Ocean Protectors.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Duckey and the Ocean Protectors John Sexton & Katie Gutierrez, authors Maciej Zajac, illustrator Writers of the Round Table Press 8 Sparrow Lane, York, ME 03909 9780981454573, $18.95, www.writersoftheroundtable.com ...

The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 29 East 21st Street, New York, NY 10010 www.rosenpublishing.com, 1-800-237-9932 The martial arts has never been more widespread throughout American communities, nor as popular with junior and high...

Raintree.(Talking About Time)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Raintree 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, 5th fl., Orlando, FL 32887 www.raintreelibrary.com, 1-888-363-4266 The marking and passing of time are basic concepts that should be mastered as part of a preschool preparation for taking on an...

The Child's World, Inc.(The World's Greatest Athletes and Above The Rim)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Child's World, Inc. 1980 Lookout Drive, Mankato, MN 56003 www.childsworth.com, 1-800-599-7323 Sports books are always popular with boys--even those that might otherwise be averse to reading for pleasure. The Child's World has...

Picture Window Books.(Tall Tales and Folk Tales)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Picture Window Books c/o Capstone Press PO Box 669, Mankato, MN 56002-0669 www.capstonepress.com, 1-800-747-4992 Two outstanding series from Picture Window Books provide young readers ages 5 to 9 with colorfully entertaining...

Rourke Publishing.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Rourke Publishing PO Box 643328, Vero Beach, FL 32964 www.rourkepublishing.com With each year that passes, the importance of environmental studies for elementary school children has become more and more recognized as an essential...

Black Rabbit Books.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Black Rabbit Books PO Box 3263, Mankato, MN 56002 www.blackrabbitbooks.com Children are not immune to the social issues and cultural concerns that afflict their parents. Often by giving children a sound introduction to such issues...

Crabtree Publishers.
March 1, 2009... Crabtree Publishers 350-5th Avenue, Suite 3308, New York NY 10118 www.crabtreebooks.com Each of the titles in Penny Dowdy's 'My Path to Math' series ($21.27 each) for ages 5-6 provides a little over twenty pages of introductory...

Marshall Cavendish.
March 1, 2009... Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591 www.marshallcavendish.us Marshall Cavendish's books are top picks offering important sets packed with colorful graphics and information perfect for reports. One of their...